Walter Schick
Walter Schick (born June 22, 1909 in Schramberg ; † July 21, 1944 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German lawyer, Gestapo officer and SS leader.
Life
Schick was the son of an elementary school principal. After completing his A-levels in Stuttgart , Schick studied law at the universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Munich from 1928 to 1933 . He completed his studies in the spring of 1933 with the first state examination and, after his legal clerkship, in the summer of 1934 with the second state examination. He was promoted to Dr. jur doctorate .
Schick joined the NSDAP ( membership number 474.543) and the Schutzstaffel (SS) in 1931. In the SS, Schick was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer at the end of January 1944 .
From 1937, Schick worked as an assessor at the Gestapo Berlin. From the beginning of July 1939 he headed Department II BI (economic policy matters) in the Berlin Gestapa . In December 1939 he was promoted to the government council. On April 15, 1940, Schick became deputy head of the Karlsruhe State Police Headquarters , which he took over in autumn 1942. In the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) Schick also worked as a consultant. At the beginning of October 1943 he was promoted to the Upper Government Council .
At the beginning of April 1944, Schick became inspector of the security police and the SD in Königsberg. In this function he instructed the head of the state police branch in Allenstein , SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Herz , about Operation 1005 , which is subject to confidentiality . Schick handed Herz a map on which the mass graves of the murder victims of the Einsatzgruppen were recorded. Herz formed an "Enterdungskommando", which, in addition to former task force members, Gestapo officers and gendarmes, also included up to 15 Jewish forced laborers . This command opened the mass graves , burned the corpses and then planted the filled pits to camouflage the crimes. The Jewish slave laborers were shot after this action ended.
Schick died in a traffic accident in Königsberg.
literature
- Michael Kißener , Joachim Scholtyseck (ed.): The leaders of the province. Nazi biographies from Baden and Württemberg , Karlsruhe contributions to the history of National Socialism, Vol. 2, 2nd edition. 1999. ISBN 3-87940-679-0 .
- 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 .
- Michael Stolle: The Secret State Police in Baden. Personnel, organization, effect and aftermath of a regional prosecution authority in the Third Reich. UVK Universitätsverlag, Konstanz 2001, ISBN 978-3-89669-820-9 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Michael Stolle: The Secret State Police in Baden. Personnel, organization, effect and aftermath of a regional prosecution authority in the Third Reich. , Konstanz 2001, p. 362f.
- ^ A b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 533.
- ^ A b c Michael Hensle: "Broadcasting crime " before National Socialist special courts. A comparative study of judgment practice in the Reich capital Berlin and the southern Baden province (PDF; 2.3 MB). Diss. TU Berlin 2003, p. 221.
- ↑ Peer Heinelt: " Culture and Knowledge - How the Nazis removed the traces of their mass murders in Eastern Europe: 'You can't tell that' ", in: Neue Rheinische Zeitung Online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schick, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, Gestapo employee and SS leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schramberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1944 |
| Place of death | Königsberg (Prussia) |