Konstantin Kammerhofer was an Austrian Nazi, an SS-Gruppenfuhrer and the Higher SS and Police Leader in the Independent State of Croatia during the Second World War.
19 Facts About Konstantin Kammerhofer
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Konstantin Kammerhofer attended elementary school, but left vocational school in May 1915 at the age of sixteen to join the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War.
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Konstantin Kammerhofer was wounded three times and in early November 1918 was captured while fighting on the Italian front.
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In 1921 Konstantin Kammerhofer joined the Austrian Nazi Party, and the Austrian SA in November 1933, becoming an SA-Brigadefuhrer in Obersteiermark.
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Konstantin Kammerhofer worked in Berlin under Alfred Rodenbucher from January to March 1935 at the relief organization set up to assist Austrian Nazi refugees.
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Konstantin Kammerhofer joined the Allgemeine SS on 15 February 1935 with the rank of SS-Oberfuhrer.
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Konstantin Kammerhofer next headed SS-Abschnitt XXV, headquartered in Bochum from October 1937 to mid-March 1938.
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Konstantin Kammerhofer applied for admission to the Nazi Party and was admitted on 1 May 1938.
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Konstantin Kammerhofer was elected to the Reichstag as a deputy from Austria, and served as a city councilor in Vienna from 1939 to 1944.
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Konstantin Kammerhofer was placed in charge of the SS-Abschnitt "Flandern" in Brussels from July 1941 to April 1942 and helped to establish the Flemish Legion.
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Konstantin Kammerhofer trained in police duties with the Ordnungspolizei office in Berlin between April and August 1942, being granted the rank of Generalmajor of Police.
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Konstantin Kammerhofer then was posted to Russia as the SS and Police Leader of "Kaukasien-Kuban" from August to November 1942, and of "Aserbeidschan", with headquarters in Baku, from November until 21 April 1943 when the position was abolished.
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From Baku, Konstantin Kammerhofer was transferred to Zagreb to become the Higher SS and Police Leader "Kroatien" in March 1943, serving as Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler's personal representative to the Croatian puppet state.
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Konstantin Kammerhofer was the sole holder of this position, remaining there until the end of the war.
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On 1 July 1943 Konstantin Kammerhofer was promoted to SS-Gruppenfuhrer and Generalleutnant of Police.
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Konstantin Kammerhofer was engaged in recruiting Croatians into service in the Waffen-SS.
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Shortly after the end of the war, Konstantin Kammerhofer was captured near Salzburg by American forces on 11 May 1945.
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Konstantin Kammerhofer gave testimony at the Nuremberg trials and was interned until 1947.
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Konstantin Kammerhofer worked as a construction laborer in Hanover and was found dead in a boarding house in Oberstdorf on 29 September 1958.