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Hoppe, Paul Werner (Waffen SS)

Date of birth:
February 28th, 1910 (Berlin, German Empire)
Date of death:
July 15th, 1974 (Bochum, Germany)
Service number:
SS-Nr.: 116.695 // NSDAP-Nr.: 1.596.491
Nationality:
German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

00.10.1934: joined the SS
00.00.1935-00.09.1935: SS-Junchershule Braunschweig
20.04.1936: promoted to SS-Untersturmführer, Zugführer and MG Instructor, SS-TV 'Elbe'
00.00.1936-00.00.1938: SS-Ustuf, 1. SS-Totenkopfstandarte 'Oberbayern'
12.09.1937: promoted to SS-Obersturmführer
11.09.1938: promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer and Adjutant, Inspekteur der Konzentrationslager SS-Gruppenführer Theodor Eicke, Dachau then Oranienburg, Berlin
00.09.1939: SS-Hauptsturmführer, Adjutant, SS-Gruppenführer Theodor Eicke
campaign in Poland
00.11.1939-15.01.1941: SS-Hstuf, Divisions-Adjutant, IIa, SS-Totenkopfdivision, WIA
00.05.1940: involved in a car crash causing further injuries, France
00.04.1941: SS-Hstuf, Chef, 4. Kompanie, SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Regiment 3, SS-Totenkopf-Division
00.04.1942: severely WIA to the leg near Lake Ilmen, Demyansk Pocket, Novgorod - sent to the SS-Lazarett Berlin then SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Ersatz-Bataillon 3
00.07.1942: SS-Hstuf, Führer, Wachbatalion, SS-Totenkopfverbände, Auschwitz, SS-WVHA
01.09.1942: promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer
01.09.1942-25.01.1945: SS-Sturmbannführer, camp commander of KZ Stutthof
25.01.1945: SS-Obersturmbannführer, led the evacuation of the camp by a "death march" toward a sub-camp of Stutthof near Lauenburg in Pomerania about 87 miles (140 km) west-southwest of Stutthof
12.02.1945-02.05.1945: SS-Obersturmbannführer, commandant of Wöbbelin concentration camp, a temporary camp set up to take prisoners evacuated from camps about to be overrun by the Red Army
00.04.1946: captured by the British
00.08.1947: sent to Camp 165 in Watten, Scotland
00.01.1948: sent to an internment camp in Fallingbostel, British zone, West Germany
00.00.1948: awaiting extradition to Poland, escaped and made his way to Switzerland then returned to West Germany
17.04.1953: arrested in Witten, West Germany
00.00.1955: tried and convicted as an accessory to murder
04.06.1957: sentenced to nine years in Bochum
00.00.1966: released

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Bronzes SA-Sportabzeichen
DRL Sportabzeichen
Ehrenwinkel der Alten Kämpfer
Awarded on:
1937
SS-Ehrenring
Awarded on:
1938
Ehrendegen des Reichsführers-SS
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
1941
SS-Dienstauszeichnung 3.Stufe (8 Jahre)
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
1942
Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
August 1942
Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Schwarz

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