Date of birth:

March 13th, 1899 (Bunzlau/Silesia, Germany)

Date of death:

July 10th, 1969 (Würzburg/Bavaria, Germany)

Nationality:

German

Oberst der Reserve Edgar-Karl Julius Rudolf Kaehne

00.00.1917-00.00.1920: Fahnenjunker, 5. Niederschlesisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 154
00.08.1919: Freikorps 'Schlesien'
00.00.1920: demobilized
00.05.1921: "Heimatverband Schlesien", Freikorps
23.05.1921: fightings in Annaberg against Polish free corps fighters
00.00.1929: joined the local group Liegnitz of the NSDAP and the SA
00.00.1934: SA-Sturmführer then leader of a SA-Sturmbann, leader of a SA-Standard, staff leader of a SA-Brigade
01.09.1939: Oberleutnant der Reserve
00.00.1941: Hauptmann der Reserve
15.09.1943: Major der Reserve, Kdr, Infanterie-Regiment, Croatia
01.02.1944: Obertsleutnant der Reserve
01.01.1945-15.03.1945: Oberst der Reserve, Kdr, Festungs-Brigade 964, in Albania then Croatia
15.03.1945: hospitalized in Neuötting, Upper Bavaria
28.04.1945: freed the Nazi officials who had been arrested in Altötting and ordered to continue the service and not to surrender
12.05.1945: assigned by the Americans to the first officers company of the US prisoner of war camp Altötting
04.04.1946: arrested and placed in the 'Open Camp' in Ochsenfurt, then transferred to the 'German Internment Camp Darmstadt' led by the US
10.09.1948: sentenced to five years in a labor camp
15.12.1948: released

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• - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.