Franz Kutschera

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Franz Kutschera
Kutschera in about 1938
SS and Police Leader of Warsaw
In office 25 September 1943 – 1 February 1944
Preceded by	Jürgen Stroop
Succeeded by	Paul Otto Geibel
SS and Police Leader of Mogilev
In office 5 May 1943 – 20 September 1943
Preceded by	Georg-Henning Graf von Bassewitz-Behr
Succeeded by	Hans Haltermann
Gauleiter of Reichsgau Carinthia
In office 12 February 1939 – 27 November 1941
Preceded by	Hubert Klausner
Succeeded by	Friedrich Rainer
Personal details
Born	(1904-02-22)22 February 1904 Oberwaltersdorf, Austria-Hungary
Died	1 February 1944(1944-02-01) (aged 39) Warsaw, German-occupied Poland
Political party	NSDAP

Franz Kutschera (22 February 1904 – 1 February 1944) was an Austrian Nazi politician and government official. He held numerous administrative offices with the Nazi Party and the Schutzstaffel (SS) both before and after the Anschluss of Austria in 1938. During World War II, he served with the SS in France, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, and finally Poland.

In 1943, Kutschera was appointed the SS and Police Leader in German-occupied Warsaw. Due to his crimes against Poles, including Polish Jews, the Polish Home Army, in agreement with the Polish government in exile, targeted him for assassination. On 1 February 1944, he was gunned down in front of the SS headquarters in Warsaw in a special operation by Kedyw, a dedicated resistance special operations unit. In reprisal, the Germans executed 300 Polish civilians.