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  2. Ernst Kaltenbrunner (4 October 1903 – 16 October 1946) was a high-ranking Austrian SS official during the Nazi era and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust.

    • 1931–1945
    • Nazi Party (NSDAP)
  3. Apr 22, 2024 · Ernst Kaltenbrunner was an Austrian Nazi, leader of the Austrian SS and subsequently head of all police forces in Nazi Germany. Kaltenbrunner attended public schools at Linz and studied at the University of Prague. He joined the Austrian Nazi Party in 1932 and became leader of the SS (elite guards)

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  4. Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946) was Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and later Chief of the Security Police. In this second position, Kaltenbrunner controlled the Gestapo (German Secret State Police), Criminal Police, and Security Service (SD). He was a prime figure in the “ Final Solution ” in the last years of the war.

  5. Before he became the feared Nazi commander, Ernst Kaltenbrunner was just an Austrian boy born in Ried im Innkreis, a district in the Upper region of the country, on Oct. 4, 1903. His parents were staunch Nationalists and he befriended future Nazi and so-called “Czar of the Jews,” Adolf Eichmann.

  6. Ernst Kaltenbrunner was born on 4 October 1903 in the valley of the Inn, near Braunau, the birthplace of Adolf Hitler. He was descended from a family of country artisans, although his father and grandfather were lawyers. He was educated in Linz, and one of his boyhood friends was Adolf Eichmann. Kaltenbrunner subsequently studied law at Graz ...

  7. (1903 - 1946) Ernst Kaltenbrunner was born in in Ried im Innkreis near Braunau in Austria. He was the son of a lawyer and childhood friend of Adolf Eichmann. Educated at the State Realgymnasium in Linz and Graz University. He obtained a law degree in 1926. He worked as a lawyer briefly in Linz and Salzburg and from 1928 in Linz.

  8. Ernst Kaltenbrunner (4 Oct. 1903 – 16 Oct. 1946) was Higher SS and Police Leader in Austria from 1938 until early 1943. On 30 January 1943, after Reinhardt Heydrich had been assassinated the previous summer, Kalten­brunner replaced him as chief of Germany’s Department for Homeland Security ( Reichssicherheitshauptamt , RSHA).

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