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This table contains the final ranks and insignia of the Waffen-SS, which were in use from April 1942 to May 1945, in comparison to the Wehrmacht. [1] The highest ranks of the combined SS (German: Gesamt-SS) was that of Reichsführer-SS and Oberster Führer der SS; however, there was no Waffen-SS equivalent to these positions.
This changed with the rise of the Waffen-SS and the Ordnungspolizei. In both of those organizations, Brigadeführer was the equivalent to a Generalmajor and ranked above an Oberst in the German Army or police. The rank of Generalmajor was the equivalent of brigadier general, a one-star general in the US Army. [4]
Deputy chief of the WVHA, Brigadier General of the Waffen SS; "Evidence was introduced that while defendant Fanslau was in command of the supply battalion of the Viking division, which was engaged in the campaign against Russia in the Ukraine, a number of atrocities were perpetrated against the Jews in the vicinity of Tarnopol by the troops ...
SS-Gruppenführer: Werner Ostendorff: 21 October 1944 – 15 November 1944 SS-Standartenführer: Hans Lingner: 15 November 1944 – 9 January 1945 SS-Standartenführer: Gerhard Lindner: 9 January 1945 – 21 January 1945 SS-Standartenführer: Fritz Klingenberg: 21 January 1945 – 22 March 1945 SS-Obersturmbannführer: Vinzenz Kaiser: 22 March ...
Lieutenant-general Major-general Brigadier Colonel Lieutenant-colonel Major Captain Lieutenant Second lieutenant; Waffen-SS & Allgemeine SS [14] [15] [16] [4] [17] No insignia: Oberster Führer der Schutzstaffel: Reichsführer-SS [a] SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer [b] SS-Obergruppenführer: SS-Gruppenführer: SS-Brigadeführer: SS-Ober ...
also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; interned until 1948 Karl Wolff: Chief Persönlicher Stabe Reichsführer SS; SS liaison officer to Führer HQ 1939–1943; Höchster SS- und Polizeiführer (Supreme SS and Police Leader) Italy 1943-1945 1900–1984: also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1945–1949 and 1964–1969 Udo von Woyrsch
SS-Obersturmbannführer Mohnke was given command of the 26th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment, which was the second regiment formed in the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. [ 13 ] Mohnke was implicated in the killing of 35 Canadian prisoners at Fontenay-le-Pesnel , as part of the Normandy Massacres , albeit he never faced a trial owing to a lack ...
Paul Hausser, also known as Paul Falk after taking his birth name post war (7 October 1880 – 21 December 1972), was a German general and then a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS who played a key role in the post-war efforts by former members of the Waffen-SS to achieve historical and legal rehabilitation.