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Hartmann, Ernst (Waffen SS)

Date of birth:
May 10th, 1897 (Barmen, Wuppertal)
Date of death:
May 3rd, 1945 (Staatskrankenhaus der Polizei, Karlsbad)
Service number:
SS-Nr.: 8.982 // NSDAP-Nr.: 160.298
Nationality:
German

Biography

Promotions:
24.10.1930: SS-Anwärter
24.06.1931: SS-Mann
02.11.1931: SS-Scharführer
20.04.1937: SS-Standartenführer
30.01.1942: SS-Oberführer
01.08.1944: SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Schutzpolizei

Career:
00.11.1914: joined an Infanterie-Regiment, Reichsheer
00.09.1916: transferred to the military railroad service
00.01.1917: transferred to the Luftstreitkräfte
00.10.1918: captured - British POW
00.00.1919: discharged as Oberleutnant
00.00.1925-00.00.1928: flight instructor for the Chinese Air Force
00.00.1928-00.00.1930: aeronautics engineer
01.11.1929: joined the NSDAP and the SA
00.00.1930: aeronautics engineer, Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works
24.10.1930: joined the SS in the 21. SS-Standarte, Magdeburg
01.10.1932: left the SS
00.00.1933-00.00.1935: flight leader, Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works
20.04.1937: joined again the SS as SS-Standartenführer, staff officer, SS-Abschnitt XVI, Magdeburg
00.03.1939: Stab, SS-Oberabschnitt Mitte Braunschweig
18.08.1939: dismissed from the SS because of alcoholism
01.10.1939: reintegrated with the same rank at the same position
00.00.1942: trained for police duties and deployed to the occupied Soviet Union to conduct anti-partisan operations
00.02.1943-00.06.1943: SS-Ofu, Kdr, II. Bataillon, SS-Polizei-Regiment 2, Weißruthenien - Reichskommissariat Ostland
00.04.1943: Operation Zauberflöte - Minsk
01.07.1943: SS-Ofu, SS- und Polizei Führer, SSPF, Tshernigow, North Ukraine
31.10.1943-25.01.1944: SS-Ofu, SSPF "Shitomir", Reichskommissariat Ukraine
18.12.1943-06.09.1944: SS-Ofu, SSPF "Pripet", Pinsk, northwest area, Reichskommissariat Ukraine
10.02.1944: SS-Ofu, permanent Deputy to SSPF "Wolhynien-Luzk"
06.06.1944-06.09.1944: SS-Ofu, SSPF "Wolhynien-Luzk"
01.08.1944: SS-Brif, SSPF for Special Duties in the office of the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) "Nordost", Königsberg
03.05.1945: died of pancreatic cancer in the Staatskrankenhaus der Polizei, Karlsbad / Karlovy Vary

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Period:
First World War (1914-1918)
Awarded on:
1934
Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer

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