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Hessen-Kassel, Prinz von, Richard Wilhelm Leopold

Date of birth:
May 14th, 1901 (Offenbach am Main, German Empire)
Date of death:
February 11th, 1969 (Offenbach am Main, Germany)
Buried on:
Burgkapelle Kronberg
Nationality:
German

Biography

NSDAP career:
August 1932: Joins NSDAP and SA
1935-1939: NSKK-Gruppe Hessen
August 1939 - January 1943: Military service in Norway
1943-1945: NSKK
1945-1948: Prisoner of war

Promotions:
?: NSKK-Brigadeführer
1937: NSKK-Obergruppenführer
?: Pionierfeldwebel
?: Oberleutnant

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Sources

  • Photo 1: Findagrave
  • - Petropoulos, J., Royals and the Reich. The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (2006)

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