Eicke devised a system that was used as a model for future camps throughout Germany.

After 1934, the running of Germany's concentration camps was placed under the total authority of the SS and an SS formation known as the SS-Totenkopfverbände ( SS-TV ), under the command of Theodor Eicke.

However, when Röhm refused, he was killed by two SS officers, Theodor Eicke and Michael Lippert.

On July 2, Röhm was visited by SS-Brigadeführer Theodor Eicke ( then Kommandant of the Dachau concentration camp ) and SS-Obersturmbannführer Michael Lippert, who laid a pistol on the table, told Röhm he had ten minutes to use it and left.

Theodor Eicke ( 17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943 ) was a SS-Obergruppenführer ( German General ), commander of the SS-Division ( mot ) Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS and one of the key figures in the establishment of concentration camps in Nazi Germany.

Eicke, the son of a station master, was born in Hudingen ( Hampont ), near Château-Salins ( then in the German province of Elsass-Lothringen ) into a lower middle-class family.

In 1931, Eicke was promoted to the rank of SS-Standartenführer ( colonel ) by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.

Eicke requested a permanent unit and Himmler granted the request ; the SS-Wachverbände ( Guard Unit ) was formed.

Eicke devised a system that was used as a model for future camps throughout Germany.

When Röhm refused to kill himself, he was shot dead by Eicke ( together with his adjutant, Michael Lippert ) on 1 July 1934.

Eicke was given command of the division.

After Eicke was reassigned to combat duty, Richard Glücks his deputy, was appointed the new CCI chief by Himmler.

Eicke was killed on 26 February 1943, several months after being promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer ( equivalent to general in the Waffen-SS ).

Höss's mentor at Dachau was Theodor Eicke.

In 1937, Richard Schulze was reassigned to the 3. SS-Totenkopf-Standarte “ Thüringen ” where he served as an adjutant to Theodor Eicke.

Eicke requested a permanent unit that would be subordinate only to him and Himmler granted the request ; the SS-Wachverband ( Guard Unit ) was formed.

Following the Night of the Long Knives ( at the end June 1934 ), Eicke, who had played a major role in the affair, was again promoted to the rank of SS-Gruppenführer and appointed Inspector of Concentration Camps and Commander of SS guard formations.

Theodor Eicke, at this stage, was technically only the commander of the Dachau concentration camp, although it was without question that he was the effective head of the entire SS-TV.

In the early days of the military camp service formation, the group's exact chain of command was contested since Eicke as Führer der Totenkopfverbände exercised personal control of the group but also, being a military SS formation, authority over the armed units was claimed by the SS-Verfügungstruppe ( who would get it in August 1940 ).

In March 1933, less than three months after Hitler's rise to power, Eicke returned to Germany.

First headed by Theodor Eicke, the Concentration Camps were formed into the Totenkopfverbände after 1934, but then increasingly became divided into the camp service proper and the military Totenkopf formation controlled by the SS-Verfungstruppe ( the early Waffen-SS ).

This core belief continued to influence guards in all concentration camps even after Eicke had taken over command of the SS Totenkopf Division.

Eicke was seven yards behind the leading American and one behind the second-place Hungarian when he started his 200, and had not caught the Hungarian when he finished it.

Himmler appointed Theodor Eicke, a convicted felon and ardent Nazi, to run the camp in June 1933.

* February 26 – Theodor Eicke, German Nazi official ( b. 1892 )

The camp's layout and building plans were developed by Kommandant Theodor Eicke and were applied to all later camps.

* SS-Gruppenführer Theodor Eicke ( 26 June 1933-4 July 1934 )

Theodor Eicke and SS Division Totenkopf on the Eastern Front in 1941.

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