Otto Armster

Armster Otto ( born July 11, 1891 in Preetz, † September 21, 1957 ) was a German intelligence service officer and resistance fighter against the Nazis ( party to the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944).

Life

Armster was friends with the head of the military intelligence service Office for Foreign Affairs / Defence Wilhelm Canaris and had since 1939 contacts to the resistor circuit. In the rank of colonel, he was from April 1944 Head of the " defense " office in Vienna, where he worked together with Georg Alexander Hansen, Hans Oster and Ludwig runaway.

In connection with his resistance activities had Armster multiple contact about Hermann Kaiser Friedrich Olbricht to General and other conspirators of the assassination attempt on 20 July 1944, he was provided here as a liaison officer in the military district XVIII ( Salzburg).

On July 23, 1944 Armster was arrested in Vienna and taken to Berlin. Until his dismissal on 25 April 1945 he was imprisoned in solitary confinement Lehrterstraße. On 15 May 1945 he was arrested by the NKVD and held prisoner until 1955 in the Soviet Union.