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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] |
