SS-Officers during the Battle of Berlin
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SS-Officers during the Battle of Berlin
Can anyone give information as to whether any of the following officers participated in the Battle of Berlin:
SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Otto Bradfisch; Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Potsdam
SS-Sturmbannführer Kurt Buck
SS-Sturmbannführer Siegfried Conrad
SS-Hauptsturmführer Attila von Debschitz (Soviet Captivity 13.5.1945)
SS-Hauptsturmführer Georg Drobe
SS-Sturmbannführer d.R. Alfred Fischer
SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Hans Fischer
SS-Hauptsturmführer Hermann Fischmann (not in Führerliste)
SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich Gläsker
SS-Sturmbannführer Göttsche (Venghaus, S. 69! The two Göttsche in Führerliste have both fallen before Berlin?!)
SS-Sturmbannführer Heinz-Dieter Groß
SS-Hauptsturmführer Helmuth Gutowski
SS-Sturmbannführer Johannes Hildebrandt
SS-Obersturmführer Eugen Himpel (Führerliste has him missing (‡?) from March 1945)
SS-Hauptsturmführer Ludwig Hoffmann
SS-Oberführer Viktor Knapp
SS-Hauptsturmführer Walter Körner
SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Kroll
SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich Kuhlmann
SS-Standartenführer Paul Kuhn
SS-Obersturmführer Georg Langendorf (injured before the Battle?!)
SS-Obersturmbannführer Friedrich Polte
SS-Obersturmführer Werner Radtke
SS-Sturmbannführer Karlheinz Schulz-Streeck
SS-Obersturmbannführer Kurt Seliger
SS-Obersturmführer Karl Semmelrock
SS-Sturmbannführer Kurt Senne
SS-Oberführer Georg Sieber
SS-Hauptsturmführer Richard Spörle - did he actually fall during the Battle itself? Volksbund says 17.4., Führerliste says 18.4., while Jonathan Trigg: Hitler's Vikings, p. 252, says "at pretty much the same time (as Per Sørensen, who fell on 24.4.).
SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Stapper
SS-Obersturmbannführer Horst Töffling
SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Wischmann
SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritz Zimmermann
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Halfdan S.
SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Otto Bradfisch; Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Potsdam
SS-Sturmbannführer Kurt Buck
SS-Sturmbannführer Siegfried Conrad
SS-Hauptsturmführer Attila von Debschitz (Soviet Captivity 13.5.1945)
SS-Hauptsturmführer Georg Drobe
SS-Sturmbannführer d.R. Alfred Fischer
SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Hans Fischer
SS-Hauptsturmführer Hermann Fischmann (not in Führerliste)
SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich Gläsker
SS-Sturmbannführer Göttsche (Venghaus, S. 69! The two Göttsche in Führerliste have both fallen before Berlin?!)
SS-Sturmbannführer Heinz-Dieter Groß
SS-Hauptsturmführer Helmuth Gutowski
SS-Sturmbannführer Johannes Hildebrandt
SS-Obersturmführer Eugen Himpel (Führerliste has him missing (‡?) from March 1945)
SS-Hauptsturmführer Ludwig Hoffmann
SS-Oberführer Viktor Knapp
SS-Hauptsturmführer Walter Körner
SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Kroll
SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich Kuhlmann
SS-Standartenführer Paul Kuhn
SS-Obersturmführer Georg Langendorf (injured before the Battle?!)
SS-Obersturmbannführer Friedrich Polte
SS-Obersturmführer Werner Radtke
SS-Sturmbannführer Karlheinz Schulz-Streeck
SS-Obersturmbannführer Kurt Seliger
SS-Obersturmführer Karl Semmelrock
SS-Sturmbannführer Kurt Senne
SS-Oberführer Georg Sieber
SS-Hauptsturmführer Richard Spörle - did he actually fall during the Battle itself? Volksbund says 17.4., Führerliste says 18.4., while Jonathan Trigg: Hitler's Vikings, p. 252, says "at pretty much the same time (as Per Sørensen, who fell on 24.4.).
SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Stapper
SS-Obersturmbannführer Horst Töffling
SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Wischmann
SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritz Zimmermann
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Halfdan S.
