Timeline
- 1913 to 1914. University of Halle (Saale)
- 1914 August. Field Artillery Regiment 17
- 1915 Lieutenant in reservers
- 1918–? no later than early 1920s. Freikorps in Middle Germany and Upper Silesia.
- 1920s. Studied banking
- 1928. Independent factory owner in Gotha
- 1930. SS Sturmführer and Standarten-Adjutant
- 1930–1931. City council member, Gotha
- 1930 Jul – Jan 1931. Joined SA. On staff of Gausturms in Weimar.
- 1931 Feb 1. SA-Standartenführer
- 1931 Sep 15. SA-Oberführer
- 1931 Nov – 1932 Jul. Gau SA-Sturmführer for Munchen Oberbayern
- 1931 Nov 15 – 1932 Apr 13. SA Gausturm / Untergruppe München
- 1932 July 1 – 1933 Feb 19. Führer for SA Gruppe Hochland
- 1932 Sep 1. SA-Gruppenführer
- 1933 Feb. Leaves SA
- 1933 Feb 21 – 1933 Sept 9. SS-Gruppenführer, and Führer of SS-Abschnitt XVIII (HQ in Weimar)
- 1933 Nov 15 – 1934 May 1. Führer for SS-Oberabschnitt Mitte (Halle) with 10-15,000 men under command
- 1933.
- Located in Weimar, Thuringia.
- In Staatsrat in Thuringia.
- Delegate to the Nazi Reichstag for the 8th 'session' (Wahlperiod)
- 1934 May 1 – 1936 Apr 1. Führer for SS-Oberabschnitt Elbe (which had absorbed Mitte)
- 1934 June 30. (Night of the Long Knives) - in Dresden
- 1934 Dec 15 to 1936 Mar 31. District Governor (Kreishauptmann), Dresden-Bautzen
- 1936. In Munich
- 1936 January 30. Becomes SS-Obergruppenfuhrer
- 1936 April 1. Führer of SS-Oberabschnitt "Süd". Police president of Munich
- 1938 Mar 12 to 1942 Dec 17. HSSPF 'Main' (Benno Martin was de-facto HSSPF)
- 1938 Apr 12 to 1945 Apr 20. HSSPF 'Süd'
- 1938 Nov 9-10.
- In chain of command for orders implementing (Kristallnacht).
- Führer of SS-Oberabschnitt Süd
- Police President of Munich
- 1939 Jun – Jul. Ill
- 1941 Apr 8. General der Polizei
- 1942 Oct – 1945 Apr. Worked in Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior
- 1944 Jul 1. General der Waffen-SS
- 1944 Nov. 1200 SS men left in his Oberabschnitt, none available for SS work
- 1945 early Feb. Dismissed, replaced by Vogler as temporary substitute for HSSPF and Oberabschnitt Führer "Süd"
- 1945 Apr 20. Relieved of all posts for 'defeatism'
- 1946 August 3 & 5. Nuremberg Trial witness, by which time he had been 'under arrest for 15 months'
- 1979 Feb 10. Died in Bavaria.
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