Walter Abraham

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Walter Abraham (born October 25, 1896 in Beeskow , † June 24, 1963 in Hamburg ) was a German police general , most recently major general of the police and SS brigade leader in World War II .

Life

After participating in the First World War , Abraham entered the police force. Soon after the seizure of power by the National Socialists was Abraham mid-May 1933 Head of the Hamburg State Police , the forerunner of the local Gestapo . He held this position, in which he was jointly responsible for violent Nazi crimes, until October 1933. After that, he was a member of the Brandenburg State Police. At the beginning of May 1937 he joined the NSDAP (membership number 5.918.712). At the head of the Ordnungspolizei , he became a clerk for Reich defense issues and finally head of the main office of the Ordnungspolizei . During the Second World War, Abraham became chief of staff in the Berlin Police in 1940. At the beginning of March 1944 he was accepted into the SS (SS no. 474.730) and in mid-May 1944 he was appointed SS-Oberführer with retroactive effect from his entry date. On April 20, 1944, he was promoted to SS-Brigadführer and Major General of the Police, the highest rank he achieved in the SS and police. Shortly before that, on April 11, 1944, he had been appointed commander of the Ordnungspolizei in Münster and held this post until mid-September 1944. He then became commander of the police in Hamburg. From the beginning of January 1945 until the end of the war he was also the commander of the Ordnungspolizei in Wehrkreis 10 (Hamburg) and chief of staff of the Higher SS and Police Leader Georg-Henning Graf von Bassewitz-Behr .

After the war he was interned in the British until May 7, 1947. He then lived in Hamburg and was unsuccessfully reinstated in the police force. In the course of denazification , he was classified in category V (exonerated) after a court proceedings in 1949. In the end he received high pension payments, for example 1,000 DM in 1954 .

See also

literature

  • Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 1: Abraham - Gutenberger. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf, 2003. ISBN 3-7648-2373-9 , pp. 3-4.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Heuer: Geheime Staatspolizei - about killing and the tendencies towards decivilization. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995, ISBN 3-11-014516-2 , p. 54
  2. ↑ Werner Jochmann: The establishment of the National Socialist rule in Hamburg (1987) . In: State Center for Political Education Hamburg (Ed.): Hamburg in the Third Reich, seven contributions. Hamburg 1998, 45 f.
  3. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 1: Abraham – Gutenberger, Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf, 2003. ISBN 3-7648-2373-9 , p. 34
  4. ^ Open archive of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial : From the town hall exhibition “Documentation City House. The Hamburg Police under National Socialism ”, part 6 - panels 41-48: The Ordnungspolizei, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Abraham, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS brigade leader and police general
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Beeskow
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1963
Place of death Hamburg