Walther Kadow (January 29, 1860 – May 31, 1923[1]) was a German school teacher who was beaten and killed by Rudolf Höss and a group of Nazi Party accomplices in May 1923 in the forest near Parchim.
[2] Kadow, a World War I veteran, was a member of the right-wing German Völkisch Freedom Party, and was suspected of having betrayed German nationalist Albert Leo Schlageter to the French occupation authorities in the Ruhr.
Höss received a ten-year sentence but was released after four years under a general amnesty.
His accomplice, Martin Bormann, a former student of Kadow, was sentenced to one year.
[3][4][5] Bormann later became Head of the Nazi Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler and received the Blood Order for his imprisonment over the murder.