Kuno von Eltz-Rübenach

Kuno Heinrich Franziskus Maria Hubertus Reichsfreiherr und Edler Herr von und zu Eltz-Rübenach (20 November 1904 in Schloss Wahn – 30 January 1945 in Várpalota,[1] Hungary) was a member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany and a SS-Brigadeführer.

He also studied philosophy as well as people and agriculture at the University of Rostock,[2] Munich, Berlin, Marburg and Bonn.

Between 24 April 1932 and 14 October 1933 Eltz-Rübenach was a member of the Landtag of Prussia; after the Nazis seized power, he received a mandate in the Reichstag in November 1933.

As of 30 January 1937, he was ranked SS-Standartenführer, and on 26 November 1937, for unknown reasons, honorary proceedings were instituted against Eltz-Rübenach before the "Great Court of Arbitration of the Reichsführer SS.

During the Second World War Eltz-Rübenach was called up on 13 November 1939 as the SS standard "Germania," a part of the Waffen-SS in the making.