Friedrich-Adolf Kuls

Friedrich-Adolf Kuls (born February 22, 1897 in Wunstorf ; † September 26, 1939 in Włochy near Warsaw ) was a German politician and SA functionary, most recently with the rank of SA brigade leader . Among other things, he was an alderman for the city of Braunschweig .

Live and act

Kuls took part as a volunteer in the First World War, in which he was wounded twice and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class and the Flanders Cross.

In 1922 Kuls became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) for the first time , which he rejoined in 1925. In 1925 he also joined the SA. In July 1932, Kuls was appointed leader of SA Standard 14. In 1933 he was appointed leader of the SA Brigade 33 in Leine before he took over the leadership of Brigade 58 in Braunschweig at the end of 1939, which he held until his death. In addition, he served from 1933 (?) Until his death in 1939 as an alderman for the city of Braunschweig.

In the election for the National Socialist German Reichstag on April 10, 1938, he ran unsuccessfully under the profession of businessman.

Kuls died as a participant in the attack on Poland as a lieutenant , according to other information as a sergeant , outside Warsaw . After his death, the Rühme settlement near Braunschweig was renamed "Friedrich-Adolf-Kuls-Siedlung". In addition, a sports facility to be built after the war should get his name.

literature

Bernhard Kiekenap : SS Junker School. SA and SS in Braunschweig. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2008, ISBN 978-3-937664-94-1 , p. 50 f.

Web links

Chronicle of the city of Braunschweig with information on Friedrich Adolf Kuls

Individual evidence

↑ Life data after the entry on Kuls in the online database of the Volksbund Kriegsgräberfürsorge . The obituary for Kuls in the SA-Hausblatt The SA leader erroneously gives June 29 [sic!] 1939 as the date of death.
↑ Erich Stockhorst: Five thousand heads. Who was what in the Third Reich . Blick + Bild Verlag S. cap KG, Velbert / Kettwig 1967, p. 257.

personal data
SURNAME	Kuls, Friedrich-Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SA leader and Nazi functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	February 22, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wunstorf
DATE OF DEATH	September 26, 1939
Place of death	Włochy

[1] Life data after the entry on Kuls in the online database of the Volksbund Kriegsgräberfürsorge . The obituary for Kuls in the SA-Hausblatt The SA leader erroneously gives June 29 [sic!] 1939 as the date of death.

[2] Erich Stockhorst: Five thousand heads. Who was what in the Third Reich . Blick + Bild Verlag S. cap KG, Velbert / Kettwig 1967, p. 257.