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Re: SS-Officers during the Battle of Berlin
Georg Langendorf got wounded before the endksmpf um Berlin, His Kp (5) was taken över by Schwarck for the last weeks of the war.
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Thanks, Georg, very helpfull
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I do not think Otto Bradfisch was involved in the Endkampf in Berlin.
Feb-April 1945 he was KdS Potsdam and in April heading west with false papers ("Karl Evers") into US captivity
Feb-April 1945 he was KdS Potsdam and in April heading west with false papers ("Karl Evers") into US captivity
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Re: SS-Officers during the Battle of Berlin
Thanks, Steve, it'd be interesting to know when he left Potsdam?
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Re: SS-Officers during the Battle of Berlin
Can not do any better than April 1945 for Bradfisch.
Kurt Senne, from your list, was Bradfisch's deputy who0 did not arrive until February 1945 (this is known), but Senne:
"In Jan 1945 took over a company of the newly-created SS Pol Regt formed from Sipo personnel within the area of IdS Berlin.”
source: US NARA, RG 498 Box 35, PWIS(Norway)/57 dated Feb 1946, Bodö Zander
Kurt Senne, from your list, was Bradfisch's deputy who0 did not arrive until February 1945 (this is known), but Senne:
"In Jan 1945 took over a company of the newly-created SS Pol Regt formed from Sipo personnel within the area of IdS Berlin.”
source: US NARA, RG 498 Box 35, PWIS(Norway)/57 dated Feb 1946, Bodö Zander
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If you hop on the ferry to Oslo you can see a copy of this PWIS interrogation in the Rijksmuseum
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Re: SS-Officers during the Battle of Berlin
Thanks, Steve, really nice info - anything more on the formation and personel of this Regiment? Will consider the ferry
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It was called Kampfgruppe Bock, led by leiter of Stapoleitstelle Berlin, SS-Standartenfuhrer Wilhelm Bock. It was the size of a reinforced battalion. It was also known as Kampfgruppe "Orkan" (Hurricane).
Personnel from Stapo Berlin received basic infantry training at the Doberitz Infantry School in March 1945, in preparation for the forming of the Kampfgruppe.
One of the other company commanders other than SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Kurt Senne was SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Walter Gade.
Bock was wounded in action on the grounds of Prinz-Albrecht Strasse, hit by shrapnel that nearly tore his leg off below the knee. He committed suicide in the Reich Chancellery bunker on May 1, 1945.
His Kampfgruppe defended the area around RSHA HQ along with a fusilier company from the 15th SS Division Latvia.
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Personnel from Stapo Berlin received basic infantry training at the Doberitz Infantry School in March 1945, in preparation for the forming of the Kampfgruppe.
One of the other company commanders other than SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Kurt Senne was SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Walter Gade.
Bock was wounded in action on the grounds of Prinz-Albrecht Strasse, hit by shrapnel that nearly tore his leg off below the knee. He committed suicide in the Reich Chancellery bunker on May 1, 1945.
His Kampfgruppe defended the area around RSHA HQ along with a fusilier company from the 15th SS Division Latvia.
Wolfguy
Re: SS-Officers during the Battle of Berlin
Döberitz Ubungsplatz today:
https://digitalcosmonaut.com/2013/trupp ... doeberitz/
https://digitalcosmonaut.com/2013/trupp ... doeberitz/
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Thanks for the link Steve.
Interesting stuff.
Wolfguy
Interesting stuff.
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Re: SS-Officers during the Battle of Berlin
Thanks Steve, helpful to clarify that these two are one and the same, that is the SS-Pol. Rgt. and Kampfgruppe Bock. Also the additional info on Denne and Gäde being Kompanieführer.
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Re: SS-Officers during the Battle of Berlin
Old thread.Halfdan S. wrote: ↑29 Jun 2018, 12:18Can anyone give information as to whether any of the following officers participated in the Battle of Berlin:
SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Kroll
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Halfdan S.
SS-Hstuf. Otto Kroll became MIA in Stettin 03.45 so he can´t been part of the battle of Berlin.
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Thanks, Georg!
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