(1888-03-08)8 March 1888 Bonn, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died
23 October 1980(1980-10-23) (aged 92) Bad Godesberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Allegiance
German Empire Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Imperial German Army German Army Waffen-SS
Years of service
1907–18 1939–45
Rank
Brigadeführer
Service number
NSDAP #1,067,635 SS #116,686
Commands held
SS Division Charlemagne SS Division Nordland
Battles/wars
World War I World War II
Awards
Iron Cross 1st Class Iron Cross 2nd Class
Relations
Alexander Conze (maternal grandfather)
Werner Conze (cousin)
Peter Schöttler (grandson)
Gustav Krukenberg (8 March 1888 – 23 October 1980) was a high-ranking member of the Waffen-SS and commander of the SS Charlemagne Division and the remains of the SS Division Nordland during the Battle of Berlin in April 1945. After Krukenberg surrendered to Soviet Red Army troops, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to prison by a Soviet court. He was released from prison after serving 11 years and died on 23 October 1980 in Germany.
GustavKrukenberg (8 March 1888 – 23 October 1980) was a high-ranking member of the Waffen-SS and commander of the SS Charlemagne Division and the remains...
physiologist Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg (1871–1946), German physician GustavKrukenberg (1888–1980), German SS officer Hermann Krukenberg (1863–1935), German surgeon...
detour to avoid Soviet advance columns. On 25 April, Brigadeführer GustavKrukenberg was appointed the commander of (Berlin) Defence Sector C, which included...
between 320 and 330 French volunteers commanded by SS-Brigadeführer GustavKrukenberg and organised as Sturmbataillon (assault battalion) "Charlemagne"...
volunteers under the command of SS Brigadeführer GustavKrukenberg arrived in Berlin. During 25 April, Krukenberg was appointed as the commander of Defence Sector...
the east of Tempelhof Airport. On 25 April 1945, SS-Brigadeführer GustavKrukenberg was appointed the commander of (Berlin) Defence Sector C, which included...
Hermann Krukenberg (1863–1935) and Georg Heinrich Peter Krukenberg (1856–1899), who was a professor of gynecology at the University of Bonn. Krukenberg originally...
official commander, actual control was exercised by SS-Brigadeführer GustavKrukenberg, who spoke fluent French. After spending late 1944 training, the Charlemagne...
April 1945, the Reich Chancellery in Berlin ordered Brigadeführer GustavKrukenberg to proceed to the capital. About 350 men from the remains of the Charlemagne...
visibility. The defense at Hermannplatz was organized by SS Brigadeführer GustavKrukenberg. Philipp Schaefer, the in-house architect of the Karstadt Group, designed...
University of Halle under Peter Krukenberg and at the University of Kiel as a pupil of Bernhard von Langenbeck and Gustav Adolf Michaelis. In 1847 he received...
the Kölner Kunstgewerbeschule (Cologne School of Applied Arts) Elsbeth Krukenberg-Conze (1867–1954), writer and feminist Lina Hilger (1874–1942), German...
head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1913) June 21 – Hermann Krukenberg, surgeon (died 1931) June 22 – Gottlieb von Jagow, diplomat (died 1935)...
Nicholas Kounis Krabbe's disease – Knud Haraldsen Krabbe Krukenberg tumor – Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg Kugelberg–Welander disease – Erik Klas Henrik Kugelberg...
Halle in 1840 to study anatomy and pathology under Meier, Blasius and Krukenberg. In 1843 he returned to Berlin for his last semester. In 1844 he received...
Ernst Cassirer and Edmund Husserl; political theorists Arthur Rosenberg and Gustav Meyer; and many others. Nine German citizens were awarded Nobel Prizes during...
Josef Kreiner Heinrich Kreutz August David Krohn Ernst Kromayer Hermann Krukenberg Heinrich Kruse Felix Kübler Heinz Kunert Aenne Kurowski-Schmitz Annette...
Global Information
German Empire
Nazi Germany
Imperial German Army
German Army
Waffen-SS