Walter Jurk

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Walter Jurk (born April 29, 1904 in Cottbus ; † unknown) was a German SS leader.

Live and act

After attending elementary school, Jurk graduated from the catering trade.

From 1925 Jurk was active in Frontbann Nord, the Berlin section of the right-wing Weh organization Frontbann led by Paul Röhrbein . Here he got to know, among other things, the later Berlin SA chief Karl Ernst and in particular Kurt Daluege , who became of decisive importance for his further career.

In autumn 1925 Jurk was arrested along with Röhrbein, Ernst, Daluege and around a dozen other members of the Frontbann in Berlin because of their activities against the Weimar Republic . Proceedings against the men on suspicion of being a secret group were finally dropped. Right-wing newspapers used the events to portray the frontbanning men as victims of the "arbitrary justice" of the Weimar Republic. With regard to Jurk, the circumstances of his imprisonment were misrepresented by falsely claiming that Jurk's brother, after Jurk could not be found by the police, had been taken into kin detention in his place in order to threaten Jurk with the leverage of his brother to be released only after he, Jurk, is in custody, to force himself to face the authorities. In fact, when Jurk could not be found during a house search, his brother had voluntarily accompanied the police to find out more about the reasons why his brother was wanted and was not arrested at the police headquarters. Like most of those arrested, Jurk was released within a few days. At the time, the press reported extensively on the events.

According to his own statements, Jurk was arrested sixteen times before 1933.

After the front ban collapsed in 1926, Jurk joined the Sturmabteilung (SA), the street combat group of the NSDAP , which was set up in Berlin for the first time that year . On February 6, 1926, he became a member of the NSDAP itself for the first time ( membership number 29,792).

On March 1, 1931 Jurk changed from the SA to the Schutzstaffel (SS membership number 44.795), in which he made a career as a protégé of Daluege. From 1931 it belonged to the SS-Motorsturm z. b. V. at. After 1933 Jurk ran various SS engine units.

On June 30, 1934, Jurk was appointed as SS functionary by Heinrich Himmler as commissioner for the SA Upper Group East in Berlin, in order to oversee the reorganization of the structure, which resulted from the destruction of the power of the SA by the SS in the In the course of the cleansing action known as the Röhm Putsch had become necessary.

From August 1, 1934 to September 1937, Jurk worked for the Berliner AG as a personnel manager. In addition, he was made available to the 3rd SS engine standard from June 13, 1935, and from November 1, 1936 to July 1, 1937 as a consultant at the I SS engine upper section east. In September 1937 he became a full-time SS leader again. This was done by taking over the functions of the leader of SS-Motor-Standarte 3 and the inspector of the upper section east.

On July 1, 1937 Jurk was appointed force inspector SS section Spree (which he nominally remained until October 1942). On December 12, 1939 he was assigned to the motor vehicle inspection of the SS upper section Warthe . During the Second World War Jurk was initially a member of the Waffen SS from 1939 to 1942 , with which he a. a. was used in Finland. With effect from October 10, 1942, at Daluege's instigation, he was transferred to the police force with the rank of major and from that year Daluege, who had been Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (de facto governor of the occupied Czech territories ), with the administration of the Property confiscated by the German occupation administration entrusted from Jewish persons in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ("Einsatzstab Major Jurk"). As he enriched himself considerably in the course of this activity, he was taken into custody on April 2, 1944 by order of Police Court VIII in Prague. At the same time he was given leave of absence from the Schutzstaffel for the duration of the investigation.

There is no information in the published literature about Jurk's fate at the end of the war. He is also not listed in the database of registered war dead of the Second World War of the Volksbund War Graves Fund, nor is the otherwise customary registry office margin note on his date and place of death on his birth certificate.

family

Jurk married Käthe Scholz (born June 23, 1911 in Gluben) on December 1, 1934. His best man was his duo friend Kurt Daluege, then chief of the regulatory police. The marriage resulted in a son (* September 16, 1943) and a daughter (* 1937).

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estate

Personnel files for Jurk are in the Federal Archives: There a DS-Ake (microfilm B 9, images 946-959), PK files (microfilm F 220, images 711-760) and an SSO file (microfilm SSO 145a, pictures 394–556) kept with him.

literature

  • Ronald Smelser : The brown elite , Vol. 1:22 biographical sketches. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cottbus registry office: birth register no. 332/1904 (no date of death noted).
  2. ↑ See e.g. B. "Police action against the front ban. Nine leading members arrested", in: Vossische Zeitung of November 1, 1925 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Register Office Berlin 12B: marriage register number 1342/1934. ( [1] )
personal data
SURNAME Jurk, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century