Rudolf Oebsger-Röder

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Rudolf Oebsger-Röder (born March 9, 1912 in Leipzig ; † June 21, 1992 in Munich ) was SS-Obersturmbannführer in the National Socialist German Reich , SD leader at Einsatzkommando 16 Bromberg , 1940 head of Office Group II A (basic research) in Office II (SD-Inland) of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), leader of the Cluj Task Force in Hungary in 1944 and employee of the Federal Intelligence Service and newspaper correspondent in Djakarta .

Origin and studies

Rudolf Oebsger-Röder was the son of a foreman. After completing his school career, he studied history , sociology and newspaper studies at the University of Leipzig .

He became a member of the Hitler Youth at the end of 1929 and joined the NSDAP at the age of 19 in March 1931 ( membership number 475.061). He was also a member of the SA from 1931 . At the University of Leipzig in 1933 he became the press officer of the NS-Studentenbund (NSDStB) and headed the “Press and Propaganda” department. From 1935 he was NSDStB university group leader in Leipzig, local student union leader and also held the positions of "investigative leader for honorary and disciplinary questions of the Gaustudentenschaft Sachsen" as well as a management function at the newspaper science association. As an assistant at the Leipzig Institute for Newspaper Studies from 1935 to 1937 , he obtained his doctorate in 1936 with a dissertation on the educational level of German journalists. phil.

At the security service of the SS

In April 1935, Oebsger-Röder transferred from the SA to the SS (SS-No. 267.393) and worked as a volunteer for the SD , to which he finally made himself available as a full-time employee. He was also a consultant at the SS Central Section. Franz Six attested to Oebsger-Röder, who was already known to him, in a promotion assessment of October 18, 1937, “an impeccable soldiery demeanor [...] confident demeanor in and out of service [and] a personally clean demeanor.” used for National Socialism ”and has an“ impeccable comprehension ”.

At the task force of the security police in Poland

After the start of the Second World War , Oebsger-Röder was appointed leader of a four-man SD squad of the Einsatzkommando (EK) 16 in Bromberg in the course of the attack on Poland , which as an independent unit was assigned directly to the leader of the SD Upper Section Northeast, SS- Brigadefiihrer Jakob Sporrenberg , was under. In a report to the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) dated October 21, 1939, he reported that the Gestapo and the self-protection of the Volksdeutsche are "carrying out operations" in the West Prussian cities to arrest the Polish teachers and transport them to the Krone prison. It is planned to liquidate the radical Polish elements. "

In another report, Oebsger-Röder describes the tasks of his EK even more drastically:

“According to the will of the Führer, a German West Prussia should emerge from the Polish-determined Pomeranian in the shortest possible time. In order to carry out these tasks, according to the unanimous opinion of all responsible bodies, the following measures are necessary: ​​1.) Physical liquidation of all those Polish elements that a) have somehow emerged leading on the Polish side in the past or b) may be the bearers of Polish resistance in the future . [...] The measures listed have been tackled from the start. However, the following remarks appear necessary to substantiate the necessity of the proposal: To 1.) The liquidation will only be able to be carried out for a short time. Then the German administration and other factors outside the NSDAP will make direct action impossible. In any case, in the end, despite all the hardship, only a fraction of the Poles in West Prussia will be destroyed (an estimated 20,000). "

- Rudolf Oebsger-Röder in the autumn of 1939 in a situation report for the Reich Propaganda Ministry.

Following his SD assignment, Oebsger-Röder came to Łódź (called Litzmannstadt from 1940) via the immigrant central office in Gotenhafen , where he was appointed deputy head, in mid-November 1939 , where he managed the local branch of the immigrant central office until the end of March 1940 .

In the Reich Security Main Office

For only two months he acted as head of Office Group II A (basic research) in Office II (enemy research - SD-Inland) of the RSHA, headed by Franz Six, before he was transferred to Danzig in June 1940 as SD leader . In 1941/42 Oebsger-Röder was employed in the " Company Zeppelin " designed by SS-Obersturmbannführer and Oberregierungsrat Heinz Gräfe . In July 1942 he finally took over the management of the special section VI C / Z in Office VI of the RSHA until February 1943.

From April / May 1944 he was again deployed as a leader of a task force in Hungary (EK Cluj ) and until August 1944 with the SD in Budapest . He then stayed in Office VI in Group E of the RSHA until the end of the war. Oebsger-Röder was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer in 1945 .

