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30 June 1934. (1934-06-30) (aged 29) Berlin, Free State of Prussia, Nazi Germany. Cause of death. Execution by firing squad. Occupation. German Nazi paramilitary officer. Karl Ernst (1 September 1904 – 30 June 1934) was an SA - Gruppenführer who, from March 1933, was the SA Commander in Berlin.
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Other articles where Karl Ernst is discussed: Reichstag fire: …whereby 10 agents led by Karl Ernst were to gain access to the Reichstag through a tunnel leading from the official residence of Hermann Göring, Reichstag president and Hitler’s chief minister, who was then to conduct an official investigation, which would fix responsibility for the fire on the communists.
References. Karl Ernst was born in Wilmersdorf, Germany, on 1st September, 1904. He was a hotel bellhop and a bouncer at the "Eldorado", a favourite haunt in Berlin of the homosexual community. (1) Ernst joined the Nazi Party in 1923 at the age of nineteen.
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Karl Ernst was born in Berlin in 1904, the son of a cavalryman. He attended Volksschule in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and Berlin-Grunewald before completing a commercial apprenticeship as an export ...
During the Purge itself official radio and newspaper reports only gave the names of ten people killed: the six SA-leaders executed in Stadelheim Prison on June 30; Kurt von Schleicher, a German general and a former Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, and his wife; Karl Ernst, who was wrongly reported to have been shot in Stadelheim, whereas in ...
NamePlace Of DeathPersonal DetailsCircumstancesFormer Chief of the "Bayernbund", a ...Ballerstedt was arrested on the evening ...Fritz BeckGündinger Forest near DachauDirector of the Munich Students' Welfare ...Killed either for his contacts to Röhm ...Borsig Palace, BerlinPress chief in the Prussian State ...Initially reported as "suicide" then ...BerlinChief of the Abwehr and general major of ...Shot when answering his door at ...Karl Ernst (1 September 1904 – 30 June 1934) was an SA- Gruppenführer who, from March 1933, was the SA Commander in Berlin. Prior to joining the Nazi Party, he had been a hotel bellhop and a bouncer at gay nightclubs. [1] . He was one of the chief participants in the extrajudicial execution of Albrecht Höhler. [2] .
The storm troopers, led by SA leader Karl Ernst, used the underground tunnel that connected Göring's residence with the cellar in the Reichstag. They entered the building, scattered gasoline and incendiaries, then hurried back through the tunnel.
