Himmler. Reichsführer-SS was both a title and a rank. The title of Reichsführer was first created in 1926 by the second commander of the SS, Joseph Berchtold...

Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS (lit. 'Command Staff Reich Leader-SS') was a paramilitary organisation within the SS of Nazi Germany under the personal control...

Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in...

The 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Reichsführer-SS" (German: 16. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Reichsführer SS") was a motorised infantry formation...

with some units being subordinated to the Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS (Command Staff Reichsführer-SS) directly under Himmler's control. Initially, in keeping...

The Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS (German: Hauptamt Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS) was a main office of the SS, which was established in 1933 by Heinrich...

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...

Schutzstaffel (SS), with the exception of Reichsführer-SS, which became a commissioned rank when held by SS commander Heinrich Himmler. The rank is translated...

by the Schutzstaffel (SS) one year later. Until April 1942, it was the highest commissioned SS rank after only Reichsführer-SS. Translated as "senior...

daughter of Heinrich Himmler and Margarete Himmler. Her father, as Reichsführer-SS, was a leading member of the Nazi Party, and chief architect of the...

The SS-Ehrendegen or SS Honour Sword, also SS-Degen (officially Ehrendegen des Reichsführers SS), is a straight dress sword that was worn with an SS uniform...

1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany...

cuffband system. The holder of the title of Reichsführer was still considered an SA-Gruppenführer, with Reichsführer itself not yet an actual rank. In addition...

Office Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS; HaPerStab) SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office; SS-HA) SS-Führungshauptamt (SS Leadership Main Office; SS-FHA) Reichssicherheitshauptamt...

the highest commissioned rank in the Schutzstaffel (SS), with the exception of Reichsführer-SS. SS-Obstgruf was comparable to four-star ranks in English...

6th SS Freiwilligen Sturmbrigade ''Langemarck'' Sturmbrigade ''Reichsführer SS'' 8th SS Freiwillingen Sturmbrigade France SS Cavalry Brigade SS Brigade...

idea to form a paratrooper unit within the Waffen-SS allegedly came directly from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Adolf Hitler supposedly got the idea...

its rule over Germany who served as the fifth and final Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS). He also served as Gauleiter of Gau Lower Silesia from...

chief of the SS. Berchtold changed the title of the office to Reichsführer-SS (Reich Leader-SS). Berchtold was considered more dynamic than his predecessor...

1893 – 25 August 1967), also known as Marga Himmler, was the wife of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Margarete Boden was born in Goncarzewo near Bromberg...

deployment of units of the Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS (“Command Staff Reichsführer-SS”), which comprised 25,000 Waffen-SS soldiers tasked to execute racial...

throughout Eastern Europe. Under the direction of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and the supervision of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the Einsatzgruppen...

SA outranked the most senior SS position of Reichsführer-SS. Following the Night of the Long Knives Hitler "raised the SS, hitherto subordinate to the...

the French Occupation Zone, before it faded from official documents. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, himself a former Roman Catholic, was one of the main...

from the detailed notes that had passed between SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler during the operation to kill most...

the office position, which became known as the Reichsführer-SS. Schreck remained on the SS rolls as an SS-Führer and worked as Hitler's private chauffeur...

died in 1962. He was the last surviving person to hold the rank of Reichsführer-SS and the only one to survive the Second World War. Born on 6 March 1897...

Begleit-Bataillon Reichsführer-SS May 1941 - Feb 1943) Sturmbrigade Reichsführer SS (Feb 1943 - Oct 1943) 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS (Oct 1943...

The units were under the control of the SS Führungshauptamt (SS Command Main Office) beneath Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Upon mobilisation, the...

All Waffen-SS divisions were ordered in a single series of numbers as formed, regardless of type. Those with ethnic groups listed were at least nominally...