Dr Gustav Krukenberg (8 March 1888 - 23 October 1980) was Brigadeführer of the of the Waffen SS then commander of the remains of the during the Battle of Berlin in April 1945. He was born in Bonn, the son of a professor at Bonn University and his mother was the daughter of the archeologist Alexander Conze. He gained a doctorate in law and joined the army in 1907. During World War I, he served as an ordnance officer and adjutant and was promoted to Hauptmann in 1918.

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  • Dr Gustav Krukenberg (8 March 1888 - 23 October 1980) was Brigadeführer of the of the Waffen SS then commander of the remains of the during the Battle of Berlin in April 1945. He was born in Bonn, the son of a professor at Bonn University and his mother was the daughter of the archeologist Alexander Conze. He gained a doctorate in law and joined the army in 1907. During World War I, he served as an ordnance officer and adjutant and was promoted to Hauptmann in 1918. After the war he served in the Civil Service as the private secretary to the Foreign minister and was briefly a director in industry. He joined the Nazi party in 1932 and he worked at the propaganda ministry after Adolf Hitler came to power and was a member of the Allgemeine SS. With the outbreak of World War II he re-joined the army as a Major and served on the General Staff in Paris. In December 1943 he transferred from the Wehrmacht Heer, in which he had reached the rank of Oberstleutnant, to the Waffen SS which he joined with the equivalent rank of Obersturmbannführer. He was soon promoted to Standartenführer and then Oberführer. A fluent French speaker, he commanded the French collaborators of the SS Charlemagne Division and following a summons to help with the defence of Berlin he breached several obstacles to lead the remnants of the division into the city in April 1945. On 25 April, Brigadeführer Krukenberg was appointed the commander of (Berlin) Defence Sector C which included the Nordland Division, whose previous commander Joachim Ziegler was relieved of his command the same day. The arrival of the French SS men bolstered the Nordland Division whose "Norge" and "Danmark" regiments had been decimated in the fighting. By 26 April, with Neukölln heavily penetrated by Soviet combat groups, Krukenberg prepared fallback positions for Sector C defenders around Hermannplatz. He moved his headquarters into the opera house. Forced to fall back on 27 April, Krukenberg's Nordland headquarters was then a carriage in the Stadtmitte U-Bahn station in Defence sector Z (centre). The Frenchmen under Krukenberg proved particularly good at destroying tanks, of the 108 Soviet tanks destroyed in the centre district, they had accounted for about half of them. On 29 April 1945 Krukenberg awarded one of the last Knight's Crosses of the war to Unterscharführer Eugene Vaulot. On 1 May, Krukenberg attemped to stem the Soviet advance by ordering sappers to blow up the S-Bahn tunnel under the Landwehr canal causing 25 kilometres of S-Bahn and U-Bahn tunnels to flood, which lead to many casualties. After Hitler's death Krukenberg assembled most of his escort made up of French SS for the breakout. They joined up with Ziegler and a larger group of Nordland troops. They crossed the Spree just before dawn. Near the Gesundbrunnen U-Bahn station they came under heavy fire. Brigadeführer Joachim Ziegler was gravely wounded and died on 2 May. Later, Krukenberg made it to Dahlem where he hid out in an apartment for a week before surrendering to the Red Army.
  • Gustav Krukenberg war Brigadeführer der SS später Kommandeur der 11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division „Nordland“ während der Kämpfe um Berlin im April 1945.
  • Dr. Gustav Krukenberg byl právník a důstojník Waffen-SS v hodnosti SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS za druhé světové války.
  • Gustav Krukenberg (1888-1980) fut Brigadeführer de la Division Charlemagne puis commandant des restes de la Division SS Nordland durant la bataille de Berlin en Avril 1945.
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  • Dr Gustav Krukenberg (8 March 1888 - 23 October 1980) was Brigadeführer of the of the Waffen SS then commander of the remains of the during the Battle of Berlin in April 1945. He was born in Bonn, the son of a professor at Bonn University and his mother was the daughter of the archeologist Alexander Conze. He gained a doctorate in law and joined the army in 1907. During World War I, he served as an ordnance officer and adjutant and was promoted to Hauptmann in 1918.
  • Gustav Krukenberg war Brigadeführer der SS später Kommandeur der 11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division „Nordland“ während der Kämpfe um Berlin im April 1945.
  • Dr. Gustav Krukenberg byl právník a důstojník Waffen-SS v hodnosti SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS za druhé světové války.
  • Gustav Krukenberg (1888-1980) fut Brigadeführer de la Division Charlemagne puis commandant des restes de la Division SS Nordland durant la bataille de Berlin en Avril 1945.
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