Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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![Kaltenbrunner (on the far left), Heinrich Himmler, August Eigruber, and other SS officials visit Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941, in the company of camp commander Franz Ziereis.](/Images/godic/202501/22/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-45534-0005,_Kz_Mauthausen,_Besuch_Heinrich_Himmler,_Franz_Ziereis1503.jpg")
![Kaltenbrunner with Himmler and Ziereis at Mauthausen in April 1941](/Images/godic/202501/22/Bundesarchiv_Bild_192-029,_KZ_Mauthausen,_Himmler,_Kaltenbrunner,_Ziereis1503.jpg")
![Kaltenbrunner (front row, second from left) as spectator at a People's Court show trial following the failed 20 July plot.](/Images/godic/202501/22/Bundesarchiv_Bild_151-17-03,_Volksgerichtshof,_Dr._Ernst_Kaltenbrunner1503.jpg")
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (4 October 1903 –16 October 1946) was an Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany during World War II. An Obergruppenführer (general) in the Schutzstaffel (SS), between January 1943 and May 1945 he held the offices of Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office; RSHA), and President of the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC), which in 1956 became Interpol. He was the highest-ranking member of the SS to face trial at the first Nuremberg Trials. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed.