Waffen-SS began using the rank, an SS-Gruppenführer was considered equal to a Generalleutnant in the Wehrmacht and was referred to as SS-Gruppenführer und...

SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer ([ˈoːbɐstˌɡʁʊpm̩fyːʁɐ]) was (from 1942 to 1945) the highest commissioned rank in the Schutzstaffel (SS), with the exception of...

April 1942, the new rank of SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer was created which was above Obergruppenführer and below Reichsführer-SS. The rank of Obergruppenführer...

was an SS-Gruppenführer. Walther von Brauchitsch – Generalfeldmarschall, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army 1938–1941. Franz Breithaupt, An SS-Obergruppenführer...

1943) SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein (14 May 1943 – 13 September 1943) SS-Gruppenführer Bruno Streckenbach (13 September 1943 – 22 October 1943) SS-Gruppenführer...

SS-Gruppenführer Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (20 April 1942 – 15 January 1944) SS-Gruppenführer Lothar Debes (15 January – 20 May 1944) SS-Gruppenführer Friedrich...

short for SS Honour – and rank leaders (SS-Ehren- und Rangführer). SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer (literal: SS-Colonel group leader), short SS-Obstgruf, was...

these SS and police leaders held the rank of SS-Gruppenführer or above and answered directly to Himmler in all SS matters within their district. Their role...

less than 40 hours before the couple killed themselves. Braun married SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein, a liaison officer on Hitler's staff, on 3 June 1944...

with the creation of the rank of SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer. This necessitated an insignia change for SS generals and all SS generals at this time began wearing...

under SS-Gruppenführer Theodor Eicke, which fielded four infantry and one cavalry Death's Head Standarten, comprising camp guards of the SS-Totenkopfverbände...

Department at Scotland Yard who works on homicide crimes. His boss is SS Gruppenführer Fritz Kellermann, the German head of police forces in Britain. Having...

officer and representative of the SS. He was promoted to the rank of SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS on 10 June 1944. On 20 July 1944...

Waffen-SS 1 January 1942 promoted SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS 1 July 1943 promoted SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Awards...

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler secretly made a surrender offer to the Western Allies; and where Hitler orders Otto Günsche to find SS-Gruppenführer Hermann...

Reichsführer-SS and Oberster Führer der SS; however, there was no Waffen-SS equivalent to these positions. Remarks SS-Bewerber (SS-applicant) and SS-Anwärter (SS-aspirant)...

November 1939, SS-Gruppenführer Max Schneller substituted for Dietrich who continued to hold titular command. From December 1944, SS-Gruppenführer Otto Hellwig...

Jakob Sporrenberg (16 September 1902 – 6 December 1952) was an SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei in Minsk, Belarus and Lublin, Poland. After...

Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände...

Himmler in 1938 and was succeeded by SS-Gruppenführer Günther Pancke, SS-Gruppenführer Otto Hofmann in 1940, and then SS-Obergruppenführer Richard Hildebrandt...

1942-1943 (in Poland) and 1943-1944 (in Greece) He was a SS-General (Brigadefuhrer Und Gruppenfuhrer) from 1942-1945 . He led the suppression of the Warsaw...

Wielkopolska Einsatzgruppe VII, SS-Obergruppenführer Udo von Woyrsch and SS-Gruppenführer Otto Rasch, acted in Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia Matthäus, Jürgen...

by SS-Brigadeführer Professor Franz Six. Amt III, "Spheres of German Life" or the Inland-SD, headed by SS-Gruppenführer Otto Ohlendorf, was the SS information...

was transferred to SS-Gruppenführer Max Simon's XIII SS Corps. US forces liberated Metz on November 22, 1944. Elements of the 38th SS Regiment defended...

the Reichstag. On 1 October 1941 he was promoted to SS-Gruppenführer and attained the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer on 20 April 1944. Conti was a staunch...

members themselves, who cited that they were only following orders. SS-Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe, who is believed to have selected the airmen to be shot...

SS-Wirtschafts-Bataillon 11 SS-Brigadeführer Franz Augsberger (22 March – 1 May 1943) SS-Gruppenführer Fritz von Scholz (1 May 1943 – 27 July 1944) SS-Brigadeführer...

promoted to the rank of an SS-Brigadeführer and in November 1943, Glücks was made SS-Gruppenführer and a Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS. From 1942 on, Glücks...

again promoted to the rank of SS-Gruppenführer and officially appointed Inspector of Concentration Camps and Commander of the SS-Wachverbände. Thereafter,...

Party Chancellery, was Martin Bormann's chief deputy. He was also an SS-Gruppenführer. He participated in the Wannsee Conference that drew up plans for the...