Richard Schulze-Kossens

Richard Schulze-Kossens
Born	(1914-10-02)2 October 1914 Spandau, Berlin, Germany
Died	3 July 1988(1988-07-03) (aged 73) Düsseldorf, West Germany
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Waffen-SS
Years of service	1934–1945
Rank	Obersturmbannführer
Unit	LSSAH Führerbegleitkommando
Commands held	38th SS Division Nibelungen

Richard Schulze-Kossens (2 October 1914 – 3 July 1988, born "Richard Schulze") was an SS officer during the Nazi era. During World War II, he served as a Waffen-SS adjutant to the foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and later commanded the 38th SS Division Nibelungen, SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz.

Richard Schulze was born in Spandau, Berlin. A year after graduating from gymnasium in 1934, the 20-year-old Schulze entered the Allgemeine SS and was assigned to 6.SS-Standarte in Berlin. In November 1934, he served in the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH), Adolf Hitler's bodyguard. Between 1935 and 1937 took various officer training courses at the SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz, in Jüterbog and Dachau. In 1937, Schulze was reassigned to the 3.SS-Totenkopf-Standarte Thüringen where he served as an adjutant to Theodor Eicke. He is pictured standing with Molotov, Ribbentrop, Stalin and Soviet Chief of Staff Shaposnikov at the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 23 August 1939. Later on he worked as an adjutant at the SS-Hauptamt (SS Head Office) for August Heißmeyer and the Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

From October 1939 to August 1941, he was an SS-Ordonnanz-offizier for Adolf Hitler. While serving in the role of an ordinance officer, he was also a member of the Führerbegleitkommando (FBK), which provided personal security protection for Hitler. By 1944, he was promoted to the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel). He later became the divisional commander of the 38th SS Division Nibelungen in 1945. At that time, Schulze was the commanding officer of the SS-Brigade Nibelungen and the SS cadet training school at Bad Tölz.

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