Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903-1946)

SS-Obergruppenführer (General). At the beginning of 1943 Kaltenbrunner was appointed to succeed Reinhard Heydrich as head of all the Nazi security services. In this capacity Kaltenbrunner was responsible for the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Jews to the extermination camps. There are numerous examples of Kaltenbrunner personally intervening to intensify the persecutions. Kaltenbrunner was one of the main accused at the Nuremberg Tribunal, where he was sentenced to death. He was hanged 10 October 1946.