Paul Ogorzow was born on the 29th of September 1912 in the village of Muntowen – todays Polish Muntowo, then part of the German Empire. On the 30th of January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.In 1934, shortly after the Nazis consolidated their grip on power, Paul Ogorzow secured a position with the Deutsches Reichsbahn, Germany’s national railway company. He began his career as a track worker, responsible for maintaining and installing railway lines across Berlin. Through steady and diligent work, he gradually rose within the organization, eventually becoming an assistant signalman stationed at a freight yard in the Rummelsburg district. His supervisors considered him reliable and competent, and colleagues often described him as friendly and conscientious, someone capable of operating both light signals and telegraph communications simultaneously, a task requiring significant attention and skill. In 1937, Ogorzow married Gertrude Ziegelmann, a saleswoman two years older than himself, and the marriage produced two children, a son and a daughter. The couple initially lived with Ogorzow’s mother in a modest working-class area of Berlin, surrounded by allotments, apartment blocks, and small tenement houses. They later moved to an apartment in Karlshorst, a suburban district that would later be associated with his future crimes. To outward appearances, Ogorzow seemed to embody the role of an ordinary family man. Neighbors often recalled seeing him playing with his children, tending a vegetable patch in front of their building, or picking cherries from the small orchard behind their home. He was perceived as approachable, kind, and typical of the working-class community.
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