Kurt Daluege

Kurt Daluege
Daluege in 1936
Chief of Order Police
In office 26 June 1936 – 31 August 1943
Leader	Heinrich Himmler as Chief of German Police
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Alfred Wünnenberg
Deputy/Acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
In office 5 June 1942 – 24 August 1943
Leader	(Konstantin von Neurath as Titular Protector)
Preceded by	Reinhard Heydrich
Succeeded by	Wilhelm Frick
Personal details
Born	Kurt Max Franz Daluege (1897-09-15)15 September 1897 Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia, German Empire (now Poland)
Died	24 October 1946(1946-10-24) (aged 49) Pankrác Prison, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Nationality	German
Political party	Nazi Party
Spouse	Käthe Schwarz ​ (m. 1926)​
Children	4
Alma mater	Technical University of Berlin
Criminal conviction
Cause of death	Execution by hanging
Known for	Lidice massacre
Criminal status	Executed
Conviction(s)	War crimes
Criminal penalty	Death

Kurt Max Franz Daluege^[1][2] (15 September 1897 – 24 October 1946) was a German SS and police official who served as chief of Ordnungspolizei (Order Police) of Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1943, as well as the Deputy/Acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia from 1942 to 1943.

Daluege served in the Prussian Army during the First World War on both fronts. He was severely wounded and received the Iron Cross Second Class for his bravery. After the war, he became a member of Gerhard Roßbach's Freikorps. In 1922, Daluege joined the Nazi Party and soon entered the service of the Sturmabteilung (SA), eventually becoming the SA leader in Berlin. He transferred to the SS in 1930 and was later elected as a Reichstag deputy. In 1933, Hermann Göring appointed Daluege to the Prussian Interior Ministry and placed him in charge of the Prussian police forces. In that role, he played an important role in carrying out the Night of the Long Knives, in which Ernst Röhm and other leading member of the SA were purged. By late 1934, his authority was extended to include all of Germany, and two years later Heinrich Himmler named him chief of the Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) following the reorganisation of the German police force.

By the outbreak of the Second World War, Daluege's Orpo had as many as 120,000 active-duty personnel. The organisation took part in policing, deportations and mass murder throughout German-occupied areas and had an integral role in carrying out the Holocaust. Following Reinhard Heydrich's assassination in 1942, Daluege was named Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia and directed the German reprisal actions, including the Lidice massacre. At the end of the war, Daluege was arrested and extradited to Czechoslovakia, where he was tried and convicted for crimes against humanity. He was sentenced to death and executed by hanging in October 1946.