Command Roster of SS-Brigade Nederland

[Massimiliano Afiero]

Command Roster of SS-Brigade Nederland

4.SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadierbrigade 'Nederland'

Brigade commander: Brigf. Jürgen Wagner
Adjutant: Stubaf. Steenhold-Schütt

Ia: Stubaf. Dietrich Ziemssen
Hstuf. Kordts
Stubaf. Jürgen von Bock
Stubaf. Hartmann
Reinhardt Wörner


Ib: Ustuf. Bläss (incl. V)
H. van 't Hof
Ostuf. Graf
Stubaf. Günther Noatzke
Hstuf. Fritz Beist
Ostuf. Walter Heggblum


PzGrenRgt. 48 'General Seyffardt'

Ostubaf. Josef Fitzthum
Ostubaf. Wolfgang Joerchel
Ostubaf. Richard Benner †
Ostubaf. Massell †
? Fritz Knochlein
Ostubaf. Garzhe
Ostubaf. Siegfried Scheibe †

I./48: Stubaf. Fritz Geiger
? Hans Joachim Rühle von Lilienstern
Hstuf. Fritz Tröger
Stubaf. Betzwieser
Hstuf. Wolfgang Vieweger

II./48: Stubaf. Breymann †
? Kurt Wald


III./48: Stubaf. Geiger
? Grafhorst
? Hans Joachim Rühle von Lilienstern
? Hans Reigl


PzGrenRgt. 49 'De Ruyter'

Ostubaf. Hans Collani †
Stubaf. Pritz Bunse
Ostubaf. Hans Heinrich Lohmann 11.11.44
Ostubaf. Rudi Klotz

I./49: Hstuf. Voorwinden
? Mosenthin
Stubaf. Franz Lang
Hstuf. Hans Meyer
Stubaf. Walther
Stubaf. Gerhard Unger
? Rehder
Ostubaf. Bunse


II./49: ? Göttsche
Hstuf. Bürmester †
Hstuf. Walter Diener †
Hstuf. Carl Heinz Frühauf
Ostuf. Helmut Scholz
Hstuf. K.H. Ertel
Stubaf. Otto Petersen

Artillerie Regiment 54

Staf. Diebitsch
Stubaf. Schlüter
Stubaf. Hofer

I./ArtRgt 54 10,5cm: Stubaf. Joseph Rüschoff
Hstuf. Singer

II./ArtRgt 54 l.FH 18: Hstuf. Topeters †
Hstuf. Quintus de Veer
Hstuf. Anton Aigner


III./ArtRgt 54 sFH / FlaK: Stubaf. Lothar Hofer

Aufklärungs Kompanie 54

? Erich Kuhne
Hstuf. Hillenbrandt †
Ostuf. Rosenbeck

Pionier Btl. 54
Stubaf. Wendtlant
? Werner
Hstuf. Carl-Heinz Frühauf
? Adolf Wolff
? Günther Wanhöfer
Hstuf. Ilgner

Panzerjäger Abt. 54 – StuG

Stubaf. Knud Schock
? Arthur Grathwol
? Anton Aigner
Hstuf. Kraus
? Diener
? Philip Rössner

Sanitäts Abteilung 54
Stubaf. Dr. van Heutsz
Hstuf. Dr. Krey
Dr. Loderhose
Dr. Kletnakin

Nachrichten Kompanie 54
Hstuf. Wilhem Thissen
Hstuf. Schuler
Ustuf. Katoll

FlaK Kompanie 54

Ustuf. Nieuwendijk-Hoek
Ustuf. Edmont Le Roux
Hstuf. Grim
Lt. Ahrens

[John P. Moore]

That's a good start, but it would be better if you added the dates when those men were commanding their respective units. That brigade's sub-units underwent significant command changes at several points such as January - March 1944, July 1944 and throughout 1945.

John

[Massimiliano Afiero]

But the list of names of commanders for each unit is good? Answer me please...

Waffen211

[Massimiliano Afiero]

Someone have information about biography and military career of Hstuf. Quintus de Veer, commander of II./SS-Art.Rgt 54 of Brigade Nederland. Photos?

