Ernst Kaltenbrunner

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

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Lived 1903–1946, aged 43Austria

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1903–1946
Aged 43

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Updated 2026-05-29

Austrian SS official who ran the Reich Security Main Office from 1943 onward, overseeing the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD during WWII. Executed as a war criminal in 1946.

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Ernst Kaltenbrunner was an Austrian high-ranking SS official during the Nazi era, major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal. After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, and a brief period under Heinrich Himmler, Kaltenbrunner was named the third Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), which included the offices of Gestapo, Kripo and SD, serving from January 1943 until the end of World War II in Europe.

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