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SS-Obersturmbannführer Reiner or Rainer Gottstein (* August 10th, 1910 in Reichenberg - † KIA February 13th, 1945 in Tök) was a German soldier and SS-Führer in the Waffen SS during World War II.

Life and Work
Gottstein occurred in the 1930s in the NSDAP (membership no. 5062634) a. He was also a member of the Schutzstaffel (membership no. 219699) [1], in which he was promoted in January 1945 to Obersturmbannführer. [2] In the SS, he made ​​a career in the so-called security service (SD), the intelligence service of the SS.

By 1941, Gottstein was a Sturmbannführer and Police Council Head of Section II D 1 ("radio, photo and film industry") in the Official II (Organization and Administration) of the rank RSHA in Berlin.

For the first few months of 1944 Gottstein has been Head of a commando in Kosice and Miskolc detectable. [3] In August 1944, he was then as Commander of the Security Police and the SD after Budapest offset, where he was to try, the population of the local ghetto to murder involved. Gottstein remained in the city, as this at the turn of the Red Army was sealed and declared a "fortress". [4] His death certificate According Gottstein died on 13 February at Tök north-west of Budapest in combat (registry office in Berlin-Neukölln no. 134/52), which Wildt, however, for "not proven" holds. [5] Shortly before, on February 6, 1945 Gottstein was still with the Knight's Cross was awarded.

Awards

 * Deutsches Kreuz in Gold on January 22nd, 1945 as SS-Sturmbannführer and Kommandeur of the Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienstes Budapest


 * Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on February 6th, 1945 as SS-Sturmbannführer and Kommandeur of the Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienstes Budapest


 * Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse


 * Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse