SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Maria Demelhuber

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SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Maria Demelhuber

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NSDAP-Number: (Joined 20 February 1922 with NSDAP-Number 4 439; left after Munich Putsch and did not rejoin)
SS-Number: 252 392 (Joined 15 March 1935)

Promotions:
Leutnant: 1916

Oberleutnant: 1919

Polizei-Hauptmann: 1 June 1933

SA-Standartenführer: 1 May 1934

SS-Obersturmbannführer: 15 March 1935 (entered SS at that rank)

SS-Standartenführer: 1 October 1936

SS-Oberführer: 30 January 1940

SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS: 9 November 1941

SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS: 20 April 1942

SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS: 21 June 1944

SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS, Commander of the Waffen-SS in the Netherlands.


German Cross in Silver: 9 November 1943,
Prussian Iron Cross, 1st Class (1914) with 1939 Bar
Prussian Iron Cross, 2nd Class (1914) with 1939 Bar
War Merit Cross, 1st Class with Swords
War Merit Cross, 2nd Class with Swords
Medal for the Winter Campaign in Russia 1941/1942 (“East Medal”)
Bavarian Military Merit Order, 4th Class with Swords
Bavarian Military Merit Cross, 3rd Class with Swords
Cross of Honor for Combatants 1914-1918
Commemorative Medal of 13 March 1938
Commemorative Medal of 1 October 1938 with Prague Castle Bar
Wound Badge in Black – World War I award
German Horseman’s Badge in Silver
Nürnberg Party Day Badge of 1929
Finnish Order of the Cross of Liberty, 1st Class with Swords: 1 December 1941.

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Commands & Assignments:

2 August 1914: Enlisted as a War Volunteer in the Royal Bavarian 1. Feldartillerie-Regiment Prinz-Regent Luitpold seeing action on the Western Front including Arras and Verdun.

January 1915: Transferred to the antiaircraft section of his regiment.

March 1919-May 1920: Served with Freikorps "Epp" commanded by General Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp in the suppression of the communist uprisings in München and the Ruhr.

May 1919-February 1920: Served in Artillery Regiment 21.

February 1920: Separated from the Army, studied in München and found occupation as a salesman.

1 January 1921: Joined the Bavarian Landespolizei [Land Police] as a platoon leader.

10 March 1933-31 January 1935: Adjutant to the Police President of München.

31 January 1935: Left police service.

1 May 1934-15 March 1935: Joined the Sturm Abteilung (SA-the "Brown Shirts") and served as an instructor with the SA training command.

15 March 1935: Joined the SS.

1 April 1935: Commander of II Battalion/SS-Regiment "Deutschland."

1 October 1936: Commander of SS-Regiment "Germania" His regiment saw action during the campaign in Poland in 1939 under the 14th Army attached to several different units. Later assigned to the SS-Verfügungs-Division commanded by SS-Gruppenführer Paul Hausser, Demelhuber's regiment saw action during the campaign in France in 1940.

November 1940: Commander of Waffen-SS East in Krakau, General Government (Poland).

24 April 1941: Commander of the 1st SS-Infantry-Brigade (Motorized).


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15 May 1941-20 April 1942: Commander of SS-Division "Nord" in Finland. [On 1 July 1941, the German Higher Command for Special Employment XXXVI commanded by General der Kavallerie z.V. Hans Feige, consisting of the 169th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Kurt Dittmar) and SS-Division "Nord" (Demelhuber) plus the attached Finnish 6th Division (Colonel Verner August Viikla) launched Operation "Polarfuchs" (Polar Fox), an attack against Russia from Finland with the objective of cutting the Murmansk Railroad at Kandalaksha. During hard fighting in which portions of SS-Division "Nord" broke and ran, the command captured Salla and Aalakurtti but ground to a halt in mid-September 1941 about 22 miles short of its objective. The command made no further gains and dug in along the Verman River. Composed primarily of poorly trained reservists and policemen, SS-Division "Nord" could not stand up to Russian veteran troops. Unable to trust the division to hold its own sector, Generaloberst Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Commander-in-Chief of the Army High Command Norway, split the division up amongst other German and Finnish formations. Although Demelhuber had briefed his superiors on the shortfalls of his command, he was still held partly responsible for its poor performance.]

21 September 1941: While retaining titular command of SS-Division "Nord," Demelhuber briefly returned to Germany to assume duties as Inspector of SS Noncommissioned Officer Schools in the SS Main Operational Office.

11 June 1942-9 November 1944: Commander of Waffen-SS in the Netherlands After 2 ½ years in this position, Demelhuber apparently threatened to resign unless his request for a combat assignment was honored.

1-6 August 1944; 18-20 October 1944: Commanding General of XII SS-Army Corps.

15 January 1945-April 1945: Commanding General of XVI SS-Army Corps [This corps was hurriedly formed for the defence of the Schneidemuehl-Nackels-Bromberg sector in Pomerania and Mecklenburg as a component of Army Group Weichsal. Demelhuber managed to corral portions of the 15. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (Latvian Nr. 1) and the 32nd Infantry Division and other odds and ends into his corps. After a limited counterattack that retook Prussian-Friedland, the XVI SS-Army Corps was forced to conduct a fighting retreat through Pomerania and Mecklenburg until the end of the war.].

March-April 1945: At the same time, also served as Standing Deputy of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler in Führungsstab "Ostseeküste" (Leadership Staff "Baltic Sea Coast").

March 1945-8 May 1945: At the same time, also served as Inspector General of Replacements in the SS Main Operational Office.

16 May 1945: Captured by the British in Schleswig-Holstein.


Initially held at Rendsburg Prison; transferred to Neuengamme Prison in June 1945 with other Waffen-SS members.
19th March 1946 transferred to Island Farm Special Camp 11 from LDC (London District Cage)

23 April 1946: Transferred to the LDC for investigation into alleged war crimes committed by his unit, SS-Regiment “Germania,” during the 1940 campaign in France.*

7 May 1946: Transferred to Island Farm Special Camp 11 from the LDC after having been cleared of charges.

12 May 1948: Transferred to Camp 186 for repatriation.

17 May 1948: Released.
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