Waffen211

[Jan]

Hi
a few additions

Command Roster of SS-Brigade/Division Nederland

4.SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadierbrigade 'Nederland'
23.SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadierdivision 'Nederland'

Brigade commander: Brigf. Jürgen Wagner
Oberst ?? Friedrich
Oberst ?? Kressin
Brigf. Jürgen Wagner
Staf. ?? Schäfer
Adjutant: Stubaf. Christian Steenhold-Schütt

Ia: Stubaf. Dietrich Ziemssen
Hstuf. Helmut Kordts
Stubaf. Jürgen von Bock
Stubaf. ?? Hartmann
Hstuf. Reinhardt Wörner

Ib: Ustuf. Bläss (incl. V) ???

PzGrenRgt. 48 'General Seyffardt'

Ostubaf. Josef Fitzthum
Ostubaf. Wolfgang Joerchel
Ostubaf. Siegfried Scheibe †
Ostubaf. Richard Benner †
Ostubaf. Paul Massell †
Ostubaf. Fritz Knöchlein
Ostubaf. Garzhe
Stubaf.Rudolf Klotz
Ostubaf. Siegfried Scheibe †

Jan

[Marc Rikmenspoel]

The original list given is essentially copied out of the Vincx/Schotanius volume on SS-PG Brigade/Division Nederland. The Kresin mentioned (not Kressin) is Heer Oberst Paul Kresin, the Arko for III.(germanisches) SS-Panzerkorps.

Siegfried Scheibe, as far as is known, was never promoted above Stubaf.

As the original list suggests, Edmont "Eddy" LeRoux was a Dutch officer who commanded the Light Flak Batterie of the unit. He was alive long after the war, and was an honored guest at a Sint Maartinsfonds treffen in Belgium (a reunion for Flemish Waffen-SS veterans and their families).

I wasn't aware of Cornelius Nieuwendijk-Hoek having anything to do with Flak, though it is possible. His primary service was with SS-PGR 48 General Seyffardt. He was one of the few men of the unit to successfully escape to German lines in late July 1944. He was supposedly decorated with the German Cross in Gold during the sea passage from Kurland to Pomerania in early 1945, though there is no official record of this. He survived time as a Soviet prisoner after the war, and was able to return to the Netherlands, where he was still alive as of a few years ago.

[Jan]

Hi
a few additions

I./48:
Stubaf. Fritz Geiger
Hstuf. Hans Joachim Rühle von Lilienstern
Hstuf. Fritz Tröger
Stubaf. ?? Betzwieser
Hstuf. Wolfgang Vieweger
Stubaf. Heinz Hämel

II./48:
Stubaf. Helmut Breymann †
Hstuf. Hans Meyer
Stubaf. Helmut Breymann †
Hstuf.Kurt Walo oder Wald ??
Hstuf. Willi Heuvel


III./48:
Stubaf. Fritz Geiger
Hstuf. Karl-Heinz Frühauf
? Grafhorst
Hstuf. Hans Joachim Rühle von Lilienstern
? Hans Reigl


PzGrenRgt. 49 'De Ruyter'

Ostubaf. Hans Collani †
Hstuf. Karl-Heinz Ertl
Stubaf. Pritz Bunse
Ostubaf. Hans Heinrich Lohmann 11.11.44
Ostubaf. Rudolf Klotz

I./49:
Hstuf. Voorwinden
? Mosenthin
Stubaf. Franz Lang
Hstuf. Hans Meyer
Stubaf. Walther
Stubaf. Gerhard Unger
? Rehder
Stubaf. Otto Petersen


II./49:
? Göttsche
Hstuf. Bürmester †
Hstuf. Walter Diener †
Hstuf. Carl Heinz Frühauf
Ostuf. Helmut Scholz
Hstuf. Karl-Heinz Ertel
Stubaf. Otto Petersen
Hstuf. ?? Joachim

cheers Jan

[Jan]

Hi
a few additions

Command Roster of SS-Brigade/Division Nederland

4.SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadierbrigade 'Nederland'
23.SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadierdivision 'Nederland'

Brigade commander: Brigf. Jürgen Wagner
Oberst ?? Friedrich
Oberst Paul Kresin
Brigf. Jürgen Wagner
Staf. ?? Schäfer
Adjutant: Stubaf. Christian Steenhold-Schütt

Ia: Stubaf. Dietrich Ziemssen
Hstuf. Helmut Kordts
Stubaf. Jürgen von Bock
Stubaf. ?? Hartmann
Hstuf. Reinhardt Wörner

Ib: Ustuf. Bläss (incl. V) ???

