Gottlob Christian Berger (1896 - 1975)

Born 16 Jul 1896 in Gerstetten, near Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg

Died 5 Jan 1975 at age 78 in Gerstetten, West Germany

Biography

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Gottlob Christian Berger is born July 16 1896 in Gerstetten, near Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg. He is a son of Johannes Berger and Christine Barbara (Moser) Berger.

Gottlob is a senior German Nazi official who holds the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS (lieutenant general), and is the chief of the SS Main Office responsible for Schutzstaffel (SS) recruiting during World War II. Following the war, he is convicted as a war criminal, spending a total of six-and-a-half years in prison. Serving in the German Army during World War I, he is wounded four times and awarded the Iron Cross First Class. Immediately after the war, he is a leader of the Einwohnerwehr militia in his native North Württemberg. He joins the Nazi Party in 1922, but lost interest in right-wing politics during the 1920s, training and working as a physical education teacher.

In the late 1920s, he rejoins the Nazi Party and becomes a member of the paramilitary Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1931.

Gottlob died January 5, 1975 Gerstetten, West Germany.

Sources

Ancestry.com. Württemberg, Germany, Family Tables, 1550-1985 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Berger