Huge Portrait Photo of Kurt Daluege as Chief of Polizei

Huge Portrait Photo of Kurt Daluege as Chief of Polizei
SS-Oberstgruppenfuhrer Kurt Daluege SS-Oberstgruppenfuhrer Kurt Daluege

Kurt Daluege (born September 15, 1897 in Kreuzburg, died October 24, 1946 in Prague) - SS-Oberstgruppenfuhrer, Nazi war criminal, commander of the German Order Police - Orpo in 1936-1942 and deputy protector of the Czech Republic and Moravia in the years 1942–1945.

Biography

He joined the German army as a volunteer and fought as a lieutenant during World War I. After the war, he graduated from Berlin and worked as an engineer for some time. As a Freikorps officer, he distinguished himself in the Battle of Mount St. Anna fought in 1921 with the Silesian insurgents. In 1922 he belonged to Freikorpsu Rossbach. In the same year, he joined the NSDAP (NSDAP No. 31981), and then the SA. On March 22, 1926, he created the first SA branch in Berlin and became its commander with the rank of SA-Gruppenführer.

From 1928, when he moved to the SS, he worked closely with Heinrich Himmler. In the years 1928–1933 he was the commander of the SS in East Germany (SS-Gruppe Ost). On August 30, 1930, his troops pacified the rebellion of the SA Berlin militias, commanded by SA-Gruppenführer Walter Stennes. This was the first time the party had used the SS to suppress SA demands. In 1932 he became a member of the Prussian Landtag, and from 1933, as an SS-Gruppenfuhrer, he was a member of the Reichstag and the commander of the barracked units of the Prussian national police (Landspolizei). At that time, he transformed this formation into an obedient tool for implementing Nazi politics. He was appointed state commissioner for special affairs by Goring under the Prussian government.

In 1934 he was an active participant in the "night of the long knives", and after it he temporarily commanded the SA-Gruppe Berlin-Brandenburg, Mitte, Grenzmark, Pommern and Schlesien. In the years 1936–1942, Daluege headed the Main Office of the Order Police (Orpo), which at that time was subordinated to the SS. As head of the Ordnungspolizei in 1938, he visited Poland. He was at that time the second most influential person in the ranks of the SS after Himmler. In 1942, Daluege was the first to receive the newly introduced SS-Oberstgruppenfuhrer rank and was sent to the Czech Republic, where he supervised the investigation into the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, and then succeeded him as deputy protector of Bohemia and Moravia (de jure protector was Konstantin von Neurath, from in autumn 1941, he was dismissed). He held this position until August 20, 1943, when the former Reich Minister of Internal Affairs, Wilhelm Frick, assumed the office of protector.

After the war, he was captured by the British and handed over to the Czechoslovak authorities. He was tried for war crimes (including for the pacification of Lidice, where 173 civilians were murdered) and sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out by hanging on October 24, 1946.

Picture behind glass in wooden frames: 43x55cm

The scan of the last Dienstaltersliste, in which Daluege was classified in the 4th position among the 1,362 highest SS officers. Interestingly, he survived it hard and even when the Third Reich fell into ruins, he wrote angry elaborates to the SS-Personalhauptamt that he was hurt, because he really should have been on item no. 2! Such were his worries. Anyway, soon. A year later, the Czechs hanged him.
(The list is not the subject of the auction)

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