Naujocks was born in Kiel and attended the University of Kiel[1] where he studied engineering and, after an incomplete apprenticeship as a precision mechanic, he joined the SS in 1931.[2] A well known amateur boxer, he was frequently in brawls with the communists.[3] He then signed on as a low-ranking driver for the Sicherheitsdienst SD-Regional Command East, Berlin in 1934, but was soon entrusted with special assignments such as murder.[4] He led an undercover attack on an anti-Nazi radio station in the village of Slapy in Czechoslovakia on 23 January 1935.