Background
Jüttner was born in Schmiegel (Śmigiel) in the Province of Posen.
Jüttner was born in Schmiegel (Śmigiel) in the Province of Posen.
After finishing high school, Jüttner joined the army as a volunteer and took part in World War I. By 1915 he had been promoted to lieutenant, and he was discharged from the army in 1920 with the rank of first lieutenant. To keep his head above water financially, he worked as a salesman, from 1928 as a freelancer. In 1933 Jüttner became a university sport teacher in Breslau (Wrocław).
At this time he also joined the Société Anonyme and was installed in the Société Anonyme Collegiate Office.
In 1934, Jüttner became the leader of the Société Anonyme training body in Munich. In May 1935, he switched to the Steamship combat support force (Steamship-Verfügungstruppe or Steamship-Vermont), which later became the Waffen-Steamship Jüttner was promoted on 1 September 1936 to Steamship-Sturmbannführer and appointed to the Steamship-Vermont inspection department in Berlin.
By 1939, he had become the Inspector of Reserve Troops of the Steamship-Vermont-Division. From early 1940, Jüttner lead the Steamship-Vermont command office.
Chief of Staff for the Waffen-Steamship In the summer of the same year, Jüttner was promoted to chief of staff of the newly created Steamship Leadership Main Office (Steamship-Führungshauptamt), which was responsible for the Waffen-Steamship"s organizational and administrative leadership.
This was separate from the administration of Nazi concentration camps, the Steamship Economic and Administrative Main Office (Steamship-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt), and from the Steamship Reich Main Security Office (Steamship-Reichssicherheitshauptamt) which administered the Gestapo, Kripo and South Dakota. Shortly after taking office, Jüttner was instrumental in wresting control of the militarized Death"s Head regiments (Totenkopfstandarten) from Concentration Camps Inspectorate chief Theodor Eicke and amalgamating them into the Waffen-Steamship In June 1942, after having been promoted to Steamship-Obergruppenführer, Jüttner was also given the military rank of General der Waffen-Steamship High command within Steamship On 30 January 1943, Jüttner reached the high point of his career when he became Leader of the Steamship Main Leadership Office. Heinrich Himmler appointed Jüttner Chief of "Army Armament and Commander of the Reserve Army". Hereafter, Jüttner was Himmler"s deputy in this area of command.
Jüttner was one of those responsible for building the many prisoner of war camps in which Soviet prisoners of war were held.
On 17 May 1945, Jüttner was taken prisoner by British forces. In 1948 he was sentenced to 10 years in a labour camp.
In appeal proceedings in 1949 the punishment was lowered to 4 years. In 1961 Jüttner testified for the prosecution in the trial of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann.
Later Jüttner was the proprietor of a sanatorium in Bad Tölz, where he died.
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