Kurt Eggers

Kurt Eggers
A young Kurt Eggers
Born	(1905-11-10)10 November 1905 Berlin, Brandenburg, German Empire
Died	12 August 1943(1943-08-12) (aged 37) Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	Writer poet songwriter playwright
Nationality	German
Genre	Plays, radio drama, musical comedies, folk stories, walking songs, martial songs, and chants
Literary movement	Nazism
Spouse	Traute Kaiser
Children	4
Military career
Allegiance	Weimar Republic Nazi Germany
Service / branch	Wehrmacht Propaganda Troops Waffen-SS
Years of service	(Weimar Republic) 1921–1933 (Waffen-SS) 1933–1943
Rank	Untersturmführer
Unit	SS Division Wiking
Battles / wars	World War II

Kurt Eggers (10 November 1905 – 12 August 1943) was a German writer, poet, songwriter, and playwright with close links to the Nazi Party. He served as both a member of a propaganda company (Propagandakompanie) and as a Waffen-SS soldier at the rank of Mann in World War II, he was killed while serving in a tank regiment on the Eastern Front by the Red Army.