Wilhelm Kube, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wilhelm Kube

German politician

Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1887

Place of Birth: Głogów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 22-Sep-1943

Profession: politician

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Wilhelm Kube (13 November 1887 – 22 September 1943) was a German politician and Nazi official.
He was an important figure in the German Christian movement during the early years of Nazi rule.
During the war he became a senior official in the occupying government of the Soviet Union, achieving the rank of Generalkommissar for Weissruthenien (Belarus).
He was assassinated in Minsk in 1943, triggering brutal reprisals against the citizens of Minsk. An extreme antisemite, he is known to have said about Jews: "What plague and syphilis are to humanity, are Jews to the white race." However, Kube behaved towards German Jews in a relatively mild way during his charge in Minsk, by trying—unsuccessfully—to protect German Jews, whom he felt as culturally closer, from extermination.
As for Minsk, he planned to level the city and replace it with a German settlement, called Asgard.