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Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig – Was a Waffen-SS General, Generalmajor der Ordnungspolizei and SS-Brigadeführer; known for being the first german general to die in World War II. Ernst Röhm – A co-founder of the Sturmabteilung (Storm Battalion) or SA, the Nazi Party militia. Later the SA-Stabschef, a Reichleiter and Reich Minister without ...
b.1893 at Züllichow. Lt deR Flieger-Abteilung 301 1917–18. World War II: Vice Inspector of the NPEA Inspection state offices and SS Oberführer as vice-inspector post war Deutscher Gymnasiallehrer und Napola-Leiter. Died 20 March 1976 1917 Prince Christoph of Hesse: Born 14 May 1901. Also, reserve captain at RFSS staff. Luftwaffe major.
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.
Although the list of defendants was finalized on 29 August, [8] as late as October, chief United States prosecutor Robert Jackson demanded the addition of new names, proposing the addition of Hermann Schmitz, an IG Farben executive, Karl Wolff and other high-ranking SS officers, as well as generals Walther von Brauchitsch, Franz Halder, and the ...
The vast majority of the people promoted to field marshal won major battles in wars of their time. Field marshals played a compelling and influential role in military matters, were tax-exempt, members of the nobility, equal to government officials, under constant protection or escort, and had the right to directly report to the royal family. [3]
German ambassador to Vichy France during World War II: 1903–1958: also: convicted war criminal, imprisoned until 1954 Georg Altner: Police President in Plauen and in Dortmund: 1901–1945: also: Generalmajor der polizei; suicide: Franz Augsberger: 20th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division: 1905–1945
The comparative ranks of Nazi Germany contrasts the ranks of the Wehrmacht to a number of national-socialist organisations in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in a synoptic table. Nazi organisations used a hierarchical structure, according to the so-called Führerprinzip (leader principle), and were oriented in line with the rank order system of ...
These ranks and insignia were specific to the Heer and in special cases to senior Wehrmacht officers in the independent services; the uniforms and rank systems of the other branches of the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe (Air Force) and Kriegsmarine (Navy), were different, as were those of the SS which was a Party organization outside the Wehrmacht.