Brigadeführer
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Brigadeführer ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}, Template:Literally) was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) that was used between 1932 and 1945.Template:Sfn It was mainly known for its use as an SS rank. As an SA rank,Template:Sfn it was used after briefly being known as Untergruppenführer in late 1929 and 1930.
HistoryEdit
The rank was first created due to an expansion of the SS and assigned to those officers in command of SS-Brigaden. In 1933, the SS-Brigaden were changed in name to SS-Abschnitte; however, the rank of Brigadeführer remained the same.
Originally, Brigadeführer was considered the second general officer rank of the SS and ranked between Oberführer and Gruppenführer.Template:Sfn This changed with the rise of the Waffen-SS and the Ordnungspolizei. In both of those organizations, Brigadeführer was the equivalent to a Generalmajor and ranked above an Oberst in the German Army or police. The rank of Generalmajor was the equivalent of brigadier general, a one-star general in the US Army.Template:SfnThe insignia for Brigadeführer was at first two oak leaves and a silver pip; however, the design was changed to three oak leaves in April 1942 after the creation of the rank SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer. Brigadeführer in the Waffen-SS or police also wore the shoulder insignia of a Generalmajor and were referred to as such after their SS rank (e.g. SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS und Polizei).Template:Sfn
- Bundesarchiv Bild 101III-Adendorf-122-28, Hermann Prieß.jpg
Hermann Prieß as SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of the Waffen-SS
InsigniaEdit
- SS-Brigadefuehrer collar pre 1942.jpg
Gorget patch
until April 1942
(Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS) - HH-SS-Brigadefuhrer-Collar.png
Gorget patches
1942–1945
(Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS) - SS-Brigadeführer.svg
Shoulder board
(Waffen-SS) - NSFK-Brigadeführer.svg
NSFK gorget patch
- NSKK-Brigadeführer.svg
NSKK gorget patch
| Junior Rank Oberführer |
SS rank and SA rank Brigadeführer |
Senior Rank Gruppenführer |
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