Walther Kadow
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Walther Kadow (1863-1923) was a school teacher murdered by Rudolf Höss in 1923. Kadow was a communist, and was widely suspected to have betrayed the proto-Nazi martyr Albert Leo Schlageter to the French occupation authorities in the Ruhr. Höss received a ten-year sentence for the brutal revenge killing, while his accomplice, Martin Bormann (a former student of Kadow's), was sentenced to one year of imprisonment for his part in the murder. Bormann would later become Head of the NSDAP Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler. Höss became commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp.
