using the rank, an SS-Gruppenführer was considered equal to a Generalleutnant in the Wehrmacht and was referred to as SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant...
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correctly spelled Oberst-Gruppenführer to avoid confusion with the more junior rank of Obergruppenführer. Oberst-Gruppenführer was considered the equivalent...
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Obergruppenführer (redirect from OberGruppenfuhrer)
"senior group leader", the rank of Obergruppenführer was senior to Gruppenführer. A similarly named rank of Untergruppenführer existed in the SA from...
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second general officer rank of the SS and ranked between Oberführer and Gruppenführer. This changed with the rise of the Waffen-SS and the Ordnungspolizei...
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SS Honour – and rank leaders (SS-Ehren- und Rangführer). SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer (literal: SS-Colonel group leader), short SS-Obstgruf, was from 1942...
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Office I, dealing with the personal affairs of the Führer. He was also a Gruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK). Martin Bormann – Reichsleiter...
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Sturmabteilung (redirect from SA-Gruppenführer)
Each Gruppe extended over several regions and was commanded by a SA-Gruppenführer who answered only to Röhm or Hitler. Under Röhm as its popular leader...
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(3 June 1889 – 30 June 1934) was a German military officer and an SA-Gruppenführer in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi Party's paramilitary organization...
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(20 April 1943 – 14 May 1943) SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein (14 May 1943 – 13 September 1943) SS-Gruppenführer Bruno Streckenbach (13 September 1943...
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Gruppen, each commanded by a leader with a new general-officer rank, Gruppenführer; its insignia was the three oak leaf collar patch. At this time the...
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SS-Gruppenführer Hans Lammers in black Allgemeine-SS uniform 1938...
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the spelling of the new service rank “SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer” (quotation: “SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer” (en: SS-Supreme-Group leader]), in order to avoid...
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Ruge, university teacher Ludwig Schmuck, SA-Gruppenführer Fritz von Scholz, (1896-1944), SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Erwin Schulz...
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Oberst-Gruppenführer and Generaloberst of the Waffen-SS: Insignia 1942 - Paul Hausser (1880–1972) 1944 - Sepp Dietrich (1892–1966) SS Oberst-Gruppenführer and...
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Hitler under then SS-Gruppenführer Sepp Dietrich, together with four other SA leaders: SA-Obergruppenführer Edmund Heines, SA-Gruppenführer Hans Hayn, SA-Brigadeführer...
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Priess, HermannSS-Gruppenführer Hermann Priess (1901–1985) 26 February 1943 27 April 1943 60 days 5 Lammerding, HeinzSS-Gruppenführer Heinz Lammerding...
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Geoff Bell as SS-Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller Volker Bruch as SS-Obersturmbannführer Walter Schellenberg Barry Atsma as SS-Gruppenführer Karl Hermann Frank...
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Franz Xaver Schwarz (category SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer)
Gruppenführer in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi paramilitary organization. In June 1932, Schwarz joined the Schutzstaffel, also as a Gruppenführer...
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Lothar Debes (category SS-Gruppenführer)
Division Nord and the SS Division Frundsberg during World War II. List SS-Gruppenführer Mark C. Yerger, Waffen-SS Commanders: The Army, Corps and Divisional...
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than 40 hours before the couple killed themselves. Braun married SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein, a liaison officer on Hitler's staff, on 3 June 1944...
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OF-7). It was equivalent to Vizeadmiral in the Kriegsmarine, and SS-Gruppenführer in the Waffen-SS until 1945. Rank insignia Generalleutnant/ Vizeadmiral...
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SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS 1 January 1942 promoted SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS 1 July 1943 promoted SS-Obergruppenführer...
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Karl Gebhardt (category SS-Gruppenführer)
intervened on Speer's behalf. Gebhardt eventually rose to the rank of Gruppenführer in the Allgemeine SS and a Generalleutnant in the Waffen-SS.[citation...
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Wielkopolska Einsatzgruppe VII, SS-Obergruppenführer Udo von Woyrsch and SS-Gruppenführer Otto Rasch, acted in Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia Matthäus, Jürgen...
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November 1939, SS-Gruppenführer Max Schneller substituted for Dietrich who continued to hold titular command. From December 1944, SS-Gruppenführer Otto Hellwig...
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rank except the lowest one a Führer of something; thus confusingly, Gruppenführer was also an official rank title for a specific grade of general. The...
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National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) officer, who rose to the rank of Gruppenführer during World War II. Bormann served as an adjutant to Adolf Hitler,...
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War II Collar Shoulder Sleeve (parka) U.S. UK General ranks SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer und Generaloberst der Waffen-SS (SS-Supreme group leader and colonel...
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1941: SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS 1 May 1943: SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS 1 August 1944: SS-Obergruppenführer...
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number Gruppenführer (1925–1945) Ludolf von Alvensleben Born 17 March 1901. Held ranks of NSDAP-Reichstagsabgeordneter, SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant...
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