Walter Albath

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Walter Bruno Hugo Albath (born December 7, 1904 in Strasburg in West Prussia, † June 5, 1989 in Dortmund ) was a German lawyer, SS leader and official of the Gestapo .

Life

Albath studied law and received his doctorate in 1930 in Goettingen to the Dr. jur. He completed his legal clerkship in Celle . On April 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.719.177). In 1934 he came to the Gestapo. He was head of the state police control center in Düsseldorf . In 1939, when the attack on Poland began , he became the leader of Einsatzkommando 3 of Einsatzgruppe V in Allenstein . In 1941 he was appointed head of the Königsberg police station. The notorious Soldau labor education camp now also fell into his area of ​​responsibility . As a substitute, Albath also took over the post of Inspector of the Security Police and the SD (IdS) in Königsberg . In November 1943 he went back to Düsseldorf , where he was also IdS until the end of the war and in 1943 was promoted to SS-Standartenführer and government director.

post war period

After the end of the war, Albath was interrogated as a witness at the Nuremberg Trials ; his statements about the Gestapo's activities in Germany were published in a commission report by Lt. Colonel AMS Neave in short. This report was quoted in the negotiations of the Nuremberg Trial against the main war criminals . In 1948 a British military tribunal sentenced Albath to 15 years in prison, from which he was released in 1955. Several preliminary investigations were then initiated against him and dropped, the last one after his death.

Fonts

  • The good faith acquisition of legal liens on things that do not belong to the debtor , Göttingen: Göttinger Handelsdruckerei, 1930. Diss. Göttingen 1930

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich , S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt / M. 2003. ISBN 3-10-039309-0
  • Hans Woede: Albath from Kumpchen in East Prussia , in; Bernhard Koerner u. Eduard Grigoleit (arrangement): East Prussian Gender Book, Vol. 3. German Gender Book, Vol. 117 (Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families). CA Starke, Görlitz 1943, pp. 1-2.
  • Holger Berschel: Bureaucracy and Terror: the Department for Jews of the Gestapo Düsseldorf 1935–1945 . Essen: Klartext 2001. ISBN 3-89861-001-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the Dortmund registry office No. 455/1989.
  2. ↑ International Military Tribunal: The trial of the main war criminals before the International Military Court, Nuremberg, November 14, 1945 - October 1, 1946. Vol. 42. Documents and other evidence, Col. Neave report to Affidavit SS-87 , Nuremberg 1949, p. 38. Digital version of the English-language version at avalon
  3. ↑ IMT, Vol. 42, Colonel Neave report, pp. 1-153
  4. ↑ Nuremberg Trial at zeno.org . Commission hearing, reference to Commission hearing: XXI, 558, 571, 584; XXII, 23
personal data
SURNAME Albath, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albath, Walter Bruno Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, SS leader and Gestapo official
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Brodnica
DATE OF DEATH June 5th 1989
Place of death Dortmund