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It will be noted that the expansion of SS membership in a few towns and cities resulted in their being split between two Abschnitte.

The organisation of the Allgemeine-SS in respect of formation below the level of the Abschnitte was on a more flexible unit, rather than territorial, basis, although each unit itself related to, or was recruited from, a particular area. The typical Abschnitt controlled an average of three SS Fuss-Standarten, the equivalent of foot or infantry regiments. As the name suggests, the Standarte was the standard unit of the Allgemeine-SS and had been firmly established as such by 1930, long before the SS regional system fully evolved. The earliest SS Standarten were terribly under-strength, and even in 1931 might comprise only 100 men. Numbers rose steadily, however, with ten new SS Standarten being formed in 1933 and a further fifty in 1934. By 1939, the average Fuss-Standarte comprised around 2,000 men, but corresponding numbers fell to around 1,600 in 1941 and 400 in 1944 due to Allgemeine-SS members being drafted into the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS. Each regiment was commanded by a Führer des Standartes (F.Sta.), who was assisted by a small staff and part-time headquarters unit. Depending on unit size, the regimental commander could be an SS-Standartenführer, Obersturmbannführer or Sturmbannführer. By 1943, it was common for two of the smaller adjacent Standarten to be placed together under a single acting commander.

SS men at Hamburg railway station, c. 1934–5. Both styles of death's head are being worn on the cap during this transitional period. The runic collar patch of the man at the left denotes his membership of the Leibstandarte, while the others are from the 48th Standarte.

Standarten were numbered consecutively from 1 to 127. A select few also bore the names of celebrated SS men who had died, been killed during the ‘Kampfzeit', been assassinated and so on, and such ‘honour titles' were similarly extended to a number of Stürme or companies within certain Standarten. For example, the 6th Sturm of the 6th Standarte was called ‘Eduard Felsen' in memory of its member killed in the street disorder on the night of the Reichstag fire, while the 90th Standarte was awarded the title ‘Franz Kutschera' after the latter, one of its officers who rose to command the security police and SD in Poland, who was murdered by partisans on 1 February 1944. The table below lists all of the SS Fuss-Standarten with their regimental numbers and locations and, where applicable, Standarte or Sturm honour titles.

SS F
USS
– S
TANDARTEN

Standarte No
.

Location

Standarte Honour Title

Sturm Honour Title

1.

München

‘Julius Schreck'

  1. ‘Karl Ostberg'

 

 

 

  2. ‘Casella'

 

 

 

  5. ‘Hellinger'

 

 

 

10. ‘Karl Laforce'

2.

Frankfurt (Main)

 

  4. ‘Josef Bleser'

3.

Nürnberg

 

 

4.

Hamburg-Altona

 

 

5.

Luxemburg

 

 

6.

Berlin-Charlottenburg

 

  6. ‘Eduard Felsen'

 

 

 

  8. ‘Oskar Goll'

 

 

 

  9. ‘Kurt von der Ahe'

7.

Plauen

‘Friedrich Schlegel'

  3. ‘Paul Fressonke'

 

 

 

  6. ‘Paul Teubner'

8.

Hirschberg

 

 

9.

Stettin

 

 

10.

Kaiserslautern

 

 

11.

Wien

‘Planetta'

 

12.

Hannover

 

 

13.

Stuttgart

 

 

14.

Gotha

 

 

15.

Neuruppin

 

 

16.

Breslau

 

 

17.

Celle

 

 

18.

Königsberg

 

 

19.

Münster

 

 

20.

Düsseldorf

‘Fritz Weitzel'

  1. ‘Karl Vobis'

 

 

 

  3. ‘Kurt Hilmer'

 

 

 

  5. ‘Werner Hannemann'

 

 

 

11. ‘Friedrich Schreiber'

21.

Magdeburg

 

 

22.

Schwerin

‘Friedrich Graf von der Schulenburg'

 

23.

Beuthen

 

 

24.

Oldenburg

 

 

25.

