Otto Lurker

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Otto Lurker (born July 28, 1896 in Griesheim, Baden, † April 20, 1949 in Ljubljana ) was one of Adolf Hitler's prison guards during his imprisonment in Landsberg .

Life

After attending school, Lurker entered the prison service. In 1924 he was employed as a prison guard - with the title of prison sergeant - in the Landsberg Fortress, where he was one of the guards of Adolf Hitler , Rudolf Hess and several other Nazi leaders who were sentenced there after the failed Hitler putsch in November 1923 served. He was later transferred to Zweibrücken as a prison officer in order to work full-time in the National Socialist Schutzstaffel (SS) after 1933 .

According to some sources, and especially according to his own statements, Lurker came under the influence of Nazi ideology while guarding the Nazi greats. However, it might just be a later construction. It is certain that Lurker joined the NSDAP (membership number 125.205) and the SS (membership number 3.769) a few years later .

In 1933 Lurker published the book Hitler Behind Fortress Walls , in which he presented his memories of Hitler's imprisonment in Landsberg Fortress. Although the book is clearly marked by a National Socialist stance, it has traditionally been accorded considerable source value in research, as it prints or cites numerous original files and other documents from Hitler's imprisonment that have not otherwise survived.

In the later years of the Nazi era, Lurker made a career in the security service of the SS, in which he held the rank of storm leader by 1933 at the latest and most recently reached the rank of standard leader: in March 1935, he took over the management of the then newly created SD sub-section Saar as Hauptsturmführer based in Saarbrücken. In 1938 Lurker was head of the SD subsection Baden.

From 1939 on, Lurker built the SD section in Graz. During the Second World War he held the post of commander of the security police and the SD in Lower Styria from there . In this role he was one of the main participants in war crimes against the population in the then German-occupied Slovenia . After the invasion of Yugoslavia, he signed over 1000 death sentences as SD section leader in Marburg / Maribor. In 1944 he moved to Meissen.

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After the war, Lurker was imprisoned in Laibach prison and prosecuted in Yugoslavia as head of the SS security service in Lower Styria. He was sentenced to death in 1949 and executed.

Promotions

  • SS-Sturmführer April 20, 1933
  • SS-Obersturmführer June 22, 1934
  • SS-Hauptsturmführer April 20, 1935
  • SS-Sturmbannführer September 15, 1935
  • SS-Obersturmbannführer April 20, 1936
  • SS-Standartenführer April 20, 1937

Fonts

  • Hitler behind fortress walls. A picture from cloudy days , 1933.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schulz: Generale der Waffen SS: LP, p. 354.
  2. ↑ Heibo Halbrainer: In the certainty that you will continue the fight , 2000, p. 218.
  3. ↑ Historical Provincial Commission for Styria: History of Styria , Vol. 10, 2004, p. 210.
  4. ↑ Information according to the seniority list of the NSDAP's protection squadrons 1938, p. 34.

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personal data
SURNAME Lurker, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Adolf Hitler's prison sergeant during his imprisonment in Landsberg
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Griesheim, Baden
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1949
Place of death Ljubljana