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    The Hauptscharführer became a SS rank after a reorganization of the SS following the Night of the Long Knives. The first use of Hauptscharführer was in...
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    founding of the SA in 1921. The rank of Untersturmführer was senior to Hauptscharführer (or Sturmscharführer in the Waffen-SS) and junior to the rank of Obersturmführer...
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  • SS-Degen Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel senior NCO, e.g. Hauptscharführer or Oberscharführer, seldom Scharführer. However, administratively Rottenführer...
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  • Walter Gerhard Martin Sommer (8 February 1915 – 7 June 1988) was an SS Hauptscharführer (master sergeant) who served as a guard at the concentration camps...
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    Wehrmacht Feldwebel. The rank of SS-Oberscharführer was junior to SS-Hauptscharführer. Various Waffen SS units composed of foreign recruits were considered...
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  • SS-Untersturmführer Otto Wolnek Guard Battalion NCOs SS-Hauptscharführer Adolf Becker SS-Hauptscharführer Matthias Tannhausen SS-Oberscharführer Emanuel Glumbik...
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    years imprisonment Gustav Eberle, SS Hauptscharführer: 10 years imprisonment Erich Jassen, SS Hauptscharführer: 10 years imprisonment Adolf Klaffke,...
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    Amsterdam during World War II, where he was promoted to the rank of Hauptscharführer (master sergeant). In 1963, Silberbauer, by then an inspector in the...
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    the Allgemeine-SS (general-SS), where the highest enlisted rank was Hauptscharführer. Members of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo), when wearing the rank insignia...
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  • concentration camp during the Second World War. Moll held the rank of SS-Hauptscharführer "Head Section Leader", the equivalent to a US Military Master Sergeant...
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  • Sturmführer renamed Untersturmführer SS rank Obertruppführer renamed Hauptscharführer SS rank Truppführer renamed Oberscharführer SS rank Scharführer renamed...
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  • 1944), SS-Oberscharführer Johann Mayer (October–November 1944), SS-Hauptscharführer Ernst Thulke (October 1944–January 1945) and SS-Sturmscharführer Wolförer...
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  • convicted and executed by Poland in 1948. Johann Blank – Buchenwald Hauptscharführer, indicted along with Koch; hanged himself in custody on 15 February...
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    complex Death by hanging, executed on November 26, 1948 Erhard Brauny SS-Hauptscharführer Protective Custody Camp Leader at the Rottleberode subcamp, detachment...
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    Record card of former SS-Hauptscharführer Georg Schallermair [de], who worked at the Mühldorf subcamp. After he was sentenced to death at the Dachau Trials...
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  • been alive) was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS) with the rank of Hauptscharführer (First Sergeant). During World War II Hackenholt built and operated...
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    SS-Unterscharführer 19 September 1934 SS-Scharführer 27 April 1935 SS-Hauptscharführer Spring 1937 SS-Untersturmführer 30 January 1939 SS-Obersturmführer...
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    Stabsscharführer regardless of the actual rank title, e.g. Sturmscharführer, Hauptscharführer, or infrequent Oberscharfüher. The position of SS-Stabsscharführer...
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    Oberscharführer Walter Piller (wrongly, Filer); the gas van operator Hauptscharführer Hermann Gielow (Gilow), as well as Bruno Israel from Ordnungspolizei...
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  • SS-Obersturmführer Kriminalobersekretär SS-Untersturmführer Kriminalsekretär SS-Hauptscharführer Kriminaloberassistent SS-Oberscharführer Kriminalassistent SS-Scharführer...
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    Knab Helmut Knochen (Paris) Kurt Lischka (Paris) Ernst Misselwitz (Hauptscharführer SiPo-SD Paris) Heinrich Müller (Gestapo Chief 1939–1945) Carl Oberg...
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    the SS, to be replaced by SS-Oberscharführer and the new rank of SS-Hauptscharführer. The early Waffen-SS created an even higher rank, known as SS-Sturmscharführer...
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    leading positions at the university. The racial researcher and SS-Hauptscharführer Karl Astel was appointed professor in 1933, bypassing traditional qualifications...
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  • November 1904 - 6 February 1970), was a German SS-officer. Juhl was an SS-Hauptscharführer (First Sergeant), kriminal oberassistent, and leader of the local Gestapo...
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  • Ernst Misselwitz (31 August 1909 –?) was an SS-Hauptscharführer who became head of the unit IV E of the RSHA – Reich Security Main Office of the Gestapo...
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  • Hauer as Lieutenant Aleksandr 'Sasha' Pechersky Hartmut Becker as SS-Hauptscharführer Gustav Wagner Jack Shepherd as Itzhak Lichtman Emil Wolk as Samuel...
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    Francisco (born 1955 in Buenos Aires). Eichmann was promoted to SS-Hauptscharführer (head squad leader) in 1936 and was commissioned as an SS-Untersturmführer...
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  • The equivalent rank to the Oberfeldwebel in the Waffen-SS was the SS-Hauptscharführer from 1938 until 1945. The rank has been used in the GDR National People's...
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  • SS-Oberscharführer (Feldwebel) A7c A8a 2,000-3,000 Kriminaloberassistent SS-Hauptscharführer (Oberfeldwebel) A7a 2,350-3,500 Kriminalsekretär SS-Untersturmführer...
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    chambers) when they first arrived at the camp. Led by its director, SS-Hauptscharführer Bernhard Walter, and deputy director, SS-Unterscharführer Ernst Hofmann...
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