often used for other uniformed services, the rank was also used by the Waffen-SS and the Ordnungspolizei of Nazi Germany and the Volkspolizei and Stasi...

Günsche (24 September 1917 – 2 October 2003) was a mid-ranking officer in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a member of the SS Division...

7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, a division of the German Waffen-SS Prinz Eugen (train), an express train connecting Austria and Germany...

Charles Edward, was the last reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until his death in 1954. A male-line...

1942. Breithaupt was promoted to SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS on 15 August 1942. Breithaupt was then chief of the Hauptamt SS-Gericht...

Helmut Kämpfe (31 July 1909 – 10 June 1944) was a Waffen-SS Sturmbannführer who was captured and executed by the French Resistance. In retribution, the...

Ciliax was born on 30 October 1891 in Neudietendorf, at the time part of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He joined the military service of the Imperial German Navy...

committed during his concentration camp service. Eccarius was born in Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Eccarius was arrested by the British and then handed over...

(1906–1945), Waffen-SS officer István Anhalt (1919–2012), composer Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst (1679–1740), Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg...

ceremonial work in mid-November 1910 with the adjutant of Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. Between 1895 and 1913, he served in a Prussian Guards Regiment...

chief of the Waffen-SS units in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and also temporarily commanded the Latvian Division of the Waffen-SS. Born in Upper...

of Mölln from the indebted Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Bergedorf-Mölln, a branch of the ducal house of Saxe-Lauenburg. The City and Duke—with the consent...

cousin of Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, and Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He enlisted in the German Army as a cadet and fought in...

Wehrmacht, established an extensive national security apparatus and created the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the Schutzstaffel (SS). On 30 January 1933, President...

Arthur Ehrhardt (21 March 1896 – 16 May 1971) was a Waffen-SS commander who served as a Nazi security warfare expert during World War II. After the war...

heir apparent to the throne of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and a member of the Waffen-SS. He was born in Schwerin, the eldest child of the reigning Grand Duke...

Luftwaffe (1935–1945) Insignia SS Oberst-Gruppenführer and Generaloberst of the Waffen-SS: Insignia 1942 - Paul Hausser (1880–1972) 1944 - Sepp Dietrich (1892–1966)...

Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen...

Ostfildern: HB, 2003, ISBN 978-3-616-06152-8, p. 106. (in German): "Jagdtrophäen, Waffen aus drei Jahrhunderten und Kunstschätze füllten die Räume" – "Hunting trophies...

lieutenant in the Royal Danish Life Guards and a leading figure of the Danish Waffen-SS unit Free Corps Denmark, Christian Frederik von Schalburg. Prince Gustav...

Duke of Saxe-Altenburg – Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Duke of Saxe-Meiningen...

included infantry, jäger, dragoons and hussars. The French Volontaires de Saxe combined uhlans and dragoons. In the aftermath of World War I and during...

symbolist painter of the Vienna Secession Gustav Knittel (1914–1976), German Waffen-SS officer and convicted war criminal Gustav Knuth (1901–1987), German actor...

Militärgeschichte. Band 2. Das Zeitalter der Weltkriege: 1914 bis 1945. Völker in Waffen [Basic Course in German Military History. Volume 2: The Age of the World...

sons-in-law, Prince Christoph of Hesse, was a member of the NSDAP and the Waffen-SS, and another, Berthold, Margrave of Baden, had been invalided out of...

Wehrmacht (or more correctly Heer – the army of the Third Reich) and the Waffen-SS, adopted the rank title Schütze for an infantry private (still used in...

side: Prince Christoph of Hesse was a member of the Nazi Party and the Waffen-SS; Berthold, Margrave of Baden, was invalided out of the Wehrmacht in 1940...

Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen...

Johann Wilhelm), the dukes of Saxe-Jena died out and the duchy became part of Saxe-Eisenach and, in 1741, of the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, to which it belonged...

was at this time that the company began cooperating with: C. G. Haenel Waffen- u. Fahrradfabrik Suhl (C.G. Haenel), beginning a 20-year partnership. For...