PzGrenRgt. 48 'General Seyffardt'

Ostubaf. Josef Fitzthum
Ostubaf. Wolfgang Joerchel
Ostubaf. Siegfried Scheibe †
Ostubaf. Richard Benner †
Ostubaf. Paul Massell †
Ostubaf. Fritz Knöchlein
Ostubaf. Garzhe
Stubaf.Rudolf Klotz
Ostubaf. Siegfried Scheibe †

Jan

[Marc Rikmenspoel]

I know there was a III. Bataillon of SS-FPGR 48 General Seyffardt formed in the spring of 1945. However, I question whether Hans Joachim Rühle von Lilienstern was associated with it (despite his name being mentioned with it in the command roster in Vincx/Schotanius). At the end of the war, Rühle von Lilienstern went into American captivity with the Nibelungen Division, where he commanded the IV. Bataillon of SS-PGR 95 (men who would have been the cadre for the never formed SS-PGR 97).

It certainly is possible that he was in Pomerania in February-March 1945, and then in southwest Germany in April of that year, but I think it most likely that any role he had with III./GS was in organizing it, before moving to a new assignment in the west. At any rate, he isn't mentioned in the Nederland unit history after leaving the Brigade at Narva in the spring of 1944.

[Marc Rikmenspoel]

Editing note: I rechecked my Nibelungen source (Munoz's booklet on the 17. SS-PGD GvB), and it seems that the IV. Bataillon of SS-PGR 95 and 96 were in fact the regimental support companies, grouped in their own battalions. I presume the reason for this was that the shortage of heavy weapons meant that these specialists actually fought as ordinary infantry. However, it is still true that excess presonnel, intended for forming SS-PGR 97, were instead incorporated into Regs 95 & 96, so that each Kompanie had 175 or so men, which was high for the end of the war.

[Jan]

Hi Marc
The regiment 95 had only 3 Btl.. The reg. 96 4Btl.. "The IV / 96 consisted of former members of the SS div."North.
Lilienstein led the III. / 95.

Jan

[Tom Houlihan]

"The IV / 96 consisted of former members of the SS div."North.

Jan, do you have a source for that? Was it a bloc-formation transfer, or re-directed replacement troops? When did this occur?

[Jan]

Hi Tom
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He has written to a development and I put additions with into.
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Jan

[Jan]

Hi Guys
a few additions

Artillerie Regiment 54

Staf. Diebitsch
Stubaf. Wilhelm Schlüter
Stubaf. Hofer

I./ArtRgt 54 10,5cm:
Hstuf. Joseph Röslhoff
Arzt Hstuf. ?? Singer

II./ArtRgt 54 l.FH 18:
Hstuf. Topeters †
Hstuf. Quintus de Veer
Hstuf. Anton Aigner


III./ArtRgt 54 sFH / FlaK:
Stubaf. Lothar Hofer

Aufklärungs Kompanie 54

Ostuf. Erich Kuhne
Hstuf. Hillenbrandt †
Ostuf. Rosenbeck
Ustuf.Per Halse

Pionier Btl. 54
Ostuf. Günther Wanhöfer
Stubaf. ?? Wendtlant
? Werner
Hstuf. Carl-Heinz Frühauf
? Adolf Wolff
Ostuf. Günther Wanhöfer
Hstuf. Gerhard Ilgner

Panzerjäger Abt. 54 – StuG

Stubaf. Knud Schock
Hstuf. Arthur Grathwol
? Anton Aigner
Hstuf. Kraus????????
Hstuf. Walter Deiner
? Philip Rössner

Sanitäts Kompanie 54
Stubaf. Dr. August Loderhose


Nachrichten Abteilung 54
Hstuf. Gerhard Blatt

FlaK Kompanie 54

Ustuf. Nieuwendijk-Hoek
Ustuf. Edmont Le Roux
Hstuf. Grim
Lt. Ahrenswaffen211


Jan

[Regiment Norge]

Hi!

When the SS-Pz.Gren.Rgt 48 "General Seyffardt" was rebuild at Tr.Üb.Pl Hammerstein in Pommern the rooster of I./48 were;

- Btl. Kdr Stubaf. Otto von BARGEN
- Adjutant Ustuf. Kaare BRYNESTAD (norweger)

Kp.Fhr 2./48 : Ustuf. Sverre HAGTUN (norweger)
Kp.fhr 3./48 : Ustuf. Bjarne SVEEN (norweger) - KIA around 6.3.45