Werner Braune, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Werner Braune

SS officer

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1909

Place of Birth: Mehrstedt, Thuringia, Germany

Date of Death: 07-Jun-1951

Profession: politician, jurist, soldier

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Karl Rudolf Werner Braune (11 April 1909 - 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era and a Holocaust perpetrator.
During the German invasion of the Soviet Union of 1941, Braune was the commander of Einsatzkommando 11b, part of Einsatzgruppe D.
Braune organized and conducted mass murders of Jews in the Army Group South Rear Area, the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (southern Ukraine and in the Crimea).
For his role in these crimes, Braune was tried before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal in 1948 in the Einsatzgruppen trial.
He was convicted, sentenced to death and executed in 1951.