SS Unterführerschule Dachau

The SS-Unterführererschule Dachau was an existing SS training facility at the Dachau concentration camp between April 1936 and July 1937. It was located on the premises of the Dachau training camp and was supposed to train the "Unterführer" ( NCOs ) for the SS skull associations .

The SS Death's Head Associations have been responsible for guarding the concentration camps since they were set up . The Dachau concentration camp under commandant Theodor Eicke played an important role as a training facility. The SS personnel were housed in an SS barracks located on the premises of the Dachau training camp.

The "SS-Unterführererschule Dachau", established with the reorganization of the death's head associations in the spring of 1936, was created to take care of the military training of its own junior officers. The Eickes Totenkopfverband wanted to differentiate itself from the SS troops and their facilities, which is why the Dachau Unterführerschule deliberately did not call itself the “ Junker School ”.

The staff of the subordinate school itself was housed in the staff building of the SS Totenkopfverband and comprised 79 people before the school was dissolved in July 1937 and incorporated into the SS Junker School Bad Tölz. The SS Unterführerschule Dachau served as a model for the Waffen-SS Unterführer schools in Lauenburg (Pomerania) and Radolfzell, which opened in 1940/41 . The training camp in Dachau remained an important location for the training of future security personnel for the concentration camps.

literature

• Andrew Mollo: Uniforms of the SS , Volume 4, p. 20