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Years of service
  
1907–1945

Service number
  
SS #292,713


Name
  
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch

Battles and wars
  
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Born
  
12 June 1888Kalkberge, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (
1888-06-12
)

Allegiance
  
German Empire (to 1918) Weimar Republic (to 1933) Nazi Germany

Service/branch
  
Reichsheer Ordnungspolizei Waffen SS

Rank
  
Obergruppenfuhrer und General der Polizei und Waffen-SS

Battles/wars
  
World War IWorld War II

Died
  
January 29, 1971, Bielefeld, Germany

Unit
  
4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division, VI SS Army Corps (Latvian), IX SS Mountain Corps

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Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch (12 June 1888 – 29 January 1971) was an Obergruppenführer in the German Waffen-SS during World War II. He commanded the 4th SS Polizei Division and the VI SS Army Corps and the IX SS Mountain Corps; he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

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Career

Born in 1888, Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch joined the army in 1907 and served in World War I. He joined the German General Staff, and served as a military attaché to the German military mission in Constantinople and as a staff officer with the 11th Infantry Division. At the end of the war he remained on the General staff of the ZBV 55 and XXIV reserve corps. In August 1919 Pfeffer-Wildenbruch joined the police service, and spent time in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. He became the police commander in Osnabrück and Magdeburg. In 1928 he went to Santiago de Chile, to serve as Chief of the Chilean Carabineros de Chile.

In June 1933, Pfeffer-Wildenbruch became an Oberstleutnant in the National Police Regiment at Frankfurt an der Oder and from May 1936 he was the Inspector General of Police schools, being promoted to Generalmajor der Polizei in May 1937. In March 1939 Pfeffer-Wildenbruch joined the SS (No. 292 713) and served on the staff of the Reichsführer-SS. At the end of 1939, following the invasion of Poland, Pfeffer-Wildenbruch was given command of the 4th SS Polizei Division with the rank of SS-Gruppenführer. After the Battle of France he returned to the staff of the Reichsführer-SS, serving as chief of the colonial police from 1941 to 1943.

In October 1943 he took over as commander of the VI SS Corps, with a promotion to SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS und Polizei. In December 1944 Pfeffer-Wildenbruch was appointed commander of the IX SS Mountain Corps, stationed in Budapest, Hungary. He was in command of the German forces during the Battle of Budapest from 24 December 1944 to 11 February 1945. Pfeffer-Wildenbruch was awarded the Knight's Cross on 11 January 1945 and the Oak Leaves on 1 February 1945. During the attempt to break out from Budapest, he was seriously wounded, and was taken prisoner by the Soviet forces. On 10 August 1949 he was sentenced to 25 years. In 1955, he was released together with some 10,000 other prisoners of war and war criminals due to an informal agreement concluded in September 1955 between German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin. Pfeffer-Wildenbruch was killed in a traffic accident on 29 January 1971 at Bielefeld.

Awards

  • Iron Cross (1914) 1st Class (14 September 1917)
  • Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939)
  • 2nd Class (20 June 1940)
  • 1st Class (22 June 1940)
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  • Knight's Cross on 11 January 1945 as SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS and commanding general of the IX. SS-Gebrigskorps
  • 723th Oak Leaves on 1 February 1945 as SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS and commanding general of the IX. Waffen-Gebrigskorps of the SS
  • References

    Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch Wikipedia


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