Hello Waffen 211,
here my SS-PGR 48 Commanders list:
SS-Obersturmbannführer Josef Fitzthum: 20 May-03 November 1943.
(………….)
SS-Obersturmbannführer Wolfgang Christian Jörchel: 08 January-? April 1944.
SS-Sturmbannführer Herbert Garthe: ? April-May 1944.
SS-Obersturmbannführer Wolfgang Christian Jörchel: from ? until July 1944.
SS-Obersturmbannführer Richard Benner: early July 1944–
KIA 26 July 1944.
(
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gli ... GRSS48.htm)
SS-Obersturmbannführer Siegfried Scheibe: from 29 July 1944 to ?
[Did the German Josef Bachmaier - who rallied the men on Grenadier Hill and led a successful defense against repeated Soviet attacks - replace Scheibe ?]
SS-Obersturmbannführer Paul Massell: from the beginning of 1945 until KIA 02 February 1945.
SS-Sturmbannführer Siegfried Scheibe: ? -
KIA 17 April 1945.
He took over the command when the Regiment was reformed in the spring of 1945, after it had been destroyed during the retreat from Narva to the Tannenberg Stel-lung. In this retreat the Regiment was wiped out.
Greetings
Giorgio