Kurt Moritz

Kurt Moritz (born May 6, 1902 in Magdeburg as August Hugo Emil Kurt Moritz ; † September 17, 1973 in Osnabrück ) was a senior German police officer , an employee of the Gestapo and, from 1939, a member of the Secret Field Police . From the late 1940s on, he was a secret service employee of the Gehlen organization and the resulting Federal Intelligence Service .

Life

Until 1945

Kurt Moritz grew up in Magdeburg, where he attended the Guericke secondary school from 1911 . After 1919 he was briefly a member of a volunteer corps , in 1921 he passed his Abitur. In the same year he began an apprenticeship in a bank . He broke off his studies in economics . After changing positions as a chemical representative, commercial clerk and bank clerk , Moritz joined the Magdeburg Police Headquarters on September 15, 1926 as a candidate for a detective commissioner and attended the “Higher Police School” in Berlin-Charlottenburg . Appointed auxiliary crime inspector in October 1928, he was transferred to police headquarters in Berlin in April 1929 and promoted to crime inspector. The main area of ​​work was break-ins.

On November 26, 1933, Moritz was transferred to the Secret State Police Office. According to the office's business distribution plans, he was employed in Department III (Movement Department) in early 1934 with the surveillance and prosecution of political opponents. In October 1934 he was head of Department II 1 A 4 of the Political Police ( Comintern , GPU , Russian constitutions, right-wing Russian movement, German immigrants from the USSR , registration of foreigners). As an experienced criminalist he was transferred back to the Berlin Police Headquarters in March 1935 , where he finally worked in the homicide and robbery department. There he was instrumental in investigating the crimes committed by the Götze brothers . In December 1938 he was therefore promoted to the criminal inspector. Subsequently, he was head of the Wedding - Reineckendorf and Schöneberg criminal inspections .

On August 25, 1939, Moritz was drafted into the "Gestapo of the Wehrmacht ", the Secret Field Police (GFP) . After participating in the attack on Poland , he was deployed in GFP groups 601 and 131 in the area of ​​the military commander in Belgium and northern France. On 1 May 1940 he was a member of the Nazi party and about the same time - possibly by way of rank approximation - as Hauptsturmfuehrer member of the SS (SS. No. 353582). After a brief interlude at Security Division 207 in Köslin , Moritz became the liaison officer of the Chief Field Police Director France to the French Military Commander in June 1941 . He was also the head of a central special command in Paris that had been specially formed to crush the French Resistance .

In 1942 he was ordered back to the criminal police in Berlin, where he was initially head of the fraud inspection. At the same time he became SS-Sturmbannführer . In the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) Moritz then worked in Department VC 2 (" Protective Custody Matters "). At the beginning of May 1943 Moritz was transferred to Magdeburg as the permanent deputy of the head of the criminal police and was appointed criminal director there on January 1, 1945. On April 20, 1945, Moritz was captured by American troops and interned in various camps.

post war period

Kurt Moritz was released from captivity in February 1947 and returned to Berlin in May 1947. There he was arrested twice in June and August 1947 on the orders of the Americans, interrogated in the Wannsee camp and handed over to the French military police at the end of August . In mid-November he was transferred to the Cherohe-Midi military prison in Paris . The proceedings against him before the military tribunal were closed in April 1948 ( Ordonnance de Non-lieu ). Moritz returned to Berlin in mid-April 1948, where he initially worked in his father-in-law's pastry shop . In early December 1948 he was denazified .

At the end of 1949 Kurt Moritz became an employee of the Gehlen organization (V number 3080, code name Kurt Maue ). Initially an interrogator in the Marienfelde emergency reception center , Moritz was later head of the forest chapel of the OG district representation in Berlin, an internal security group.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth register of the StA Magdeburg-Altstadt, No. 1227/1902
2. ↑ Death register StA Osnabrück, No. 1698/1973
3. ↑ Patrick Wagner: Volksgemeinschaft without criminal. Concepts and practice of the criminal police during the Weimar Republic and National Socialism (= Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history. Vol. 34). Christians, Hamburg 1996, pp. 130, 182.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Career of Kurt Maue (no year) (released document from the holdings of the CIA), NWCDA 6/155 MORITZ, KURT AUGUST HUGO 0005 ( PDF 957 kB, accessed on September 2, 2014).
5. ↑ Business distribution plan of the Secret State Police Office v. January 22, 1934 ( Bundesarchiv Berlin, R 58/840), p. 7ff .; Business Allocation Plan v. October 25, 1934 (ibid., P. 24ff.).
6. ^ Hans Pollak: Tatort sector limit. Post-war Berlin criminal cases. Berlin 1994, p. 36.
7. ↑ Quote from: Klaus Geßner: Geheime Feldpolizei - the Gestapo of the Wehrmacht. In: Hannes Heer , Klaus Naumann (ed.): War of Extermination - Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941-1944. Hamburg 1995, pp. 343-356.
8. ↑ Joachim Bornschein: perpetrators in secret. Wilhelm Krichbaum between the Nazi field police and the Gehlen organization. Leipzig 2010, p. 173, note 242; Klaus Geßner: Secret field police. On the function and organization of the secret police executive process of the fascist armed forces. Berlin 1986 (East), p. 66.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Peter-Ferdinand Koch: Unmasked. Double agents: names, facts, evidence. Salzburg 2011, note 43.
10. ↑ Research Aid: Cryptonyms and Terms in Declassified CIA Files Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Disclosure Acts (IWG, June 2007), p. 50 ( PDF 412 kB; accessed on September 2, 2013).