exander Dahms was a law student in Prague when recruited in 1963
near Bratislava. Although the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic
of Germany (FRG) rejected his application for employment, he was
hired by the Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS; Federal Border Protection)
and became the police director in the Coblenz office. Motivated by
ideological conviction, Dahms (code name dämon) was viewed by
his HVA superiors as an overly zealous eccentric but nonetheless
valuable source. His confidential information pertained not only to
BGS but also to other FRG security organs, thereby allowing the
HVA to give added protection to its agent network. Dahms was one
of four West German agents identified by Werner Roitzsch follow-
ing reunification, and in 1996 he received a six and a half-year prison
sentence.DALUEGE, KURT (1897–1946). A senior police official in the Third
Reich and later acting Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia,
Kurt Daluege was born in Kreuzberg (now Kluczbork, Poland) on 15
September 1897, the son of a government official. An officer-candi-
date in World War I decorated with the Iron Cross, he subsequently
received a degree in construction engineering from the Technical
College in Berlin. Daluege moved from a paramilitary Freikorps unit
to the Sturmabteilung and then—at the request of Adolf Hitler—to
the SS in 1928. In addition, he was elected to the Prussian Landtag
as a Nazi delegate prior to 1933.
The first years of the Nazi regime saw him associated with Her-
mann Göring and the early Gestapo in Prussia, but his allegiance
soon shifted to Heinrich Himmler, who came to prize his bureau-
cratic and organizational skills. In Himmler’s reconfiguration of the
Reich’s security forces in 1936, Daluege emerged as the head of the
uniformed police, or Ordnungspolizei, and transformed them into a
comprehensively Nazified and militarized force. Following the as-
sassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, he also became acting
Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, although serious illness
the following year forced his resignation and convalescence on a
country estate for the remainder of the war. Given his leading role
in the destruction of Lidice and other terrorist measures undertaken
against the Czech population, he was tried by a Prague court and
executed on 24 October 1946.
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