The last regular commander of the KZ, Obersturmbannführer Eduard Weiter, had fled on 26 April.

The first unit to assemble in Kirkenes, was the SS Battalion Reitz, named after their commander Obersturmbannführer Wilhelm Reitz.

The German police attaché and commander of the Security Police in Rome, SS Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler was on the scene soon afterwards to supervise the investigation.

The SS 9th " Totenkopf " Regiment, led by Obersturmbannführer Ernst Deutsch soon followed.

During World War II, the SS maintained an equivalent rank known as Obersturmbannführer.

This unit, the 8th SS Volunteer Sturmbrigade France was led by a former Foreign Legionnaire, Obersturmbannführer Paul Marie Gamory-Dubourdeau.

Obersturmbannführer was a paramilitary Nazi Party rank used by both the SA and the SS.

The insignia for Obersturmbannführer was four silver pips and a stripe, centered on the left collar of an SS / SA uniform.

* Obersturmbannführer " senior Sturmbann ( battalion ) leader "-an SA and SS rank, equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel.

Late in the month, Hubert Meyer was replaced by Obersturmbannführer Hugo Kraas, and the division was attached to Oberstgruppenführer Sepp Dietrich's 6th SS Panzer Army, which was forming up for Operation Wacht am Rhein ( the Second Battle of the Ardennes, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge ), a large-scale offensive to recapture Antwerp, halt the Allied advance, and split the Anglo-American alliance.

* 25th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment Hitlerjugend, Standartenführer Kurt Meyer ( until 14 June 1944 ), Obersturmbannführer Karl-Heinz Milius ( from 14 June 1944 )

* 12th SS Panzer Regiment, Obersturmbannführer Max Wünsche

General Skarr's appearance is based on that of SS Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny.

* SS Obersturmbannführer 20 April 2035

The report documented that Peter had served as Obersturmbannführer in an SS unit involved in mass murder.

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.

The first commandant of the castle ( Burghauptmann von Wewelsburg ), from August 1934, was Obersturmbannführer ( Lieutenant Colonel ) Erich Schupping.

He was given the rank of Obersturmbannführer ( Lieutenant Colonel ) and received the title of Oberregierungsrat.

Translated as “ senior assault ( or storm ) unit leader ”, Obersturmbannführer was junior to Standartenführer and was the equivalent to Oberstleutnant ( lieutenant colonel ) in the German Army.

Eichmann was promoted to Obersturmbannführer in 1940 and was listed as such in the minutes of the Wannsee Conference that began the Endlösung.

During Eichmann's trial for war crimes in 1962, chief prosecutor Gideon Hausner drew attention to the significance and responsibility of Eichmann's Obersturmbannführer rank when, in response to Eichmann's claim that he was merely a clerk obeying orders, Hausner asked him, “ Were you an Obersturmbannführer or an office girl ?”

In Eichmann in Jerusalem, however, Hannah Arendt disputes the notion that Obersturmbannführer was a rank of significance, pointing out that Eichmann spent the war " dreaming " about promotion to Standartenführer.

Obersturmbannführer, Hubert Meyer was placed in command of the division.

He was a member of the NSDAP and member of the SA ( SA Obersturmbannführer ).

Obersturmbannführer Walter Harzer was now placed in command of the division.

The counterattack by the headquarters guards company was repelled and Obersturmbannführer Hans Collani seeing a Soviet tank from his headquarters doorstep, shot himself dead.

Anticipating an infantry attack would follow, Steiner concentrated the few working armour consisting of seven tanks under the command of Obersturmbannführer Paul Albert Kausch.

Cantor's theory of transfinite numbers was originally regarded as so counter-intuitive — even shocking — that it encountered resistance from mathematical contemporaries such as Leopold Kronecker and Henri Poincaré and later from Hermann Weyl and L. E. J. Brouwer, while Ludwig Wittgenstein raised philosophical objections.

Michel Maittaire ( 1667 – 1747 ) and Georg Wolfgang Panzer ( 1729 – 1805 ) arranged printed material chronologically in annals format, and in the first half of the nineteenth century, Ludwig Hain published, Repertorium bibliographicum — a checklist of incunabula arranged alphabetically by author: " Hain numbers " are still a reference point.

By 1952 a theologian such as Ludwig Ott could, in a widely used and well-regarded manual, openly teach the possibility that children who die unbaptised might be saved for heaven — though he still represented their going to limbo as the commonly taught opinion.

Black and gold — the colours of the Holy Roman Empire — have been the city's official colours since the time of Ludwig the Bavarian.

The actual results of the parliamentary vote were as follows: Ludwig Scotty — 10 parliamentary votes, Kinza Clodumar — 7 parliamentary votes.

On 21 July 1865, having sung the role only four times, Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld died suddenly — prompting speculation that the exertion involved in singing the part of Tristan had killed him.

* Ludwig van Beethoven — Turkish March from The Ruins of Athens, opus 113 ( 1811 )

Through Savigny and his circle of friends — German romantics such as Clemens Brentano and Ludwig Achim von Arnim — the Grimms were introduced to the ideas of Johann Gottfried Herder, who felt that German literature should return to what he defined as Volkspoesie ( natural poetry ) as opposed to Kunstpoesie ( artistic poetry ).

Ludwig Tieck's The Topsy-Turvy World ( 1798 ) is an early — and highly successful — example of the introduction of the Commedia dell ' Arte characters into parodic metatheater.

* German — Gottowt, John: The Black Lottery Ticket, or Pierrot's Last Night on the Town ( 1913 ); Löwenbein, Richard: Marionettes ( 1918 ); Piel, Harry: The Black Pierrot ( 1913, 1926 ); Wich, Ludwig von: The Cuckolded Pierrot ( 1917 ; view The Cuckolded Pierrot ).

" — Ludwig Wittgenstein

" Conversely, Jeffrey Tucker of the Ludwig von Mises Institute has argued that " The whole scene — which anticipated so much of the technology we have today but, strangely, not email or texting — reflected the ethos of time: a love of progress and a vision of a future that stayed on course ...

* Joseph Haydn wrote minuets which are very close to scherzi in tone, but it was Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert who first used the form widely, with Beethoven in particular turning the polite rhythm of the minuet into a much more intense — and sometimes even savage — dance.

The Ludwig brothers developed a hydraulic action timpani and in 1916 invented a spring mechanism — the basis for the current Balanced Action Pedal Timpani.

As a young man he knew Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whom he revered ; he was a contemporary of Ludwig van Beethoven, about whom he — like many of his generation — had strong but mixed feelings ; and he was a mentor for the young Carl Maria von Weber, whose music he respected and promoted.

He married Rosenblatt on 16 April 1542, as her fourth husband — she had outlived Ludwig Keller, Johannes Oecolampadius, and Wolfgang Capito.