Karl-Heinrich Brenner Explained

Honorific Prefix:	SS-Gruppenführer
Karl-Heinrich Brenner
Birth Date:	1 May 1895
Birth Place:	Mannheim, German Empire
Death Place:	Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Allegiance:
Branch:	Waffen SS
Rank:	SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Police
Commands:	SS Division Nord
Battles:	World War I World War II
Awards:	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Karl Jakob Heinrich Brenner - also Karl-Heinrich Brenner - (1 May 1895 – 14 February 1954) was a decorated German general of the Waffen-SS who held the rank of SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of Polizei during the Nazi era. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.

Awards

• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 27 December 1944 as SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Police.^[1]
• Clasp to the Iron Cross 2nd Class (4 August 1941) & 1st Class (17 August 1941)^[2]
• Wound Badge 1939 in Gold (27 September 1941)^[2]
• Infantry Assault Badge in Silver (16 May 1944)^[3]
• War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords (24 July 1940) & 1st Class with Swords (1 September 1942)^[2]

See also

• List SS-Gruppenführer

References

Bibliography

• Book: Scherzer , Veit . 2007 . Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives . The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives . German . Jena, Germany . Scherzers Militaer-Verlag . 978-3-938845-17-2.
• Book: Thomas . Franz . Wegmann . Günter . 1993 . Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht 1939–1945 Teil VI: Die Gebirgstruppe Band 1: A–K . The Knight's Cross Bearers of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945 Part VI: The Mountain Troops Volume 1: A–K . German . Osnabrück, Germany . Biblio-Verlag . 978-3-7648-2430-3.

Notes and References

1. Scherzer 2007, p. 243.
2. Thomas & Wegmann 1993, p. 47.
3. Thomas & Wegmann 1993, p. 48.