German Concentration Camps Inspector and Waffen-SS commander
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Theodor Eicke
Born
17 October 1892 (1892-10-17) Hampont (Hudingen), Elsass-Lothringen, German Empire
Died
26 February 1943 (1943-02-27) (aged 50) near Lozova, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance
German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Bavarian Army Schutzstaffel Waffen-SS
Years of service
1909–19 (Bavaria) 1930–1943 (SS)
Rank
SS-Obergruppenführer
Service number
NSDAP #114,901 SS #2,921
Unit
SS-Totenkopfverbände Waffen-SS
Commands held
Dachau concentration camp SS Division Totenkopf
Battles/wars
World War I
World War II
Battle of France
Operation Barbarossa
Third Battle of Kharkov †
Awards
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Theodor Eicke (17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943) was a senior SS functionary and Waffen SS divisional commander during the Nazi era. He was one of the key figures in the development of Nazi concentration camps. Eicke served as the second commandant of the Dachau concentration camp from June 1933 to July 1934, and together with his adjutant Michael Lippert, was one of the executioners of SA Chief Ernst Röhm during the Night of the Long Knives purge of 1934.[1] He continued to expand and develop the concentration camp system as the first Concentration Camps Inspector.
In 1939, Eicke became commander of the SS Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS, leading the division during the Second World War on the Western and Eastern fronts. Eicke was killed on 26 February 1943, when his plane was shot down during the Third Battle of Kharkov.
TheodorEicke (17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943) was a senior SS functionary and Waffen SS divisional commander during the Nazi era. He was one of the...
expansion of Kampfgruppe Eicke, a battle group named – in keeping with German military practice – after its commander, TheodorEicke. Most of the battle group's...
SS-Freiwilligen Legion Flandern and the SS Division Frundsberg. He and TheodorEicke killed Sturmabteilung (SA) leader Ernst Röhm on 1 July 1934, during...
writer TheodorEicke, German SS general Theodor Fischer (fencer), German Olympic épée and foil fencer Theodor Fontane, (1819–1898), German writer Theodor Geisel...
Reich. Created by TheodorEicke, it was originally known as the "General Inspection of the Enhanced SS-Totenkopfstandarten", after Eicke's position in the...
use during the Nazi period. May 1934 – July 1934: SS-Brigadeführer TheodorEicke July 1934 – March 1935: SS-Obersturmbannführer Bernhard Schmidt March...
systematic techniques for the terrorisation of prisoners. His teacher was TheodorEicke, the camp commandant since June 1933 and shaper of the so-called "Dachau...
1933, Himmler appointed TheodorEicke the second commandant of Dachau, which became the model followed by other camps. Eicke drafted the Disciplinary...
Goebbels Heinrich Müller Reinhard Heydrich Adolf Eichmann Odilo Globocnik TheodorEicke Richard Glücks Ernst Kaltenbrunner Rudolf Höss Christian Wirth Organizations...
Goebbels Heinrich Müller Reinhard Heydrich Adolf Eichmann Odilo Globocnik TheodorEicke Richard Glücks Ernst Kaltenbrunner Rudolf Höss Christian Wirth Organizations...
commanded the SS Division Totenkopf ("Death's Head") following the death of TheodorEicke in February 1943. On 30 October 1944 he was appointed commander of the...
to Pohl by 1938, which pitted him against his contemporary and peer, TheodorEicke, particularly on matters of administration, budget, and building projects...
detention camp. Himmler appointed TheodorEicke, a convicted felon and ardent Nazi, to run the camp in June 1933. Eicke devised a system that was used as...
of 1943 and appointed commander of SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 6 "TheodorEicke", the unit fought the battles of 1943/1944 being pushed back constantly...
The slogan's use was implemented[when?] by Schutzstaffel (SS) officer TheodorEicke at Dachau concentration camp. From Dachau, it was copied by the Nazi...
September 1943 as SS-Standartenführer and commander of the SS Regiment TheodorEicke. Oak Leaves on 21 September 1944 as SS-Oberführer and commander of the...
During its entire operation, Treblinka I's commandant was Sturmbannführer Theodor van Eupen. He ran the camp with several SS men and almost 100 Hiwi guards...
290th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Theodor von Wrede) SS Division Totenkopf (Obergruppenführer TheodorEicke) II Army Corps (General Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt)...
Cross of the Iron Cross. On 15 July 1941, he took over for injured TheodorEicke as a commander of the SS Division Totenkopf. He went on to command the...
against the eastern flank of Totenkopf's 6th SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment TheodorEicke. On the southeastern wing of the 5th Guards Tank Army, Rotmistrov deployed...
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