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German Waffen-SS commander, SS-Obergruppenführer
Herbert Otto Gille
Born
(1897-03-08)8 March 1897 Bad Gandersheim, Lower Saxony, German Empire
Died
26 December 1966(1966-12-26) (aged 69) Stemmen, Lower Saxony, West Germany
Allegiance
German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Army Waffen-SS
Years of service
1914–19 1934–45
Rank
SS-Obergruppenführer
Commands held
SS Division Wiking IV SS Panzerkorps
Battles/wars
World War I World War II
Awards
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds
Other work
HIAG, Waffen-SS lobby group
Herbert Otto Gille (8 March 1897 – 26 December 1966) was a high-ranking German SS officer, and divisional & corps commander of the Waffen SS. He commanded the SS Division Wiking during World War II. Gille was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, making him the most highly decorated Waffen-SS member of the war. After the war, Gille opened a book store and became active in HIAG, a lobby group and a revisionist veteran's organisation founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel in West Germany in 1951.
Herbert Otto Gille (8 March 1897 – 26 December 1966) was a high-ranking German SS officer, and divisional & corps commander of the Waffen SS. He commanded...
exhausted itself, Manstein was able to stabilize the front. In 1943, HerbertGille was appointed to command the division. The SS Regiment Nordland, along...
military think tank for West German rearmament. With Paul Hausser, HerbertGille and Otto Kumm, Steiner became a founding member of HIAG, the lobby group...
née Himmler Friedhelm Busse Günter Deckert Sepp Dietrich Gerhard Frey HerbertGille Wolf Rüdiger Hess Erich Kern Götz Kubitschek Michael Kühnen Otto Kumm...
spokesperson. Two well-known former Waffen-SS commanders, Felix Steiner and HerbertGille, became early leading figures. Sepp Dietrich and Kurt Meyer became active...
fighting in the area near Modlin. However, he was rejected by SS General HerbertGille, the new commander of the IV SS Panzer Korps, who decided to keep Standartenführer...
Army commander Hermann Balck to fall back, triggering outrage with HerbertGille, the commander of IV SS Panzer Corps. The fundamental cause behind Balck's...
Karl Maria Demelhuber Erwin Engelbrecht Kurt Fricke William R. Furlong HerbertGille Rüdiger von der Goltz Władysław Grabski Wilhelm Hasse Georg Ritter von...
high-ranking Waffen-SS men including Paul Hausser, Felix Steiner and HerbertGille, when he was released from prison. He was a leading Waffen-SS apologist...
Lucy Burns, American women's rights campaigner (b. 1879) December 26 – HerbertGille, SS German general (b. 1897) December 27 – Guillermo Stábile, Argentine...
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observer. Conflict with the regiment's commander, SS-Standartenführer HerbertGille, led to Fick's subsequent removal from the Eastern Front and reassignment...
have belonged to a Norse–Gaelic family of some prominence. His father, GilleBride, of royal Irish ancestry, appears to have conducted a marriage alliance...
near Grodno in Poland, where it formed a part of SS-Obergruppenführer HerbertGille's IV SS Panzer Corps, covering the approaches to Warsaw near the Modlin...
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Willy Brandt (German: [ˈvɪliː ˈbʁant] ; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was...
under the command of former Wiking commander SS-Obergruppenführer Herbert Otto Gille. The corps was placed into the line around Warsaw, Poland, where it...
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