Paul Dittel

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Paul Dittel , (born January 14, 1907 in Mittweida ; † 1976?), Was SS-Obersturmbannführer in the National Socialist German Reich and from 1943 head of Office VII ( SD -Ausland) of the Reich Main Security Office .

Origin and studies

Paul Dittel was born on January 14, 1907 in Mittweida, Saxony. His grandfather was a locksmith, his father an elementary school teacher. Dittel attended the Reform Gymnasium in Chemnitz . During his high school days he became a member of the Association of German Ring Scouts, from which he only broke up in 1933. After graduating from high school, Dittel studied philosophy , history , geography and English in Graz and Leipzig . For this he also traveled to England for four weeks .

After graduating, Dittel took a position as tutor in Leicester in England in 1932 and then worked in the libraries of the British Museum and the Royal Geographical Society in London . He received his doctorate with a thesis on pre-British colonization in Africa.

In 1933 he returned to Germany and served half a year in the 11th Infantry Regiment. In the same year he joined the NSDAP and from September 1933 to February 1935 was an instructor in SA Standarte 107 in Leipzig .

At the security service of the SS

After he had prepared reports for publications of the security service of the SS (SD) in Leipzig since February 1935, he went to the SD as a full-time employee in June 1935. He headed the Masonic Archives in the SD main office in Berlin and gained recognition from his superior Franz Six , who headed the central department I / 3 (press and museum) and who had also only entered the service of the SD in May 1935.

In January 1936, the main department "Museum, Library and Scientific Research Center" was also subordinated to Six. The central department I / 3 of the SD main office was therefore organized as follows:

  • Main department I / 31 (press and literature)
  • Main department I / 32 (museum, library, scientific research center)

Dittel was entrusted with the management of the business of main department I / 32, which in turn was structured as follows:

  • Department I / 321 (library): Waldemar Beyer
  • Department I / 322 (museum): Hans Richter
  • Department I / 323 (Scientific Research Center): Paul Dittel

After the connection of Austria in 1938, evaluated Dittel seized from SD documents and served as deputy to the chief Six Division I 32 of the SD-principal office at which the Masonic museum, the library and the scientific research body part.

In the Reich Security Main Office

With the establishment of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) on October 1, 1939, he became head of Section II A 3 (archive), which was designated VII C 1 (archive) after the reorganization on February 1, 1940. At the end of 1943 he succeeded Franz Six as head of Office VII (ideological research and evaluation - SD abroad). Six had not been in charge of this Office VII since April 1941, so that it was led on behalf of SS-Obersturmbannführer and Oberregierungsrat Paul Mylius until November 18, 1943. At the end of the war, Dittel was captured by the English. There he met Lieutenant Wilhelm Weißweiler (1909–2000), who was also imprisoned, whom he impressed with his education and eloquence. Weißweiler was dismissed in 1948 and built a small dressing material factory in Mönchengladbach, to which he appointed Dittel as an authorized signatory, as he had no chance of getting a suitable position at a university or in the publishing industry due to his Nazi past. Dittel moved with his family to Mönchengladbach, where his son Volker grew up and graduated from high school.

In connection with the securing of various libraries for the SD Dittel testified in 1972 in reparation proceedings .

proof

  1. ^ The Settlement of Southern Nigeria from the Beginnings to British Colonization. Dissertation, Leipzig 1936 (In: Wiss.Veröff., New Part IV).

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SURNAME Dittel, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmbannführer and from 1943 head of Office VII (SD-Foreign) of the Reich Main Security Office
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Mittweida , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH around 1976