Showing posts with label Ullrich - Karl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ullrich - Karl. Show all posts

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Herbert Otto Gille with Wiking Officers in 1945


From left to right: SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans Bünning (Kommandeur SS-Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 5 / 5.SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking"), SS-Standartenführer Karl Ullrich (Kommandeur 5. SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking"), and SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Herbert Otto Gille (Kommandierender General IV. SS-Panzerkorps). The picture was taken in Hungary in 1945. John P. Moore photo collection.

Source :
https://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/forum/wehrmacht-uniforms-and-equipment/tony-barto-ss-uniforms-and-insignia-forum/215735-unusual-wiking-sleeve-band-story#post2459092

Friday, February 10, 2023

Eichenlaub Award Ceremony for Karl Ullrich

Eichenlaub award ceremony for SS-Standartenführer Karl Ullrich (Kommandeur SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 6 “Theodor Eicke” / 3.SS-Panzer-Division “Totenkopf”), which were held at Führerhauptquartier Wolfsschanze in Rastenburg, East Prussia, on 1 August 1944. Ullrich received the Eichenlaub #480 on 14 May 1944 previously for his outstanding leadership and bravery in the many battles against the Red Army in the Eastern Front, from March 1943 to March 1944. From left to right: Adolf Hitler (Führer und Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht), Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler (Chef der SS und Polizei), SS-Standartenführer Ullrich, and SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Hermann Fegelein (Verbindungsoffizier zwischen dem Reichsführer-SS und dem Führerhauptquartier).

Source :
KL Archive

Monday, October 10, 2022

Three SS Totenkopf Officers

Three officers from 3. SS-Panzer-Division "Totenkopf" posing for the camera in their car. The picture was taken by SS-Kriegsberichter Peter Adendorf in the Eastern Front, autumn of 1943. From left to right: SS-Sturmbannführer Anton Laackmann (Kommandeur SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 3 "Totenkopf"), SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Ullrich (Kommandeur SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 6 "Theodor Eicke"), and SS-Sturmbannführer Georg Bochmann (Kommandeur SS-Panzer-Regiment 3 "Totenkopf").


Source :
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=210703

Thursday, December 24, 2020

Herbert-Otto Gille Opened the Modlin Soldatenfriedhof


On 9 November 1944, SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Herbert-Otto Gille (Kommandierender General IV. SS-Panzerkorps) dedicated the new Soldatenfriedhof (wartime cemetery) in Modlin, Poland. In addition to the ceremony itself, a reception was held shortly afterwards inside the Modlin Fortress. Here is a copy of the ceremony's program, which featured a speach by Gille, as well as various tunes played by the regimental band of SS Panzer Regiment 5 "Wiking." Besides Gille, in attendance were the commanders of the Totenkopf and Wiking Divisions, their staffs, and various local dignitaries from the German administration of occupied Poland.


SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Herbert-Otto Gille (Kommandierender General IV. SS-Panzerkorps) views the newly-dedicated ceremony. to the immediate right of Gille stands SS-Standartenführer Karl Ullrich, the commander of the Wiking Division.


After the ceremony's conclusion in the chapel of the Modlin Fortress, commanders and staff officers file out of the front door to their waiting staff cars. From left to right: SS-Obersturmbannführer Manfred Schönfelder (with his back to the camera, Chef des Generalstabes IV. SS-Panzerkorps), Major Otto Kleine (Ia Operations Officer 5. SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking"), SS-Sturmbannführer Herbert Jankuhn (Ic Intelligence Officer IV. SS-Panzerkorps), SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Helmuth Becker (Kommandeur 3. SS-Panzer-Division "Totenkopf"), and SS-Untersturmführer Günther Lange (in black panzer uniform, O5 aide-de-camp Kommandierender General IV. SS-Panzerkorps).


At some point during the events of that day, Gille greets the commanders of the Wiking and Totenkopf Divisions, Karl Ullrich (left) and Helmuth Becker, right. In the background stands SS-Obersturmführer Johann "Hans" Velde, the O1 or assistant corps operations officer of the IV. SS-Panzerkorps.


The diagram of the German War Cemetery in Modlin, 1944.


Source :
"From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume I: IV. SS-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July–November 1944" by Douglas E. Nash, Sr.
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