Peter Kraus (Gestapo)

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Peter Kraus (born July 25, 1898 in Kirn , † April 23, 1954 in Pervouralsk ) was a German criminal inspector, SS leader and Gestapo employee .

biography

The baker Kraus participated as a volunteer from 1915 to 1918 at the First World War, in part, and then joined a volunteer corps to. At the beginning of October 1919 he joined the police force in Hamburg and became a sergeant in the regulatory police . From 1926 he worked for the criminal police and from 1927 for the political police in Hamburg. He joined the NSDAP in early July 1932 . Within the Hamburg Political Police, among other things, he was responsible for monitoring the political activities of the NSDAP, which is why he was assigned other functions in the Hamburg police in February 1933 due to his known party membership. At the beginning of March 1933 he was able to return to his old post after the intervention of the Hamburg Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann and was entrusted with the management of the search team against organizations and members of the KPD . In cooperation with the Command for the Special Use of the Ordnungspolizei , the illegal resistance of communists and workers was crushed within a short time and their arrested relatives were severely mistreated.

After the beginning of the Second World War , Kraus was promoted to the Kriminalrat in 1940. Within the SS , he rose to become SS-Sturmbannführer . After the attack on the Soviet Union he was deployed in the Galicia district and succeeded Kurt Stawizki in the summer of 1943 as the last head of the Gestapo in Lviv under the command of the Security Police and the SD (KdS). In this function he was instrumental in the persecution of the Jews living there .

After the end of the war, Kraus was in Soviet captivity and died in an internment camp in Pervouralsk.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ precise date of death by Arne Hardis: Klassekammeraten. Otto Melchior - communist who forsvandt. Denmark 2010, p. 291.
  2. ↑ a b Herbert Diercks: Documentation town house. The Hamburg police under National Socialism. Texts, photos, documents. Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial , Hamburg 2012, p. 32.
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 36.
  4. ↑ Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, p. 390.
personal data
SURNAME Kraus, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminal inspector, SS leader and Gestapo staff
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirn
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1954
Place of death Pervouralsk