The First SS-Abschnitt (lit. 'First SS-Section') was a brigade formation of the Allgemeine-SS and the first such unit ever established in the SS. The First...
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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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Units and commands of the Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS-Abschnitt)
and engineer battalions. SS-Abschnitt ("SS-District"): The Abschnitt commands were formed in the early 1930s from the old SS-Brigades. The function and...
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Gruppenführer (redirect from SS-Gruppenführer)
In 1932, the SS was reorganized and the SS-Gruppen were reformed into SS-Abschnitte. A Gruppenführer commanded an SS-Abschnitt while a new rank, that...
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were subordinate to the SS-HA; SS-Abschnitt (SS-Sector) was the next lower level of command, responsible for administering a (District); Standarten (regiment)...
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Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS rank)
the SS-Brigade so numbered, which by the end of 1934 had become known as an SS-Abschnitt. For the even higher levels, such as Himmler or the senior SS-Gruppe...
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First SS-Abschnitt (1st SS District) 1st-SS Standarte (1st SS Regiment) SS-Sturmführer Josef Dietrich (August 1, 1928 – September 18, 1929) SS-Oberführer...
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and SS-Abschnitt (sub districts) of the Allgemeine SS each had their own Stabsführer to head certain staff of the district. In the SS-Abschnitt they were...
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SS-Abschnitt (SS District) XXII, with headquarters in Allenstein until 1 March 1937. On that date he was transferred to the command of SS-Abschnitt XII...
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men Abschnitt A 3 companies - 364 men Abschnitt B 1 company - 152 men Anschnitt C 1 company - 160 men Abschnitt D 1 company - 130 men Abschnitt E 4 companies...
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to May 1945. On 1 August 1939, Fiedler switched from the SA to the SS (membership number 337,769). He was given command of SS-Abschnitt (District) XVII...
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followed a brief period as leader of SS-Abschnitt IX in Nuremberg until 1 March 1939 when he was made commander of the prestigious SS-Abschnitt I, with...
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Christoph Diehm (category SS-Brigadeführer)
prestigious SS-Abschnitt I, based in Munich, the headquarters of the Nazi Party. He would remain there until 1 March 1939. He was next assigned to a staff position...
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rejoined on 20 April 1937 with the rank of SS-Standartenführer. He served as a staff officer in SS-Abschnitt (District) XVI in Magdeburg until March 1939...
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Ernst Kaltenbrunner (category SS and Police Leaders)
Kaltenbrunner was head of the illegal SS Abschnitt VIII in Linz and was considered a leader of the Austrian SS. To provide Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard...
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Hermann Dohna-Finckenstein (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer, on 16 June 1935 to SS-Hauptsturmführer and on 12 September 1937 to SS-Sturmbannführer in SS Abschnitt XXII, headquartered...
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Heinz Roch (category SS and Police Leaders)
the 18th SS-Standarte in Königsberg from 1 April 1936 until 1 March 1937. His next posting was again a district-wide command at SS-Abschnitt XXII, headquartered...
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Otto Hofmann (category SS and Police Leaders)
followed by a return to Hamburg as commander of SS-Standarte 28 on 2 April 1935. This was quickly followed by promotion to head SS-Abschnitt XV in Hamburg...
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Kurt Kaul (category SS and Police Leaders)
successively, of SS-Abschnitt IV in Braunschweig (August 1933 to March 1934), SS-Abschnitt XXII in Allenstein (March 1934 to May 1935) and SS-Abschnitt XXIII in...
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Theobald Thier (category SS and Police Leaders)
leadership of SS-Abschnitt (District) XVII in Münster, holding this post until August 1939. He also simultaneously commanded SS-Abschnitt XV, headquartered...
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Julian Scherner (category SS and Police Leaders)
April 1945) was a Nazi Party official and a high-ranking member in the SS of Nazi Germany. During World War II, he served as the SS and Police Leader...
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Johann-Erasmus Freiherr von Malsen-Ponickau (category SS and Police Leaders)
an SS-Sturmführer on 1 February 1931. After further promotions, on 11 August 1932 he advanced to the command of the prestigious First SS-Abschnitt in...
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Hans-Adolf Prützmann (category SS and Police Leaders)
was followed by a stint as commander of SS-Abschnitt (District) X based in Stuttgart from July to November 1933. He was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer in...
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Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben (category SS and Police Leaders)
year. He was assigned to the staff of SS-Abschnitt (District) VII, based in Königsberg, and was commissioned an SS-Untersturmführer on 9 November 1933....
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Richard Hildebrandt (category SS and Police Leaders)
of SS-Abschnitt (District) XXI, headquartered in Görlitz, where he oversaw three SS-Standarten. This was followed by a transfer to head SS-Abschnitt XI...
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Karl von Eberstein (category SS and Police Leaders)
Sept 9. SS-Gruppenführer, and Führer of SS-Abschnitt XVIII (HQ in Weimar) 1933 Nov 15 – 1934 May 1. Führer for SS-Oberabschnitt Mitte (Halle) with 10-15...
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Konstantin Kammerhofer (category SS and Police Leaders)
Kammerhofer became the first commander of SS-Abschnitt XXXI, based in Vienna, and would hold this posting until 1 October 1942. He applied for admission...
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Karl Taus (category SS and Police Leaders)
organization for Austrian SS refugees. On 18 November 1934, with the SS now banned in Austria, Taus was named commander of SS-Abschnitt (District) VIII of the...
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Günther Merk (category SS and Police Leaders)
and also the Waffen-SS as a Standartenführer of reserves. From that time to December 1940, he served on the staff of SS-Abschnitt (District) XXV, headquartered...
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data. This list of SS officers should be available to every “SS-Oberabschnitt” (SS Region), “SS-Abschnitt” (SS District), and every “SS-Stammabteilung” (Supplementay...
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