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Werner Braune was born on 11 April, 1909 in Mehrstedt, German Empire, is a SS officer (1909–1951). Discover Werner Braune's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 42 years old?

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Age 42 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 11 April, 1909
Birthday 11 April
Birthplace Mehrstedt, German Empire
Date of death 7 June, 1951
Died Place Landsberg Prison, Landsberg am Lech, West Germany
Nationality Ukraine

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1909

Karl Rudolf Werner Braune (11 April 1909 − 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era and a Holocaust perpetrator.

1910

Werner Braune's younger brother (18 July 1910 − 30 December 1992) was the commander of Sonderkommando 4b.

1929

Braune attended a type of German school known as a Gymnasium and graduated in 1929 with a diploma known as an abitur.

He then studied jurisprudence at the universities of Jena, Bonn, and Munich.

1931

On 1 July 1931, at the age of 22, and while still a student, Braune joined the Nazi Party and was assigned membership number 581,277.

In November 1931, Braune became a member of the Nazi paramilitary organization known as the Sturmabteilung (SA), sometimes called "stormtroopers" in English.

1933

He graduated in 1933 with a degree in civil law from the University of Jena.

1934

In November 1934, he joined the SS and was assigned membership number 107,364.

At the same time in 1934 Braune began working for the Nazi Security Service known as the Sicherheitsdienst (SD).

1936

In 1936, Braune was also working for the secret police organization, the Gestapo.

1938

In 1938 he became acting Gestapo leader in Münster.

1940

In 1940, he became a Gestapo chief, first in Koblenz, next in the state police office in Wesermünde and then, in May 1941, in Halle.

1941

During the German invasion of the Soviet Union of 1941, Braune was the commander of Einsatzkommando 11b, part of Einsatzgruppe D.

Braune organized and conducted mass murders of Jews in the Army Group South Rear Area, the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (southern Ukraine and in the Crimea).

From October 1941 to the beginning of September 1942, Braune was the commander of Special Detachment 11b, part of Einsatzgruppen D, which was under the command of Otto Ohlendorf, who later would be executed as a war criminal.

Under the command of Werner Braune, Special Detachment 11b carried out the massacre of Simferopol, in the Crimea, where in the course of three days from 11 to 13 December 1941 they murdered 14,300 Jews.

"In October 1941 he was assigned to Einsatzkommando 11b. As chief of this unit Braune knew of the Fuehrer Order and executed it to the hilt. His defense is the general one of superior orders which avails Braune no more than it does anyone else who executes a criminal order with the zeal that Braune brought to the Fuehrer Order. Various reports implicate Braune and his Kommando in the sordid business of illegal killings.

The Tribunal has already spoken of the Christmas massacre of Simferopol.

Braune was the leader in charge of this operation.

He has admitted responsibility for this murder in unequivocal language."

1942

In September 1942 Braune returned to Halle.

1943

In 1943 he was promoted to the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel).

From 1943 through 1944, he was the leader of the German Foreign Service Academy, until, in 1945, he was sent to Norway as the commander of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei; SiPo) and SD.

Following the end of the war, Braune was indicted as a war criminal in the Einsatzgruppen trial that was held before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal.

Braune's only defense was that he was acting under superior orders, sometimes referred to as the "Nuremberg defense".

This was rejected by the court:

1948

For his role in these crimes, Braune was tried before an American military court in 1948 in the Einsatzgruppen trial.

On 10 April 1948, Braune was sentenced to death and shortly after midnight on 7 June 1951 he was executed by hanging at Landsberg Prison.

1951

He was convicted, sentenced to death and executed in 1951.

Also hanged on 7 June 1951 at Landsberg Prison were six other Nazi war criminals including Otto Ohlendorf, Erich Naumann, Paul Blobel and Oswald Pohl.

As Braune was escorted down the hallway to the gallows, he shouted "Kameraden, es lebe Deutschland!"

(Comrades, long live Germany!).