Information requested about SS-officers

[-Michael]

I was wondering if somebody has some information about following SS-officers?

SS-Untersturmführer Theo Daelmans
SS-Untersturmführer Herman Verbeke
SS-Untersturmführer André Camby
SS-Untersturmführer Arthur Cockx
SS-Untersturmführer Ferdinand Van Nitsen/Nitsem
SS-Standartenoberjunker Dr. A. Heylens

[freddiefro]

I found an SS-Untersturmführer Ferdinand Nitsen who was with the 27.SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division "Langemarck" in March 1945. He was born 26.03.1922 and was killed in action 19.03.1945.

-Fred

[-Michael]

I found an SS-Untersturmführer Ferdinand Nitsen who was with the 27.SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division "Langemarck" in March 1945. He was born 26.03.1922 and was killed in action 19.03.1945.

-Fred

From where did you get this information?
Do you have some more information? Date of birth?

[freddiefro]

I got this from John P. Moore's "Führerliste der Waffen-SS." I'm afraid this is all there is (I gave you his date of birth).

-Fred

[-Michael]

I got this from John P. Moore's "Führerliste der Waffen-SS." I'm afraid this is all there is (I gave you his date of birth).

-Fred

Thank you very much!
No information about the others?

[NicoH]

Hallo

Is the mentioned SS-StaObJu Dr A Heylens perhaps the following man:

Andreas Heylens, born 06.06.1917,????

I have him as an Leg.-Hscha with RDA 15.3.42 as Abteilungsarzt with the I.Btl/SSNachrichten AE Rgt in March 1943.


If this is the man you meant, can you state whether or not he was flemish??

regards

Nico

[-Michael]

Thank you very much for this new information!
I have him as the author of an article about the Flemish contribution in the Waffen-SS, in the Flemish (national socialist) newspaper «Balming» of July 1944. And he signed his article as SS-Standartenoberjunker.
Can you explain to me what RDA is? I can’t find it on the net. And I never heard of a doctor Heylens in the Frw.Leg.Flandern before. Does Leg.-Hscha. mean that he had taken the oath of the legion? So at some time he was a member of the Frw.Leg.Flandern?

[NicoH]

Hallo Stormman

Glad you liked the information. RDA= Rangdienstalter i.e. the date from which a certain rank was counted especially for reasons of payment.
This does not mean that both the date the rank was attained and the RDA were always the same.

The fact that he had an Leg.- prefix only indicated that he had volunteered for the Legion and not for the Waffen-SS, however he could easily been send to a 'pure' Waffen-SS formation, actually the prefix is not that important.

Whether or not he had taken the oath of the Legion I do not know.

best regards

nico

[Phil Nix]

Leg Hscha means Legion Hauptscharführer = Senior NCO
Phil Nix

[waffen-IDF]

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SOJ. 11.KJL, J.Sch.Bad Tolz 3.44

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