Sonderführer ( German: Sonderführer - specialist Fuhrer / special leader ) - in Germany until 1945, persons appointed during the war to act as officers in various fields of activity where their professional abilities were required, without taking into account their military experience. They were appointed to the respective posts only in those cases when, for the performance of the functions related to them, special qualifications were required and when it was impossible to select an officer with the appropriate qualifications for them.
Their rank was equal to the officer / non-commissioned officer during the whole time that they held this position, but they were not promoted to officers, and their officer powers extended only to the sphere of activity with which their work was directly related.
Content
- 1 Sonderfuhrer categories
- 2 CC-Sonderfuhrer
- 3 Famous Sonderfuhrer
- 4 References
- 5 notes
Sonderfuhrer Categories
Sonderfuhrer existed in all military branches:
- Officers
- Sonderfuhrer (P) , corresponding to the rank of lieutenant colonel or colonel ,
- Sonderfuhrer (B), corresponding to the rank of major ,
- Sonderfuhrer (K) , corresponding to the rank of captain or captain ,
- Sonderfuhrer (C) , corresponding to the rank of lieutenant / senior lieutenant or platoon commander.
- Non-commissioned officers
- Sonderfuhrer (O) , also translator O ( German: Dolmetscher O ), corresponding to the rank of Oberfeldwebel ( German: Oberfeldwebel ),
- Sonderfuhrer (G) , corresponding to the rank of non-commissioned officer .
They wore uniforms similar to the uniforms of Wehrmacht officers, but they could be distinguished by the buttonholes on the collar and shoulder straps with very small chevrons of black, white and red silk . All other regalia, including the national emblem and awards, as well as headgear and shoes, were the same as the officers of the active service.
The Sonderfuhrer also served in Abwehr , in the Feljandarmerie , in the secret field police and in the ORPO . They were not formally appointed to the Gestapo and SD , but in fact had the status of temporarily seconded officers from the ORPO, secret field police or SS troops .
The authorship of the largely unsuccessful Third Reich leaflets for the USSR was attributed by Russian and Soviet collaborators to the Sonderführer of the propaganda departments of the Eastern Front [1] .
CC-Sonderfuhrer
Sonderführer also served in the Waffen-SS ( German: Waffen-SS - the correct name in Russian: SS troops ). They had the following notation:
- CC-Führer in special service (de: SS-Führer im Sonderdienst), shortly SS-Sonderführer (de: SS-Sonderführer),
- since 1942, CC Specialist Führer in Waffen-SS (de: SS-Fachführer in der Waffen-SS), shortly SS Specialist Führer.
CC-Sonderfuhrer existed in all Waffen-SS parts as the CC-Sonderfuhrer or CC-Specialist Fuhrer. They wore sleeve patches depending on professional qualifications.
- Aesculapius's Wand - Specialist Fuhrer in the (military) medical service (de: SS-Fachführer im medizinischen Dienst),
- Esculap's Negative Wand - Medical Staff (de: medizinisches Personal),
- Gothic Z (de: Z) - Dentistry / Dental Service (de: dentalmedizinischer Dienst),
- Gothic A - Pharmacist (de: Apotheker),
- Snake - The Führer and the Junior Führer in the Veterinary Service (de: Führer und Unterführer im Veterinärdienst),
- Seeder - Führer Conductor (de: Musikführer).
Famous Sonderfuhrer
- Buchheim, Lothar-Gunter , Sonderfuhrer in the Kriegsmarine Propaganda Company
- Donagni, Hans von , Sonderfuhrer at the headquarters of Admiral Canaris
- Fallad, Hans , Sonderfuhrer (B) at the Imperial Labor Service in France
- Fernau, Joachim (German: Fernau, Joachim), CC-Sonderfuhrer in the Waffen SS
- Gizevius, Hans Bernd , Sonderfuhrer at Admiral Canaris Headquarters
- Heller, Gerhard (German: Heller, Gerhard) Sonderfuhrer at the propaganda headquarters in Paris
- Plikhovksi, Robert, (German: Pilchowski, Robert)
- Pirsig, Fritz, (German: Pirsig, Fritz), Sonderfuhrer (C)
- Tauber, Eberhard, (German: Tauber, Eberhard), propaganda sonderfuhrer in Norway
- Willich, Wofgang (German: Willich, Wofgang) Sonderfuhrer
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Notes
- ↑ "Third Power. Russia between Nazism and Communism ”, Alexander Stepanovich Kazantsev: “ Together with the temptations of a bowler hat, cigarette and money, the Sonderfuhrer - the leaders of the propaganda departments at the front, paid attention to the leaflets and political issues. Politics, from their point of view, consisted in praising the Führer genius, and this was done in such expressions that the Soviet reader, who understands something about the genius of leaders in general and is used to the molasses that is written about Stalin in Soviet propaganda, did not praise the Führer could not cause nausea. All this was written in such an impossible Russian language that it distorted even a simple meaning, turning the leaflet into a definitely anti-German document. ”