he hid out until arrested by police on 17 May. He was displayed in the town square and subjected to public ridicule. Handed over to the NKVD, he was imprisoned in the Lubyanka prison in Moscow, tried by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union and sentenced to death on 30 January 1947. He was shot on 14 February 1947. Awards and decorations 1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class 1918 Wound Badge in Black, c.1918 1922 Coburg Badge, October 1932 Golden Party Badge, 1933 Anschluss Medal, c.1938 Sudetenland Medal, c.1939 Honour Chevron for the Old Guard SA Sports Badge See also 1925 German presidential election 1932 German presidential election Machtergreifung - "Seizure of Power" - 30 January 1933 Bombing of Dresden in World War II List of Gauleiters Ehrenburger Johanngeorgenstadt Notes References External links 1879 births 1947 deaths Executed people from Thuringia Gauleiters German industrialists German newspaper editors Members of the Academy for German Law Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany Ministers-President of Saxony Nazis executed by the Soviet Union by firearm Nazi Party officials Nazi Party politicians People from Saale-Orla-Kreis People from the Principality of Reuss-Gera Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 2nd class Sturmabteilung officers Volkssturm personnel German embroiderers