SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer was created which was above Obergruppenführer and below Reichsführer-SS. The rank of Obergruppenführer was created in 1932 by Ernst Röhm and...
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the SS Main Office. He was an SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS. Werner Best – SS-Obergruppenführer and Reich Plenipotentiary for Nazi-occupied...
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Hermann Höfle (SS general) (redirect from Hermann Höfle (SS Obergruppenführer))
German SS and police official, SS-Obergruppenführer...
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Oberst-Gruppenführer to avoid confusion with the more junior rank of Obergruppenführer. Oberst-Gruppenführer was considered the equivalent of a colonel general...
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Gruppenführer commanded an SS-Abschnitt while a new rank, that of Obergruppenführer, oversaw the SS-Oberabschnitte which were the largest SS units in...
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corps to the 3rd Panzer Army. SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner (1 May 1943 – 30 October 1944) SS-Obergruppenführer Georg Keppler (30 October 1944 –...
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Comparative ranks of Nazi Germany (redirect from SA-Obergruppenführer)
SS-Supreme-Group leader]), in order to avoid confusion to the SS-Obergruppenführer (en: SS-Senior group leader)”. Until castration of the SA in summer...
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Theodor Eicke (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
of SS-Division "Totenkopf" 88th Oak Leaves on 20 April 1942 as SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS and commander of SS-"Totenkopf" Division...
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Arthur Greiser (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
NSFK-Gruppenführer as well as a NSKK-Obergruppenführer in April 1940. Finally, on 30 January 1942, he was promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer. The territory over which...
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Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
German SS commander during the Nazi era. Reaching the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer, he commanded the SS Division Totenkopf, SS Division Nord, SS Division...
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an Obergruppenführer in the SS who was also a police general would be referred to as Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei (Obergruppenführer and...
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Ernst-Robert Grawitz (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
(aged 45) Potsdam-Babelsberg, Gau March of Brandenburg, Nazi Germany Allegiance Nazi Germany Service/branch German Red Cross Rank SS-Obergruppenführer...
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Thomas Thieme as Reichsleiter and SS-Obergruppenführer Martin Bormann Christian Hoening as SS-Obergruppenführer Ernst-Robert Grawitz Thomas Kretschmann...
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conference, called by the director of the Reich Security Main Office SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, was to ensure the co-operation of administrative...
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speaking armed forces (today equivalent to NATO OF-9). Rank insignia SS-Obergruppenführer (literal: SS-Senior group leader), short SS-Ogruf, was the second...
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Reichsprotektor (Realm-Protector) of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. Gabčík was born 1912 in Poluvsie, part of town...
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Werner Lorenz (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
November 1933 SS-Obergruppenführer: 9 November 1936 SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei: 15 August 1942 SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS:...
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referred to himself by his title instead of his regular SS rank of Obergruppenführer. This set the precedent for the commander of the SS to be called Reichsführer-SS...
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Wilhelm Koppe (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
a German Nazi commander (Höhere SS und Polizeiführer (HSSPF), SS-Obergruppenführer). He was responsible for numerous atrocities against Poles and Jews...
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direction of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and the supervision of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the Einsatzgruppen operated in territories occupied...
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Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
command over the two Latvian Waffen-SS divisions. He was promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS und Polizei. In December 1944 Pfeffer-Wildenbruch...
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acting Reichsprotektor (Realm-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid. During...
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Karl Maria Demelhuber (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. Reaching the rank of Obergruppenführer (general) in the Waffen-SS during World War II, he commanded the SS-Standarte...
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alongside Liam Neeson. His most unusual role may have been as SS Obergruppenführer Arthur Nebe in the 1994 film of Robert Harris's novel Fatherland.[citation...
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SS-Obergruppenführer Matthias Kleinheisterkamp Commander of 6. SS-Gebirgs-Division Nord 15 December 1943 - 20 May 1944 Succeeded by SS-Obergruppenführer...
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Wilhelm Bittrich (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS, and commanding general of the II. SS-Panzerkorps Swords on 6 May 1945 as SS-Obergruppenführer and...
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plenipotentiaries for Generaloberst Heinrich von Vietinghoff and SS Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff, signed a surrender document at Caserta after prolonged...
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office Left office Time in office 1 Obergruppenführer Gerhard Sporleder (1893–?) 1936 1940 3–4 years 2 Obergruppenführer Karl Sauke [de] (1897–1958) 1940...
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Security Main Office, Reich Plenipotentiary in Denmark and an SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Friedrich Bornemann, Hitler Youth Gebietsführer (Area Leader)...
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1945. 1 August 1944: SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Matthias Kleinheisterkamp 6 August 1944: SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS...
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