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__NOTOC__ Karl Jakob Heinrich Brenner - also Karl-Heinrich Brenner - (1 May 1895 – 14 February 1954) was a decorated German general of the
Waffen-SS The (, "Armed SS") was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts, volunteers and conscripts from both occup ...
who held the rank of SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of Polizei during the Nazi era. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.


Awards

* Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 27 December 1944 as SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Police. * Clasp to the Iron Cross 2nd Class (4 August 1941) & 1st Class (17 August 1941)Thomas & Wegmann 1993, p. 47. * Wound Badge, Wound Badge 1939 in Gold (27 September 1941) * Infantry Assault Badge in Silver (16 May 1944)Thomas & Wegmann 1993, p. 48. * War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords (24 July 1940) & 1st Class with Swords (1 September 1942)


See also

*Register of SS-Leaders in general’s rank#List SS-Gruppenführer, List SS-Gruppenführer


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brenner, Karl 1895 births 1954 deaths Military personnel from Mannheim 20th-century Freikorps personnel German Army personnel of World War I Prussian Army personnel Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Recipients of the clasp to the Iron Cross, 1st class Recipients of the Gold German Cross People from the Grand Duchy of Baden Waffen-SS personnel SS-Gruppenführer Police of Nazi Germany