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Rudolf Diels (16 December 1900 – 18 November 1957) was a German civil servant and head of the Gestapo in 1933–34. He obtained the rank of SS-Oberführer and was a protégé of Hermann Göring.
Rudolf Diels was a German politician. A protégé of Hermann Göring, Diels was in charge of the Gestapo from 1933 to 1934. He was born in Berghaus in Taunus, the son of a farmer. He served in the army during WW I and afterwards went to study law at the University of Marburg from 1919.
But the following account by Rudolf Diels (1900–1957), head of the Prussian political police, makes clear that the Nazi leadership was determined to present the Reichstag fire as incontrovertible evidence of a Communist plot and to use it as a pretext for eliminating the political opposition once and for all.
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May 26, 2015 · Rudolf Diels was the first chief of the Gestapo (GeheimeStaatspolizei). Whereas it might be natural to see figures such as Himmler, Heydrich or Goering as being the first chiefs of such a feared organisation, its first leader was, in fact, the little known functionary Diels.
Rudolf Diels, the son of a farmer, was born in Betghaus, Germany, on 16th December, 1900. Trained as a lawyer, Diels joined the political police in Prussia in 1930. Over the next couple of years he became an expert on building up information that could be used to incriminate political radicals.
Rudolf Diels was the head of the Prussian Political Police at the time of the Reichstag Fire. As such, he was responsible for investigating the fire and other related incidents in Berlin at the time.
This report was written by Rudolf Diels, a Prussian police chief and one of the first on the scene on the night of the fire: “When I pushed my way into the burning building, we had to climb over the bulging hoses of the Berlin fire brigade, although as yet there were few onlookers.
