Horst Tappert

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Horst Tappert was a German film and television actor best known for the role of Inspector Stephan Derrick in the television drama "Derrick". Tappert served in the German Army during World War II. He was later transferred to the Waffen-SS, where the author of the Derrick series, Herbert Reinecker, had also served. Initially a member of a reserve anti-aircraft unit in Arolsen, he was listed as a grenadier with the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf in March 1943. In 1945, he was briefly a prisoner of war in Seehausen, Altmark.