Walter Schade

Walter Schade (born October 3, 1904 in Berlin ; † after 1945) was SS-Sturmbannführer in the National Socialist German Reich , head of Unit VD 1 (trace and person identification) in the office group VD ( Forensic Institute of the Security Police ) of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) and representatives of the office group leader.

Origin and studies

Walter Schade was born on October 3, 1904 in Berlin, the son of a businessman, into a middle-class Protestant family. After graduating from high school and doing an internship in a china factory, Schade began studying chemistry in the winter semester of 1925/26. To the Dr.-Ing. He received his doctorate in 1931.

Even in his early youth, Schade oriented himself towards the political right. He belonged to the Bavarian Wehrwolf and the Treubund Schlageter . Immediately after the National Socialists came to power, Schade joined the SA in March 1933 and became a member of the NSDAP in June 1933 . On November 9, 1937, he was accepted into the SS .

The global economic crisis prevented him from taking up a job in his profession. Schade therefore had to forego a university career and therefore applied at the end of 1931 as a candidate for a detective at the Berlin criminal police . In April 1932 he was hired and, after completing his course and passing his exam, was taken on as a detective inspector .

In the Forensic Institute

After working in various commissariats of the Prussian State Criminal Police Office, Schade finally came to the newly created Forensic Institute of the Security Police (KTI) in May 1938 , where he took over the VD 1 (trace and person identification) department as head and at the same time as deputy to the KTI head Walter Heeß was appointed.

In a personnel report from 1938, the head of the Office V ( Reichskriminalpolizeiamt - RKPA) of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), SS-Brigadefuhrer and Major General of the Police Arthur Nebe , Schade confirmed a very good perception, energetic will and a serious outlook on life as well as "good physical." and mental abilities ” , Schade is also a “ reliable official ” with “ leadership qualities ”.

In June 1942 Schade resigned from the Evangelical Church.

As head of department and deputy office group leader of the CTI, Schade had knowledge of all the processes with which the CTI was involved in the National Socialist extermination policy, from Action T4 to the “ Final Solution to the Jewish Question ”.

After the war

After the war, Schade found a job as a senior councilor at the Cologne customs criminal institute .

literature

• Michael Wildt: Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office . Hamburger Edition , 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 .