Early Life
Otto Wilhelm Kron was born in Speyer, Rheinpfalz on the 28 February 1911. He studied Law at the University of Würzburg and was one of the early members of the Allgemeine-SS joining on the 1 October 1931 (SS number 31.441), he later joined the NSDAP on the 1 May 1933 (Party number 3.061.726).
Otto Kron quickly rose through the ranks of the SS and by 1935 he had been selected to become an officer and was promoted to Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) and was assigned to the SS-Totenkopfverbände (concentration camps guards) in Oberbayern at Dachau in 1937 and 1938.
On the 13 March 1938 he was involved in the Anschluss of Austria and in October 1938 the occupation of the Sudetenland.
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