Horst Tappert

Horst Tappert was a German movie and television actor who played Inspector Stephan Derrick in the television drama Derrick.

Horst Tappert was born onMay 1923 in Elberfeld , Germany. His father was a civil servant. Following high school, Tappert was drafted into the German army in World War II and ended up as a prisoner of war. Like the later author of the Derrick series, Herbert Reinecker, Tappert joined the WaffenSS. Initially a member of the SSFlakErsatzabteilung , he was listed as a member of 3rd SS Division Totenkopf in March 1943. Following the war, he was hired as a bookkeeper at a theatre in Stendal, Germany, and became interested in acting. He took acting classes and gave his stage debut in Stendal, playing Dr. Stribel in Paul Helwigs Die Flitterwochen.

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