Karl Chmielewski

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Karl Chmielewski
Personal details
Date of birth	July 16, 1903
Place of birth	Frankfurt, German Empire
Age at start	59 years old
Nationality	German
Role	Former SS officer, concentration camp commandant and potential leader of Oberkommando Südafrika
Ideology	National Socialism

Karl Chmelewski (born on the 16th of July 1903, Frankfurt, German Empire) is a former SS officer, former concentration camp commandant of Gusen and Herzogenbusch, and potential leader of the Oberkommando Südafrika (South Africa High Command).

Appearance

He appears in the Oberkommando should the Afrika-Schild achieves total victory against the OFN-backed Union of South Africa, allowing the Afrikaner Volkstaat to be successfullly formed due to the South African War.

When Hans Hüttig; Reichskommisar of Ostafrika successfully kills Wolfgang Schenck and Siegfried Müller's representative and annexing the other Afrikan territory to proclaim the Großafrikanischer Reichstaat.

The Boers in the Volkstaat will split from the Reichstaat. During this, Chmielewski will attempt to bring South Africa back under Hüttig's reign.

Should his Oberkommando win the Second South African War, they will inevitably collapse when Hüttig's empire does, with Chmielewski being assassinated by Wilhelm Dommes, leading to yet another balkanization in South Africa.

Trivia

In real life, he was known for his brutallity and cruelty in the Gusen concentration camp, and was known as Teufel von Gusen (Devil of Gusen). Later also known for the same reputation in Herzogenbusch.

During his reign at Herzogenbusch, Chmielewski gained a reputation for corruption, eventually tried for personally enriching himself through stealing diamonds from prisoners. Deprived of his position and rank in 1943, the SS court sentenced Chmielewski to 15 years in prison for rape and embezzlement, spending the rest of the war as an inmate at Dachau concentration camp.

In 1953, he was tried for perjury, fraud, and bigamy. After his real identity was established, he was arrested by West German police in January 1959, accused of nearly two hundred counts of murder.

At his trial in 1961, he was found guilty of causing the deaths of prisoners through his brutality, and was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour. The court pronounced him a sadist who took pleasure in killing prisoners, whom he did not see as human, by scalding them with boiling water.

He was released from prison in March 1979, on mental health grounds, and spent his last years in a care institution at Chiemsee. He died on December 1, 1991 aged 88.