Brummenbaum, Albert Dr. (Reichsbahn)

Date of birth:: August 31st, 1892 (Hoffnungsthal/Rhineprovince, Germany)
Date of death:: 1953 (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Service number:: NSDAP Nr.: 232.194 // SS-Nr.: 274.111
Nationality:: German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

Several sources mistakenly give the first name as Albrecht.

1914-1918: military service
1918: promoted to Leutnant der Reserve
1919-1923: member of the Freikorps in the Ehrhardt Brigade
1919-1924: member of the Association of Former Front Soldiers "Stahlhelm"
1920-1921: completed his studies at the Universities of Halle and Giessen as an animal breeding inspector and certified farmer
1921-1923: assistant at the animal breeding institute of the University of Halle, where he also received his doctorate
1926-1929: became a farmer on the Bacherhof, an ancestral farm in the Sieg district
01.04.1930: joined the NSDAP
1931-1935: member of the SA
01.10.1935: main department head in the Reichsnährstand (RNSt) in Berlin
09.11.1935: joined the SS, where he quickly made a career
09.11.1935: promoted to SS-Untersturmführer - RuS-Hauptamt
31.12.1935: promoted to SS-Obersturmführer
30.01.1936: promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer
14.05.1936: promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer
02.1938-08.1939: head of Reichsabteilung II A - "Vocational Training, Technical Schools and Business Consulting"
30.01.1939: promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer
09.11.1942: promoted to SS-Standartenführer