Walter von Kielpinski

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Paul Walter von Kielpinski (born April 29, 1909 in Chemnitz ; † October 14, 1946 in Berlin ), philologist , was a German SS-Obersturmbannführer, member of Einsatzgruppe IV in Poland and head of Section III C 4 of the Reich Main Security Office .

Life

Paul Walter was born on April 29, 1909 in Chemnitz as the eldest son of typesetter and clerk Paul Julian von Kielpinski and Helene Gertrud Lentzsch. He received his education at the elementary school in Chemnitz-Bernsdorf and the 1st higher boys' school. In 1929 he passed the school leaving examination. He spent the time leading up to his studies doing auxiliary work at the former Post Office 4 in Chemnitz.

Education

Walter von Kielpinski studied German and modern languages in Halle , Berlin and Leipzig from 1929 to 1934 . Even during his studies, Kielpinski was politically committed to National Socialism . He worked for the “Chemnitzer Tageszeitung”, the local newspaper of the NSDAP , and was a lecturer at the Fichte University in Leipzig for one semester in line with the National Socialist worldview .

At the task force of the SA

After the " seizure of power ", Kielpinski first joined the SA in June 1933 . In February 1934 he was assigned to lead an SA troop and promoted to SA storm man.

At the security service of the SS

From July 1, 1934, he was called in by the security service of the SS (SD), where he was initially employed on a voluntary basis in the literary department, which was temporarily located in the German library in Leipzig (see Wilhelm Spengler ), and was promoted to SS-Unterscharführer .

In December 1934, Kielpinski passed his state examination and became the full-time head of Section II 22 (press and literature) in the SS-Untersturmführer Dr. Franz Six headed Department II / 2 (regional evaluation) of the SD main office . On November 9, 1935, he was promoted to SS-Scharführer. In 1936 the department was given the organizational designation II 224. The next promotion to SS-Oberscharführer took place on the occasion of the 1936 Reich Party Rally.

At the beginning of May 1937, Kielpinski became a member of the NSDAP . In 1937 Kielpinski published an essay entitled "Penetration of Catholicism in Literature and Science" in the journal "Volk im Werden" published by Ernst Krieck , the leading interpreter of National Socialist pedagogy and from 1937 rector of Heidelberg University . On November 9, 1937, Kielpinski was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer and thus to the rank of officer, on January 30, 1939 to SS-Hauptsturmführer.

In the Reich Security Main Office

After the establishment of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) on September 27, 1939 and the associated combination of the Security Police (Sipo = Kripo and Gestapo ) and SD under the leadership of Reinhard Heydrich , the section with the number 4 was assigned to Office III C (Culture) of the RSHA, head of Wilhelm Spengler , reports. Kielpinski was also appointed Spengler's representative.

With the Einsatzgruppen

In March 1938, when Austria was annexed, Kielpinski was involved in the seizure and confiscation of important political material as a member of the special police task force of the Sipo and Orpo ( Ordnungspolizei ). He performed the same tasks with the annexation of the Sudetenland in autumn 1938 and the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in March 1939. During the attack on Poland , Kielpinski was a member of the staff of Einsatzgruppe IV led by Lothar Beutel . Then he was used in the SD department (head Erich Ehrlinger ) at the commander of the security police and the SD in Warsaw .

Head of Section III C 4 of the RSHA

In June 1940, after his return from Poland, he again took over Division III C 4 of the RSHA. On May 28, 1941, Kielpinski took part as RSHA representative at the founding meeting of the "German Documentation Society" (DGD) in Berlin . Their task and goal was, in addition to the comprehensive inventory of the current state of the humanities, natural sciences and technical disciplines at home and abroad, above all, to obtain specialist information, to make it available and to make it centrally available to German science and industry. The DGD changed its name in 1998 to " German Society for Information Science and Information Practice eV ". On December 20, 1941, Kielpinski demanded that the Germans finally have to occupy chairman posts in the International Society for Documentation and in the International Association of Librarians, due to the current position of power of the Reich .

Kielpinski was also a participant in a meeting of the Abwehrdienststellenleiter of the Stapo agencies (State Police) and the SD Section Leader in Prague on May 18, 1942 , which aimed at better coordination of the various task forces and ended with a significant increase in the RSHA's competence in relation to the military defense .

Kielpinski, together with Himmler, Rudolf Brandt , Gottlob Berger , Mohammed Amin al-Husseini , Otto Ohlendorf and others, dealt with the question discussed in autumn 1943 as to whether Hitler should be propagated as the forerunner of a soon to come new prophet in the sense of the Koran ; the corresponding leaflets in Arabic were printed in large numbers.

Since January 30, 1941, Kielpinski held the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer. On January 30, 1944, he was appointed SS-Obersturmbannführer after having been unsuccessfully proposed for promotion twice (January 30 and June 21, 1943); Kielpinski has not had a frontline deployment to date. Division III C 4 of the RSHA, which he headed, was expanded in 1944 to include the task of "individual evaluation". The evaluation of the interrogation protocols of the Hitler bombers from July 20, 1944 , drawn up by the Gestapo, fell within his area of ​​responsibility . Kielpinski summarized the essential facts and findings of these interrogations in reports for Reichsleiter Martin Bormann . These reports were fed by a large number of investigations carried out by eleven special groups of the RSHA with around 400 employees. In a summary intended for Hitler about the leading figures of the resistance, Kielpinski gave a reason: their real reason for rejecting National Socialism, and thus for their subsequent high treason , is ultimately a liberal way of thinking, since Jews basically have the same position as everyone (sc. other) Germans. Kielpinski was most recently employed in the intelligence department of the Army Group Ferdinand Schörner .

post war period

After the war , Kielpinski first went into hiding and lived in Reinsdorf until 1946 , where he ran an orchard. On July 7, 1946 he was arrested and imprisoned in the NKVD prison in Kleine Alexanderstraße, Berlin. A short time later he was transferred to special prison No. 6 Berlin-Lichtenberg and sentenced to death on August 19, 1946 by the Soviet military tribunal of the Berlin garrison. The reasoning for the judgment stated: "He actively promoted the realization of the war of aggression against freedom-loving peoples". Kielpinski was executed on October 14, 1946.

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Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Walter von Kielpinski: Handwritten curriculum vitae. Annex to the questionnaire for obtaining the engagement permit.
  2. ↑ Curriculum vitae as an attachment to the questionnaire for obtaining the engagement permit (sheet no. 26152).
  3. ^ According to Kielpinski's own information in the handwritten curriculum vitae. As before.
  4. ^ A b c Klaus-Dieter Muller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947): A historical-biographical study. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , p. 329f. online .
  5. ↑ see web links, Gerd Simon
  6. ↑ The process was called: "Subject: Koranic passages that should refer to the Führer." In: Jeffrey Herf: Nazi propaganda for the Arab world. Yale UP, New Haven 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-14579-3 , p. 199 & note.
  7. ^ Head of the Reich Security Main Office: Promotion recommendation for Walter von Kielpinski. Extract from the personnel file.
personal data
SURNAME Kielpinski, Walter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmbannführer, member of Einsatzgruppe IV in Poland and head of Section III C 4 of the Reich Main Security Office
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1946
Place of death Berlin