Kurt Daluege

Kurt Daluege (September 15, 1897 – October 24, 1946) was a Nazi officer who served in the SS from the early 1920s until 1945.

Kurt Daluege was born son of a Prussian official in Upper Silesian small town Kreuzburg (now Kluczbork) on September 15, 1897. He joined the German Army and during the First World War he was decorated for bravery.

After the war Daluege worked as an engineer. He was also active in the Freikorps before joining the National Socialist German Workers Party, NSDAP in 1922. He formed the first Frontbann unit in Berlin before transferring it to the SA in 1925 and then to Schutzstaffel, SS in 1928 where he worked closely with Heinrich Himmler.

In 1933 Daluege was elected to the Reichstag and soon afterwards Hermann Göring moved him to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior where he took over the police force. Goering now took control of all the police forces in Germany and placed Daluege in charge of what now became known as the Ordnungspolizei, Orpo.

He commanded the Ordnungspolizei from 1936 and, in 1942 had reached the SS rank of SS-Oberstgruppenführer und Generaloberst der Polizei. Following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Daluege also served as the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.

Kurt Daluege was hanged in Prague on October 24, 1946 after having been found guilty by a Czech court of war crimes in the Czechoslovakian states.