Essen

 

  1. ‘Garthe'

 

 

 

  3. ‘Friedrich Karpinski'

 

 

 

  4. ‘Arnold Guse'

 

 

 

  5. ‘Leopold Paffrath'

26.

Halle (Saale)

 

  1. ‘Paul Berck'

27.

Frankfurt (Oder)

 

 

28.

Hamburg

 

  1. ‘Henry Kobert'

 

 

 

  9. ‘Hans Cyranka'

29.

Lindau

 

 

30.

Bochum

 

  1. ‘Fritz Borawski'

 

 

 

  3. ‘August Pfaff'

 

 

 

11. ‘Adolf Höh'

31.

Landshut

 

  4. ‘Faust'

 

 

 

12. ‘Andreas Zinkl'

32.

Heidelberg

 

 

33.

Darmstadt

 

 

34.

Weilheim

 

 

35.

Kassel

 

 

36.

Danzig

 

 

37.

Linz

 

 

38.

Graz

 

 

39.

Köslin

 

 

40.

Kiel

 

  1. ‘Radke'

 

 

 

  8. ‘Martens'

41.

Bayreuth

 

 

42.

Berlin

 

  4. ‘Fritz Schulz'

43.

Frankenstein

 

 

44.

Eberswalde

 

 

45.

Oppeln

 

 

46.

Dresden

 

 

47.

Jena

 

 

48.

Leipzig

 

  8. ‘Gutsche'

49.

Braunschweig

 

  1. ‘Gerhard Landmann'

50.

Flensburg

 

 

51.

Göttingen

 

 

52.

Krems

 

 

53.

Heide

 

 

54.

Landsberg (Warthe)

‘Seidel-Dittmarsch'

 

55.

Lüneburg

 

 

56.

Bamberg

 

 

57.

Meiningen

 

 

58.

Köln

 

  2. ‘Franz Müller'

59.

Dessau

‘Loeper'

 

60.

Insterburg

 

 

61.

Allenstein

 

 

62.

Karlsruhe

 

 

63.

Tübingen

 

 

64.

Berent

 

 

65.

Freiburg (Br.)

 

 

66.

Bartenstein

 

 

67.

Erfurt

 

12. ‘Fritz Beubler'

68.

Regensburg

 

 

69.

Hagen (Westf.)

 

 

70.

Glogau

 

 

71.

Elbing

 

  1. ‘Ernst Ludwig'

72.

Detmold

 

 

73.

Ansbach

 

 

74.

Greifswald

 

 

75.

Berlin

 

  8. ‘Edmund Behnke'

76.

Salzburg

 

 

77.

Schneidmühl

 

 

78.

Wiesbaden

 

 

79.

Ulm

 

 

80.

Berlin

 

 

81.

Würzburg

 

  2. ‘Hans Purps'

82.

Bielefeld

 

 

83.

Giessen

 

 

84.

Chemnitz

 

  4. ‘Grobe'

 

 

 

  9. ‘Steinbach'

 

 

 

11. ‘Ludwig Frisch'

85.

Saarbrücken

 

 

86.

Offenburg

 

 

87.

Innsbruck

 

 

88.

Bremen

 

 

89.

Wien

‘Holzweber'

 

90.

Klagenfurt

‘Franz Kutschera'

 

91.

Wittenberg

 

 

92.

Ingolstadt

 

 

93.

Koblenz

 

 

94.

Leoben

 

 

95.

Trautenau

 

 

96.

Brüx

 

 

97.

Eger

 

 

98.

Mährisch-Schönberg

 

 

99.

Znaim

 

 

100.

Reichenberg

 

 

101.

Saaz

 

 

102.

Jägerndorf

 

 

103.

Aussig

 

 

104.

Troppau

 

 

105.

Memel

 

 

106.

Augsburg

 

 

107.

Brünn

 

 

108.

Prag

 

 

109.

Posen

 

 

110.

Hohensalza

 

 

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