Walter Krüger (SS general)

Walter Krüger (27 February 1890 – 22 May 1945) was a German SS official during the Nazi era.

Born in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire (today France), Krüger was the son of an army officer and attended cadet school.

After World War I, he joined the paramilitary Freikorps and fought in the Baltic region during 1919.

He was then posted to the VI SS Army Corps (Latvian), a paper command.

On 22 May 1945[a], Krüger committed suicide in the Courland Pocket fourteen days after the surrender of Nazi Germany.