Date of birth:

March 14th, 1910 (Cologne/North Rhine-Westphalia, German Empire)

Date of death:

July 21st, 1992 (Bad Bevensen/Lower Saxony, Germany)

Service number:

SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.:

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Ernst Schäfer joined the SS in 1933 and reached the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer. He was an explorer and zoologist.

01.11.1933: entered the SS, 51. SS-Standarte Göttingen
00.04.1936: promoted to SS-Untersturmführer, Stab, Reichsführer SS
00.04.1938-00.08.1939: SS-Hstuf, Zoologe und Ornithologe, Führer der Expedition, Tibet-Expedition
00.00.1942: promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer

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• Photo: Wikimedia Commons
  
• - Ernst Schäfer; Biographie; Nachkriegskarriere
  - Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich, Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 523