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BIOGRAPHY Ernst Kaltenbrunner was born on 4 October 1903 in Ried im Inn Kreis, Austria, the son of Hugo Kaltenbrunner, a lawyer, and his wife Therese.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner received a doctorate in law from Graz University in 1925 and set himself up as a lawyer in Linz. In 1932 he joined the Nazi Party and worked closely with Arthur Seyss-Inquart and Adolf Eichmann.

On 14 January 1934 Ernst Kaltenbrunner married Elisabeth Eder and they became the parents of three children. In the same year Kaltenbrunner became the head of the Austrian SS but soon afterwards was arrested and accused of being involved in the assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss. Found guilty of conspiracy, he was sentenced to six months in prison.

After the _Anschluss_ Kaltenbrunner was elected to the _Reichstag_ and became minister for state security as well as police chief in Vienna. During the next three years Kaltenbrunner served as Commander-in-Chief of the _Schutztaffel_ (SS) in Vienna.

In April 1941 Kaltenbrunner was appointed Lieutenant-General of Police. He impressed Heinrich Himmler and when Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated in May 1942, Kaltenbrunner was appointed as head of the SD (Sicherheitsdienst). In this position he not only controlled the _Gestapo_ but also the concentration camp system and was responsible for carrying out the _Final Solution._

By his long time mistress Gisela Wolf, wife of Paul Wolf and daughter of Albrecht, Graf von Westarp, and Constance von Gontard, he fathered twins, Ursula and Wolfgang, born in 1945.

Nearly seven feet tall, with deep scars on his face from his student duelling days, Kaltenbrunner appeared to obtain pleasure from his work and took personal interest in the different methods of killing the inmates in the extermination camps.

As well as the hunting down and extermination of several million Jews, Kaltenbrunner was also responsible for the murder of Allied parachutists and prisoners-or-war.

With the Red Army closing in on Germany, Kaltenbrunner gave orders for all prisoners in extermination camps to be killed and then fled south but was captured by Allied troops. Accused of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial he was found guilty and hanged on 1 October 1946.