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Hans-Joachim "Achim" [1] [2] [3] Böhme (29 December 1929 – 4 September 2012) was a German politician and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). In the 1980s, he served as First Secretary of the SED in Bezirk Halle, center of the GDR's large and important chemical industry, and eventually became a full member of the SED Politburo.
During World War II, the Nazi German Einsatzkommandos were a sub-group of the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectuals, Romani, and communists in the captured territories often far behind the advancing German front.
At the same time, he became a member of the SS (membership number 2,821). After promotion to SS-Untersturmführer (4 July 1934) and SS-Obersturmführer (9 November 1934), [3] he worked in the Sicherheitsdienst or SD (Security Service) office in Berlin from 1935, where he soon became a close associate of SD chief Reinhard Heydrich.
Waffen-SS Officer and son-in-law of SS-Oberstgruppenführer Paul Hausser 1938 Arpad Wigand: SS and Police leader (SS-und Polizeiführer (SSPF)) in Warsaw from 4 August 1941 until 23 April 1943. Aide to Erich von dem Bach Zelewski. In 1981, Wigand was found guilty in Hamburg for war crimes and was sentenced to 12.5 years. 2999 30682 Werner ...
At any given point in time, the personnel at Sobibor extermination camp included 18-25 German and Austrian SS officers [1] and roughly 400 watchmen of Soviet origin. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Over the 18 months that the camp was in service, 100 SS officers served there.
also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei: Joachim Albrecht Eggeling: SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt 1935–1937, Gau Halle-Merseburg 1937–1945; Oberpräsident of Halle-Merseburg Province: 1884–1945: suicide Theodor Eicke: Commander SS Division Totenkopf 1939–1943: 1892–1943: also: General der Waffen-SS; killed in ...
Listed here are the 368 Knight's Cross recipients of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS whose last name is in the range "Ba–Bm". [5] Scherzer has challenged the validity of 13 of these listings. [ 6 ] This is the first of two lists of all 725 Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients whose last name starts with "B".
The family included Dr. Kuehn, 41 years old; his wife, Friedel; a daughter, Susie Ruth (at 17, she was the former mistress of Goebbels); [1] and her half-brother, Hans Joachim. Since all four members of the family were involved in the espionage they were dubbed the "8 eyed spy". [2] [3]