SS-Stubaf. Johannes Kraus
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SS-Stubaf. Johannes Kraus
Can anyone add to the following with regard to the career of SS-Stubaf. Johannes Kraus, please?
Born 05.02093 (Barmen)
WW1 EK 1 and 2 (Oberleutnant)
SS N 280108 (but when did he join?)
NSDAP N 5275296 (but when did he join?)
SS-Ustuf. ?
SS-Stubaf. 20.04.42
22.06.40 - 16.11.40 Leiter Stapostelle "Schneidemühl"
12.40 - 01.45 Leiter Abt,IV (Gestapo), Stab KdS "Krakau"
I would particularly like to know when he joined both the SS and NSDAP, and more about his career before 1940. Furthermore, what became of him after 01.45?
Some sources are suggesting that he was executed in Czechoslovakia in 1947, but I believe that this is not our man and that this refers to someone else. So does anyone know of his fate? And yes, the DAL for 1944 shows that his name was Kraus and not Krauss!
Any assistance would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Born 05.02093 (Barmen)
WW1 EK 1 and 2 (Oberleutnant)
SS N 280108 (but when did he join?)
NSDAP N 5275296 (but when did he join?)
SS-Ustuf. ?
SS-Stubaf. 20.04.42
22.06.40 - 16.11.40 Leiter Stapostelle "Schneidemühl"
12.40 - 01.45 Leiter Abt,IV (Gestapo), Stab KdS "Krakau"
I would particularly like to know when he joined both the SS and NSDAP, and more about his career before 1940. Furthermore, what became of him after 01.45?
Some sources are suggesting that he was executed in Czechoslovakia in 1947, but I believe that this is not our man and that this refers to someone else. So does anyone know of his fate? And yes, the DAL for 1944 shows that his name was Kraus and not Krauss!
Any assistance would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Re: SS-Stubaf JOHANNES KRAUS
Bundesarchiv Ludwigsburg file does indeed show this Johannes Kraus executed in Brünn on 5 March 1947; having been Stellvertreter des Leiter, Stapoleitstelle Brünn, since Dec 1944.
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Re: SS-Stubaf JOHANNES KRAUS
Fair enough, thanks
Re: SS-Stubaf JOHANNES KRAUS
Johannes Robert Kraus
Son of Ernst Kraus and Selma Kuhlemann
01.05.1937, joined NSDAP
01.08.1936, joined SS
20.04.1939, SS-Ostuf.
10.09.1939, SS-Hstuf.
20.04.1942, SS-Stubaf.
01.11.1928, appointed KK
01.07.1936, appointed KR
spring 1941, appointed KD
01.05.1944, appointed RR u. KR
01.02.1922, joined Polizei (Landespolizei)
16.03.1935, transferred to Stapo
08.03.1941, posted to KdS Krakau, Leiter of Gestapo (Abt.III, in 1942 renamed into Abt.IV) with KdS Krakau and deputy of KdS
As Steve mentioned above he was Stellvertreter des Leiter of Gestapo in Brünn between 15.01.1945 and 07.05.1945.
Extradited by the US authorities to Czechoslovakia on 13.06.1946, sentenced to death and executed in Brünn.
George
Son of Ernst Kraus and Selma Kuhlemann
01.05.1937, joined NSDAP
01.08.1936, joined SS
20.04.1939, SS-Ostuf.
10.09.1939, SS-Hstuf.
20.04.1942, SS-Stubaf.
01.11.1928, appointed KK
01.07.1936, appointed KR
spring 1941, appointed KD
01.05.1944, appointed RR u. KR
01.02.1922, joined Polizei (Landespolizei)
16.03.1935, transferred to Stapo
08.03.1941, posted to KdS Krakau, Leiter of Gestapo (Abt.III, in 1942 renamed into Abt.IV) with KdS Krakau and deputy of KdS
As Steve mentioned above he was Stellvertreter des Leiter of Gestapo in Brünn between 15.01.1945 and 07.05.1945.
Extradited by the US authorities to Czechoslovakia on 13.06.1946, sentenced to death and executed in Brünn.
George
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Re: SS-Stubaf. Johannes Kraus
Superb, George, many thanks!
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That's even better, thanks!
Re: SS-Stubaf. Johannes Kraus
Here is the confirmation that SS-Stubaf. RR und KR Johannes Kraus was appointed Leiter IV at KdS Brünn in 1945 (source: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=30587&p=2349097&hi ... k#p2349097). "Leiter IV" strongly suggests that he was also the deputy of KdS (as it was in Krakau until January 1945).
George
George