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Source: Wikidata population candidate Q72752 · wikidata
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Gustav Adolf Scheel
1907-11-22 – 1979-03-25
Life & Legacy
Gustav Adolf Scheel (22 November 1907 – 25 March 1979) was a German physician and Nazi Party official. He served as a "multifunctionary" in Nazi Germany, including posts as the Reich Student Leader leading both the National Socialist German Students' League and the German Student Union, as an SS member and Sicherheitsdienst employee, as a Higher SS and Police Leader, as well as Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter in Reichsgau Salzburg. He was also an Einsatzgruppe commander in occupied Alsace and he organized the October 1940 deportation of Karlsruhe's Jews to extermination camps.
Occupation & Career
politician, physician, student leader, Gauleiter
Faith & Community
Lutheranism
Legacy Highlights
Church
Lutheranism
Organizations & Memberships
Kyffhäuserbund · Schutzstaffel · Sturmabteilung · VDSt Straßburg-Hamburg-Rostock
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- Wikidata population candidate Q72752 — wikidata View source
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