(1910-09-16)16 September 1910 Oberhausen, German Empire
Died
24 January 1975(1975-01-24) (aged 64) Freiberg am Neckar, West Germany
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Schutzstaffel
Years of service
1932–1945
Rank
Obersturmbannführer
Service number
2,803
Unit
Allgemeine SS Führerbegleitkommando
Erich Kempka (16 September 1910 – 24 January 1975) was a member of the SS in Nazi Germany who served as Adolf Hitler's primary chauffeur from 1936 to April 1945. He was present in the area of the Reich Chancellery on 30 April 1945, when Hitler shot himself in the Führerbunker. Kempka delivered the petrol to the garden behind the Reich Chancellery, where the remains of Hitler and Eva Braun were burned.
ErichKempka (16 September 1910 – 24 January 1975) was a member of the SS in Nazi Germany who served as Adolf Hitler's primary chauffeur from 1936 to April...
small group, including Bormann, Linge, Otto Günsche, Joseph Goebbels, ErichKempka, Peter Högl, Ewald Lindloff, and Hans Reisser, raised their arms in salute...
SS. As chauffeur, he was succeeded first by Julius Schreck and then ErichKempka. When the SS was reorganized and expanded in 1932, Maurice became a senior...
ISBN 978-0-3068079-3-0. Kempka, Erich (1948). "ErichKempka interview". Library of Congress: Musmanno Collection-Interrogations of Hitler Associates – Kempka, Erich-Box1FF33...
2009), Contributions I was Hitler's Chauffeur: The Memoirs of ErichKempka, ErichKempka, (Frontline Books, 2010), Introduction The Hitler I Knew, Otto...
corpses caught fire, a group including Bormann, Günsche, Linge, Goebbels, ErichKempka, Peter Högl, Ewald Lindloff, and Hans Reisser raised their arms in salute...
Hans-Erich Voss Johann Rattenhuber Peter Högl Werner Naumann Martin Bormann Hans Baur Ludwig Stumpfegger Artur Axmann Georg Betz Heinz Linge ErichKempka Heinrich...
and hired Daranowski. Daranowski had been engaged to Hitler's driver ErichKempka, and later married Luftwaffe officer Eckhard Christian on 2 February...
Hans-Erich Voss Johann Rattenhuber Peter Högl Werner Naumann Martin Bormann Hans Baur Ludwig Stumpfegger Artur Axmann Georg Betz Heinz Linge ErichKempka Heinrich...
Soviet tanks and guns. Betz was wounded during the crossing. According to ErichKempka, he came across the badly wounded Betz and left him in the care of Kaethe...
group, including Otto Günsche, Bormann, Högl, Linge, Lindloff, Reisser, ErichKempka and Joseph Goebbels raised their arms in Nazi salute as they stood just...
Last Battle. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-439-12701-8. Schaake, Erich (2000). Hitlers Frauen (Munich) Schneider, Wolfgang (2001). Frauen unterm...
(1909–1987), swimmer Wilhelm Brinkmann (1910–1991), field handball player ErichKempka (1910–1975), SS-officer and Adolf Hitler's driver Werner Töniges (1910–1995)...
from the temple had spread further over the face". Hitler's chauffeur, ErichKempka (who stated falsehoods and retracted many of his statements about the...
included Martin Bormann, Hans Baur, Ludwig Stumpfegger and Artur Axmann. ErichKempka testified at Nuremberg that he had last seen Naumann walking a metre...
Robert Carter, British Royal Air Force officer (d. 2012) September 16 ErichKempka, German chauffeur, bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (d. 1975) Karl Kling, German...
1980) 1906 – Jack Churchill, Sri Lankan-British colonel (d. 1996) 1910 – ErichKempka, German colonel and chauffeur (d. 1975) 1910 – Karl Kling, German race...
basketball player Erich Juskowiak, footballer Ernst Kalwitzki, footballer Edmond Kasperski, footballer Gerd Kasperski, footballer ErichKempka, Adolf Hitler's...
geänderte Auflage. Norderstedt: Militair-Verlag Patzwall. Stockhorst, Erich (1985). 5000 Köpfe: Wer War Was im 3. Reich. Arndt. ISBN 978-3-887-41116-9...
1948 until escape 1977; died 9 February 1978 55211 8 May 1933 594899 ErichKempka Born 16 September 1910. Hitler's chauffeur and an original member of...
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