SS-Oberabschnitt Nordwest

SS-Oberabschnitt Nordwest (SS Senior District Northwest) was a paper command of the Allgemeine-SS which was established in occupied Holland during the Second World War. The position was intended as an administrative counterpart position to the much more powerful office of the Higher SS and Police Leader of the Netherlands and was intended to be held by the same person.

The command was established on May 23rd 1940 with the command's name (Nordwest) adopted from a previous SS command in Hamburg. The Hamburg command was then renamed as SS-Oberabschnitt Nordsee. The Northwest SS district was not assigned any General-SS units but was rather a titular appointment assigned to Hanns Albin Rauter who was the senior most SS officer in Holland. As Rauter was heavily involved with police functions and the formation of Waffen-SS units in Holland, the day to day operation of the General-SS command was left to his chief of staff SS-Obersturmbannführer Wilhelm Montel.

The Northwest SS District collapsed when the Netherlands was liberated by the Allies in late 1944.

References

Yerger, Mark C. Allgemeine-SS: The Commands, Units, and Leaders of the General SS, Schiffer Publishing (1997). ISBN 0-7643-0145-4

Allgemeine-SS formations

SS and Police Leaders	Höchste SS und Polizeiführer (HöSSPF) Höhere SS und Polizeiführer (HSSPF) SS und Polizeiführer (SSPF)

Oberabschnitt	Alpenland Böhmen-Mähren Donau Elbe Fulda-Werra Lothringen-Saarpfalz Main Mitte Nord Nordost Nordsee Nordwest Ost Ostland Österreich Ostsee Rhein Rhein-Westmark Spree Süd Südost Südwest Ukraina Warthe Weichsel West Westmark

Abschnitt	I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI XXVII XXVIII XXIX XXX XXXI XXXII XXXIII XXXIV XXXV XXXVI XXXVII XXXVIII XXXIX XX XXXXI XXXXII XXXXIII XXXXIV XXXXV

Reiterabschnitt	I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX

Standarte	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127

Reiterstandarte	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

Specialty Units	SS-Kraftfahrstürme (Transportation) SS-Nachrichtensturmbanne (Signals) SS-Pioniersturmbanne (Engineers) SS-Fliegersturm (Flight Units)

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