Kurt Brunow

Kurt Brunow (born March 9, 1907 in Kolberg , † after 1960) was a German SS leader and police officer.

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In his childhood Brunow attended the boys' middle school in Kolberg from 1913 to 1921. Then he was an apprentice to a master watchmaker . In addition, he was taught at the commercial pre-school. In 1925, Brunow submitted the assistant examination work to a watchmaker. In July 1925, he was dismissed for lack of work. At the end of 1925 he got a job as an assistant mechanic at Siemens in Berlin , where he was dismissed in July 1930 because the company was underutilized.

On May 1, 1931, Brunow joined the NSDAP ( membership number 530.892) and the SS on November 1 of the same year . On August 1, 1932, he was transferred to the security service of the SS (SD), which Reinhard Heydrich established at the time.

A few months after the National Socialist seizure of power in the spring of 1933, Brunow was accepted as a detective in the Secret State Police , which at that time belonged to Hermann Göring's sphere of influence and was under the leadership of his protégé Rudolf Diels . On October 1, 1933, he was assigned to the search command of the Secret State Police Office. In his study of the beginnings of the SD and the Gestapo, Shlomo Aronson comes to the conclusion that Brunow was one of the secret SD people who were smuggled into the Diels Gestapa . In this capacity, Brunow played a role in the systematic infiltration of the Secret State Police by the SD and in the intrigue that finally fell in April 1934 in the context of the power struggle between Göring and Diels on the one hand and Heinrich Himmler and Heydrich on the other hand over control of the Gestapo von Diels as head of the Gestapo and the appointment of Heydrich as the new head of the Secret State Police Office. In the Heydrich'schen Gestapa, Brunow was assigned to the Department II 1 H 1 (party, HJ, BDM affairs) led by Josef Meisinger as a detective.

After the Second World War, Brunow lived in Hamburg.

literature

• Shlomo Aronson : Heydrich and the beginnings of the SD and the Gestapo. 1931-1935. Ernst Reuter Society, Berlin 1967 (Berlin, Free University, dissertation, 1966), (Also as: Reinhard Heydrich and the early history of the Gestapo and SD. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-421-01569-4 ) .