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

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

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.

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

In 1941 the Nazi Gestapo Obersturmbannführer ( Lt. Col .) Josef Meisinger, the ' Butcher of Warsaw ', acting as the Gestapo's liaison with the German Embassy in Tokyo, tried to influence the Japanese to " exterminate " or enslave approximately 18, 000 – 20, 000 Jews who had escaped from Austria and Germany and who were living in Japanese-occupied Shanghai.

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

Under the command of Obersturmbannführer Bernhard Frank, they patrolled an extensive cordoned security zone that encompassed the nearby homes of the other Nazi leaders.

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

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.

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

Battalion, Obersturmbannführer Karl-Heinz Milius ( until 14 June 1944 ), Obersturmbannführer Fritz Steiger ( from 14 June 1944 )

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

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

* Dr. Heinrich Hagel ( physician ): Obersturmbannführer

In 1942, Lange became a Obersturmbannführer ( Lt.

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

He probably followed Obersturmbannführer Martin Gottfried Weiss, who had led the camp from September 1942 until November 1943.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Amongst the more notorious holders of the rank of Obersturmbannführer were Rudolf Höss, Adolf Eichmann, Herbert Kappler and Joachim Peiper.

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.

Arendt also points out that "... people like Eichmann, who had risen from the ranks, were never permitted to advance beyond a lieutenant colonel the rank of Obersturmbannführer except at the front.

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.

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

The rank rated below Standartenführer until 1932, when Sturmbannführer became subordinate to the new rank of Obersturmbannführer.

* SS-Standartenführer ( Colonel ) Otto Binge ( 5 July 1943 – 18 August 1943 )

* SS-Standartenführer Otto Binge ( October 1943 – January 1944 )

* SS-Standartenführer Otto Binge ( 16 June 1944 – 18 June 1944 )

* SS-Standartenführer Otto Binge ( 1 August 1944 – 29 August 1944 )

His 16-year tenure was the longest of any German chancellor since Otto von Bismarck and oversaw the end of the Cold War and the German reunification.

Much of the expansion into the early 20th century was handled by architect Otto Wolf, who oversaw the construction of over 60 buildings in the area, bringing a distinct German texture to the houses, saloons, and breweries of the area.

After the formation of the German Empire in 1871, German chancellor Otto von Bismarck wanted to portray his nation as a peacemaker and preserver of the European status quo, as well as gain more power for the German Empire and unify Germany.

Unification was achieved with the formation of the German Empire in 1871 under the leadership of Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.

At the end of the 19th century, with the building of the Saal Railway ( Saalbahn ) along the river Saale from Halle / Leipzig to Nuremberg, Jena became a centre for precision machinery, optics and glass making, with the formation of the world famous companies Carl Zeiss Jena and Schott Jenaer Glaswerk, by Carl Zeiss, Ernst Abbe and Otto Schott.

In 1858, a small part of the town was taken to aid the formation of the Town of East Otto.

According to saxophonist Otto Hardwick, Ellington's band members had to shanghai Miley into joining them for his first performance, at the Hollywood on Broadway in 1923, At the time, Ellington's Washingtonians were formally led by Elmer Snowden, but Ellington, who factually had already been running the formation, also took over its official leadership a few months later.

On older maps this formation was named Otto Struve.

1918: The deaths of Oskar Troplowitz and his partner Otto Hanns Mankiewicz result in the formation of a stock corporation ( limited company ) on June 1, 1922.

In the spring of 1902, based on the idea of four sophomores, John Lee ' 04, Henry Pogue ' 04, Otto Wolff ' 04, Conway Shearer ' 04, and Frank " Pop " Little ' 03 led the formation of a new upperclass eating club.

* Pattern formation, energy landscapes and scaling laws ( group of Felix Otto )

* 1892 – 1914: France and the Russian Empire vs. Germany and Austria – Hungary set off by the formation of the German Empire, which politically and geographically challenged the older empires of Europe, and the fall of Otto von Bismarck, whose system of alliances placated the major powers about the potential danger of Germany.