Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Ernst Kaltenbrunner (4 October 1903 in Ried im Innkreis, Austria - 16 October 1946 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany) was an High Ranking Senior Austrian-German SS Officer and Nazi Official During the Nazi Era and World War II he was an official of the NSDAP. He was the head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Head Office) and Interpol. Kaltenbrunner was the highest ranking senior SS and Police officer who was charged at the Nuremberg Trials. He was found guilty of war crimes and executed by being hanged. He was also the Nazi Officer who replaced Reinhard Heydrich when Heydrich was assassinated on 27 May 1942 and died on the 4th June 1942 Ernst Kaltenbrunner was the Reich Protector Of Bohemia and Morovia and SS-Obergruppenführer from 1942-1945 when Czechoslovakia was liberated from Nazi Germany by the allied forces in 1945 . Ernst Kaltenbrunner was born on 4th October 1903 in Ried im Innkreis . He never volunteered military service in the Austro-Hungarian Army because he was too young . He joined the Nazi Party and the Schutzstaffel/SS in 1931 he also joined the Gestapo in the 1930’s . In June 1934 he was involved in the Night of the Long Knives to kill Ernst Röhm the head of the SA . He was also involved in Kristallnacht or Night Of The Broken Glass in 1938 . In 1942 during World War 2 he replaced Reinhard Heydrich as head and Chief of the Gestapo of the German SS until 1945 when he was captured by the Allies .

SS Officer ranks of Ernst Kaltenbrunner
SS Officers Rank Equivalent	German Army Officer rank Equivalent	Date and Year
SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer	Captain	1932-1933
SS-Standartenfuhrer und Oberfuhrer	Colonel	1933-1934
SS-Obergruppenfuhrer	General	1935-1945