time Oberführer became subordinate to the higher rank of Brigadeführer. By 1932, Oberführer was an established rank of the SA, SS and NSKK. Oberführer wore...
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Georg Bochmann (category SS-Oberführer)
a high-ranking commander and Oberführer in the Waffen-SS who commanded the SS Division Götz von Berlichingen and the SS Division Horst Wessel. He was...
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September 1942) SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Humbert Achamer-Pifrader (10 September 1942–4 September 1943) SS-Oberführer Friedrich Panzinger...
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the SS brigade, SS-Oberführer Hinrich Schuldt became the first commander of the division. After Schuldt was killed in action on 15 March 1944, SS-Standartenführer...
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1944) SS-Brigadeführer Otto Baum (18 June 1944 – 1 August 1944) SS-Standartenführer Otto Binge (1 August 1944 – 29 August 1944) SS-Oberführer Dr. Eduard...
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1934) SS-Brigadeführer Berthold Maack (22 October 1934 – 12 January 1935) SS-Oberführer Heinrich Deubel (12 January 1935 – 31 March 1936) SS-Oberführer Hans...
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1944) SS-Oberführer Herbert von Obwurzer (21 July 1944 – 26 January 1945) SS-Oberführer Adolf Ax (26 January 1945 – 15 February 1945) SS-Oberführer, later...
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Julian Scherner (category SS-Oberführer)
an SS Court (the dreaded Hauptamt SS-Gericht) on 16 October 1944. As a result, Scherner was demoted from SS-Oberführer der Reserve in the Waffen-SS to...
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Jan. 2010, S. 2–6 (Inhalt englisch). SS-Oberführer Max Simon was the "official" commander (on paper) of the 3rd SS-Panzer Division from 26 February 1943...
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Erich Neumann (politician) (category SS-Oberführer)
German lawyer and civil servant, a member of the Nazi party and an SS-Oberführer. Neumann was a participant in the Wannsee Conference that determined...
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Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS rank)
Oberführer with a pip. In 1932, the SS introduced its best-known uniform, the black ensemble designed by Karl Diebitsch and graphic designer and SS member...
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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)...
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Felix Steiner (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
of the SS-Deutschland Regiment. At the outbreak of World War II, he was SS-Oberführer (senior leader) in charge of the Waffen-SS regiment SS-Deutschland...
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Rudolf Diels (category SS-Oberführer)
servant and head of the Gestapo in 1933–34. He obtained the rank of SS-Oberführer and was a protégé of Hermann Göring. Diels was born in Berghausen in...
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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...
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Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
Germany's concentration camp system. On 26 June 1933, Himmler appointed SS-Oberführer Theodor Eicke as commandant of Dachau concentration camp, one of the...
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Oskar Dirlewanger (category SS-Oberführer)
the city, Dirlewanger received his final promotion, to the rank of SS-Oberführer, on 15 August 1944. In October, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of...
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Martin Kohlroser (category SS-Oberführer)
Kohlroser (8 January 1905 – 14 November 1967) was a SS-Oberführer (Senior Colonel) in the Waffen SS during World War II who was awarded the German Cross...
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Ferdinand Porsche (category SS-Oberführer)
Volkswagen. In 1942, he reached the rank of SS-Oberführer, and during the war, he was further decorated with the SS-Ehrenring and awarded the War Merit Cross...
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Ian McNeice as SS-Oberführer Dr Gerhard Klopfer: State Secretary, Party Chancellery. Kevin McNally as Martin Luther: Undersecretary and SS liaison, Foreign...
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February and SS-Gruppenführer Gottlob Berger was ordered to recruit the personnel. SS-Oberführer Fritz Witt of 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf...
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meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel (SS) leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose...
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V, SS-Standartenfürer Ernst Damzog, acted with 3rd Army Einsatzgruppe VI, SS-Oberführer Erich Naumann, acted in Wielkopolska Einsatzgruppe VII, SS-Obergruppenführer...
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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...
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Pohl trial (redirect from Trial of SS WVHA members)
SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl and 17 other SS officers employed by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (abbreviated in German as SS-WVHA)...
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Emil Maurice (category SS-Oberführer)
senior SS officer and would eventually be promoted to the rank SS-Oberführer. While Maurice never became a top commander of the SS, his status as SS member...
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt (category SS-Oberführer)
Police President and SS-Oberführer. During the Second World War, he was also an officer with the Waffen-SS and served as the SS and Police Leader (SSPF)...
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they belonged to the Polish resistance or not; the unit's commander SS-Oberführer Oskar Dirlewanger encouraged their excesses. The unit's behaviour was...
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Prince Christoph of Hesse (category SS-Oberführer)
October 1943) was a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was an SS-Oberführer in the Allgemeine SS and an officer in the Luftwaffe Reserve, killed on active...
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Dirlewanger Brigade (redirect from 36th SS Division)
the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross by Reinefarth and a promotion to SS-Oberführer der Reserve. During one fierce fight on 6 August 1944, Dirlewanger's...
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