Robert E. Matteson

Robert E. Matteson
Personal details
Born	1914
Died	1994
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Army
ASN	37575990

Interview Watch Robert E. Matteson on USHMM oral history (video + transcript).

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Robert E. Matteson (1914–1994) was a Camp Ritchie trainee who served in counter-intelligence with the 80th Infantry Division (Third U.S. Army), helped capture Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and later worked in public affairs and diplomacy.

Biography

Robert Eliot Matteson (1914–1994) trained at Camp Ritchie and served in Europe with a counter-intelligence unit attached to the 80th Infantry Division of the Third U.S. Army. Near the end of the war in Austria he came upon the Ebensee concentration camp, then took part in the search that led to the capture of SS Obergruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner in a remote mountain cabin. He later had security responsibilities connected with the Nuremberg trials.

After the war Matteson worked in public affairs and diplomacy, including a 1947 trip to Moscow with Harold Stassen and later efforts related to U.S.–Cuba communications. In June 1982 he recorded an oral-history testimony at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls that is held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Timeline

• Born 1914
• Died 1994
• June 1982 — Oral-history interview, University of Wisconsin–River Falls (USHMM RG-50.043.0005)

Sources

• Robert E. Matteson oral-history English transcript (USHMM RG-50.043.0005)
• Oral history interview with Robert E. Matteson — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
• Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
• NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
• 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)