Letter From the Leader of the SS Gruppe East Karl Daluege to Heinrich Himmler in Munich Regarding a Questionnaire and excusing himself for sending it with a delay due to election campaign in 1932. Signed by SS Leader of SS Gruppe Ost Karl Daluege. Kurt Max Franz Daluege (15 September 1897 – 24 October 1946) was a German SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer and Generaloberst of the police, the highest ranking police officer, who served as chief of Ordnungspolizei (Order Police) of Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1943, as well as the Deputy/Acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia from 1942 to 1943.