Kurt Griese

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Kurt Griese (born February 26, 1910 in Kiel ; † February 26, 1993 ) was a German criminal police officer and SS leader at the time of National Socialism who belonged to the security police and SD task forces responsible for war crimes during World War II . In the Federal Republic of Germany he worked in the administration department of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).

time of the nationalsocialism

After graduating from high school , Griese studied law , but did not graduate. After dropping out of his studies, he joined the police force and initially worked in Frankfurt am Main and later in Kiel. In the course of the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he became a supporting member of the SS in 1933 . He worked as an official in the Reich Labor Front and joined the NSV and in May 1937 the NSDAP ( membership number 4,424,695). As a candidate for a commissioner he joined an SS storm in Kiel in 1937 (SS no. 337.262). From October 1938 to July 1939 he successfully completed the detective inspector's course at the 1st driving school of the Sipo and SD in Berlin-Charlottenburg , which the later BKA President Paul Dickopf and his representative Rolf Holle also attended. He then worked for the criminal police in Mannheim .

At the end of 1942 he was transferred to Einsatzkommando 3 of Einsatzgruppe A in Lithuania , which at that time was mainly used to fight partisans , the liquidation of ghettos and the deportation of Jews to extermination and forced labor camps . Task Force A was responsible for the mass murder of (mostly Jewish) civilians. Griese was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer at the end of January 1944 , the highest rank he achieved within the Schutzstaffel. From November 1944 he was initially a liaison officer of the commander of the Security Police and the SD (BdS) Ostland to the 18th Army High Command of Army Group North and later in the same function as Higher SS and Police Leader .

post war period

After the war, Griese was from August 1947 to April 1948 in the Allied internment . He took up residence in the British Zone of Occupation , where he was denazified . Griese succeeded in joining the police service at the Federal Criminal Police Office in 1954, where he headed the auxiliary services department in the administrative department. Dickopf commissioned Griese with an expert opinion that qualified the successful participation in the detective inspector's course during the Nazi era to enter the higher service and to achieve all ranks in the BKA. This legally dubious expertise, which was partly based on Nazi regulations, was recognized by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and enabled many police officers at the BKA who were exposed to Nazi charges to enter the higher service despite insufficient qualifications. Promoted to government criminal investigation director, Griese retired after reaching the age limit in 1970. It is unclear whether Griese was involved in war crimes, and no public prosecutor's investigations were carried out against him.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data from: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 200
  2. ↑ Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, pp. 59, 93
  3. ↑ Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 67
  4. ↑ a b c d Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 59
  5. ↑ Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 93
  6. ↑ Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 129
  7. ↑ Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA , Cologne 2001, p. 59f.
personal data
SURNAME Griese, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminal police officer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1993