Ernst kaltenbrunner biography
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Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Himmler, Zieries, Kaltenbrunner in Mauthausen Concentration Camp
Ernst Kaltenbrunner was born on 4 October 1903 in the valley of the Inn, near Braunau, the birthplace of Adolf Hitler.
Ernst kaltenbrunner biography
He was descended from a family of country artisans, although his father and grandfather were lawyers. He was educated in Linz, and one of his boyhood friends was Adolf Eichmann. Kaltenbrunner subsequently studied law at Graz University.
He took up his doctorate in law in 1926, setting up his practice as a lawyer in Linz.
Ernst kaltenbrunner
Kaltenbrunner played an active role in one of the first groups of Austrian National Socialist students and for a time a militant in the Independent Movement for a Free Austria. He eventually joined the Nazi Party in 1932. A year later he became a member of one of the more or less camouflaged SS organisations in Austria and a spokesman for the Nazi Party in Upper Austria, providing legal advice to Party members and sympathisers.
In 1934 Kaltenbrunner was ar