Höss, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand
- Date of birth:
- November 25th, 1900 (Baden-Baden, German Empire)
- Date of death:
- April 16th, 1947 (Oświęcim, Poland)
- Service number:
- SS Nr.: 193.616 // NSDAP Nr.: 3.240
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
SS-Obersturmbannführer. Commander of KZ Auschwitz.
01.08.1916: Ersatz Eskadron - 2. bad.Dragoner Regiment 21
02.10.1916-06.03.1917: served in Irak - 6. Türkishen Armee
06.03.1917: WIA to the knee
17.11.1917: WIA to the thigh
26.02.1918: WIA to the hand and the knee
01.04.1918: promoted to Vizewachmeister
12.01.1919: retired
01.02.1919: joined the Nachrichten Abteilung - Ostpreussischen freiw. Korps
13.09.1919-21.06.1921: Freikorps Rossbach - Baltikum, Ruhr, Mecklemburg, Oberschlesien
22.10.1922: member of the DAP
28.06.1923: arrested for the murder of Walter Kadow and sentenced to 10 years
15.03.1924-07.1928: in jail in Brandenburg
07.1928: pardoned
20.09.1933: entered in the SS as SS-Anwärter - 5. Reitersturm / 2.SS-Reiterstandarte - Stargard / Pommern
01.04.1934: SS-Mann
20.04.1934: SS-Sturmmann
11.06.-30.11.1934: 10. SS-Sturm / 9.SS-Standarte
28.11.1934: SS-Unterscharführer
01.03.1935-01.04.1936: Sonderausbildung/Wachtruppe - Schutzhaftlager Dachau - SS-Totenkopfstandarte Oberbayern as Blockführer - Abt. IIa - KL Dachau
01.04.1935: SS-Scharführer
01.07.1935: SS-Oberscharführer
01.03.1936: SS-Hauptscharführer
13.09.1936-04.05.1938: Rapport führer - Abt. IIa - KL Dachau then Leiter of the Gefangenen-Eigentums Verwaltung - KL Dachau
13.09.1936: SS-Untersturmführer - Geschäftführerder Adjutant des Kdt KL Sachsenhausen
11.09.1938: SS-Obersturmführer
09.11.1938: SS-Hauptsturmführer
21.09.1939-04.1940: Schutzhaftlagerführer KL Sachsenhausen
05.06.1940-09.11.1943: Kdt KL Auschwitz
01.08-01.11.1940: Stab./ Inspektion d. KL
30.01.1941: SS-Sturmbannführer
30.07.1942: SS-Obersturmbannführer - Chef des Amtes D 1/SS WVHA
11.03.1946: arrested
15.04.1946: witness during the Nuremberg trial
25.05.1946: handed over to the Polish authorities
11.-29.03.1947: sentenced to death by hanging in Krakow
16.04.1947: hanged to death in Auschwitz
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Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse (1914)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- February 17th, 1917
Harp Madalyasi
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- October 6th, 1917
Militär-Verdienstmedaille
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- December 19th, 1917
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- May 16th, 1918
Baltenkreuz 1. Klasse
- Awarded on:
- January 4th, 1920
- Awarded on:
- June 9th, 1921
Gau Abzeichen
- Awarded on:
- 1925
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- 1934
- Rank:
- SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain)
- Awarded on:
- November 12th, 1938
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Sturmbannführer (Major)
- Awarded on:
- April 20th, 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-colonel)
- Awarded on:
- January 7th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-colonel)
- Awarded on:
- April 20th, 1943
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- - Höß Rudolf
- Tixier, T., Allgemeine SS - Polizei - Waffen-SS; Biographies Volume 1 (2019)
- Dienstaltersliste der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP 1936
- Dienstaltersliste der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP 1942
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