Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig

Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig
Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig as an SS-Oberführer
NicknameSchnellchen (Speedy)
Born1 September 1899
Wissek, Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Wysoka, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland)
Died20 October 1946(1946-10-20) (aged 47)
Neuengamme internment camp near Hamburg, Allied-occupied Germany
Allegiance
BranchWaffen-SS
Service years1917–1945
RankSS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS
Unit13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian)
ConflictsWorld War I
World War II
AwardsIron Cross I Class

Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig (1 September 1899 – 20 October 1946) was a German Army Oberst (colonel) who transferred to the Waffen-SS during World War II and commanded the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) in 1943–1944, and the IX Waffen Mountain Corps of the SS (Croatian) in 1944–1945, reaching the rank of SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS. He returned to the Wehrmacht in January 1945 and was appointed as a Generalleutnant to command a corps within Army Group H in northern Germany. Faced with the prospect of being extradited to Yugoslavia to stand trial for war crimes, Sauberzweig committed suicide in Allied captivity in 1946.

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