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Seibert, Willi Willy (SS)

Date of birth:
June 17th, 1908 (Hannover, German Empire)
Date of death:
March 30th, 1976 (Bremen, Germany)
Service number:
SS Nr.: 272.375 // NSDAP-Nr.: 1.886.112
Nationality:
German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

Wilhelm Julius Heinrich Seibert

00.00.1932-00.00.1935: served in the Reichswehr - Infanterie
27.04.1933: joined the NSDAP
01.08.1935-15.09.1935: Infanterie-Schule Döberitz
00.09.1935: promoted to Leutnant der Reserve
00.11.1935: joined the SS as SS-Unterscharführer, SD, Reichsführer SS Amt, Berlin
20.04.1936: promoted to SS-Scharführer
13.09.1936: promoted to SS-Oberscharführer
20.07.1937: promoted to SS-Untersturmführer
20.04.1938: promoted to SS-Obersturmführer
30.04.1939: promotesd to SS-Hauptsturmführer, Chef p.i., III D Amt (Wirtschaft), RSHA
01.08.1940: promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer
01.01.1941: RSHA III, Deputy Gruppenleiter D and Referatsleiter III D2 (Commerce, Trade & Transportation)
15.05.1941-15.08.1942: Stabsführer and SD Referent, Leiter III, Einsatzgruppe D 'Ohlendorf' - Pretzsch
00.06.1941: deployed in Ukraine and Crimea, Einsatzgruppe D, XI. Armee
09.11.1941: promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer
00.06.1942-00.05.1945: transferred to the RSHA III - Berlin
30.01.1944: promoted to SS-Standartenführer
00.00.1945-00.00.1945: British POW
00.00.1947-00.00.1948: tried in the Einsatzgruppen Trial at Nuremberg - US Military Tribunal
00.00.1948: sentenced to death by hanging
00.00.1951: sentence commuted to 15 years
14.05.1954: released

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-colonel)
Awarded on:
January 15th, 1943
Ordinul Steaua Romaniei Officer

Sources

  • Photo 1: (Public Domain)
  • - Royal Decree No. 78/15 January 1943, published in Monitorul Oficial No. 90/16 April 1943