Fitzthum, Josef "Joschi" (Waffen SS)
- Date of birth:
- September 14th, 1896 (Loimersdorf, Lower Austria, Austria)
- Date of death:
- January 10th, 1945 (Wiener Neudorf/Vienna, Austria)
- Service number:
- SS-Nr.: 41.936 // NSDAP-Nr.: 363.169
- Nationality:
- Austrian
Biography
Josef Fitzthum was an important member of the Austrian National Socialist- party organisation, he was a canditate for the Lord Major of Vienna in 1938.
Promotions:
18.08.1916: KuK Leutnant
01.08.1917: KuK Oberleutnant
31.01.1919: Oberleutnant der Reserve
Hauptmann der Reserve
15.07.1932: SS-Truppführer
25.09.1932: SS-Sturmbannführer
09.11.1933: SS-Obersturmbannführer
07.03.1936: SS-Standartenführer
12.03.1938: SS-Oberführer
15.03.1938: Regierungsdirektor
01.04.1940: SS-Hauptsturmführer der Reserve (Waffen-SS)
30.01.1941: SS-Sturmbannführer der Reserve (Waffen-SS)
20.04.1942: SS-Obersturmbannführer der Reserve (Waffen-SS)
09.11.1942: SS-Standartenführer der Reserve (Waffen-SS)
30.10.1943: SS-Brigadeführer / Generalmajor der Waffen-SS und Polizei
30.07.1944: SS-Gruppenführer / Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei (as from August 1st, 1944).
Career:
09.09.1932-30.03.1933: Kdr, 11. SS-Standarte "Planetta" (Wien)
01.01.1937-30.09.1937: Führer, 58. SS-Standarte Köln
Kommandeur, I./ SS-Infanterie-Regiment 5
Kommandeur, I./ SS-Infanterie-Regiment 4
25.02.1941-12.06.1941: SS-Stubaf, Kdr, II. Bataillon, 2. SS-Infanterie-Brigade (mot)
10.04.1942-15.07.1942: SS-Obersturmbannführer, Kdr, Legion Flandern
20.05.1943-08.01.1944: Kdr, SS-Pz-Gren-Rgt. 48 'General Seyffardt'
00.07.1944-02.01.1945: Höherer SS und Polizeiführer "Albanien", Sonderbevollmächtigter der Deutschen Reiches in Albanien
03.01.1945: Kommandeur, 18. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division "Horst Wessel"
10.01.1945: killed in a car accident
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Silberne Tapferkeitsmedaille (Silberne Tapferkeitsmedaille II. Klasse)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Rank:
- Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- 3. Regiment der Tiroler Kaiserjäger
- Awarded on:
- 1916
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
Kriegserinnerungsmedaille
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
SS-Zivilabzeichen
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Standartenführer (Colonel)
- Awarded on:
- September 25th, 1936
- Awarded on:
- December 1st, 1937
- Awarded on:
- August 3rd, 1938
- Awarded on:
- December 1st, 1938
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- August 10th, 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Parteigenosse
- Awarded on:
- November 30th, 1939
Nr. 2510
with original signature Franz Xaver Schwarz as Reichsschatzmeister - recommendation list Nr. XIV from 21 October 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Oberführer (Brigade General)
- Unit:
- Polizeivizepräsidenten von Wien
- Awarded on:
- February 7th, 1940
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Sturmbannführer
- Unit:
- Stab, I. Bataillon, SS-Infanterie-Regiment 4 "Ostmark", 2. SS-Infanterie-Brigade, Waffen-SS
- Awarded on:
- October 8th, 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Sturmbannführer (Major)
- Unit:
- Stab, I. Bataillon, SS-Infanterie-Regiment 4 "Ostmark", 2. SS-Infanterie-Brigade, Waffen-SS
- Awarded on:
- January 7th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Standartenführer (Colonel)
- Unit:
- Kommandeur, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment Nederland
- Awarded on:
- August 24th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- Photo 1:
- Photo 2:
- Photo 3:
- Photo: Josef Fitzthum – Wikipedia
- - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
- TIXIER, T, Allgemeine SS - Polizei - Waffen SS, Volume 3, Tixier, 2016.
- Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- "Unsere Helden 1939 - 45" ,aus 1959- AUSTRIA
- Verleihungsurkunde EK2
- Vorläufiges Besitzsurkunde EK1
- Vorläufiges Besitzzeugnis DKiG
- Beförderungsurkunde 30.Juli 1944
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