Kurt Ensign

Kurt Fähnrich (born September 22, 1900 in Berlin -Charlottenburg, † June 5, 1976 in Hameln ) was a German politician ( GB / BHE ).

Life

Ensign attended the Schiller Realgymnasium and passed the Abitur. From 1917 onwards he participated in the First World War . In 1919 he began studying mathematics, physics and chemistry in Berlin, but soon switched to economics, law and criminalistics. During his studies he became a member of the Sigambria Berlin fraternity .

In 1927/28 ensign passed the aptitude test for service in the criminal police and was a candidate for a detective inspector. In 1930 ensign passed the detective inspector's examination and was transferred to the murder inspection. In the years 1931–1933 he was head of a robbery commissioner, and in 1933 he was transferred to Dept. IA ( Political Police ), later Gestapo . On May 1, 1933 , he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3,472,773). He was also a member of the SA from 1933 to 1937 and of the NSV from 1939 to 1943 .

According to his own information, ensign was relieved of his office on June 30, 1934 for alleged participation in the " Röhm revolt " and imprisoned in the Lichtenburg concentration camp , after which he was returned to the criminal police. From 1934 to 1936 he was head of a homicide squad at the Berlin Criminal Police Office. In 1936 he was assigned to head the Reich Central Office for Combating Capital Crimes in the Reich Criminal Police Office (Office V of the RSHA ). In 1939 he was promoted to the criminal councilor and on November 9, 1943 to the criminal director.

From April 1945 to March 1947 to Ensign was in Allied internment . In his denazification process he was denazified on September 23, 1947, first in category III, then in the appeal process on March 22, 1949 in category IV.

After the war, ensign was elected chairman of the BHE and chairman of the Central Association of Expelled Germans in the Nienburg district. He was also chairman of the German civil servants' association in the district cartel in Nienburg and chairman of the tenant protection association for the district of Nienburg.

In the second electoral term he became a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from May 6, 1951 to May 5, 1955. With effect from March 16, 1953, he was a member of the GB / BHE parliamentary group.

On December 17, 1955, ensign was put into service as a criminal adviser in the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police. Until the end of 1956 he was employed by the Hanover Police Department . From 1956 to 1960 he was head of the state criminal police branch in Hameln. He was retired on October 1, 1960.

source

• Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition. Hanover 2012, p. 153f. ( online as PDF) .
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 93.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Membership directory of the Frankenburg-Bau-Verein eV Berlin 1940, p. 14.