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In May 1940 he was appointed inspector of the replacement units of the [[Totenkopf#Nazi_Germany|SS Division Totenkopf]] and became one of [[Heinrich Himmler]]'s closest confidants.<ref>SS Personnel Office: List of years of service of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel, as of December 1, 1937, serial no. 238
In May 1940 he was appointed inspector of the replacement units of the [[Totenkopf#Nazi_Germany|SS Division Totenkopf]] and became one of [[Heinrich Himmler]]'s closest confidants.<ref>SS Personnel Office: List of years of service of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel, as of December 1, 1937, serial no. 238
Kurt Knoblauch on www.dws-xip.pl.</ref> In December 1940 he became the [[Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS|commander]] of the Waffen-SS in the [[Netherlands]]. <ref>Ernst Klee: The Person Encyclopedia of the Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 320.</ref> On April 7, 1941, he was appointed to the [[Reichsführer-SS]] Command Staff.<ref>Charles W. Sydnor: Soldiers of destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945 . Princeton University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-691-00853-0 , p. 113.</ref> In July 1942 he was apointed chief of the SS leadership office, [[Amtsgruppe B]]. In Amtsgruppe B worked to support SS units to coordinate with the [[Wehrmacht]] army associations and the SS police, including [[Persecution_of_Jews#Nazism|Persecution of the Jews]]. <ref>Peter Longerich: Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews . Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-280436-5 , p. 187.</ref> In 1943 he was replaced by Ernst Rode. In December 1949, after the war, Knoblauch was classified as an activist by the Munich Courts and sentenced to two years in a labor camp. A Munich arbitration court rejected his appeal in June 1950 and confirmed the verdict of the first instance.<ref>Terry Goldsworthy, Valhalla's Warriors: A History of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1941-1945. Dog Ear Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-60844-639-1 , p. 91.</ref><ref>Minutes of the Nuremberg Trial, January 7, 1946 . Original text on zeno.org.</ref>
Kurt Knoblauch on www.dws-xip.pl.</ref> In December 1940 he became the [[Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS|commander]] of the Waffen-SS in the [[Netherlands]]. <ref>Ernst Klee: The Person Encyclopedia of the Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 320.</ref> On April 7, 1941, he was appointed to the [[Reichsführer-SS]] Command Staff.<ref>Charles W. Sydnor: Soldiers of destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945 . Princeton University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-691-00853-0 , p. 113.</ref> In July 1942 he was apointed chief of the SS leadership office, [[Amtsgruppe B]]. In Amtsgruppe B worked to support SS units to coordinate with the [[Wehrmacht]] army associations and the SS police, including [[Persecution_of_Jews#Nazism|persecution of the Jews]]. <ref>Peter Longerich: Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews . Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-280436-5 , p. 187.</ref> In 1943 he was replaced by Ernst Rode. In December 1949, after the war, Knoblauch was classified as an activist by the Munich Courts and sentenced to two years in a labor camp. A Munich arbitration court rejected his appeal in June 1950 and confirmed the verdict of the first instance.<ref>Terry Goldsworthy, Valhalla's Warriors: A History of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1941-1945. Dog Ear Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-60844-639-1 , p. 91.</ref><ref>Minutes of the Nuremberg Trial, January 7, 1946 . Original text on zeno.org.</ref>




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Kurt Knoblauch ( Born December 10, 1885 in Marienwerder – Died November 10, 1952 in Munich) was a SS German officer, SS Obergruppenfuhrer and General of the Waffen-SS. Knoblauch was a son of the tax collector Friedrich Knoblauch (? - September 25, 1922) and his wife Emma, ​​née Schröder. [1] After graduating from high school in Ratzeburg, on February 23, 1905 Knoblauch joined Prussian Army on as a infantry cadet in the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment No. 39. On August 18, 1906 he was promoted to lieutenant. On October 18, 1909 he was transferred to the 8th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 70 and served as platoon commander. In May 1911 commanded the 1st Rhenish Engineer Battalion No. 8 in the field. On October 1, 1912 Knoblauch became adjutant and on February 17, 1914 became a lieutenant. On May 1, 1914 he was transferred to the Saarbrücken district command. Durning World War I, starting on August 2, 1914 he became the company commander of Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 32. On June 18, 1915 he was promoted to captain. Durning the war he was wounded several time.

In 1919, after the war, Knoblauch transferred to the Freikorps (Volunteer Corps) of the Deutsche Schutzdivision and became a Provisional Reichswehr. Freikorps he climb through the ranks: chief of the 4th MG company, then as chief of the 12th company at Reichswehr-Schützen-Regiment 3, then an intelligence officer in the 18th Infantry Regiment in Paderborn. On February 1, 1926 promoted to major company commander and then a lieutenant colonel on April 1, 1930. He was lieutenant colonel over the 2nd Battalion of the 1st of the Prussian Infantry Regiment. On April 1, 1931, Knoblauch became a member of the regimental staff. He retired from army service on March 31, 1933. Knoblauch joined the Nazi Party on April 20, 1933 (membership number 2,750,158) and joined the SA, SA-Gruppenführer. He became a SA leader until stepping down on April 12, 1935 to join the SS Schutzstaffel (SS No. 266,653). [2]

In June 1944 to he was promoted to SS Obergruppenfuhrer and put on the war planning committee.[3][4]

In May 1940 he was appointed inspector of the replacement units of the SS Division Totenkopf and became one of Heinrich Himmler's closest confidants.[5] In December 1940 he became the commander of the Waffen-SS in the Netherlands. [6] On April 7, 1941, he was appointed to the Reichsführer-SS Command Staff.[7] In July 1942 he was apointed chief of the SS leadership office, Amtsgruppe B. In Amtsgruppe B worked to support SS units to coordinate with the Wehrmacht army associations and the SS police, including persecution of the Jews. [8] In 1943 he was replaced by Ernst Rode. In December 1949, after the war, Knoblauch was classified as an activist by the Munich Courts and sentenced to two years in a labor camp. A Munich arbitration court rejected his appeal in June 1950 and confirmed the verdict of the first instance.[9][10]


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References

  1. ^ Peter Longerich , Institute for Contemporary History : Hitler's Deputy: Leadership of the Party and Control of the State Apparatus by Staff Hess and the Bormann Party Chancellery: A Publication of the Institute for Contemporary History , KG Saur, Munich 1992.
  2. ^ Dermot Bradley (eds.), Andreas Schulz , Günter Wegmann: The Generals of the Waffen SS and the Police. The military careers of generals, as well as doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministry officials with the rank of general. Volume 2: Hachtel-Kutschera. Biblio publisher. Bissendorf 2005. ISBN 3-7648-2592-8 . pp. 534-540.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The Person Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd Edition).
  4. ^ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, Dieter Zinke: The Generals of the Waffen SS and the Police: Lammerding-Plesch . Biblio-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-7648-2375-7 , p. 706.
  5. ^ SS Personnel Office: List of years of service of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel, as of December 1, 1937, serial no. 238 Kurt Knoblauch on www.dws-xip.pl.
  6. ^ Ernst Klee: The Person Encyclopedia of the Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 320.
  7. ^ Charles W. Sydnor: Soldiers of destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945 . Princeton University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-691-00853-0 , p. 113.
  8. ^ Peter Longerich: Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews . Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-280436-5 , p. 187.
  9. ^ Terry Goldsworthy, Valhalla's Warriors: A History of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1941-1945. Dog Ear Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-60844-639-1 , p. 91.
  10. ^ Minutes of the Nuremberg Trial, January 7, 1946 . Original text on zeno.org.
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