The general SS was the administrative and non-combative part of the SS.
Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler leads an SS ceremony on the anniversary of the death of Heinrich I at Quedlinburg, July 1938
Agency overview
Formed
September 1934
Preceding agencies
Sturmabteilung
Schutzstaffel
Dissolved
8 May 1945
Jurisdiction
Germany and occupied Europe
Headquarters
SS-Hauptamt, Prinz-Albrecht-Straße, Berlin 52°30′26″N13°22′57″E / 52.50722°N 13.38250°E / 52.50722; 13.38250
Employees
100,000 c.1940
Minister responsible
Heinrich Himmler (1934–1945), Reichsführer-SS
Parent agency
Schutzstaffel
Child agencies
RSHA (Gestapo, Sicherheitspolizei, SD and Kriminalpolizei)
SS Economic and Administrative Departments (WHVA)
SS Courts Office
SS Office of Race and Settlement SS Personalhauptamt SS Education Office Main Welfare Office for Ethnic Germans (RKFDV)
The Allgemeine SS ([ˌalɡəˈmaɪ̯nəˈɛsˈɛs]; "General SS") was a major branch of the Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany; it was managed by the SS Main Office (SS-Hauptamt). The Allgemeine SS was officially established in the autumn of 1934 to distinguish its members from the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS Dispositional Troops or SS-VT), which later became the Waffen-SS, and the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS Death's Head Units or SS-TV), which were in charge of the Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps. SS formations committed many war crimes against civilians and allied servicemen.[1]
Starting in 1939, foreign units of the Allgemeine SS were raised in occupied countries. From 1940 they were consolidated into the Directorate of the Germanic-SS (Leitstelle der germanischen SS). When the war first began, the vast majority of SS members belonged to the Allgemeine SS, but this proportion changed during the later years of the war after the Waffen-SS opened up membership to ethnic Germans and non-Germans.
The AllgemeineSS ([ˌalɡəˈmaɪ̯nə ˈɛs ˈɛs]; "General SS") was a major branch of the Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany; it was managed...
any member of the SS. Also used as an actual rank of the AllgemeineSSSS-Führer: Originally an early rank of the SS, the term SS-Führer designated commissioned...
The two main constituent groups were the AllgemeineSS (General SS) and Waffen-SS (Armed SS). The AllgemeineSS was responsible for enforcing the racial...
finances, supply systems and business projects of the Allgemeine-SS (a main branch of the Schutzstaffel; SS). It also ran the concentration camps and was instrumental...
Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände...
Germany in 1939, Berger helped Dirlewanger join the AllgemeineSS (General SS) with the rank of SS-Untersturmführer. In mid-1940, after the invasion of...
engineer and space architect. He was a member of the Nazi Party and AllgemeineSS, the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi...
unit titles of the AllgemeineSS, the military formation titles used by the Waffen-SS, titles of commands associated with the SS Security Police, and...
AllgemeineSS, the "General" or non-military SS. Some non-SS men also had the tattoo: if a member of a branch of the Wehrmacht was treated in an SS hospital...
12 May 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2016. Lumsden, Robin (1993). The Allgemeine-SS. Osprey Publishing. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-85532-358-2. Yenne, Bill (2010)...
the AllgemeineSS) 13. Infantry company (SS-Hauptsturmführer Walter Schulz; Stammabteilung 6 from the AllgemeineSS) 14. Antitank defense company (SS-Hauptsturmführer...
and competence. Sturmmann was senior to the rank of Mann in the Allgemeine-SS (general-SS). In organizations which did not use the rank of Mann (such as...
upgraded and renamed the SS Division Nord in preparation for Operation Barbarossa. Its original personnel came from Allgemeine-SS paramilitary units and...
and 1945 under the auspices of the Schutzstaffel (SS). The units were modeled on the AllgemeineSS in Nazi Germany and established in Belgium, Denmark...
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