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Himmler appointed Theodor Eicke, a convicted felon and ardent Nazi, to run the camp in June 1933.
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Himmler and appointed
Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of SS national leader, Heinrich Himmler who in 1936 was appointed Chief of German Police ( Chef der Deutschen Polizei ) by Hitler.
Also on that date, Hitler appointed Himmler chief of all German police outside Prussia.
On 17 June 1936 Hitler appointed Himmler as Chief of all German police and decreed the unification of all police forces.
After Heydrich's 1942 assassination, Himmler assumed the leadership of the RSHA, but in January 1943 Ernst Kaltenbrunner was appointed Chief of the RSHA.
However Himmler, who had been appointed Chef der Deutschen Polizei ( Chief of German Police ) by Hitler, controlled the SS, the Gestapo, the Orpo ( uniformed police ) and all investigation units.
Strasser appointed Himmler deputy propaganda chief in January 1927.
Convinced that Himmler was the man for the job, Hitler appointed him Deputy Reichsführer-SS, with the rank of SS-Oberführer.
In March 1933, Reich Governor of Bavaria Franz Ritter von Epp appointed Himmler chief of the Munich Police.
Himmler appointed Heydrich commander of Department IV, the political police.
Also on that date, Hitler appointed Himmler chief of all German police outside Prussia.
Frick acquiesced, and on 17 June 1936 Hitler appointed Himmler as Chief of German Police and decreed the unification of all police forces.
By this time, Hitler had appointed Himmler as Minister of the Interior and Plenipotentiary General for Administration ( Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung ).
In late 1944, Hitler appointed Himmler commander-in-chief of Army Group Upper Rhine.
In the summer of 1932, Himmler appointed Heydrich chief of the renamed security service — the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ).
On January 6, 1929, Hitler appointed Himmler as the leader of the SS, and by the end of 1932, the SS had 52, 000 members.
Himmler appointed a former naval officer, Reinhard Heydrich, to organise the small agency.
* Himmler reportedly imagined the castle as a focus for the rebirth of the Knights of the Round Table and appointed twelve SS officers as his followers, who would gather at various rooms throughout the castle and perform unknown rites.
Karl Georg Eberhard Schöngarth ( 22 April 1903 – 16 May 1946 ) was a German Nazi, appointed SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei ( Brigadier General ) on Himmler ’ s orders in 1943.
who was his second-in-command and Interior minister Heinrich Himmler after each of them separately tried to seize control of the crumbling Third Reich. Hitler in their place appointed his successors as follows ; Großadmiral Karl Dönitz as the new Reichspräsident (" President of Germany ") and Joseph Goebbels as the new Reichskanzler ( Chancellor of Germany ).
On 26 June 1933, Himmler appointed him commandant of Dachau after complaints and criminal proceedings against former commandant SS-Sturmbannführer Hilmar Wäckerle following the murder of several detainees under the " guise of punishment ".
After Eicke was reassigned to combat duty, Richard Glücks his deputy, was appointed the new CCI chief by Himmler.
On 4 October 1939, because of his ambition and his loyalty to the party, Heinrich Himmler, appointed him to as Higher SS and Police Leader ( HSSPF East ) ( Höherer SS-und Polizeiführer ) in the part of German-occupied Poland called the General Government.
In 1932 he joined the staff of the Völkischer Beobachter as a political correspondent, catching the eye of Heinrich Himmler who in March 1935 appointed him editor of the official SS paper, Das Schwarze Korps.
D ' Alquen himself became a prominent SS war reporter after September 1939 and towards the end of the war was appointed by Himmler as head of the Wehrmacht propaganda department.
Himmler and Theodor
On 26 June 1933, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler appointed SS-Oberführer Theodor Eicke the Kommandant of the first Nazi concentration camp at Dachau.
Himmler and Eicke
In 1931, Eicke was promoted to the rank of SS-Standartenführer ( colonel ) by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.
In June 1933, Himmler obtained the release of Eicke from the asylum and promoted him to an SS-Oberführer.
Eicke requested a permanent unit and Himmler granted the request ; the SS-Wachverbände ( Guard Unit ) was formed.
Shortly thereafter, Himmler officially named Eicke chief of the Inspektion der Konzentrationslager ( Concentration Camps Inspectorate or CCI ) and promoted him to the rank of SS-Gruppenführer in command of the SS-Wachverbände.
Eicke prevailed with support from Himmler.
Eicke requested a permanent unit that would be subordinate only to him and Himmler granted the request ; the SS-Wachverband ( Guard Unit ) was formed.
But at this time Eicke and Himmler envisioned the armed SS-TV not as combat soldiers, but as troops for carrying out what were euphemistically described as " police and security operations " behind the front lines.
After the TK-Division, and Eicke personally, performed poorly during Fall Gelb Himmler resolved to curb his subordinate.
However, Himmler wanted to keep a separation of power so Eicke remained in command of the SS-TV and camp operations.
Himmler and Nazi
His research attracted the attention of the Nazi government and in particular of Heinrich Himmler, who made him archaeologist in the SS.
Heinrich Himmler was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler termed it " the final solution of the Jewish question " ().
Numerous future members and leaders of the Nazi Party had served in the Freikorps, including Ernst Röhm, future head of the Sturmabteilung, or SA, Heinrich Himmler, future head of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, and Rudolf Höß, the future Kommandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945 ) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) of Nazi Germany.
Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and one of the persons most directly responsible for the Holocaust.
Himmler developed the SS into a powerful group with its own military, and, following Hitler's orders, set up and controlled the Nazi concentration camps.
Himmler joined the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) in August 1923 ; his Party number was 14, 303.
The Nazi Party's rise to power provided Himmler and the SS an unfettered opportunity to thrive.
Himmler and Heydrich wanted to extend the power of the SS ; thus, they urged Hitler to form a national police force overseen by the SS, to guard Nazi Germany against its many enemies at the time — real and imagined.
Himmler was a main architect of the Holocaust, using his deep belief in the racist Nazi ideology to justify the murder of millions of victims.
He stripped Himmler of all of his party and state offices and expelled him from the Nazi Party.
As second in command of the SS and then Reichsführer-SS, Himmler was in regular contact with Hitler to arrange for SS men as bodyguards ; Himmler was not involved with Nazi Party policy-making decisions in the years leading up to the seizure of power.
Himmler accepted Hitler and Nazi ideology, and saw the SS as a chivalric Teutonic order of new Germans.
He ranked along with Joachim von Ribbentrop, Göring, Himmler, and Martin Bormann as the senior Nazi with the most access to Hitler, which in an autocratic regime meant access to power.
By 1942, with his power waning, Göring fell out of favor and was replaced in the Nazi hierarchy by Himmler.
* 1944 – Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
* 1900 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official ( d. 1945 )
During the Nazi regime, the memory of Henry I became a sort of cult, as Heinrich Himmler saw himself as the reincarnation of the " most German of all German " rulers.
Unlike the other SS antagonists, Deathshead does not believe in the occult and would prefer to arm the Nazi war machine using advanced technology, but has been ordered to provide his creations to Operation Resurrection by Himmler himself.
Under Himmler, the SS selected its members according to the Nazi ideology.
This in contrast to the SS in southern Germany, commanded unquestionably by Heinrich Himmler and located mostly in Munich which was the location of the major Nazi political offices.
* May 23 – Heinrich Himmler, former head of the Nazi SS, commits suicide in British custody.
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