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Kurt or Curt Ludwig Ehrenreich von Burgsdorff (* December 16th, 1886 in Chemnitz - † February 26th, 1962 in Tutzing) was a German Oberstleutnant der Reserve in the Wehrmacht during World War II. His grandfather Carl Ludwig Gottlob of Burgdorff (1812-1875) and his father Curt Ludwig Franz von Burgdorff (1849-1922) were county captains (the provincial government) in Leipzig. Burgdorff attended a grammar school in Dresden and studied in Grenoble, Freiburg and Leipzig jurisprudence. [1] It was founded in 1911 with a thesis on the administration of justice in the colonies to Dr. iur. doctorate. In 1914 he was appointed assessor of the Evangelical Lutheran consistory appointed in Dresden. From 1914 to 1918 he participated in the First World War, in part. Awarded the Iron Cross I. Class Burgdorff in 1918 discharged from the army as a captain of the reserve. [1] Burgdorff as a council in Amtshauptmannschaft Großenhain. In 1921 he was appointed director of the spa resort Bad Elster ordered. Since the beginning of 1928 he was Amtshauptmann of Löbau. Burgdorff founded the DNVP with. [2] In March 1933 Burgdorff became the Acting District Chief in Leipzig appointed. Burgdorff joined the NSDAP on 1 May 1933rd Burgdorff was SA Member, reaching there the rank of SA Brigade leader. [3] He was committed to the elimination of Nazi commissioners in the administration and for the restoration of good administration. From the beginning of October 1933-1937 was Burgdorff Ministerial Director and Head of the 1st Division of the Saxon Ministry of the Interior under Karl Fritsch, however, was due to disagreements with Gauleiter Martin Mutschmann transferred to Leipzig as Kreishauptmann. 1938 Burgdorff was appointed head of the Office of the Reich Governor in Vienna (Arthur Seyss-Inquart appointed). Since April 20, 1939, he was Under-Secretary at the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (under the State Secretary Karl Hermann Frank), so by mid-March 1942. [1] It was then for the Wehrmacht convened and received on 2 April 1943 as Major of the Reserve and leader of the Grenadier Regiment 580, the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross awarded. [4] From 1 December 1943, he was governor of District Krakow in the General Government under the Governor-General Hans Frank and his deputy Josef Bühler, after pleading Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler had refused opposite first resign from the Armed Forces. At the same time he was dortiger district location leader of the Nazi Party. [1] Burgdorff was mid-June 1945 the CIC arrested. [2] He was then by the Americans in internment camps Moosburg internment and as a witness of the defendant Hans Frank in the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals on April 18, 1946 [5] of the defender Alfred Seidl summoned and also for the accused Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Konstantin von Neurath interrogated by his defender Otto von Ludinghausen. Intention of both surveys was to shift responsibility for all repressive measures and for the crimes of the Berlin directly guided SS forces in the General or in the Protectorate: Neurath and Frank were thus victims of Hitler and Himmler, and so it was also Burgdorff in his activities, they all in the now broken once war in fidelity to the German People's exercised, thereby preventing worse. [6] Burgdorff testified under oath that he of the existence of the concentration camp Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camp had heard for the first time on April 1, 1946, of the existence of the concentration camps Auschwitz and Dachau and Buchenwald he had learned from it. [7] Burgdorff was also in the NSDAP-organization operates in a prominent place, so he was in Krakow District location leader, but he explained that he was a "staunch church Christ", this in conjunction with his SA-generalship, the only a "honorary rank" had been. [8] Moreover, its activities have since 1942 when on leave Wehrmacht officer under the soldier's sense of honor stood. In May 1946, Burgdorff was in Poland delivered and sentenced there for war crimes on December 6, 1948 the minimum sentence of three years in prison. [2] In July 1949 Burgdorff was released from prison. [9] Of his immediate superiors were Josef Bühler, Hans Frank, Karl Hermann Frank, Martin Mutschmann and Arthur Seyss-Inquart convicted and executed as a war criminal to death, Konstantin von Neurath was released early from prison after nine years. About investigations and proceedings for the war crimes in Czechoslovakia is not known, nor over the de-Nazification process in Germany. In the Federal Republic of Germany Burgdorff was into the church administration of the Evangelical Church in Bavaria under Bishop Hans Meiser received and worked as a manager at the Protestant Academy of Tutzing.

Awards

 * Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse (1914)


 * Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse (1914)


 * 1939 Spange zum Eisernen Kreuzes 1. Klasse (1914)


 * 1939 Spange zum Eisernen Kreuzes 2. Klasse (1914)


 * Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse ohne Schwerter


 * Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse ohne Schwerter


 * Allgemeine-Sturmabzeichen


 * Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz


 * Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938


 * Spange zur Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938


 * Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer


 * Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse on January 4th, 1943


 * Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse on August 12th, 1942


 * Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on April 2nd, 1943 as Major der Reserve and Führer of Grenadier-Regiment 580