Career
Bredow was, along with Schleicher, among Adolf Hitler"s bitterest adversaries at the time of the Weimar Republic"s downfall. Towards the end of this régime, Bredow, as the leader of Schleicher"s personal "information service" was head of a number of coexisting secret service organizations, among them even the Steamship"s Sicherheitsdienst, which was under Reinhard Heydrich"s leadership. Bredow, along with Schleicher, was murdered in Berlin-Lichterfelde by Steamship men from the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.