Walter Hess (SS member)

Ludwig Otto Walter Hess (born January 12, 1908 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 8, 1979 in Hofheim am Taunus ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and head of the Cholm branch of the KdS Lublin .

Life

Walter Hess was the son of a teacher . After graduating from high school, he tried his hand at studying law, but did not pass the state law examination. In April 1933 he joined the NSDAP . In 1936 he was assigned to the Gestapo in Frankfurt am Main. After joining the SS in 1938, Hess worked for the Stapostelle Würzburg the following year . From April 1, 1940, he worked for the Commander of the Security Police and the SD (KdS) Lublin, where he headed the counter-espionage department. After the start of the Russian campaign in 1941, Hess worked for two months in a task force in the Brest-Litovsk and Pinsk area . On August 1, 1943, he became head of the KdS Lublin branch. He was involved in the killing of Jews with gas vans .

After the war he was interned until 1948. After internment, he initially worked as an unskilled worker in a law firm, until he finally joined the Hessian police service as a criminal secretary in Wiesbaden on April 1, 1956 . During his time in the police force, he was also a teacher at the Hessian Police School in Wiesbaden-Dotzheim. In May 1961 he was released from service. After a short pre- trial detention , he found a modest livelihood with a legal protection insurance company in Wiesbaden. On March 1, 1973 he was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment by the Regional Court of Wiesbaden for joint complicity in murder .

literature

Jens Hoffmann : You can't tell: "Aktion 1005", how the Nazis removed the traces of their mass murders in Eastern Europe , Konkret Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-930786-53-4 .
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

↑ Death register of the registry office Hofheim am Taunus No. 169/1979.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 249.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Jens Hoffmann: You can't tell: "Aktion 1005", how the Nazis removed the traces of their mass murders in Eastern Europe . Hamburg 2008, p. 300.

personal data
SURNAME	Hess, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS Hauptsturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 12, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	June 8, 1979
Place of death	Hofheim am Taunus

[1] Death register of the registry office Hofheim am Taunus No. 169/1979.

[Klee-2] Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 249.

[Jens-3] Jens Hoffmann: You can't tell: "Aktion 1005", how the Nazis removed the traces of their mass murders in Eastern Europe . Hamburg 2008, p. 300.