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Reiner Gottstein (born August 10, 1910 in Reichenberg , Austria-Hungary , † February 13, 1945 near Tök near Budapest ) was a German police officer and SS leader.

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Gottstein joined the NSDAP ( membership number 5,062,634) in the 1930s . He also became a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS No. 219.699), in which he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer in January 1945. In the SS he made a career in the so-called Security Service (SD), the SS intelligence service.

Around 1941 Gottstein was in the rank of Sturmbannführer and Police Council head of Section II D 1 ("Radio, Photo and Film") in Office II (Organization and Administration) of the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin.

For the first few months of 1944 Gottstein can be verified as head of a task force in Kosice and Miskolc . In August 1944 he was then transferred to Budapest as commander of the security police and the SD , where he took part in attempts to murder the ghettoized population. Gottstein stayed in the city when it was enclosed by the Red Army at the turn of the year and declared a "fortress". According to his death certificate, Gottstein died on February 13 at Tök, northwest of Budapest, in fighting (registry office Berlin-Neukölln No. 134/52), which Wildt considers to be "not proven". Shortly before, on February 6, 1945, Gottstein had been awarded the Knight's Cross.

literature

Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

↑ Reiner Gottstein on www.dws-xip.pl
^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 194.
↑ Michael Okroy: Košice was a European city. A reading and travel book on Jewish culture and history in Košice and Prešov , 2005, p. 93.
^ Samuel W. Mitcham : The German Defeat in the East, 1944-45 , p. 254.
↑ Michael Wildt : Generation des Unbedingten , 2002. Klee's date of death is February 15, 1945.

personal data
SURNAME	Gottstein, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German police officer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH	August 10, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reichenberg , Sudetenland
DATE OF DEATH	February 15, 1945
Place of death	near Budapest

[1] Reiner Gottstein on www.dws-xip.pl

[Klee194-2] Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 194.

[3] Michael Okroy: Košice was a European city. A reading and travel book on Jewish culture and history in Košice and Prešov , 2005, p. 93.

[4] Samuel W. Mitcham : The German Defeat in the East, 1944-45 , p. 254.

[5] Michael Wildt : Generation des Unbedingten , 2002. Klee's date of death is February 15, 1945.