Edmund Veesenmayer
German general
Died when: 73 years 42 days (877 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Edmund Veesenmayer (12 November 1904 – 24 December 1977) was a high-ranking German SS functionary and Holocaust-perpetrator during the Nazi era.He significantly contributed to the Holocaust in Hungary and in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH).
Veesenmayer was a subordinate of Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Joachim von Ribbentrop, and worked with Adolf Eichmann.He was involved in dismembering Czecho-Slovakia in 1939,in the establishment of the Ustaše-run NDH puppet state following the April 1941 German invasion of Yugoslavia, and in the selection and installation of the 1941-1944 puppet regime of Milan Nedic in the German-occupied territory of Serbia.
After World War II Veesenmayer was tried and convicted at the Ministries Trial; in 1949 he was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, but was released after serving two years.
