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Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Austrian SS official, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal (1903-1946)

  • Fame62.2
  • Momentum15.7
  • Austria rank#94
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  • Fame62.2
  • Momentum15.7
  • Austria rank#94
  • Wikipedia59.7K
Lived 1903–1946, aged 43Austria
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    54 languages
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  • Rank in Austria
    #94
    Politicians
  • Era
    1903–1946
    Aged 43
  • Known for
    Francisco Boix: A Phot…
    2000
Summary
Updated 2026-09-07

He ran the Reich Security Main Office from 1943 to war's end — the apparatus that fused Gestapo, criminal police, and intelligence into the machinery of the Holocaust. The highest-ranking SS officer to stand trial at Nuremberg.

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Kaltenbrunner joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and the SS in 1931, rising to lead the Austrian SS by 1935. He helped execute the Anschluss in 1938 and took command of SS and police forces in Austria. In January 1943, after Reinhard Heydrich's assassination, he was named third chief of the Reich Security Main Office. Under his leadership the Holocaust intensified: he coordinated the agencies that carried out extermination, crushed resistance in occupied territories, and oversaw mass arrests, deportations, and executions. At Nuremberg he was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He w…

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In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Ernst Kaltenbrunner
saidundated
I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.
— Last words, 10/16/46. Quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" - Page 564 - by Jon E. Lewis - History - 2002
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
saidundated
I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.
— Quoted in "Nuremberg Diary" - Page 5 - by G. M. Gilbert - History - 1995
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
saidundated
Oppression is the essence of power.
— To Heinrich Himmler. Quoted in "The Rand McNally Encyclopedia of World War II" - by John Keegan, Sydney L. Mayer - History - 1977 - Page 137
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
saidundated
Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.
— To Leon Goldensohn, about the Armenian Genocide, 6/6/46, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History -
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
saidundated
Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.
— To Leon Goldensohn, about the Armenian Genocide, 6/6/46, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History -
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