Werner Dörffler-Schuband

Werner Dörffler-Schuband (born December 15, 1892 in Zeitz , † September 27, 1959 in Bad Tölz ) was a German SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS .

Life

Werner Dörffler-Schuband was the son of senior tax inspector Adolf Schuband. After attending high school in Potsdam, he decided to pursue a military career in the Prussian Army and in March 1910 joined the 3rd Lorraine Infantry Regiment No. 135 in Diedenhofen . In the meantime he attended the war school in Danzig and was promoted to lieutenant in August 1913 with a patent from August 19, 1911 . After the outbreak of the First World War he was from April to September 1915 as an adjutant and orderly officer in the recruits battalion of the XVI. Army Corps deployed. He then completed training as an aircraft observer at Flieger Ersatzabteilung 9 and attended the Poznan observer school from November 1915 to January 1916. He then worked for Flieger Replacement Department 10 and, from April 1916, headed the Wangen-Untertürkheim engine school of Daimler-Motorenwerke for one year. After all, he belonged to the staff of the commanding general of the air force , served again in an aviation department and was sent to the Schwerin Aviation School, among other things. Until the war, he has received numerous awards, including the Iron Crescent and after the peace agreement as a captain from the military adopted .

From the Weimar Republic to the beginning of National Socialism , Dörffler-Schuband was a member of the board of directors at the Oscar Dörffler AG meat canning factory until March 1934 . Even before the National Socialists came to power , he joined the NSDAP at the beginning of May 1932 (membership number 1.427.198) and soon afterwards became a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS number 112.955). At the emerging SS Junker School in Bad Tölz , he taught tactics and flight studies from 1934 as part of the training of SS officers. At the beginning of December 1937 he was assigned to the staff of the SS-Standarte "Germania" and there took over the command of the 1st Battalion in early April 1938 and in early May 1939 for the 2nd Battalion. During the Second World War he was from November 1940 to August 1942 and from August 1943 to March 1944 commander of the SS Junkerschule Bad Tölz, as well as in the meantime as commander of the 8th SS infantry regiment and in the SS combat group " Fegelein ". In the autumn of 1943 he rose to the position of SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS. From mid-March 1944 he was head of Office XI at Office Group B in the SS Leadership Main Office and, from February 1945, head of Office II of Office Group A in the SS Personnel Main Office.

After the end of the war he was interned by the Allies and at the end of April 1947 wrote a study on the training of the next generation of SS leaders for the Historical Division of the US Army, which, according to the military historian Jens Westemeier, provides “hardly any information on training content ” and “essentially a propaganda pamphlet “Represents.

literature

• Thierry Tixier: General-SS, Police et Waffen-SS Officiers, sous-officiers et Soldats: Biographics. Volume 2: SS Brigade Leader. December 2016, ISBN 978-1-326-54867-4 .
• Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 1, Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2003, ISBN 3-7648-2373-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jens Westemeier: Himmler's warriors. Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS in the war and the post-war period. Partly zugl .: Potsdam, Univ., Diss., 2009. Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77241-1 , p. 660