Date of birth:

November 19th, 1914 (Klagenfurt am Wörthersee)

Date of death:

1997 (Klagenfurt am Wörthersee)

Service number:

SS-Nr.: 309.700 // NSDAP-Nr.: 1.327.396

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

01.12.1932: joined the NSDAP
01.03.1934: joined the SS
09.09.1936: promoted to SS-Untersturmführer
00.00.1937: promoted to SS-Obersturmführer
12.03.1938: promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer
00.12.1938: Gefreiter, Nachrichten-Abteilung, Wehrmacht
00.09.1939: campaign in Poland
00.02.1940-00.09.1941: SS-Hstuf, Reichssicherheitshauptamt, RSHA, Berlin
00.09.1941: SS-Hstuf, Rasse-und Siedlungsführer, Cracow
00.00.1941-00.00.1943: SS-Hstuf, Adjutant, SS- und Polizeiführer, chief of Globočnik's personal office, Lublin - Aktion Reinhard
21.07.1942: promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer
00.09.1943: SS-Stubaf, Adjutant, SS- und Polizeiführer, chief of Globočnik's personal staff, OZAK, Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland, Italy
00.00.1943: SS-Stubaf, provisional police commander in Fiume and Rijeka
01.05.1945: SS-Stubaf, fled to Carinthia in southern Austria
31.05.1945: captured by a British commando near the Weissensee Lake and detained in the Wolfsberg detention centre
00.00.1947: escaped from a British prison
00.00.1950: captured again
00.00.1960: sentenced to two years of imprisonment by a de-Nazification court in Wiesbaden
00.00.1971: accused again of being involved in the Holocaust, Klagenfurt
11.05.1976: case finally dropped because the lack of witnesses

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