After the war

After the end of the war, Oebsger-Röder went into hiding with the false name Richard Rupp as a farm worker in Schleswig-Holstein , but was arrested together with Horst Mahnke in Hanover in early 1946 and interned for a short time in the internment camp Bad Nenndorf . After a trial chamber proceeding in Bielefeld in November 1948 , he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, which, however, was compensated by his internment in Bad Nenndorf. After that he was recruited for the Gehlen Organization in 1948, later the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), for which he worked full-time in the 1950s. Among other things, he led the arms dealer and former SS leader Wilhelm Beisner to the BND in 1957. Because of war crimes was established in the Federal Republic several times against Oebsger-Röder. However, the investigative proceedings were all discontinued because beyond knowledge of crimes no involvement in the crime could be proven. Oebsger-Röder, who also worked as a journalist for the German soldiers newspaper , left Munich for Indonesia at the end of December 1959 . There he managed to gain access to the head of state and dictator Hadji Mohamed Suharto and to act as his advisor and biographer. At the same time, however, he also worked under the name “OG Roeder” employee of the Federal Intelligence Service in Djakarta and as a correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . From December 1962 to July 1964 he lived in Bangkok and then again in Indonesia. Due to his Nazi past, Oebsger-Röder was released from his activities for the BND in the summer of 1964, but was still used as a source in Indonesia until March 1966 . Subsequently, he was to be reactivated several times as the “best informed journalist” in Indonesia until 1979, but he consistently rejected this request. Oebsger-Röder probably had his place of residence again in Munich from 1980, where he is said to have mostly stayed.

On June 21, 1992 Oebsger-Röder died of heart failure in Munich.

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  2. ↑ a b c d Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition HIS, Hamburg 2002, p. 939
  3. ↑ a b Rudolf Oebsger-Röder. In: Dws-xip.pl
  4. ↑ Klaus-Michael Mallmann , Jochen Böhler , Jürgen Matthäus : Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and documentation. Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21353-5 , p. 42
  5. ^ Lutz Hachmeister : Press Research and War of Extermination. On the relationship between the SS, propaganda apparatus and journalism. In: Wolfgang Duchkowitsch et al. (Ed.): The spiral of silence. On dealing with National Socialist newspaper science. Lit, Münster 2004, p. 75 f.
  6. ^ Lutz Hachmeister: Press Research and War of Extermination. On the relationship between the SS, propaganda apparatus and journalism. In: Wolfgang Duchkowitsch et al. (Ed.): The spiral of silence. On dealing with National Socialist newspaper science. Lit, Münster 2004, p. 76 f.
  7. ↑ Quoted in: Lutz Hachmeister: Press Research and War of Extermination. On the relationship between the SS, propaganda apparatus and journalism. In: Wolfgang Duchkowitsch et al. (Ed.): The spiral of silence. On dealing with National Socialist newspaper science. Lit, Münster 2004, p. 77.
  8. ↑ Michael Wildt: Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition HIS, Hamburg 2002, p. 478
  9. ↑ Quoted in: Michael Wildt: Generation des Unbedinges. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition HIS, Hamburg 2002, p. 477
  10. ↑ Quoted in: Michael Wildt: Generation des Unbedinges. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition HIS, Hamburg 2002, p. 477 f.
  11. ^ Lutz Hachmeister: Press Research and War of Extermination. On the relationship between the SS, propaganda apparatus and journalism. In: Wolfgang Duchkowitsch et al. (Ed.): The spiral of silence. On dealing with National Socialist newspaper science. Lit, Münster 2004, p. 77
  12. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 442
  13. ↑ a b c d Lutz Hachmeister: Press research and war of extermination. On the relationship between the SS, propaganda apparatus and journalism. In: Wolfgang Duchkowitsch et al. (Ed.): The spiral of silence. On dealing with National Socialist newspaper science. Lit, Münster 2004, p. 78
  14. ↑ a b Bodo Hechelhammer : Walther Rauff and the Federal Intelligence Service. ( Memento of December 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Communications from the research and working group “History of the BND” (MFGBND). No. 2, September 23, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Oebsger-Röder, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmbannführer, head of the Reich Security Main Office, employee of the Federal Intelligence Service
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1992
Place of death Munich