SS-Hauptsturmführer

HERMANN SCHIFFERDECKER

10.08.1921. Zuzenhausen-Sinsheim/Baden, Germany

26.01.2006

Dienstgrad:Obergefreiter

 commanded I./Waffen-Gebirgs-Jäger Regiment der SS 27 (kroatisches Nr. 1) from Feb. 17, 1945-April 8, 1945. There is a note inthe work cited below that he was awarded the DKiG in April 1945. 


Mnogi oficiri divizije bili su smješteni u kućama lokalnih muslimanskih civila. Kada se Hermann Schifferdecker iz 27. puka oprostio od domaćina Sulejmana Beganovića sredinom 1944. godine. Beganović je svog odlazećeg njemačkog stanara poklonio ovim obiteljskim portretom. Schifferdecker je ponosno zadržao snimak više od pedeset godina kasnije.


10.08.1921. Zuzenhausen-Sinsheim/Baden,Njemačka

26.01.2006. Njemačka

Schifferdecker, Hermann

Date of birth:
August 10th, 1921 (Zuzenhausen-Sinsheim/Baden, Germany)
Date of death:
January 26th, 2006
Service number:
SS- 359.733
Nationality:
German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

Career:
Ocotber 19th, 1939 - March 14th, 1940: 4.(Ersatz) / SS-"Deutschland";
March 25th, 1940 - August 22nd, 1940: 4. / Regiment-SS "Deutschland";
August 23rd, 1940 - September 26th, 1940: 4.(Ersatz) / SS-"Deutschland";
September 27th, 1940 - April 10th, 1941: Stabskompanie SS-"Deutschland";
? - August 9th, 1941: Zugführer 4. / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3 "Deutschland";
?: 13. / SS-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 27;
?: Kommandeur I. / SS-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 27 / 13. Waffen-Gebirgs-Division "Handschar".

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Unit:
13. Waffen-Gebirgs-Division "Handschar"
Awarded on:
March 30th, 1945
Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
SS-Hauptsturmführer der Reserve (Captain of Reserves)
Unit:
Kommandeur I. / SS-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 27 / 13. Waffen-Gebirgs-Division "Handschar"
Awarded on:
April 1945

Awarding is not listed in Thomas/Wegmann, Patzwall or Scheibert. In George Lepre’s "Himmler’s Bosnian Division: The Waffen-SS Handschar Division, 1943-1945", he is footnoted as: “Letters to the author from Karl Wambsganss [division adjutant] and Hermann Schifferdecker dated 16 April and 20 June 1992.”.
Deathnotice also mentiones the DKiG.
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold

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