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List Of SA-Obergruppenführer
The List of SA-''Obergruppenführer'' enumerates selected men who held the position of SA-''Obergruppenführer''. This was the second highest commissioned rank in the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA), which was the largest paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party, numbering approximately 4.5 million members in June 1934. The rank was comparable to a three-star rank in English-speaking armed forces (today, equivalent to NATO OF-8). Due to the rapid growth of the organization, SA-''Stabschef'' Ernst Röhm authorized a new large SA troop formation in July 1932, the SA-''Obergruppe''. Organized in September 1932, each of the five new formations (expanded to ten in January 1934) was roughly equivalent to an army corps. Each ''Obergruppe'' was made up of several SA-''Gruppe'', formerly the largest SA component, and was placed under the command of an SA-''Obergruppenführer''. This new rank was established as the senior SA general officer rank, directly above the existing rank of SA-''Gruppenfà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorget Patches
Gorget patches (collar tabs, collar patches) are an insignia in the form of paired patches of cloth or metal on the collar of a uniform (gorget), used in the military and civil service in some countries. Collar tabs sign the military rank (group of ranks), the rank of civil service, the military unit, the office (department) or the branch of the armed forces and the arm of service. History Gorget patches were originally gorgets, pieces of armour worn to protect the throat. When armour fell out of use, decorative cloth gorgets used the same name. The cloth patch on the collar however evolved from contrasting cloth used to reinforce the buttonholes at the collar of a uniform coat. (This is perhaps most evident in the traditional Commonwealth design for colonels, which has a button and a narrow line of darker piping where the slit buttonhole would have been.) In the British Empire the patches were introduced as insignia during the South African War (1889-1902). They have been used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NSDAP Office Of Military Policy
The NSDAP Office of Military Policy ( German: ''Wehrpolitisches Amt der NSDAP'', ''W.P.A.'' or ''WPA'', literally "NSDAP Office of Defense Policy" in English) was a Nazi Party organization. It was established on 8 September 1932 in a decree by Adolf Hitler, and was led by Franz Ritter von Epp. Deist, Wilhelm (1990). ''Germany and the Second World War: The build-up of German aggression''pp. 108–109 Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt GmbH, Stuttgart. His deputy was Friedrich Haselmayr who served as the general manager from September 1932 until April 1934, and then as leader of Department I, ''Politische Abteilung'' (Political Department), until October 1935. The office was housed in the same building as the NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs, headed by Alfred Rosenberg. During the remilitarization of Germany, started by the Nazis shortly after they took power, its avowed aim was to "clarify military-political questions, to conduct propaganda campaigns for the purpose of creating a belligere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Georg Hofmann
Hans Georg Hofmann (26 September 1873 – 31 January 1942) was a German military officer under the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. He joined the Nazi Party paramilitary organization, the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA), and rose to become an SA-''Obergruppenführer'' in Nazi Germany. He was also a Nazi politician, serving in the '' Reichstag'' and as a ''Regierungspräsident'' (District President) and State Secretary in the state government of Bavaria. He died during the Second World War and a post-war denazification tribunal posthumously classified him as an "offender". Early life and military career Hofmann was born in Hof, the son of a businessman. He attended Catholic ''Volksschule'' in Hof and in Steinwiesen, and then a humanistic '' Gymnasium'' in Bamberg, receiving his ''Abitur'' in 1893. On 1 August of that year, he joined the Royal Bavarian Army as a three-year volunteer with the 16th Infantry Regiment in Passau. From March 1894 to the end of January 1895, Hofmann att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curt Von Ulrich
Curt Albert Paul von Ulrich (14 April 1876 – 2 February 1946) was a German military officer and a Nazi Party politician who served from 1933 to 1944 as the Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Saxony. He also was a member of the '' Reichstag'' from 1930 to 1945 and an SA-''Obergruppenführer''. Early life Ulrich was the son of a Prussian ''Generalmajor'' and member of the nobility. He attended schools in Hanover, Danzig (today, Gdańsk) and Wiesbaden. After obtaining his ''Abitur'', Ulrich joined the 23rd Guards Dragoons (1st Grand Ducal Hessian) regiment in Darmstadt in September 1894. After attending the Prussian War Academy, he served on the General Staff as a senior adjutant. In 1913 he joined the 14th (2nd Kurhessian) Hussars, based in Kassel. He served in the First World War as a staff officer, a regimental commander and a quartermaster of the ''Oberste Heeresleitung'' (Supreme Army Command). He was badly wounded, received the Iron Cross, 1st and 2nd class, and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Of The Long Knives
