Karl Wilhelm Krause, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German SS officer
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Place of Birth: Germany
About Karl Wilhelm Krause
- Karl Wilhelm Krause (5 March 1911 – 6 May 2001) was a Waffen-SS officer (SS number: 236,858) who rose to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) during World War II.
- He was a personal orderly (valet) and bodyguard to Adolf Hitler from 1934 to mid-September 1939.
- Thereafter, he served in the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend.
- Krause came up with the concept of an anti-aircraft tank that became known as the Flakpanzer IV Wirbelwind.
- At the war's end he surrendered to American troops.
- Krause was interned until June 1946.
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