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Scherner, Julian

Date of birth:
September 23rd, 1895 (Bagamoyo, Tanzania, German East Africa)
Date of death:
April 28th, 1945 (Niepołomice, Poland)
Service number:
NSDAP Nr.:865.027 /// SS Nr.:39.492
Nationality:
German

Biography

Julian Scherner was a Nazi Party official and a high-ranking member in the SS of Nazi Germany. During World War II, he served as the SS and Police Leader of Kraków, Germany-occupied Poland.

Promotions:
April 1914: Fähnrich
05 August 1914: Leutnant
30 March 1920: discharged as Oberleutnant
31 July 1933: SS-Untersturmführer
24 December 1933: SS-Obersturmführer
1st March 1934: SS-Hauptsturmführer
12 August 1934: SS-Sturmbannführer
1st January 1935: SS-Obersturmbannführer
30 January 1936: SS-Standartenführer
12 September 1937: SS-Oberführer (W) der Reserve
16 October 1944: demoted to Hauptsturmführer der Reserve

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Sources

  • - Emmett, Stuart (May 30, 2017). Strafvollzugslager der SS und Polizei: Himmler's Wartime Institutions for the Detention of Waffen-SS and Polizei Criminals. Fronthill Media. p. 11928. ISBN 9781781555606.
    -Yerger, Mark (January 1997). Allgemeine-SS: The Commands, Units and Leaders of the General SS. Schiffer Publishing. p. 52. ISBN 0764301454.

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