Diekmann, Adolf Otto (Waffen SS)

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Diekmann, Adolf Otto (Waffen SS)

Date of birth:: December 8th, 1914 (Magdeburg/Prussia, German Empire)
Date of death:: June 29th, 1944 (near Noyers-Bocage, Caen/Normandie, France)
Buried on:: German War Cemetery La Cambe
Plot: 25. Row: 4. Grave: 121.
Service number:: SS-Nr.: 309.894 // NSDAP-Nr.:
Nationality:: German

Biography

SS-Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann commanded the 1. Bataillon of the 2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich". Diekmann is responsible for the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.

Promotions:
00.08.1938: SS-Untersturmführer
01.07.1940: SS-Obersturmführer
20.04.1942: SS-Hauptsturmführer
08.06.1944: SS-Sturmbannführer

Career:
18.05.1933: entered the SS
01.03.1936: SS-Nachrichtendienst, Adlershof, Berlin
00.10.1937-00.07.1938: SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz
00.08.1938: Lehrgang, Junkerschule Dachau
30.09.1938: SS-Untersturmführer, SS-Standarte 'Germania', SS-Verfügungstruppe, SS-VT
00.04.1940: SS-Ustuf, Adjutant, II. Bataillon, SS-Regiment (mot.) 'Germania', SS-VT - French campaign
27.05.1940: WIA shot in the lungs
01.07.1940: SS-Ostuf, Kdr, 3. Kompanie, I. Bataillon, SS-Regiment (mot.) 'Germania', SS-VT
00.05.1941: SS-Ostuf, Lehrer, SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz
22.06.1941: SS-Ostuf, SS-Division 'Reich', Heeresgruppe Mitte
00.07.1941: fightings in Smolensk
00.04.1942: SS-Hstuf, Zhitomir–Berdichev
08.06.1944: Kdr, I. Bataillon, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 „Der Führer", 2. SS-Panzer-Division „Das Reich"
09.06.1944: SS-Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe captured 4km east of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat by the French Resistance, Colonel Georges Guingouin's Brigade, Maquis du Limousin
10.06.1944: SS-Stubaf Kämpfe was executed by the French Resistance and Diekmann ordered the 3. Kompanie, I. Bataillon, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 „Der Führer", 2. SS-Panzer-Division „Das Reich" to burn down and massacre the village Oradour-sur-Glane in retaliation of Kämpfe's execution killing 245 women, 207 children, and 190 men
18.06.1944: sentenced to be court-martialed by SS-Standartenführer Sylvester Stadler, Kdr, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 „Der Führer" approved by SS-Brigadeführer Heinz Lammerding, Kdr, 2. SS-Panzer-Division „Das Reich"
29.06.1944: KIA near Noyers-Bocage, Normandy