Karl-Siegmund Litzmann (1 August 1893, in

Minden Minden () is a middle-sized town in the very north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the greatest town between Bielefeld and Hanover. It is the capital of the district (''Kreis'') of Minden-Lübbecke, which is part of the region of Detm ...

Westphalia Westphalia (; german: Westfalen ; nds, Westfalen ) is a region of northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has an area of and 7.9 million inhabitants. The territory of the regio ...

– August 1945, in

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) was the

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General Commissioner for

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(

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) in the

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during the German occupation. He was SA-Obergruppenführer and served from 5 December 1941 to 17 September 1944 in

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(Reval). Karl-Siegmund Litzmann was the son of the general of the infantry

Karl Litzmann Karl Litzmann (22 January 1850 – 28 May 1936) was a German World War I general and later Nazi Party member and state politician. World War I He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Łódź (1914); he earned the nickname "the Lion of ...

and uncle of

Walter Lehweß-Litzmann __NOTOC__ Walter Lehweß-Litzmann (5 June 1907 – 16 September 1986) was a Major in the Luftwaffe during World War II, and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. After the war he served in the National People's Army of the Ger ...

. In late 1944 he became an officer of the Waffen SS, and went missing after the fighting in Hungary and Bohemia in spring 1945.
Litzmann reappeared in May 1945 under a false name in Kappeln (Schleswig-Holstein) where his sister was living, but died there under unexplained circumstances as early as August 1945.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Litzmann, Karl-Siegmund 1893 births 1945 deaths People from Minden People from the Province of Westphalia German Protestants Nazi Party politicians Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany Members of the Landtag of Prussia People of Generalbezirk Estland Waffen-SS personnel German military personnel of World War I Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 1st class