SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz
| SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz | |
|---|---|
| Active | 1934–1945 |
| Country | Nazi Germany |
| Branch |
SS-VT Waffen-SS |
| Role | Officer Training |
| Part of | SS |
| Commanders | |
| Reichsführer-SS | Heinrich Himmler |
| Commanders |
SS-Obersturmbannführer Paul Lettow (1934–1935) |
| Insignia | |
| Identification symbol |
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SS-Obersturmbannführer Paul Lettow (1934–1935)
SS-Brigadeführer Bernhard Voss (1935–1938)
Oberst Arnold Altvater-Mackensen (1937–1938) (an acting Heer commandant)
SS-Oberführer Werner Freiherr von Schele (1938–1940)
SS-Oberführer Julian Scherner (1940)
SS-Obersturmbannführer Cassius Freiherr von Montigny (1940)
SS-Brigadeführer Werner Dörffler-Schuband (1940)
SS-Standartenführer Lothar Debes (1942–1943)
SS-Brigadeführer Gottfried Klingemann (1943)
SS-Brigadeführer Werner Dörffler-Schuband (1943–1944)
SS-Obersturmbannführer Fritz Klingenberg (1944–1945)
SS-Obersturmbannführer Richard Schulze-Kossens (1945)
SS-Obersturmbannführer Karl-Heinz Anlauft (1945)
SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz was a Junker school, an officers' training school for the Waffen-SS. The school was established in 1937 and constructed by Alois Degano, in the town of Bad Tölz which is about 30 miles south of Munich and the location was seemingly chosen because it had both good transport links and was in an inspiring location. The design and construction of the school was intended to impress the staff, students, visitors and passers-by. A sub camp of the Dachau concentration camp was located in the town of Bad Tölz which provided labour for the SS-Junkerschule and the Zentralbauleitung (Central Administration Building). The School operated until the end of World War II in 1945 and after the war the former SS-Junkerschule was the base of the U.S. Army's 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group until 1991.
In 1934, the armed branch of the Schutzstaffel (SS) then known as the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), started to recruit officers into its ranks. The German Army and its Prussian heritage looked for officers of good breeding, who had at least graduated from secondary school. By contrast the SS-VT offered men the chance to become an officer no matter what education they had received or their social standing.
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