Walter Girg

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Skorzeny (left), Fölkersam (center) and Walter Girg (right) in Budapest, October 1944

Walter Girg (born August 13, 1919 in Hamburg-Harburg ; † July 25, 2010 ) was a German officer in the Waffen SS during World War II .

Life

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Girg's parents are the Austrian engineer Franz Girg and Rosa, née Blunder. He also had an older sister and two younger brothers. In 1925 the family moved from Hamburg to Pressburg . Girg grew up there and attended school. Girg did an apprenticeship as a machinist after school . In 1936 he joined the Hitler Youth and on January 1, 1938, he became a member of the General SS . On May 1, 1938, he joined the SS army as a volunteer.

Military career

Girg volunteered for the SS army and served in the SS division "Reich" (motorized) in the eastern theaters of war during World War II . After joining the SS-Jagdverband Mitte, under the command of Otto Skorzeny , Girg participated in several important reconnaissance and sabotage operations. These included the company Panzerfaust (1944) in Hungary and operations in Romania (1944) and in Pomerania and West Prussia (1945). After his missions, Girg was awarded the highest German war awards.

After his capture by US troops, Girg was questioned intensively by the US intelligence services.

After 1945

After changing the political relationship between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, Girg was recruited by the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC). His agency files were only made available to the public in 2006. In the following years after the war Girg was active for the German Federal Intelligence Service .

Awards

literature

  • Hagen Berger: Walter Girg: behind the enemy lines on Hitler's behalf: secret operations in the uniform of the enemy: a bearer of oak leaves between Skorzeny, CIA and BND . Verlag für Wehrwissenschaften, 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816037-1-2 ( google.de [accessed December 24, 2019]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f g h i Hagen Berger: Walter Girg: on Hitler's behalf behind enemy lines
  2. ↑ Veit Scherzer : The knight's cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives . 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , pp. 336 .
  3. ↑ Walther-Peer Fellgiebel : The bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945 - The holder of the highest award of the Second World War of all parts of the Wehrmacht . Dörfler Verlag, Eggolsheim 2004, ISBN 3-7909-0284-5 , p. 101, 196 .
personal data
SURNAME Girg, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer of the Waffen SS
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Harburg
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2010