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    SS-Obersturmbannführer Obersturmbannführer (Senior Assault-unit Leader; [ˈoːbɐʃtʊʁmbanfyːʁɐ]; short: Ostubaf) was a paramilitary rank in the German Nazi...
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    1932, when Sturmbannführer became subordinate to the new rank of Obersturmbannführer. In the Waffen-SS, Sturmbannführer was considered equivalent to a...
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  • Tonkel as SS-Obersturmbannführer Erich Kempka Igor Romanov as SS-Obersturmbannführer Peter Högl Igor Bubenchikov as SS-Obersturmbannführer Franz Schädle...
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    II–Oppeln (under SS-Obersturmbannführer Emanuel Schäfer), deployed with the 10th Army Einsatzkommando 1/II: SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Sens Einsatzkommando...
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  • a platoon of Waffen-SS led by a fanatical and somewhat deranged Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) von Starnfeld (Alexander Scheer). He is rescued...
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  • SS-Gruppen­führer SS-Brigade­führer SS-Ober­führer SS-Standarten­führer SS-Obersturmbann­führer SS-Sturmbann­führer SS-Hauptsturm­führer SS-Obersturm­führer SS-Untersturm­führer...
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    his brother Waldemar, in 1939. He was promoted to the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer on 30 January. On 25 July 1937, Reichsführer-SS Himmler, by special...
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    Army Einsatzgruppe II, SS-Obersturmbannführer Emanuel Schäfer, acted with 10th Army Einsatzgruppe III, SS-Obersturmbannführer und Regierungsrat Dr. Herbert...
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    rank code OF-5 Formation 1925 Abolished 1945 Next higher rank Oberführer Next lower rank Obersturmbannführer Equivalent ranks Oberst Kapitän zur See...
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    Hanns Bobermin [de] SS-Obersturmbannführer 20 years Reduced to 15 years Released; died in 1960 Horst Klein [de] SS-Obersturmbannführer Acquitted   Died in...
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    Gerhard Flesch (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
    movement. Flesch was an Oberregierungsrat and held the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel). He was born in Posen, Province of Posen, German...
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  • NCOs and officers were generally veterans of the Eastern Front. SS-Obersturmbannführer Mohnke was given command of the 26th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment...
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  • promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer (major). For the appointment as SS-Obersturmbannführer, he had to wait until 1943. On 5 June 1941 Lange was ordered to Pretzsch...
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  • extermination of Europe's Jewish population using gas chambers. SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann then reveals that the SS has been building extermination...
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    Martin Gottfried Weiss (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
    to clean up the consequences of the massacre. On 18 May 1944, SS-Obersturmbannführer Weiß was promoted. On 1 November 1944 he was sent to Mühldorf subcamp...
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    increase, Röhm invented two new officer ranks: Obersturmführer and Obersturmbannführer. In 1933, after Hitler had become Chancellor, the SS began to make...
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    Chief of Administration of the Łódź Ghetto. Helmut Bischoff – SS-Obersturmbannführer and commander of mobile death squad unit, Einsatzkommando 1/IV. Also...
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    Arthur Liebehenschel (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
    Preceded by SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss Commandant of Auschwitz December 1943 – 8 May 1944 Succeeded by SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss Preceded by...
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    SS-Standartenführer Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben, SS-Obersturmbannführer Erich Spaarmann, SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Hans Kölzow and SS-Sturmbannführer Christian...
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  • Wedler as Jutta Pfennig Bernd Hölscher as Oberst Bastian Ed Skrein as Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Seidler Pascal Ulli as Dr. Heinrich Richard Sammel as Dr....
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  • Friedrich Josef Rauch (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
    Friedrich Josef Rauch was an SS Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) in charge of the Führer's personal security at the Reichskanzlei (Reich Chancellery)...
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  • Karl Künstler (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
    Künstler (12 January 1901 – presumably April 1945) was a German SS-Obersturmbannführer and commandant of Flossenbürg concentration camp. Künstler, whose...
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  • Military offices Preceded by None Commandant of Flossenbürg concentration camp May 1938 – 20 January 1939 Succeeded by SS-Obersturmbannführer Karl Künstler...
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  • Ludwig Stumpfegger (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
    adjutant to Gebhardt in March 1940. In April 1943 he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer. On Himmler's recommendation, he was transferred to "Wolfsschanze"...
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    Otto Skorzeny (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
    Skorzeny (12 June 1908 – 5 July 1975) was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During...
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  • Erich Kempka (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
    knocked out. After he came to, Kempka came across the badly wounded SS-Obersturmbannführer Georg Betz (Hitler's personal co-pilot and Hans Baur's substitute)...
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  • Eduard Weiter (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
    – 2 May 1945) was a German bureaucrat who became a Schutzstaffel Obersturmbannführer and concentration camp commandant during World War II. The son of...
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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...
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  • joining the Schutzstaffel (SS) in 1933 and achieving the rank of Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel). He was awarded the Iron Cross for services...
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    whom 23 were hanged on 28–29 May 1946, including the commandant, SS-Obersturmbannführer Martin Gottfried Weiss, SS-Obersturmführer Freidrich Wilhelm Ruppert...
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