13 Facts About Karl Gutenberger

Karl Gutenberger was a Nazi Party politician, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer and General of the Waffen-SS and the Police.

Karl Gutenberger was the son of a manager of the Krupp factory in Essen.

Karl Gutenberger worked in business, including at Rheinstahl AG, a steel manufacturer in Essen, where he worked as a finance clerk from 1928 to 1929.

Karl Gutenberger was employed briefly for a newspaper, the National-Zeitung, from 1930 to 1931.

Karl Gutenberger became the Ortsgruppenleiter for the district of Siegeroth in Essen and worked as a Gau-level Party speaker in Gau Essen.

Karl Gutenberger was then elected to the Prussian Landtag in November 1932, serving until that body was abolished in October 1933, nine months after the Nazi seizure of power.

Karl Gutenberger then returned as a Reichstag deputy from November 1933 until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945.

Karl Gutenberger was promoted to SA-Standartenfuhrer on 1 July 1932 and led SA Standarten 159 and 60 in Essen and 138 in Wesel between January 1932 and August 1933.

Karl Gutenberger was promoted to SA-Oberfuhrer on 9 November 1933 and to SA-Brigadefuhrer on 20 April 1936.

Karl Gutenberger successively commanded SA brigades 74 and 173 in Duisburg, 73 in Essen and 74 in Wesel between August 1933 and 12 December 1939 when he was assigned to SA-Gruppe Niederrhein.

Karl Gutenberger's jurisdiction comprised most of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia.

Karl Gutenberger would retain both posts until the end of the Second World War.

Karl Gutenberger was promoted to SS-Gruppenfuhrer and Generalleutnant of Police on 9 November 1942.