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Kurt Daluege (
September 15,
1897 –
October 24,
1946) was an SS-
Oberstgruppenführer and
Generaloberst der
Polizei, officer of the Central Reich Security Office (
RSHA) and the governor of the
Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia.
Early life and career
Kurt Daluege, a son of a
Prussian state official, was born in small
Upper Silesian town
Kreuzburg on
September 15,
1897. He entered the
German Army in 1916 and served with the 7.Garde Regiment West. During his service on the
Western Front Daluege was severely wounded a number of times (declared 25% disabled) and also decorated for bravery.
1920s
After the war Daluege became leader of
Selbstschutzes Oberschlesien (
SSOS) - Upper Silesian Self Defense - an Upper Silesian veterans’ organization, which was engaged in combat with the Poles in that region. In 1921 he became also active in the
Freikorps Roßbach while studying
engineering at the Technical University in Berlin. Two years later, Daluege joined the National Socialist German Workers Party,
NSDAP and in 1926 the Sturmabteilung (
SA) eventually becoming the leader of Berlin's SA and
Goebbels' deputy
gauleiter, a deputy party-leader, in Berlin.
SS and Police Leader
In July 1930, Daluege in accordance with
Hitler's wishes resigned from
SA and joined the Schutzstaffel
SS with the rank of SS-
Oberführer. His main responsibility was to spy on the
SA and political opponents of
NSDAP. In 1932 Daluege became an NSDAP delegate in the Prussian state parliament and in November 1932 was elected to the
Reichstag for Electoral District
Berlin-Ost, a seat he retained until 1945. At the same time,
Hermann Göring moved him to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, where he took over the police force. In 1936, the entire German police force was reorganized and placed under the direction of the Ministry of Interior. The same year, Daluege was appointed, by
Wilhelm Frick, the chief of the Ordnungspolizei,
Orpo, which gave him control of all police in
Nazi Germany. During the course of
World War II, he was also responsible for the personal protection of
Hitler and other party leaders.He commanded the
Ordnungspolizei for the rest of the war reaching the
rank of
SS-Oberstgruppenführer und Generaloberst der Polizei. Following the
assassination of
Reinhard Heydrich, Daluege also served as the
Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, ordering among other things, the destruction of villages
Lidice and
Ležáky in
Bohemia.
Illness, arrest and execution
In May 1943 Daluege suffered a massive
heart attack and became seriously ill. In August, he was relieved of all of his daily duties and spent rest of the war living on a property given to him by
Hitler. In May 1945, Daluege was arrested by U.S. troops in
Lübeck and interned at
Nuremberg until September 1946 when he was extradited to
Czechoslovakia. Kurt Daluege was hanged at
Pankrác prison in
Prague on
October 24,
1946 after having been found guilty by a Czech court of war crimes in the
Czechoslovakian states. He was buried in an anonymous pit at Prague's Ďáblice cemetery.
Personal life
In 1926, Daluege married Käthe Schwarz (born
November 23,
1901) and had four children. Of the four, three were sons (b. 1937, 1938, 1940) and the fourth was a daughter (born. 1942).
Summary of SS career
Dates of rank
Notable decorations
Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross with swords (1943)
German Cross in Silver (?)
Golden Nazi Party Badge (1933)
Iron Cross Second (1918) Class
War Merit Cross with Swords Second (1941) and First (1941) Classes
Wound Badge in Black (1918)
Anschluss Medal (1938)
Sudetenland Medal (1939) with Prague Castle Bar (1939)
Memel Medal (1939)
NSDAP-Long Service Award in Bronze (1940) and in Silver (1941)
Cross of Honor (1929)
SS-Honour Ring (1933)
Danzig Cross (1939)
Order of the Crown of Italy Grand Cross (1938)
Trivia
When Stalin's son, Lt. Yakov Dzhugashvili, was captured by the Wehrmacht, Daluege is credited with the idea of offering POW Dzhugashvili back to the Red Army in exchange for the release of Field Marshall Paulus. Joseph Stalin turned down the offer, allegedly stating that "a Lieutenant wasn't worth a General." Daluege then arranged for Dzhugashvili to be interned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he died at the age of 36. The Germans stated officially that Yakov died by running into an electric fence. Some have contended that he committed suicide at the camp while others have suggested that he was murdered.
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