Kurt Kaul
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Kurt Kaul | |
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| Born | 5 October 1890 Higher SS and Police Leader, "Südwest" |
| Battles/wars | World War I World War II |
| Awards | Iron Cross, 1st and 2nd class |
Kurt Kaul (5 October 1890 - 25 December 1944) was an Higher SS and Police Leader in southwest Germany. While serving with the Waffen-SS, he was killed in action in the siege of Budapest.
Early life
Kaul was the son of an estate owner in the
western front. From 1916, as a Leutnant, he served as an artillery battery commander. He was wounded and earned the Iron Cross
, 1st and 2nd class.
After the end of the war he joined the anti-semitic organization in Germany. In 1924, he joined the right-wing German Völkisch Freedom Party, and in 1925 the "Bund der Kamerad," a protection squad for Nazi Party speakers.
SS career
Kaul joined the
Allenstein (March 1934 to May 1935) and SS-Abschnitt XXIII in Berlin (May 1935 to January 1937). During this time, he advanced in rank to SS-Oberführer in November 1933, and SS-Brigadeführer
in January 1936.
On 30 January 1937, Kaul was promoted to commander of SS-Oberabschnitt (SS-Main District) Southwest based in
Higher SS and Police Leader "Südwest", based in Stuttgart, while retaining his Oberabschnitt command there. He attained his final promotion to Generalleutnant der Polizei on 15 January 1941. In the spring of 1943, Kaul had a falling out with SS-Obergruppenführer Gottlob Berger, the head of the SS Main Office, and was relieved of his posts on 21 April 1943. For a time, he ran two horse breeding farms and then, in September 1944, he trained at the SS artillery school as a Waffen-SS Sturmbannführer. He took command of an artillery regiment in the 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Maria Theresia
in November 1944, and died on 25 December 1944 during the siege of Budapest.
External weblink
- Information about Kurt Kaul in the Reichstag database
Sources
- Klee, Ernst (2007). Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Frankfurt-am-Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag. p. 301. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8.
- Yerger, Mark C. (1997). Allgemeine-SS: The Commands, Units and Leaders of the General SS. Schiffer Publishing Ltd. p. 46. ISBN 0-7643-0145-4.