Otto Kuschow

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Otto Friedrich Karl Kuschow (born December 31, 1890 in Zwenzow , † April 20, 1945 in Nuremberg ) was a German police chief and SS leader at the time of National Socialism .

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Kuschow, whose father was a forest worker, completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and carpenter after attending elementary school. As a volunteer he served in the artillery in the German Army from 1909 to 1911 and, after training at the Strelitz technical center , took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 . After he had committed himself to a twelve-year service in the military in 1917, he joined the Eastern Border Guard at the end of the war in early 1919 . In March 1920 he switched to the police force and was employed by the Mecklenburg-Strelitz state police .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Kuschow joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 ( membership number 2,893,126). In November 1933 he took over the position of major in the service of the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior: Kuschow was a member of the staff of the Weimar State Police Group, from 1935 he was employed in the police department in the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior , from the end of 1936 worked as an inspector of the uniformed police forces and finally as deputy of the Inspector of the Ordnungspolizei (ITE) in Kassel ( military district IX).

At the beginning of December 1938, Kuschow moved to the police chief Benno Martin in Nuremberg, where he initially represented the commander of the police force and finally took over this position himself with the rank of colonel. On July 15, 1942, Kuschow was accepted into the SS (membership number 426.888) with the rank of SS-Standartenführer . After Martin was appointed Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Main in December 1942, Kuschow succeeded Martin in the office of Police President, initially provisionally and officially in office from June 1943. He was also the local air raid chief. On June 21, 1943 he was promoted to SS-Oberführer and exactly one year later to SS-Brigadführer .

During the Battle of Nuremberg , Kuschow, like Gauleiter Karl Holz , belonged to a combat group and died with them on April 20, 1945 in the fighting for the Nuremberg police headquarters.

literature

  • Utho Grieser: Himmler's husband in Nuremberg. The Benno Martin case. A study on the structure of the 3rd Reich in the "City of the Nazi Party Rallies". (= Nuremberg work pieces on city and state history. Volume 13) Nuremberg city archive, Nuremberg 1974, ISBN 3-87432-025-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Utho Grieser: Himmler's husband in Nurnberg :. The Benno Martin case , Nuremberg 1974, p. 308.
  2. ↑ Michael Diefenbacher, Wiltrud Fischer-Pache (ed.): The air war against Nuremberg. The attack on January 2, 1945 and the destroyed city , sources and research on the history and culture of the city of Nuremberg, Volume 33, Nuremberg 2004, p. 201.
  3. ↑ Utho Grieser: Himmler's husband in Nurnberg :. The Benno Martin case , Nuremberg 1974, p. 308.
  4. ^ Sources on the history and culture of the city of Nuremberg, Volume 19, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Kuschow, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuschow, Otto Friedrich Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police president and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwentsow
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1945
Place of death Nuremberg