Konstantin Kammerhofer

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Konstantin Kammerhofer
Born23 January 1899
Higher SS and Police Leader, "Kroatien"
Battles/warsWorld War I
World War II
AwardsIron Cross, 1st and 2nd class
War Merit Cross, 1st and 2nd class

Konstantin Kammerhofer (23 January 1899 - 29 September 1958) was an

Second World War
.

Early life in Austria

Kammerhofer was born in

First World War. He was wounded three times and in early November 1918 was captured while fighting on the Italian front. Released from captivity in August 1919, he returned to Austria and found employment as a wine merchant in Graz.[1]

In 1921 Kammerhofer joined the

Obersteiermark. Following the unsuccessful July 1934 putsch and the assassination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, Kammerhofer fled Austria via Yugoslavia and arrived in Nazi Germany in December 1934.[1]

Career in Germany

Kammerhofer worked in

Standarte, based in Essen. He next headed SS-Abschnitt (District) XXV, headquartered in Bochum from October 1937 to mid-March 1938.[2]

A strong supporter of Austria's unification with Germany, after the

city councilor in Vienna from 1939 to 1944.[1]

Second World War

On 30 January 1941, Kammerhofer was promoted to SS-

SS and Police Leader (SSPF) of "Kaukasien-Kuban" from August to November 1942, and of "Aserbeidschan", with headquarters in Baku, from November until 21 April 1943 when the position was abolished.[3]

From Baku, Kammerhofer was transferred to

Prinz Eugen Division in ruthless anti-partisan activities.[6] For his services in the war, he was awarded the Iron Cross, 1st and 2nd class and the War Merit Cross with Swords, 1st and 2nd class.[1]

Shortly after the end of the war, Kammerhofer was captured near Salzburg by American forces on 11 May 1945. He gave testimony at the Nuremberg trials and was interned until 1947. The authorities in Yugoslavia convicted him of war crimes in absentia and, when Austria began legal proceedings against him, he fled to Germany.[7] He worked as a construction laborer in Hanover and was found dead in a boarding house in Oberstdorf on 29 September 1958.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Yerger 1997, p. 107.
  2. ^ Yerger 1997, pp. 158, 182.
  3. ^ Yerger 1997, p. 68.
  4. ^ Thomas 1995, p. 20.
  5. ^ Yerger 1997, p. 51.
  6. ^ Marble 2012, pp. 217, 334n.
  7. ^ Konstantin Kammerhofer in Vienna History Wiki Retrieved 6 March 2022
  8. ^ Klee 2007, p. 297.

Sources

  • Klee, Ernst (2007). Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Frankfurt-am-Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag.
    ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8
    .
  • Marble, Sanders (2012). Scraping the Barrel:The Military Use of Sub-Standard Manpower. Fordham University Press.
    ISBN 978-0-823-23977-1
    .
  • Thomas, Nigel (1995). Axis Forces in Yugoslavia 1941–45. Osprey Publishing.
    ISBN 978-1-855-32473-2
    .
  • Yerger, Mark C. (1997). Allgemeine-SS: The Commands, Units and Leaders of the General SS. Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
    ISBN 0-7643-0145-4
    .

External links
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