Commanding the camp was Amon Göth, an SS commandant from Vienna who was known for being uncommonly sadistic in his treatment and killing of prisoners ; " Witnesses say he would never start his breakfast without shooting at least one person.

He was highly valued by Maria Theresa, who made him commandant of Vienna and a Knight of the Golden Fleece, and in 1754 he was elevated to the rank of Feldmarschall ( Field-Marshal ).

A year after he was catapulted over nine officers senior to him and made commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup delivered a peppery annual report in the form of a `` happy, warless New Year '' greeting to his Pentagon staff.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

From 1799 to 1807 the military commandant was John Despard, brother of Edward.

On July 22, 1994, he was assigned as commander of Marine Forces < nowiki > Pacific / commanding </ nowiki > general, Fleet Marine Force Pacific, and in March 1995 he was nominated to serve as the commandant of the Marine Corps.

On June, 29, he was promoted to general and assumed duties as the 31st commandant on June 30, 1995.

A battalion, led by commandant Faurax, was formed from two companies of the First Foreign Regiment and two others from the second regiment.

When the newly elected National Assembly refused to pass this document and drafted one of their own preserving this prohibition, it was forcibly dissolved by Gendarmerie commandant Smedley Butler.

There he met Rudolf Höss, who was later commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, and Walther Darré, whose book, The Peasantry as the Life Source of the Nordic Race, caught Hitler's attention, leading to his later appointment as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture.

This first statement of the previously uncodified rules and articles of war led to the first prosecution for war crimes — in the case of United States prisoners of war held in cruel and depraved conditions at Andersonville, Georgia, in which the Confederate commandant of that camp was tried and hanged, the only Confederate soldier to be punished by death in the aftermath of the entire Civil War.

On April 21, 1999, he was nominated for appointment to the grade of general and assignment as the 32nd commandant of the Marine Corps.

As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.

When the Civil War ended, and the Indian Wars campaigns were in a lull, Carson was breveted a General and appointed commandant of Ft. Garland, Colorado, the heart of Ute country.

Fort Garland, located within the city of the same name in Colorado, was the location where Kit Carson briefly re-located his family while he served as commandant of a company of roughly 100 New Mexico Volunteers in 1866-1867.

In a footnote to a poem titled Speech to the Western Indians, ( published 1813 ) Arent DePeyster, British commandant at Fort Michilimackinac from 1774 to 1779, noted that " Baptist Point de Saible " was " handsome ", " well educated ", and " settled in Eschecagou ".

Captain John Whistler was selected as commandant of the new post, and set out with six men to complete the survey.

In April, Whistler and other senior officers at the fort were removed ; Whistler was replaced as commandant of the fort by Captain Nathan Heald.

During World War I Jung was drafted as an army doctor and soon made commandant of an internment camp for British officers and soldiers.

After two magazines caught fire, the commandant was summoned again to surrender ; there was some delay, but a flag of truce was sent at 2100, and the capitulation was concluded at 0100 the next day.

Buchenwald ’ s second commandant was Karl Otto Koch, who ran the camp from 1937 to 1941.

The third and last commandant of the camp was Hermann Pister ( 1942 – 1945 ).

Staff Cadets at the Royal Military College, Duntroon also wear a darker pugaree, although the origins of this are uncertain, while they also wear the chin strap of the hat the opposite way around from that of the rest of the Army, as the first commandant of the college, William Throsby Bridges, was wounded at Gallipoli ( to later die ) wearing his slouch hat in this fashion.

Gen. Daniel D. Bidwell's ( 3rd ) Brigade, of Getty's ( 2nd ) Division, every regimental commandant in this brigade, but one, being either killed or wounded.

They shot and killed the commandant of the Sikh Regimental Center, Brigadier S. C. Puri, and wounded some other officers.

In January 1834 an abortive mutiny led by John Knatchbull resulted in nine deaths and many wounded, and led to the recall of the commandant, James Morisset.

Grieban may be looked at as the epitome of one fighting for the cause, but he himself fails to live up to his own high ideals of racial purity when he falls in ' love ' with a Jewish woman during his years as a Nazi concentration camp commandant.

Irmfried Eberl presided as the camp's first commandant on.

Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz, said that the use of Zyklon-B came about on the initiative of one of his subordinates, Captain Karl Fritzsch, who used the substance to kill some Russian POWs in late August 1941.

This was based on the military trial of the commandant of the infamous Civil War prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia.

Towards the end of World War II, on 7 and 8 May 1945, the town was bombed by Soviet aircraft when the German commandant of the occupying forces refused to surrender.

At midnight on 5 July 1764, Mirovich won over some of the garrison, arrested the commandant, Berednikov, and demanded the release of Ivan.

After World War II, a court-martial case was prepared against ex-SS Hauptsturmführer Max List ( the former commandant of Lagers Norderney and Sylt ), citing atrocities on Alderney.

In the meantime, Dumouriez had turned his attention to the internal state of his own country, and amongst the very numerous memoranda which he sent to the government was one on the defence of Normandy and its ports, which procured for him in 1778 the post of commandant of Cherbourg, which he administered with much success for ten years.

June 1917 brought a severe personal blow when his brother Willie died in action on the front at the onset of the Battle of Messines offensive in Flanders, his vacant seat in East Clare then won in July by Éamon de Valera, the most senior surviving commandant of the Easter insurgents.

In the 1740s the substantive rank of brigadier-general was suppressed, and thereafter brigadier-general was a temporary rank only, bestowed on a colonel or lieutenant-colonel ( or on a colonel commandant in the marines ) for the duration of a specific command.

The commandant there, Colonel Beaurepaire, shot himself in despair, and the place surrendered on 3 September 1792.

High on ginger, he shoots the commandant of the Race's forward base to which he had been assigned and leads the first mutiny the Race has ever known.

The official record, which may have been modified by Yongzheng for political purposes, states that on 20 December 1722 the ailing Kangxi Emperor called seven of his sons and the general commandant of the Peking gendarmerie, Longkodo, to his bedside ; Longkodo read the will, and declared that Yinzhen succeed the emperor on the throne.

Whilst commandant on Norfolk Island, King formed a relationship with the female convict Ann Inett – their first son, born on 8 January 1789, was named Norfolk.

Later, he followed the general Yang Feng on a campaign against the Yellow Turban Rebellion and was appointed a commandant of the cavalry ( 騎都尉 ).

* C R Samson – Initial commandant of the RFC Naval Wing, led the first armoured car units on the Western Front, later Air Officer Commanding RAF units in the Mediterranean

By 1842, captains wore epaulettes on each shoulder with a star on the straps, master commandant were renamed commander in 1838 and wore the same epaulettes as captains except the straps were plain, and lieutenants wore a single epaulette similar to those of the commander, on the left shoulder.

PFC Porter wrote the paper on stationery he found in the office of the camp commandant.

The male population of Landsberg was then ordered to walk by, and ordered to spit on the commandant as they passed.

Liu's intervention resulted in the French defeat in the Battle of Paper Bridge on 19 May 1883, in which the French commandant supérieur Henri Rivière was killed.