• Thumbnail for Hauptscharführer
    The Hauptscharführer became an SS rank after reorganization of the SS following the Night of the Long Knives. The first use of Hauptscharführer was in...
    5 KB (385 words) - 15:30, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Untersturmführer
    founding of the SA in 1921. The rank of Untersturmführer was senior to Hauptscharführer (or Sturmscharführer in the Waffen-SS) and junior to the rank of Obersturmführer...
    10 KB (819 words) - 14:04, 20 August 2024
  • SS-Degen Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel senior NCO, e.g. Hauptscharführer or Oberscharführer, seldom Scharführer. However, administratively Rottenführer...
    13 KB (324 words) - 00:36, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stutthof trials
    years imprisonment Gustav Eberle, SS Hauptscharführer: 10 years imprisonment Erich Jassen, SS Hauptscharführer: 10 years imprisonment Adolf Klaffke,...
    24 KB (2,317 words) - 12:46, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oberscharführer
    Wehrmacht Feldwebel. The rank of SS-Oberscharführer was junior to SS-Hauptscharführer. Various Waffen SS units composed of foreign recruits were considered...
    5 KB (425 words) - 14:06, 20 August 2024
  • Gerhard Martin Sommer (8 February 1915 – 7 June 1988) was a German SS Hauptscharführer (master sergeant) who served as a guard at the concentration camps...
    8 KB (805 words) - 11:42, 1 December 2024
  • SS-Untersturmführer Otto Wolnek Guard Battalion NCOs SS-Hauptscharführer Adolf Becker SS-Hauptscharführer Matthias Tannhausen SS-Oberscharführer Emanuel Glumbik...
    16 KB (2,045 words) - 01:46, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Karl Silberbauer
    Amsterdam during World War II, where he was promoted to the rank of Hauptscharführer (master sergeant). In 1963, Silberbauer, by then an inspector in the...
    17 KB (1,817 words) - 19:50, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sturmscharführer
    the Allgemeine-SS (general-SS), where the highest enlisted rank was Hauptscharführer. Members of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo), when wearing the rank insignia...
    5 KB (482 words) - 19:37, 6 June 2024
  • convicted and executed by Poland in 1948. Johann Blank – Buchenwald Hauptscharführer, indicted along with Koch; hanged himself in custody on 15 February...
    19 KB (2,270 words) - 00:55, 18 October 2024
  • concentration camp during the Second World War. Moll held the rank of SS-Hauptscharführer "Head Section Leader", the equivalent to a US Military Master Sergeant...
    22 KB (2,785 words) - 02:41, 1 January 2025
  • Sturmführer renamed Untersturmführer SS rank Obertruppführer renamed Hauptscharführer SS rank Truppführer renamed Oberscharführer SS rank Scharführer renamed...
    197 KB (852 words) - 17:37, 7 January 2025
  • 1944), SS-Oberscharführer Johann Mayer (October–November 1944), SS-Hauptscharführer Ernst Thulke (October 1944–January 1945) and SS-Sturmscharführer Wolförer...
    2 KB (106 words) - 16:11, 4 April 2024
  • Ernst Misselwitz (31 August 1909 –?) was an SS-Hauptscharführer who became head of the unit IV E of the RSHA – Reich Security Main Office of the Gestapo...
    7 KB (702 words) - 23:26, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS-Stabsscharführer
    Stabsscharführer regardless of the actual rank title, e.g. Sturmscharführer, Hauptscharführer, or infrequent Oberscharfüher. The position of SS-Stabsscharführer...
    3 KB (238 words) - 14:06, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Obertruppführer
    the Night of the Long Knives (1934), when the rank was renamed as SS-Hauptscharführer. Obertruppführer survived as a rank of the SA until the fall of Nazi...
    3 KB (273 words) - 14:06, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dora trial
    complex Death by hanging, executed on November 26, 1948 Erhard Brauny SS-Hauptscharführer Protective Custody Camp Leader at the Rottleberode subcamp, detachment...
    40 KB (4,658 words) - 07:39, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chełmno trials
    Oberscharführer Walter Piller (wrongly, Filer); the gas van operator Hauptscharführer Hermann Gielow (Gilow), as well as Bruno Israel from Ordnungspolizei...
    27 KB (2,714 words) - 19:09, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scharführer
    the SS, to be replaced by SS-Oberscharführer and the new rank of SS-Hauptscharführer. The early Waffen-SS created an even higher rank, known as SS-Sturmscharführer...
    5 KB (419 words) - 12:17, 8 October 2024
  • Pantelić – Krsta Mišić Predrag Milinković – Gojko Mihajlo Janketić – Hauptscharführer Vladimir Rus Potpisani - parody "Otpisani". IMDb. Otpisani at IMDb...
    3 KB (185 words) - 17:17, 7 December 2024
  • SS-Obersturmführer Kriminalobersekretär SS-Untersturmführer Kriminalsekretär SS-Hauptscharführer Kriminaloberassistent SS-Oberscharführer Kriminalassistent SS-Scharführer...
    54 KB (6,807 words) - 13:33, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Josef Kramer
    SS-Unterscharführer 19 September 1934 SS-Scharführer 27 April 1935 SS-Hauptscharführer Spring 1937 SS-Untersturmführer 30 January 1939 SS-Obersturmführer...
    13 KB (1,325 words) - 03:21, 29 December 2024
  • Hauer as Lieutenant Aleksandr 'Sasha' Pechersky Hartmut Becker as SS-Hauptscharführer Gustav Wagner Jack Shepherd as Itzhak Lichtman Emil Wolk as Samuel...
    15 KB (1,487 words) - 00:48, 6 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Amon Göth
    Göth's trial indicates he delegated this task to a subordinate, SS-Hauptscharführer Josef Grzimek, who was sent to assist camp commandant SS-Hauptsturmführer...
    36 KB (4,363 words) - 11:37, 30 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wilhelm Simon
    Wilhelm Simon (23 April 1900 – 27 September 1971) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer and concentration camp functionary. During World War II he held various...
    7 KB (717 words) - 23:31, 27 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Gerhard Palitzsch
    branch Death's Head Units Years of service 1933–November 1944 Rank Hauptscharführer Commands Block Leader and Report Leader in Sachsenhausen Report Leader...
    9 KB (1,048 words) - 06:49, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sturmführer
    ranks in comparison with Wehrmacht (Heer) Allgemeine SS/Waffen-SS SS-Hauptscharführer junior rank Waffen SS only SS-Sturmscharführer Rank SS Untersturmführer...
    4 KB (261 words) - 13:54, 20 August 2024
  • been alive) was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS) with the rank of Hauptscharführer (First Sergeant). During World War II Hackenholt built and operated...
    13 KB (1,576 words) - 00:56, 1 January 2025
  • The equivalent rank to the Oberfeldwebel in the Waffen-SS was the SS-Hauptscharführer from 1938 until 1945. The rank has been used in the GDR National People's...
    4 KB (267 words) - 09:39, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Detlef Nebbe
    Detlef Nebbe (also Detleff; 20 June 1912 – 17 April 1972) was an SS-Hauptscharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted...
    3 KB (253 words) - 12:19, 28 October 2024