Born in Sabine ?bei- bAnnahof/b, Upper Silesia ( now Sowin n. Niemodlin) on the 23rd October 1903. A builder by profession.Joined the NSDAP 1st August 1932, joined the SS on 1st July 1932. Married Margarete Bruckner on 5th October 1935. b..../b Following his education he worked on an agricultural labourer on bestates/b in the Leonberg area. Following brief military and police service just prior to the First World War, in October 1915 he was conscripted into a Machine-Gun Company ...