• SS-Untersturmführer: 15 June 1934
  
• SS-Obersturmführer: 20 April 1935
  
• SS-Hauptsturmführer: 20 April 1936
  
• SS-Sturmbannführer: 20 April 1937
  
• SS-Obersturmbannführer: 20 April 1938
  
• Oberst der Polizei: 19 April 1941
  
• SS-Oberführer: 1 May 1942
  
• Generalmajor der Polizei: 21 October 1942
  
• SS-Brigadeführer: 9 November 1942
  

Assignments:

• September 1917-April 1919: Served in Royal Bavarian Army during World War I assigned to 16^th Infantry Regiment "Großherzog Ferdinand von Toscana."
  
• April-June 1919: Freikorps service.
  
• November 1919: Separated from the Army with the rank of Leutnant.
  
• 1922-1923: Served in Brigade Erhardt.
  
• 1927: Employed as a lawyer after studying at the University of München.
  
• March 1933: Joined the Sturmabteilung (SA).
  
• November 1933-June 1934: Served in the 6. SA Standarte.
  
• 15 June 1934: Joined the SS and assigned to the Reich Security Service (SD).
  
• January 1935-September 1935: Reich Security Service Main Office (SD-Hauptamt).
  
• April 1937-June 1940: Head of the Gestapo office in München.
  
• June 1939-April 1944: Inspector of the Security Police (SIPO) and SD in Salzburg.
  
• March 1941-May 1945: Also served in personnel office (Amt Ia) in the Reich Central Security Main Office (RSHA).
  
• 15 September 1943-May 1945: SS and Police Leader "Bozen" (Bolzano), Italy.
• 16th July 1947 transferred to Island Farm Special Camp 11 from Camp 18
• 12th May 1948 transferred to Camp 186 for repatriation
  

Karl Brunner: he was the commander of the SS-Polizei in occupied zones of South Tyrol (Bolzano-Bozen, Trento-Trient) and the italian province of Belluno. This area, between 1943-45, was under direct command of german troops, and Mussolini's puppet government of RSI had not any power there, even if that territory was 100% italian after WWI (before that was under austrian empire). Brunner, a fanatical Nazi, was heavily involved not only in crimes against patriots and civilians, but also in deportation of all the Jews of this area. I think he was not judged for any of these imputations.

Decorations & Awards:

• Iron Cross, 1^st Class: 10 January 1945
  
• Prussian Iron Cross, 2^nd Class (1914) with 1939 Bar
  
• War Merit Cross, 1^st Class with Swords
  
• War Merit Cross, 2^nd Class with Swords
  
• Cross of Honor for Combatants 1914-1918
  
• German Olympic Games Decoration, 2^nd Class
  
• National Sports Badge in Gold