Karl Hanke
German general and last Reichsführer-SS (1903-1945) · Politicians · Died at 41
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Something wrong?The last man to lead the SS, appointed in the war's final days when Himmler fell from favor. Hanke held the title for less than a month before Germany collapsed.
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Karl Hanke (1945)
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Bundesarchiv Bild 102-02306A, Berlin, Hitler und Goebbels am Grab Horst Wessels
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Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1120-502, Breslau, Gauleiter Karl Hanke bei Ansprache
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About this person
Karl August Hanke was born on 24 August 1903 and rose through Nazi Party ranks to become Gauleiter of Gau Lower Silesia in 1941, simultaneously serving as Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. In the final weeks of the Third Reich, he was named fifth and final Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, inheriting command of the SS as the regime disintegrated. Captured by Czech forces on 6 May 1945, three days before the war's formal end, he attempted escape. Shot and wounded, he was beaten to death by Czech guards on 8 June.
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