Karl Brunner (SS member)

Karl Friedrich Brunner (born July 26, 1900 in Passau , † December 7, 1980 in Munich ) was a German lawyer, SS brigade leader and major general of the police as well as SS and police leader in Salzburg and Bolzano .

Life

Karl was the first son of the Chief Postal Inspector Otto Brunner (born June 9, 1873 in Augsburg) and his wife Antonie, née Atzinger (born February 14, 1877 in Passau). From 1906 he first attended elementary school and from 1910 to 1917 the district high school in Passau. On September 13, 1917, he joined during the First World War as a volunteer in the 16th Infantry Regiment "Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany" the Bavarian army one. After the end of the war, Brunner resigned from military service on April 2, 1919 with the rank of ensign .

He became a member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . From April to June 1919 he was a member of the Chiemgau and Passau Freikorps and from 1922 to 1923 part of the Ehrhardt Marine Brigade . He then studied at the University of Munich Law and worked from 1927 as a lawyer .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he joined the SA and NSDAP in 1933 ( membership number 1,903,386). He later switched from the SA to the SS (SS no. 107.161). At the SD he initially worked in the SD main office from January to September 1935 . From April 1937 to June 1940 he was head of the Gestapo in Munich.

After the beginning of the Second World War , Brunner was leader of the Einsatzkommando 4 of Einsatzgruppe I in German-occupied Poland until November 1939 , which murdered Polish intellectuals. From February 1940 to April 1944 Brunner was inspector of the security police and the SD in Salzburg. In addition, from March 1941 he was head of the Office Ia in the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) and from mid-September 1943 until the end of the war he was SS and Police Leader Alpenvorland with headquarters in Bolzano . Here, on September 12, 1943, he issued a written order to the South Tyrolean security service to arrest and deport the Jewish population who remained in South Tyrol. He was captured in Bolzano on May 13, 1945 and was interned in the UK, from which he was released in 1948.

Brunner worked for the Gehlen organization and entered the Bavarian civil service in 1956, where he was a member of the government in the Pfaffenhofen district office.

Awards

Brunner's SS and police ranks	appointment
SS-Untersturmführer	June 15, 1934
SS-Obersturmführer	April 20, 1935
SS-Hauptsturmführer	April 20, 1936
SS-Sturmbannführer	April 20, 1937
SS-Obersturmbannführer	April 20, 1938
Police Colonel	April 19, 1941
SS-Oberführer	May 1, 1942
Major General of the Police	October 21, 1942
SS Brigade Leader	November 9, 1942

Brunner was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class on January 10, 1945 . He had already acquired the second class during the First World War. He also received other civilian awards.

literature

Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . , P. 78.
Klaus-Michael Mallmann , Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus : Task Force Groups in Poland: Presentation and Documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21353-5 . (Volume 12 of the publications of the Ludwigsburg Research Center at the University of Stuttgart.)
Dermot Bradley (ed.), Andreas Schulz , Günter Wegmann: The generals of the Waffen-SS and the police. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 1: Abraham – Gutenberger. Biblio Publishing House. Bissendorf 2003. ISBN 3-7648-2373-9 . Pp. 168-171.

Web links

Prisoners of Special Camp 11

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and Documentation , Stuttgart 2008, p. 25.
↑ Task Force in Poland
^ Sabine Mayr: The Annihilation of the Jewish Community of Meran . In: Georg Grote , Hannes Obermair (Ed.): A Land on the Threshold. South Tyrolean Transformations, 1915-2015 . Peter Lang, Oxford et al. 2017, ISBN 978-3-0343-2240-9 , pp. 53-75, reference: pp. 64-65 .
↑ Susanne Meinl, Joachim Schröder: “Attitude towards the democratic state: no concerns”. On the early history of the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution . Ed .: Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Bavarian State Parliament, 2013, p. 108, footnote 41.
↑ Prisoners of Special Camp 11 - SS-Brigadführer and Major General of the Police Karl Brunner

personal data
SURNAME	Brunner, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brunner, Karl Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, SS brigade leader and major general of the police
DATE OF BIRTH	July 26, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Passau
DATE OF DEATH	7th December 1980
Place of death	Munich

[EinsatzgruppenPolen25-1] Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and Documentation , Stuttgart 2008, p. 25.

[2] Task Force in Poland

[3] Sabine Mayr: The Annihilation of the Jewish Community of Meran . In: Georg Grote , Hannes Obermair (Ed.): A Land on the Threshold. South Tyrolean Transformations, 1915-2015 . Peter Lang, Oxford et al. 2017, ISBN 978-3-0343-2240-9 , pp. 53-75, reference: pp. 64-65 .

[4] Susanne Meinl, Joachim Schröder: “Attitude towards the democratic state: no concerns”. On the early history of the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution . Ed .: Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Bavarian State Parliament, 2013, p. 108, footnote 41.

[5] Prisoners of Special Camp 11 - SS-Brigadführer and Major General of the Police Karl Brunner