Karl Wilhelm Krause
German SS officer
Died when: 90 years 62 days (1082 months)Star Sign: Pisces
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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