Reichsleiter Bouhler

[Mark Costa]

Here is a real nice close up of Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler in SS Obergruppenfuhrer uniform. Anyone have a photo of Bouhler wearing his 1939 style Reichsleiter uniform?
He preferred his SS uniform to all others.

Mark Costa

[Helly Angel]

Beautiful!!!!! Thanks Mark is a great gift!!!

[adalberto]

Hello ,

Anyone have a list of decorations of Bouhler ??
Thx in advance
Regards

[HPL2008]

Anyone have a list of decorations of Bouhler ??

It's a fairly long list...:

For WW 1:
- Iron Cross 2nd Class
- Bavarian Order of Military Merit 4th Class with Swords
- Wound Badge in Black
- 1914/18 Honor Cross for Frontfighters

For WW 2:
- War Merit Cross (without Swords) 2nd Class
- War Merit Cross (without Swords) 1st Class

Civil:
- Olympic Games Decoration 1st Class
- Commemorative Medal for the Austrian annexation
- Commemorative Medal for the Sudetenland annexation
- Commemorative Medal for the Memelland annexation
- Honour Badge for members of the Reichs Culture Senate

Political:
- Golden Party Badge
- Blood Order
- Braunschweig Badge
- Nuremberg Badge
- NSDAP Long Service Decoration in Bronze
- NSDAP Long Service Decoration in Silver
- NSDAP Long Service Decoration in Gold
- Danzig Cross (2nd Class?)

SS:
- SS Honour Sword (and Himmler "Birthday" Damascus Honor Sword)
- SS Honour Dagger
- SS Honour Ring
- SS Honour Chevron for "Old Fighters"
- Julleuchter

Foreign:
- Bulgarian Order of Civil Merit 1st Class
- Hungarian Order of Merit 1st Class
- Italian Grand Officer Cross of the Order of the Crown

Note:
Bouhler was officially exempt from the obligation of qualifying for the German Sports Badge and the SA Sports Badge due to permanent effects of WW1-related injuries.

Sources:
- "Leaders of the SS & German Police, Vol. I"
-"The SS Leadership Corps, Vol. I"
- SS-Dienstalterslisten of 1 Dec. 1938 and 9 Nov. 1944
- Axis Biographical Research website

[jeffhan373]

Here's a photo from the "Danziger Neueste Nachrichten", August 22, 1939, showing Bouhler wearing the 1939 Reichsleiter uniform. To his left, in civilian clothes, Arthur Greiser. To his right, in white SS uniform, Gauleiter Forster's adjutant Regierungsrat Strautmann....

[Michal78]

Thanks for sharing Jeffhan. Nice photo.
Michal

[J. Duncan]

Fascinatig photo....especially Greiser in mufti.

[Michal78]

Here is another one with Franz Seldte.

Michal

[HM]

Reichsleiter Bouhler

[Peter]

I have little knowledge of the positioning of the NSDAP seniority, please can anybody tell me where Bouhler stood as Reichsleiter and Chef KdF, would he have considered himself equal to Himmler/Borman? Or would this have depended on the stage of the war ?

Presumably most of his wartime years were spent in his office at KdF, did he wear a Reichsleiter uniform in the office or civil clothes ?

Please can anybody tell me who were his Party allies and who were his Party competitors ? I believe that Goering was his patron and that there were the expected issues with Borman over power in duplicated areas.

[Ponury]

Hard to say. Certainly shrouded him Himmler - can together drank vodka? Far both were criminals. Bouhler had on his hands the blood of the victims of the liquidation of T4 and many others ...

How could kill sick people? It was the doctor?

[Pitino]

I have little knowledge of the positioning of the NSDAP seniority, please can anybody tell me where Bouhler stood as Reichsleiter and Chef KdF, would he have considered himself equal to Himmler/Borman? Or would this have depended on the stage of the war ?

Presumably most of his wartime years were spent in his office at KdF, did he wear a Reichsleiter uniform in the office or civil clothes ?

Please can anybody tell me who were his Party allies and who were his Party competitors ? I believe that Goering was his patron and that there were the expected issues with Borman over power in duplicated areas.

Peter,
-I think Bouhler and his wife sought refuge in the Goering-Lammers camp in April 1945.

Pitino

[Peter]

Thanks, yes he was close to Goering from the early years