Kurt Kaul

Kurt Kaul

Kurt Kaul (born October 5, 1890 in Brodowo ; † December 25, 1944 in Budapest ) was a German SS group leader and a lieutenant general of the police, politician, and higher SS and police leader southwest.

Life

Kaul, son of a landowner, completed an agricultural degree after successfully completing a humanistic grammar school. He took part in the First World War on the Western Front from the beginning of September 1914 and was deployed there as a battery leader from 1916. After the end of the war, he was deployed in the Baltic States as a battery commander in the Baltic Landwehr from February 1919 . After the Baltic Landwehr came under English command, he was a member of the Iron Division (Russian Western Army) until April 1, 1920 . Between 1920 and 1932 Kaul ran a self-employed company, such as a yacht yard and a car dealership, and was also employed as an employee. From 1920 he was a member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund , from 1924 of the Deutsch-Völkische Freedom Party and 1925 of the "Bund Der Kamerad" (room protection for NSDAP speakers) in Danzig . After a stay abroad in the late 1920s, he first moved to Berlin .

The SA entered Kaul at 1929, of which he in the 1930 SS changed (membership. 3392). Also in 1930 Kaul became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 244,954). From 1932 to August 1933 Kaul was staff leader in an SS section. From August 1933 to the end of February 1934 he was in command of SS Section IV, from March 1, 1934 to May 1935, commander of SS Section XXII, based in Allenstein, and from May 1935 to March 1937, commander of SS Section XXIII, based in Berlin.

After Kaul had already run unsuccessfully in the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, from 1938 he was a member of the Reichstag for the 11th electoral term of the NSDAP for the constituency 31 Württemberg.

On January 30, 1937, he was promoted to SS-Gruppenführer. As of March 1937, Kaul led the SS Upper Section Southwest based in Stuttgart. From the beginning of September 1939 to April 21, 1943 Kaul was Higher SS and Police Leader Southwest. In the spring of 1943 Kaul was relieved of his office and joined the cavalry as SS-Sturmbannführer of the Reserve ( Waffen-SS ).

Kaul took part in the group leader conference in Poznan on October 4, 1943, at which Heinrich Himmler gave the first speech in Poznan .

From November 1944 he was assigned to the 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division and was killed in late December 1944 during the Battle of Budapest .

Awards

Kaul's SS and police ranks
date	rank
October 1931	SS-Sturmbannführer
July 1932	SS standard leader
November 1933	SS-Oberführer
	SS Brigade Leader
April 1937	SS group leader
May 1940	Lieutenant General of the Police

• Iron Cross (1914) 2nd class
• Baltic Cross 1st class
• Regional order
• Clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd class
• War Merit Cross (1939) 2nd class with swords
• Honorary sword of the Reichsführer SS
• SS skull ring

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 .
• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
• Ruth Bettina Birn : The Higher SS and Police Leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-0710-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Kaul in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kurt Kaul in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Kurt Kaul on www.dws-xip.pl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} See Kurt Kaul in the database of members of the Reichstag
2. ^ Romuald Karmakar : Das Himmler-Projekt , DVD 2000, Berlin, ISBN 3-89848-719-9
3. ↑ See Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 301