Becker and Soltau - Gestapo officers

[George_W]

Hello

I' m looking for info about:
SS-Ostuf Walter Becker (chief of AdS Starachowice/KdS Radom)
SS-Ustuf KOS (in 1939) Hans Soltau (chief AdS Ostrowiec/KdS Radom)

They were not mentioned in 1938 DAL, Becker was acquitted in 1972 by court in Hamburg.

George

[itaiv40]

Here is one photo of Becker (with the bow tie) and two of Soltau. (Source: Yad Vashem)

[dylan]

Hi George

Soltau Hans Born 7/11/1898 in Barmstedt
KrimObersekretar and SS Untersturmf.

Dylan.

[radevich]

Soltau Hans, SS-Nr. 310.149
SS-Untersturmführer: 09.11.1943

[spottedcow]

Christopher Browning discusses Becker in his book - Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp.

http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Survi ... 0393338878

Patrick

[steve248]

Re Soltau
In the SS-Einsatzgruppen reports from the Polish campaign, 1939, published in "Biuletyn Głównej Komisja Badana Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce", Warsaw (1971), Vol. XXII, pp 32-176, SS-Ustuf KOS Soltau came with Huppenkothen's Einsatzkommado I/1 and on 4 Oct 1939 listed as Postenführer Dynow.

On 18 April 1942 and 6 Jan 1944 SS-Ustuf Soltau listed as Leiter, Aussendienststelle Ostrowiec (KdS Radom (Polish material at USHMM).

However, I think that Soltau very probably was SS-Untersturmführer-Uniformtraeger as he was not commissioned as SS-Ustuf until 9 Nov 1943 (SS No. 310149), BBL 52/43.

[George_W]

Finally i've found a little info about Becker:

He was SS-Ustuf (Uniformtraeger, not an regular SS member), so probably must have been Kriminal-Sekretaer or Kriminal-Obersekretaer (rather not higher than that) in Gestapo.

He was transferred to KdS Radom from Stapo (or Kripo?) Hamburg probably in 1940.

George

[Puck]

to Walther Becker see https://books.google.de/books?id=qd5A-S ... ss&f=false
Regards Puck

[George_W]

Thanks. But what was the Becker's police rank remains still an unsolved mystery.

Regards,
George

[George_W]

According to the Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Walter/Walther Karl Albert Becker, Leiter of AdS Starachowice under KdS Radom, born 13.04.97 Hamburg, was SS-Ustuf. and only KS (Kriminalsekretär) in Gestapo.

https://recherche.staatsarchiv.hamburg. ... ID=1316443

George

[George_W]

Additional informations about Hans Soltau:

According to the Staatsarchiv Hamburg, SS-Ustuf. KOS Hans Soltau, Leiter AdS Ostrowiec under KdS Radom between October 1941-early 1944, born 07.11.1898 Barmstedt, died 06.02.1970 at Hamburg.

George