Hessen, Prinz und Landgraf von, Philip
- Date of birth:
- November 6th, 1896 (Schloss Rumpenheim, German Empire)
- Date of death:
- October 25th, 1980 (Rome, Italy)
- Buried on:
- Burgkapelle Kronberg
- Service number:
- NSDAP-Nr. 418.991
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
Promotions:
?: Leutnant
May 13, 1933: SA-Gruppenführer
November 9, 1938: SA-Obergruppenführer
Military career:
First World War: Großherzoglichen Leib-Dragoner-Regiment
NSDAP career:
1930: Member of the NSDAP
1931: Member of SA
7 June 1933 - 15 November 1943: Oberpräsident der Provinz Hessen-Nassau
?: Führer SA Gruppe Hessen
1933-1943: Hitler's Special Ambassador to Italy
1943-1945: Prisoner of concentration camps, including KZ Flossenbürg
1945-1948: Prisoner of War
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Goldenes Ehrenzeichen der NSDAP
- Rank:
- SA-Obergruppenführer
- Awarded on:
- November 1st, 1939
Eisernes Kreuz 1.Klasse (1914)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Rank:
- Leutnant
- Unit:
- Großherzoglichen Leib-Dragoner-Regiment
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Unit:
- Großherzoglichen Leib-Dragoner-Regiment
Kriegverdienstkreuz 1914-1918
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Unit:
- Großherzoglichen Leib-Dragoner-Regiment
Allgemeines Ehrenzeichen / Hessische Tapferkeitsmedaille
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Unit:
- Großherzoglichen Leib-Dragoner-Regiment
Ordine Supremo della Santissima Annunziata
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SA-Obergruppenführer
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Unit:
- Großherzoglichen Leib-Dragoner-Regiment
- Rank:
- SA-Gruppenführer
- Rank:
- SA-Obergruppenführer
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SA-Obergruppenführer
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SA-Obergruppenführer
Abzeichen des SA - Treffens Braunschweig 1931
Sources
- Photo 1: Wikimedia Commons (CC Attribution Share Alike 3.0)
- - Petropoulos, J., Royals and the Reich. The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (2006)
- Miller, M., Leaders Of The Storm Troops Volume 1 (2015)
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