Kurt Daluege
| Kurt Daluege | |
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Daluege as an SS-Obergruppenführer, February 1936; wearing the pre-April 1942 rank insignia.
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| Chief of Ordnungspolizei (uniformed Police) | |
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In office 26 June 1936 – 31 August 1943 |
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| Preceded by | Post created |
| Succeeded by | Alfred Wünnenberg |
| Deputy/Acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (Titular Protector was Konstantin von Neurath) |
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In office 5 June 1942 – 24 August 1943 |
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| Preceded by | Reinhard Heydrich (as Acting Protector) |
| Succeeded by | Wilhelm Frick (as Protector) |
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15 September 1897 Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia, German Empire (now Kluczbork, Poland) |
| Died | 24 October 1946 (aged 49) Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) |
| Spouse(s) | Käthe Schwarz (married 1926) |
Kurt Daluege (15 September 1897 – 24 October 1946) was a German Nazi SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer and Generaloberst of the Police (ranks equivalent to colonel-general, or four-star General) as chief of the national uniformed Ordnungspolizei (Order Police), and ruled the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia as Deputy Protector after Reinhard Heydrich's assassination. After the end of World War II, he was extradited to Czechoslovakia, convicted as a war criminal and executed in 1946.
Daluege, son of a Prussian state official, was born in the small Upper Silesian town of Kreuzburg (now Kluczbork) on 15 September 1897. He entered the Imperial German Army in 1916 and served with the 7th Garde Infantry Regiment. He served on the Eastern Front. In October 1917, attended officer training in Doberitz. During his service on the Western Front, he was severely wounded in the head and shoulder. He was hospitalised and declared 25% disabled. Daluege was awarded the Iron Cross, second class (1918) and the Wound Badge in Black (1918).
After World War I, Daluege became leader of Selbstschutz Oberschlesien (SSOS) - Upper Silesian Self Defense — an Upper Silesian veterans' organization engaged in combat with the Poles in that region. In 1921, he also became active in the Freikorps Rossbach while studying engineering at the Technical University in Berlin; where he eventually earned a civil engineering degree. Two years later he joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and was assigned Party number 31,981; He also joined the Greater German Workers Party in the same year. From 1924, he helped to organize the Berlin Frontbann, largely a front organization for the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA), since it and the Nazi Party were banned in Prussia at the time. In 1926 he joined the SA directly, eventually becoming the leader of Berlin's SA and Goebbels' deputy Gauleiter, or Party leader, in Berlin. Throughout the period 1926—1929, Daluege led the Berlin-Brandenburg division of the SA.
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