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    Standartenführer until 1932, when Sturmbannführer became subordinate to the new rank of Obersturmbannführer. In the Waffen-SS, Sturmbannführer was considered equivalent...
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    Einsatzkommando 2/I: SS-Sturmbannführer Bruno Müller Einsatzkommando 3/I: SS-Sturmbannführer Alfred Hasselberg Einsatzkommando 4/I: SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Brunner...
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  • Commanders SS-Sturmbannführer Max Gebhardt SS-Sturmbannführer Arthur Plorin Guard Company Commanders SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Stoppel Guard Platoon Leaders SS-Obersturmführer...
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  • Georg Konrad Morgen (category SS-Sturmbannführer)
    1982) was an SS judge and lawyer who investigated crimes committed in Nazi concentration camps. He rose to the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer (major). After...
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    Berchtold, then head of the SS. The flag was thereafter treated as a sacred object by the Nazi Party and carried by SSSturmbannführer Jakob Grimminger at various...
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    Oradour-sur-Glane massacre (category War crimes of the Waffen-SS)
    subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen-SS Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe, who an informant incorrectly claimed...
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    Adolf Diekmann (category SS-Sturmbannführer)
    1944—two days after the Normandy landings—to SS-Sturmbannführer. He was given command of the 1st Battalion, 4th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment (Der Fuhrer), in...
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  • Weidenhaupt) 4th SS Infantry Battalion (mot): (SS-Sturmbannführer Jahnke) 5th SS Infantry Battalion (mot): (SS-Sturmbannführer Van Bibber) SS Heavy Infantry...
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    Wernher von Braun (category SS-Sturmbannführer)
    (Second Lieutenant) SS-Obersturmführer: 9 November 1941 (First Lieutenant) SS-Hauptsturmführer: 9 November 1942 (Captain) SS-Sturmbannführer: 28 June 1943 (Major)...
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  • SS-FlaK-Abteilung 10, SS-Sturmbannführer Rudolf Schrembs SS-Nachrichten Battalion 10, SS-Sturmbannführer Willi Kruft SS-Kradschützen-Regiment 10 SS-Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung...
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  • measures. The day after, in the morning of 22 July, Sturmbannführer Höfle, accompanied by an entourage of SS and government officials, arrived at the Judenrat...
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    Hermann Florstedt, were tried by the SS for it in April 1945. SS-Sturmbannführer Georg Konrad Morgen, an SS judge from the SS Courts Office, prosecuted so many...
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  • Erich Wagner (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    Wagner (15 September 1912 – 22 March 1959) was a German-Austrian SS-Sturmbannführer and camp doctor in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Wagner was born...
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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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    Piorkowski: Ex SS-Sturmbannführer and commandant of Dachau concentration camp (1940–1942). Executed on 22 October 1948. Hermann Pister: Ex SS-Oberführer and...
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    Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
    The use of SS-Sonderkommandos was widespread. According to former SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Höttl, not even the SS leadership knew how many SS-Sonderkommandos...
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    senior to the rank of Obersturmführer and junior to Sturmbannführer. Ranks and insignia of the Waffen-SS Flaherty 2004, p. 148. McNab 2009a, pp. 29, 30. Miller...
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  • SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Urban (February 7, 1935 - March 17, 1937) SS-Sturmbannführer Max Plobner (March 17, 1937 - July 8, 1938) SS-Sturmbannführer Leopold...
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    Ostubaf was created in May 1933 to provide a rank above Sturmbannführer; likewise, the Ostubaf was an SS rank. The Obersturmbannführer rank insignia was composed...
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    Eduard Wirths (category SS-Sturmbannführer)
    Promotion to SS-Hauptsturmführer September 1944 Promotion to SS-Sturmbannführer Final rank in the SS: SS-Obersturmbannführer Awards during SS career War...
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    command of SS-Sturmbannführer Kurt Weisse , SS-Sonderregiment Dirlewanger was sent into action as part of the Kampfgruppe formation led by SS-Gruppenführer...
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    Georg Bochmann (category SS-Oberführer)
    May 1942 as SS-Hauptsturmführer and as leader of SS "Totenkopf"-Panzer-Jäger-Abteilung. 246th Oak Leaves on 17 May 1943 as SS-Sturmbannführer and commander...
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    April 1945) – Executed by the SS Dr. Claus Schilling – (25 July 1871 – 28 May 1946) – Executed by the Allies SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Horst Schumann – (11 May...
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  • Nicholas Woodeson as SS-Gruppenführer Otto Hofmann: Chief of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office. Jonathan Coy as SS-Sturmbannführer Erich Neumann: Director...
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    Max Koegel (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
    labour camp for women in Lichtenburg at Ravensbrück at the rank of Sturmbannführer (Major). In 1942 he was commander of the extermination camp Majdanek...
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  • Rudolf Lange (category SS-Standartenführer)
    promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer. On 5 June 1941, Lange was ordered to Pretzsch and the command staff of Einsatzgruppe A, headed by now SS-Brigadeführer...
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    Oradour-sur-Glane, in the Limousin region. SS-Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, commander of the I Battalion, 4th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment (Der Führer) that...
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    April 1942) SS-Sturmbannführer Lucien Lippert (April 1942 – 13 February 1944) SS-Sturmbannführer Léon Degrelle as political leader of the unit SS-Oberführer...
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    Michel von Tüßling – SS-Sturmbannführer in Hitler's Chancellery; adjutant of Philipp Bouhler; staff officer, Reichsführer-SS and SS Main Office. Erhard...
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    history. SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Huttig SS-Sturmbannführer Egon Zill SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Kramer SS-Sturmbannführer Fritz Hartjenstein SS-Hauptsturmführer...
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