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.

Obersturmbannführer Ludwig Spindler — commander of the 9th SS Armoured Artillery Regiment — quickly organised a small battlegroup ( Kampfgruppe Spindler was initially only 120 men but would incorporate 16 separate units over the course of the battle ).

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

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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

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

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

Obersturmbannführer Otto Binge oversaw the formation of the division, with the newly promoted Brigadeführer Werner Ostendorff taking command in January 1944.

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

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

* 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.

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

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

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.

* 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.

Additionally, Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Bittrich's II SS Panzer Corps — comprising the remains of Walter Harzer ’ s 9th SS and Heinz Harmel ’ s 10th SS Panzer Divisions — had moved into the area north of Arnhem to refit and reorganise.

* SS-Standartenführer ( Colonel ) Walter Harzer ( 27 November 1944 – 1 March 1945 )

* SS-Standartenführer ( Colonel ) Walter Harzer (?

* 20px 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen-SS-Obersturmbannführer Walter Harzer

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get.

C & O president Walter J. Tuohy was summoned back for cross-examination by New York Central attorneys before examiner John Bradford who is hearing the complex case.

Walter was giving me checks for my pay, the household bills.

Or what was it that, before Via, Sonny, Walter and all, I began almost to dance with shuddering and cry out, `` I knew she'd do it!!

It was presented by early 20th century anthropologists, including Frank Hamilton Cushing, J. Walter Fewkes and Alfred V. Kidder.

* 1919 – The Staatliches Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.

It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott.

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Summoned before the imperial court of justice, Albert refused to appear and was proscribed, while the Order elected a new Grand Master, Walter von Cronberg, who received Prussia as a fief at the imperial Diet of Augsburg.

Walter Goffart believes it is probable that in this narrative Paul was making use of an oral tradition, and is sceptical that it can be dismissed as merely a typical topos of an epic poem.

The tale is treated with scepticism by Walter Goffart, who observes that it conflicts with the Origo Gentis Langobardorum, where she was captured only after the death of her father.

Canberra is a planned city that was originally designed by Walter Burley Griffin, a major 20th century American architect.

The screenplay was by Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews, C. Gardner Sullivan, with uncredited work by Walter Anthony and Milestone.

Another house guest was Walter Hayes, vice-President of Ford of Europe.

The Violin Concerto was dedicated " to the memory of an Angel ", Manon Gropius, the deceased daughter of architect Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler.

Arbroath Abbey was the basis for the description of the ruined monastery of St Ruth in Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary.

The Black Sea deluge theory ( published in 1997 by William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University ) contends that the Bosphorus was formed about 5600 BC when the rising waters of the Mediterranean / Sea of Marmara breached through to the Black Sea, which at the time ( according to the theory ) was a low-lying body of fresh water.

The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.

Behrens was a founding member of the Werkbund, and both Walter Gropius and Adolf Meier worked for him in this period.

The school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919 as a merger of the Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts and the Weimar Academy of Fine Art.