Date of birth:

December 14th, 1911 (Augsburg/Bavaria, Germany)

Date of death:

April 27th, 1993 (Heidelberg/Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

Service number:

SS-Nr.: 77.516 // NSDAP-Nr.: 2.241.638

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Lies buried in Augsburg. Also found as SS-Obersturmbannführer Georg-Robert Beßlein

18.10.1931: Hitlerjugend
00.00.1933: joined the NSDAP and the SS, 4. Kompanie, SS-Standarte 29
00.00.1933: II.Bataillon, Infanterie-Regiment 19, Augsburg
00.11.1933-00.03.1934: NCO course, Bavarian Police department, Munich
00.04.1934: SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz
20.04.1935: promoted to SS-Untersturmführer, Zugführer, 13. (IG) Kompanie, SS-Regiment 'Deutschland'
30.01.1937: promoted to SS-Obersturmführer
00.11.1937: SS-Ostuf, Zugführer, 19. (MG) Kompanie, SS-Regiment 'Deutschland'
00.07.1938: SS-Ostuf, Adjutant, Bavarian State Minister Gauleiter Wagner
00.11.1938: SS-Ostuf, Adjutant, III. Bataillon, SS-Regiment 'Deutschland'
00.00.1939: SS-Ostuf, Führer, 13. (IG) Kompanie, SS-Regiment 'Deutschland' - Sudetenland campaign
25.08.1939: promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer -RDA 01.09.1939, campaign in Poland
00.02.1940: SS-Hstuf, Stab, II. Abteilung, SS-Artillerie-Ersatz-Regiment, München
00.05.1940: campaign in France
00.12.1940: SS-Hauptamt
00.05.1941: Operation Marita, Balkans
00.06.1941: SS-Lehrer, Stab, SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz
00.02.1942: Führer, IG Kompanie, SS-Infanterie-Ersatz-Bataillon 'Germania'
30.01.1943: promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer, Führer, SS-Infanterie-Geschütz Ersatz-Bataillon 1
01.04.1943: SS-Stubaf, Kdr, SS-Panzergrenadierschule
00.01.1945-06.05.1945: Kdr, SS-Festungs-Regiment 1 'Beßlein', Breslau
01.03.1945: promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer

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• Photo 1: Willi Schumacher Collection
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