The Night of the Long Knives (, ), also called the Röhm purge or Operation Hummingbird (), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, urged on by Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, ordered a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate his power and alleviate the concerns of the German military about the role of Ernst Röhm and the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA), the Nazis' paramilitary organization, known colloquially as "Brownshirts". Nazi propaganda presented the murders as a preventive measure against an alleged imminent coup by the SA under Röhm – the so-called ''Röhm Putsch''. The primary instruments of Hitler's action were the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) paramilitary force under Himmler and its Security Service (SD), and Gestapo (secret police) under Reinhard Heydrich, which between them carried out most of the killings. Göring's personal police battalion also took part. Many of those killed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Schneidhuber
Ludwig Ernst August Schneidhuber (8 May 1887 – 30 June 1934) was a German military officer and an SA-''Obergruppenführer'' in the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA), the Nazi Party's paramilitary organization. He held several high-level SA commands and was the Police President in Munich. He was murdered along with many other SA leaders in the Night of the Long Knives. Early life and military career Schneidhuber was born in Traunstein, the son of a judicial officer. He entered the Royal Bavarian Army as an officer cadet. In March 1907 he was commissioned as a ''Leutnant'' in the Royal Bavarian 1st Foot Artillery Regiment. He married Ida Wassermann, a Jewish woman, with whom he had two daughters (born 1914 and 1919). The couple divorced in 1920. Due to her former marriage, Ida Schneidhuber was given lenient treatment during the Holocaust and survived the Theresienstadt Ghetto. During the First World War, Schneidhuber was deployed on the western front from 1914 to 1918. During the wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred Von Killinger
Manfred Freiherr von Killinger (14 July 1886 – 2 September 1944) was a German naval officer, ''Freikorps'' leader, military writer and Nazi politician. A veteran of World War I and member of the ''Marinebrigade Ehrhardt'' during the German Revolution, he took part in the military intervention against the Bavarian Soviet Republic. After the ''Freikorps'' was disbanded, the antisemitic Killinger was active in the '' Germanenorden'' and '' Organisation Consul'', masterminding the murder of Matthias Erzberger. He was subsequently a Nazi Party deputy in the '' Reichstag'' and a leader of the ''Sturmabteilung'', before serving as Saxony's Minister-President and playing a part in implementing Nazi policies at a local level. Purged during the Night of the Long Knives, he was able to recover his status, and served as Nazi Germany's Consul in San Francisco between 1936 and 1939. As Ambassador to the Slovak Republic in 1940, he played a part in enforcing antisemitic legislation in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Socialist Motor Corps
The National Socialist Motor Corps (, NSKK) was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) that officially existed from May 1931 to 1945. The group was a successor organisation to the older National Socialist Automobile Corps (, NSAK), which had existed since April 1930. The NSKK served as a training organization, mainly instructing members in the operation and maintenance of high-performance motorcycles and automobiles. The NSKK was further used to transport NSDAP and SA members, and also served as a roadside assistance group in the mid-1930s. The outbreak of World War II in Europe led to recruitment among NSKK ranks to serve in the transport corps of various German military branches. A French section of the NSKK was also organised after the German occupation of France began in 1940. The NSKK was the smallest of the Nazi Party organizations. History The National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) was a successor organization to the older National Socialist Automobile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korpsführer
''Korpsführer'' was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was the highest rank used by the National Socialist Motor Corps and the National Socialist Flyers Corps. Translated as "Corps Leader", the rank of ''Korpsführer'' was held by the single officer in command of the entire organization. The rank was the equivalent of ''Reichsführer-SS (, ) was a special title and rank that existed between the years of 1925 and 1945 for the commander of the (SS). ''Reichsführer-SS'' was a title from 1925 to 1933, and from 1934 to 1945 it was the highest Uniforms and insignia of the Schut ...'', at least on paper. List of ''Korpsführers'' NSFK NSKK References Notes Bibliography * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Korpsfuhrer Nazi paramilitary ranks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Hühnlein
Adolf Hühnlein (12 September 1881 – 18 June 1942) was a German soldier and Nazi Party (NSDAP) official. He was the '' Korpsführer'' (Corps Leader) of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) from 1933 until his death in 1942. Early years Hühnlein was born in Neustädtlein, Upper Franconia the son of a teacher. He attended ''volksschule'' and '' gymnasium'' in Bayreuth until 1900 and then entered the Royal Bavarian Army. He was commissioned a ''Leutnant'' in September 1902. He married his wife Paula (nee Däumling) in 1906 and the couple had three daughters, one of whom died in infancy. He was promoted to ''Oberleutnant'' in 1908 and attended the Bavarian War Academy from 1909 to 1912. Promoted to ''Hauptmann'' in 1913, Hühnlein served in World War I, as a company and battalion commander, obtaining the rank of ''Major''. From 1917, he was a general staff officer with the 15th Royal Bavarian Infantry Division. He was decorated with the Iron Cross, second class and first cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
