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An Austrian aerospace designer and was responsible for the most powerful turboprop engine ever built, the Kuznetsov NK-12, while interned in the Soviet Union under Operation Osoaviakhim following World War II. Died 20 December 1986 Hans Collani: Born 13 February 1908 in Stettin, died 29 July 1944 at Narva (suicide) Waffen-SS Officer
Joachim Peiper (30 January 1915 – 14 July 1976) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer, war criminal and car salesman.During the Second World War in Europe, Peiper served as personal adjutant to Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS, and as a tank commander in the Waffen-SS.
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.
Otto Johann Anton 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 the war, he was involved in a number of operations, including the removal from power of Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy and the Gran Sasso raid which rescued Benito ...
SS-Standartenführer: Otto Binge: 16 June 1944 – 18 June 1944 SS-Brigadeführer: Otto Baum: 18 June 1944 – 1 August 1944 SS-Standartenführer: Otto Binge: 1 August 1944 – 29 August 1944 SS-Oberführer: Eduard Deisenhofer: 30 August 1944 – 30 September 1944 SS-Standartenführer: Thomas Müller: 30 September 1944 – ? September 1944 SS ...
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; German:; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) [4] [5] [6] was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II , he was convicted in Poland and executed for war crimes committed on the prisoners of ...
Wilhelm Mohnke (15 March 1911 – 6 August 2001) was a German military officer who was one of the original members of the Schutzstaffel SS-Stabswache Berlin (Staff Guard Berlin) formed in March 1933. Mohnke, who had joined the Nazi Party in September 1931, rose through the ranks to become one of Adolf Hitler 's last remaining general officers ...
German ambassador to Vichy France during World War II: 1903–1958: also: convicted war criminal, imprisoned until 1954 Franz Augsberger: 20th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division: 1905–1945 also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS (Major general of the Waffen-SS); killed in action Werner Ballauff Commander SS-Waffen-Junker-School Braunschweig: 1890–1973