Rudolf Kerner

Not to be confused with Rudolf Körner.
Rudolf Kerner as a prisoner in 1945
Exhibition from "Horror House" in Kristiansand, showing the local Gestapo chief Rudolf Kerner in his office in the Statsarkivet in the city. The archive is currently the only surviving Gestapo headquarters in Norway

Rudolf Kerner (21 February 1910 in Saarbrücken[1] – ? 1998) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and crime commissioner. He was head of the German Security Police and Gestapo in Kristiansand, Norway, from 1941. After the war he was sentenced to death but later pardoned.

  1. ^ Stiftelsen Arkivet - Gestapistene på Arkivet (in Norwegian)