Kurt F. Hauschidlt was born in Sassen, Germany, on March 19, 1911. At some point prior to 1940, he immigrated to California to find work as an engineer.

Hauschildt was inducted into the US Army in June 1941 and served with the Army Air Forces. His familiarity with the German language and geography qualified him for service with the MFAA following the end of hostilities. He was temporarily assigned to the MFAA Branch of the US Group Control Council (USGCC) in October 1945 as a fine arts intelligence officer before serving as an assistant MFAA officer for the Berlin district of the Office of Military Government, US (OMGUS), where he conducted inspections of several cultural monuments in the Dahlem area of the capital, advised on repairs, and liaised with German museum officials. His reports detail investigations at the Jagdschloss Grunewald (a former royal Prussian hunting lodge containing paintings by Peter Paul Rubens and Lucas Cranach), the Kunstgewerbe Bibliothek (the Berlin arts and crafts library), and the Preussisches Geheimes Staatsarchiv (site of the Prussian Privy State Archives).

In February 1946, Hauschildt reported on the condition of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, which sustained significant bomb damage. The institute’s upper floors were scorched by fire and the majority of the windows and greenhouses were shattered. Hauschildt directed German civilian personnel to relocate the horticultural and biological objects as well as the plants that remained in the institution to safety in the undamaged parts of the building. In the months that followed, the garden was reopened to the public along with a series of successful horticultural exhibitions due in part to the work of Hauschildt.

Hauschildt was granted American citizenship upon his discharge from the US Army. He then returned to the United States, where he worked as an engineering draftsman for the International Boundary & Water Commission in Los Angeles.

Kurt Hauschildt suffered a stroke and died on February 2, 1963. He is buried in San Antonio, Texas.