Theodor Eicke (17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943) was both a senior SS functionary and a Waffen-SS divisional commander in Nazi Germany. He was a key figure in the development of Nazi concentration camps.

Dec 11, 2017 · A son of a station master and the youngest of 11 children, Theodor Eicke, did not like school too much, failing to graduate and dropped out at the age of 17. He fought in WWI and received the Iron Cross for bravery.

Theodor Eicke was a German military officer and an important SS (Schutzstaffel) functionary. A veteran of the First World War, he could never accept German defeat at the war and developed hatred for the Weimar Republic.

Theodor Eicke (17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943) was a SS-Obergruppenführer (German General), commander of the SS-Division (mot) Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS and one of the key figures in the establishment of concentration camps in Nazi Germany.

Dec 15, 2023 · Eicke is responsible for some of the most horrific identifiers of the Nazi Party, including the concentration camp system, the punishment system used within concentration camps, and for one of the most terrifying divisions of the the Waffen-SS (combat unit of the SS),

Theodor Eicke was born on October 17, 1892, in Hudeingen, Alsace, to a railway station master. After being expelled from boarding school in 1909, he enlisted in the army. He fought in World War I, rising to the rank of sergeant on the Western Front.

(1892--1943), SS Lieutenant General, commandant of Concentration Camps, and commander of the SS Death’s Head Units (Totenkopfverbaende), an armed SS troop that guarded the concentration camps. Eicke was born in Huddington, Germany. He served in the German army from 1909 until the end of World War I. He then became a police officer.

Theodor Eicke (17 October 1892 in Hampont, Alsace–Lorraine, Germany (Today part of France) – 26 February 1943 near Lozova, Ukraine, Soviet Union) was an SS-Obergruppenführer of the SS and General of the Waffen-SS.

Theodore Eicke (17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943) was a politician in Nazi Germany. Eicke was the second commandant of Dachau Concentration Camp, and went on to become the Inspector of Concentration Camps, overseeing their reorganisation under the SS.

SS-Oberführer Theodor Eicke, became commandant of Dachau concentration camp on 26 June 1933. [1] His form of organization at Dachau stood as the model for all later concentration camps. [2] Eicke claimed the title of "Concentration Camps Inspector" for himself by May 1934. [3]