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The Brandenburgers (German: Brandenburger) were members of Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht special forces unit during World War II. [ 1 ] Originally, the unit was formed by and operated as an extension of the military's intelligence and counter-espionage organ, the Abwehr .
The Brandenburgers were a special forces unit of Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II. Formed in 1939, they were initially part of the Abwehr, the military intelligence service. The unit was created by Theodor von Hippel, who envisioned small, highly trained groups capable of sabotage and infiltration behind enemy lines.
The Brandenburger originates in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, where horse-breeding is documented from the fifteenth century. [9] It is closely associated with the Hauptgestüt Neustadt [], established in 1788 by the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm II in Neustadt, in the landkreis of Ostprignitz-Ruppin in north-western Brandenburg.
17.1% of the Brandenburgers are registered members of the local, regional Protestant church (mostly the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia), while 3.1% are registered with the Roman Catholic Church (mostly the Archdiocese of Berlin, and a minority in the Diocese of Görlitz). [27]
Theodor-Gottlieb von Hippel (19 January 1890 – 1 January 1977) [1] was the German Army and intelligence officer responsible for the formation and training of the Brandenburgers commando unit. World War I and interwar period
Bodenständige A static unit. Normally assigned to units who were deficient in transport and unable to move their own artillery.Many of these were divisions that had been mauled on the Eastern Front and were sent west to serve as coastal defence garrisons until sufficient resources were available to rehabilitate the division.
Hermann Kellenbenz: Die Brandenburger auf St. Thomas, in: Jahrbuch für Geschichte von Staat, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Lateinamerikas 2 (1965), S. 196–217 (in German)
The Afrika Korps formed on 11 January 1941 and one of Adolf Hitler's favourite generals, Erwin Rommel, was designated as commander on 11 February.Originally Hans von Funck was to have commanded it, but Hitler loathed von Funck, as he had been a personal staff officer of Werner von Fritsch until von Fritsch was dismissed in 1938.