Johannes Strübing

Johannes Strübing (born February 24, 1907 in Berlin ; † after 1964) was a German Gestapo employee in the Nazi state and an investigator at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

Strübing had been with the Berlin police since 1928 and with the Gestapo since 1937. In the same year he joined the SS and reached the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer , in 1940 he became a member of the NSDAP . In 1942 he was detective in the Reich Security Main Office in Department IV A 2 for combating sabotage and forgery of passports, as well as for radio games to deceive people. Since July 1942, under Horst Kopkow , he was in charge of observing the Red Orchestra and, after his arrest, carried out the interrogations of Harro Schulze-Boysen . His prisoners were transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp for torture .

After the end of the war, Strübing lived under the false name “Stahlmann” in the Hanover area as a representative. In 1952 he went on a freelance basis to the Federal Constitutional protection, regularly hired him in 1957 after the abolition of Allied supervision and finally as a bailiff tenured. In the BfV, "Gestapo-Strübing" boasted of its role in smashing the communist resistance organization. He believed in the continued existence of agent networks controlled by the Soviet Union , something the Western secret services were also interested in. Strübing took advantage of this to constantly invent new alleged agents. The German diplomat Hartmut Schulze-Boysen , a brother of Harro Schulze-Boysen, was suspected unfounded. In 1964 Strübing was not dismissed because of his Nazi career, but was transferred to the Federal Administration Office with his boss Erich Wenger .

literature

• Constantin Goschler , Michael Wala: “No new Gestapo”. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Nazi past . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2015, ISBN 978-3-498-02438-3 .

supporting documents

1. ^ Based on disclosed CIA file foia.cia.gov