Otto Armster
Otto Armster (born July 11, 1891 in Preetz ; † September 21, 1957 ) was a German intelligence officer and resistance fighter against National Socialism ( involved in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 ).
Life
Armster was friends with the head of the Military Intelligence Service Office Abroad / Defense Wilhelm Canaris and had been in contact with his resistance group since 1939. In the rank of colonel he was from April 1944 head of the "Abwehr" office in Vienna , where he worked with Georg Alexander Hansen , Hans Oster and Ludwig Gehre .
In connection with his resistance activities, Armster had several contacts through Hermann Kaiser to the General of the Infantry Friedrich Olbricht and other conspirators of the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 , he was scheduled as a liaison officer in military district XVIII (Salzburg) .
On July 23, 1944, Armster was arrested in Vienna and taken to Berlin. Until his release on April 25, 1945, shortly before the capitulation of Berlin , he was imprisoned in the Lehrter Strasse cell prison. He was arrested by the NKVD on May 15, 1945 and held in the Soviet Union until 1955 .
literature
- Ludwig Jedlicka: July 20, 1944 in Austria. Munich / Vienna 1965
- Peter Hoffmann : Resistance, Coup, Assassination. The fight of the opposition against Hitler. Munich 1969/1985
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| SURNAME | Armster, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German colonel and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Preetz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1957 |