Otto Gunsch

Otto Günsch (1934/35)

Otto Gunsch (born September 24, 1917 in Jena ; † October 2, 2003 in Lohmar , North Rhine-Westphalia ) was a German SS-Sturmbannführer and personal adjutant to Adolf Hitler .

Life

After Oberrealschule Günsche entered the age of 16 in the body banner SS Hitler and was SS -member (SS no. 257773). Since 1935 he was also a member of the NSDAP . As a member of the Fuhrer Accompanying Command , he came into close proximity to Adolf Hitler for the first time in 1936. This was followed by training in the SS Junker School in Bad Tölz and serving in the front in the Waffen SS . Otto Günsch was present as a guard at the armistice negotiations between France and Germany on June 22, 1940 in the Compiègne car in the clearing of Rethondes near Compiègne . In January 1943, Gushi was initially Hitler's personal adjutant. In the same year he was the best man of Hitler's orderly officer Hans-Hermann Junge and his wife Traudl Junge , Hitler's secretary. After another six months at the front, on February 6, 1944, Gushi was promoted to official personal SS adjutant. On July 20, was hauptsturmführer Otto Günsche as well as Hitler's Luftwaffe adjutant , Nicolaus von Below the attempt on Hitler at a briefing in the Wolf's Lair slightly injured.

In mid-January 1945 he accompanied Adolf Hitler to the Berlin Führerbunker and was there on Hitler's last visit to the front in early March 1945 on the Oder . From the beginning of March to April 22, 1945, Guche was the combat commander of the Reich Chancellery. After the death of Adolf and Eva Hitler by suicide (April 30, 1945) in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery, Otto Günsch et al. a. according to orders, the corpses in the garden of the New Reich Chancellery and buried the remains.

On the evening of April 30, 1945, the then 27-year-old Günsch left the Führerbunker together with Hitler's first private secretary, Gerda Christian . In a group led by SS Brigade Leader Wilhelm Mohnke , both of them came from the bombed Reich Chancellery under fire from the Soviet soldiers fighting in the Battle of Berlin through underground shafts to the Friedrichstrasse station .

There the paths of the longtime companions parted. Gushi was imprisoned by the Soviets for 10 years. In 1955 he was transferred to the GDR . After his release from Bautzen prison in May 1956, he came to the Federal Republic in the same month . Gerda Christian left Berlin for Bavaria . There she was arrested and interrogated by the US military police.

Günsche was from Rowa-Wagner KG set in Bergisch Gladbach as a manager. He headed this pharmaceutical company until 1990. Gerda Christian later found work in commercial enterprises in the Rhineland and remained in constant contact with Günsch.

In the past few years, Guche has lived in a secluded position in North Rhine-Westphalia as a widower. The National Socialist, who was convinced throughout his life, remained closed to journalists. He died in his house in Lohmar in the Rhein-Sieg district . A burial at sea took place as requested .

media

In the film The Last Act (1955) Otto G possibly was portrayed by the actor Hannes Schiel , in Der Bunker (1981) by Andrew Ray , in Der Untergang (2004) by Götz Otto .

literature

• Henrik Eberle , Matthias Uhl : The book Hitler - secret dossier of the NKVD for JW Stalin . Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2005.
• Peter Hoffmann : The security of the dictator. R. Pieper & Co., Munich 1975, ISBN 3-492-02120-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto G possibly in the catalog of the German National Library
• Otto G Wunsch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sven Felix Kellerhoff : The Last Adjutant Article on Welt Online (October 18, 2003)
• Photo by Otto Günsches
• Historical personalities from Obersalzberg / Berghof ( memento from September 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), archived in the web archive
• Secret dossier for Stalin, Otto G possibly, personal adjutant, and Heinz Linge, Hitler's valet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 205.
2. ↑ Peter Hoffmann : The security of the dictator. R. Pieper & Co., Munich 1975, ISBN 3-492-02120-4 , p. 243.
3. ↑ Die Welt of October 18, 2003: “The Last Adjutant”. Retrieved April 15, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Joachim Fest : Hitler. A biography . Propylaea, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-549-07172-8 , p. 1023.
5. ↑ Ayhan Demirci: He burned Adolf Hitler: The last adjutant. From the Führerbunker to Cologne-Nippes. In: Express. April 30, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 .