Eduard Strauch [SEP] date of birth
Eduard Strauch
Eduard Strauch (17 August 1906 – 15 September 1955) was an SS-Obersturmbannführer, commander of Einsatzkommando 2, commander of two Nazi organizations, the Security Police (German: Sicherheitspolizei), or Sipo, and the Security Service (German: Sicherheitsdienst, or SD), first in Belarus – then called White Russia or White Ruthenia – and later in Belgium. In October 1944, he was transferred to the military branch of the SS (Waffen-SS).
Life.
Born in Essen
Strauch
Strauch, a German word meaning "bush" or "shrub", is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adolfo Strauch, survivor of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash
- Adolph Strauch (1822–1883), landscape architect
- Aegidius Strauch II (1632–1682), German mathematician and theologian
- Alexander Strauch, Russian naturalist
- Eduard Strauch (1906–1955), German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer and Holocaust perpetrator
- James Strauch (1921–1998), American Olympic fencer
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