Walter Kurreck

Walter Georg Julius Kurreck (born June 25, 1911 in Salzburg , † after 1966 ) was a German-Austrian SS leader.

Live and act

The son of the painter Martin Kurreck (1868–1957) was a student at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1927 to 1932 (Abitur) , with Wend Graf von Kalnein and Peter Strieder , among others . He then completed a degree in medicine . Around 1932 he joined the SS (SS No. 36.178) and the NSDAP ( membership number 992.568). In November 1932 he became a member of the security service of the SS (SD). In 1934 he took part in the first SS leadership course at the Bad Tölz leadership school .

From December 1936 Kurreck worked in the SD main office, where he headed Department II 213 (Race and Public Health). He later became the leader of the Munich SD section before moving to Office VI of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in 1939 . At the end of January 1941 he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer there .

In 1942 Kurreck was sent to the staff of Einsatzgruppe D on the Eastern Front as a "Zeppelin" liaison leader . The purpose of " Enterprise Zeppelin " was to carry out sabotage and assassination actions behind the Soviet lines and to locate and execute Soviet commissioners in German prisoner-of-war camps.

In October 1944 Kurreck was appointed head of the "Special Zeppelin Division" at the RSHA, which he led until the beginning of 1945. He then worked in the Werwolf organization, which was supposed to carry out partisan actions in the areas in the west of the German Reich occupied by the Allied troops at that time .

After the war ended, Kurreck lived under an assumed name until 1950. Then he joined the Gehlen organization . In 1956 he was accepted into the Federal Intelligence Service (BND).

literature

• Klaus Eichner: attack and defense. The German secret services after 1945. Edition Ost, 2007, ISBN 3360010825 , p. 127.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matriculation of the Maximiliansgymnasium, school year 1931/32