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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)
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).
Ernst Kaltenbrunner was a giant of a man, nearly seven feet tall, with massive broad shoulders, huge arms, a thick square chin and deep scars from his student duelling days. He excelled in brutal repression and providing human fodder for the concentration camps.
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.
On 9 December 1944 the decoration known as the Knight's Cross of the War Merit, Cross with Swords, was given to SS Obergruppenfuehrer and General of the Police Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Chief of the Security Police and the SD (2770- PS).
On his release, Kaltenbrunner became the leader of the Austrian SS and served as a link between Berlin and the Austrian Nazi movement. Kaltenbrunner was an important figure in the successful 1938 Anschluss; as a reward, Hitler engineered his selection as a member of the German Reichstag.
Jun 21, 2019 · 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. After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, and a brief period under Heinrich Himmler, Kaltenbrunner was the third Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), which included ...
