Schulze-Kossens, Richard 'Rix' (Waffen SS)

Date of birth:: October 2nd, 1914 (Berlin-Spandau)
Date of death:: July 3rd, 1988 (Düsseldorf / North Rhine-Westphalia)
Service number:: SS-Nr. 264.059 // NSDAP-Nr.:
Nationality:: German

Biography

SS-Obersturmbannführer Richard 'Rix' Harry Lür Friedrich Schulze-Koßens / Schulze-Kossens
Born "Richard Schulze", he changed his name to "Richard Schulze-Kossens" after WWII and was the brother of SS-Obersturmführer Hansgeorg Schulze KIA in July 1941.

Promotions:
11.11.1934: SS-Anwärter
01.04.1935: SS-Junker
11.11.1935: SS-Standartenjunker
02.02.1936: SS-Standartenoberjunker
20.04.1936: SS-Untersturmführer
11.11.1936: SS-Obersturmführer
01.08.1940: SS-Hauptsturmführer
24.02.1943: SS-Sturmbannführer
11.11.1944: SS-Obersturmbannführer

Career:
ca. 1920 – ca. 1923 Attended 3 classes of Volksschule.
ca. 1923 – ca. 1933 Attended Gymnasium (graduated Oberprima and passed his Abitur).
00.00.193_ - 00.00.193_ Hitler-Jugend service.
09.11.1934 – 27.11.1934 Joined the Allgemeine-SS, assigned to 6.SS-Standarte (Base: Berlin).
27.11.1934 Joined the Leibstandarte-SS "Adolf Hitler".
27.11.1934 – 31.03.1935 Attended a Führeranwärter-Lehrgang at Jüterbog.
01.04.1935 – 01.04.1936 Attended SS-Führerlehrgang at SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz.
20.02.1936 – 31.03.1936 Attended Zugführerlehrgang at Dachau.
01.04.1936 – 01.03.1937 Assigned as a Zugführer to 3.SS-Totenkopf-Standarte "Thüringen".
01.03.1937 – 10.07.1937 Assigned to Stab / SS-Totenkopfverbände as Adjutant to Theodor Eicke.
10.07.1937 – 15.11.1938 Adjutant to the Führer of 3.SS-Totenkopf-Standarte "Thüringen".
24.09.1938 – 22.12.1938 Attached to VII.Armee-Korps, München.
15.11.1938 – 01.04.1939 Hundertschaftsführer in 3.SS-Totenkopf-Standarte "Thüringen".
01.04.1939 – 01.07.1939 Adjutant to Chef SS-Hauptamt (August Heißmeyer).
08.06.1939 – 26.02.1940 As Führer beim Stab, SS-Hauptamt, assigned as Adjutant to the Reichsminister des Auswärtigen (also known as the Reichsaussenminister, Joachim von Ribbentrop).
29.02.1940 – 14.06.1940 Zugführer in 2.Kompanie / I.Batallon / Leibstandarte-SS "Adolf Hitler".
14.06.1940 – 06.08.1941 Chef of 2.Kompanie / I.Bataillon / Leibstandarte-SS "Adolf Hitler" (document in his SS-Personalakte indicates he also served for a time as stellvertreter Bataillonsführer; he served in the Western Campaign from 10.05.1940 – 26.06.1940, in the Balkan Campaign from 08.04.1941 – 28.04.1941, and on the Eastern Front from 22.06.1941 – 16.08.1941 [when he was wounded in action by shrapnel to the upper right arm and a Steckschuss to the upper left arm]).
26(?).06.1940 – 01.08.1940 As Führer beim Stab, SS-Hauptamt, assigned again as Adjutant to Reichsaussenminister von Ribbentrop.
01.10.1941 – 27.10.1942 Assigned to Führerhauptquartier as Ordonnanz-Offizier (OO).
27.10.1942 – 20.11.1943 Persönlicher Adjutant des Führers at Führerhauptquartier (another document in his SS-Personalakte gives start date of 29.10.1943).
20.11.1943 – 01.05.1944 Assigned as Taktiklehrer and Sturmbannführer im Stabe to SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz.
01.05.1944 – 12.01.1945 Lehrgruppenkommandeur (Instructional Group Commander) at SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz.
27.11.1944 Received an official reprimand (according to Stammkarte in his SS-Personalakte; reason not indicated).
01.12.1945 – 00.05.1945 Führer (m.d.F.b.) of SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz.
00.12.1944 – ??.??.194? Kommandeur II.Bataillon / SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 25 / 12.SS-Panzer-Division "Hitlerjugend".
06.04.1945 – 09.04.1945 Kommandeur of 38.SS-Grenadier-Division "Nibelungen".

Published Work:
Militärischer Führernachwuchs der Waffen-SS - Die Junkerschulen (1982)