Walter Liska

Walter Liska (born December 11, 1899 in Berlin , † February 15, 1949 in Lublin ) was a German police officer and SS leader.

Life

After attending school and training to become a business graduate, Liska joined the police force in 1925 as a detective commissioner candidate. In 1927 he was appointed detective inspector. In 1930 he was transferred to the state criminal police station in Köslin and in 1931 to the criminal and border police station in Lauenburg.

Immediately after the National Socialists came to power , Liska joined the NSDAP on April 1, 1933 ( membership number 1,824,896). In November 1934 he was appointed head of the field service at the state police station in Köslin, from where he was transferred to the state police station in Stettin on January 1, 1935 as head of the defense department there . Later that year he was transferred to the Secret State Police Office (Gestapa) in Berlin, where he was responsible for processing the countries of Italy , Hungary and Yugoslavia in the Defense Department . In 1936 Liska joined the SS (SS no. 290.299).

In 1939 Liska, who had been a criminal councilor since 1938, was appointed head of the Abwehr South department in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). He never took up this position, however, because he was deployed in Poland at the beginning of the Second World War : there he initially worked at KdS Krakow . In December 1941 Liska was finally appointed Head IV ( Gestapo ) at the KdS Lublin , with which he was responsible for all Gestapo activities in this district. In the SS he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer on January 30, 1943 , while in the police service from 1941 he held the rank of criminal director.

From 1944 Liska acted as head of the Osnabrück branch of the Bremen state police headquarters . He spent the last months of the war with the army command of an SS tank unit.

When the war ended Liska fell into Allied captivity. After his extradition to Poland in 1946, he was sentenced to death in Lublin on August 20, 1948 and executed by hanging on February 15, 1949 .

literature

• Klaus-Michael Mallmann , Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus : Task Force Groups in Poland: Presentation and Documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21353-5 . (Volume 12 of the publications of the Ludwigsburg Research Center at the University of Stuttgart.)
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .