State Police Station Dessau

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The Anhalt Political Police ( Geheime Staatspolizei ) Dessau was only formed as a “special department of the State Ministry” on March 29, 1934 for the purpose of “uniformly combating all subversive efforts of internal and external enemies”. She was responsible for the State of Anhalt ( Free State of Anhalt until 1934 ). On 1 October 1936 the "Anhaltische Political Police (Gestapo) Dessau" was amended by Circular for the reorganization of the Reich Criminal Police in state police station Dessau renamed. With effect from July 1, 1941, it was subordinated to the Magdeburg state police station and since then has only had the status of a field service. It was dissolved with the end of the National Socialism in 1945.

tasks

The “business area” of the Secret State Police in Dessau included the “research of all political endeavors dangerous to the state, [...] collecting and evaluating the results, combating the stated endeavors, making the necessary interventions in the secrecy of letters, mail, telegraph and telephone, and orders or possible confirmation of protective custody , [...] prohibition of periodical publications and restrictions on property [...], discussion of cases of high treason, [...] treason, [...] espionage [...]. "

management

In contrast to Prussia , the Gestapo in Anhalt remained formally subordinate to the Anhalt State Minister Alfred Freyberg until 1937 , i.e. Freyberg was de jure also head of the Gestapo. De facto, however, since its founding in 1934, Otto Sens (born April 14, 1898 in Dessau) headed the Anhalt Political Police and the Dessau State Police Station.

literature

Alexander Sperk : Anhalt in the mirror of the situation reports of the Secret State Police and the Minister of State at the beginning of National Socialism . In: Announcements of the Verein für Anhaltische Landeskunde , 14/2005, pages 226 to 244. ISSN  1430-3647

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Alexander Sperk, Anhalt in the mirror of the situation reports of the secret state police .
  2. ↑ See: Alexander Sperk: State Police Office Leader, Einsatzkommandofführer, Officer in the Security Service of the SS - The Career of Otto Sens from Dessau, in: Dessauer Calendar 2014, pp. 68-87, ISSN  0420-1264 .