Date of birth:

April 1st, 1901 (Dortmund, German Empire)

Service number:

SS.nr: 275719 / NSDAP.nr.: 218341

Nationality:

German

Promotions:
Juni 1930: SA-Scharführer
1933: SA-Oberscharführer
15 December 1935: SS-Hauptsturmführer
13 September 1936: SS-Sturmbannführer
20 April 1938: SS-Obersturmbannführer
1 September 1941: SS-Standartenführer
?: SS-Oberführer

SS career:
1916-1920: Völkischer Wandervogel
?: Treubund für Rheinland und Westfalen
1929-1935: Sturmabteilung (SA)
1930: NSDAP
1935: Algemeine-SS
1939-1940: SS-Grossdeutschland regiment
March 1941: Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
October 1941: SS-Infanterie Ersatz Batalion, LSSAH
May 1943: General command, III (Germanische) Panzerkorps
August 1943: Sturmartillerie/11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Nordland
January 1944: Wounded at Leningrad
Februry 1944: Marion Hill Lazaret, Würzburg
May 1944: SS-Sturmgeschutz/Ausbildungs und Ersatsabteilung
August 1944: Reich security office
December 1944: Gener stafs, SS personel main office
February 1945: Commander in de Volkssturm/Rheinfront

Ellersiek organized a German resistance network (Organisation Süddeutschland) and was arrested by the U.S. secret service in 1947. On 19 July 1961, Ellersiek was sentenced to 4,5 years prison for executing an Obergefreiter in the final phase of the war.

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