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SS-Standartenführer Werner Ballauff (* September 21st, 1890 in Düsseldorf - † January 10th, 1973) was a German SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS in the Waffen SS and also a Politician in the NSDAP during World War II. NSDAP membership #585,143. SS membership #66,679.

Origin
Werner was the son of businessman Arnold Friedrich Heinrich Ballauff (born September 1, 1860 in Soest, † 24 March 1930 in Bad Homburg, Germany) and his wife Emmy Auguste Wilhelmine Berlin born (born September 30, 1861 in Dusseldorf).

1890-1933
Ballauff attended from 1896 to 1909 the preschool and the secondary school in Dusseldorf and put there the High School from. [1] From 1909 to 1911 studied Ballauff law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Emperor -Wilhelms University of Strasbourg. There he was in 1926 a member of the Corps Suevia Strasbourg. [2]

In 1909 he served as a one-year volunteer at the Machine Gun Section no. 10 of the Prussian army in Schlettstadt in Alsace. From 1911 he began his career as an officer in the Uhlans Regiment "Graf Haeseler" (2nd Brandenburg) no. 11 in Saarburg. Even before the First World War, he was appointed Vice sergeant and cadet promoted. In December 1914 he came to remote patrol wounded in French captivity. In 1918, he was exchanged and in the following year Reichswehr accepted, but resigned in April 1920 at his own request as captain out of the military service.

In civilian life Ballauff worked as an employee of different companies and later in an independent position at home and abroad. From 1930 he operated a farm near Quickborn (Holstein).

1929 and 1930 Ballauff was a member of the Nationalist Federal Tannenberg. On 1 June 1931, he joined the NSDAP (membership number 585143) and in November of that year the SA at. Within the NSDAP, he led a local group.

1933-1945
After the transfer of power to the NSDAP Ballauff was established in November 1933 member of become meaningless Reichstag. [3] On March 29, 1936, he was proposed for re-election, but received no mandate. Between August 1933 and October 1934 was Ballauff State in the Senate of Hamburg.

On June 18, 1933 Ballauff joined the Allgemeine-SS (SS no. 66679) and took over on 7 August 1933, the leadership of the 28th SS regiment in Hamburg. As of March 1, 1934, he was temporarily staff leader in the SS Upper section "North", based in Szczecin. In June, he returned to Hamburg and took over in October 1934, the leadership of the SS-section XV in Altona, which he held until March 1935.

On March 26, 1935 Ballauff joined the SS Verfügungstruppe a, a quartered and constantly armed special unit of the SS. He took over the leadership of the 9th company in III. Battalion based in Hamburg standard "Germania". In September 1935, he enlisted as a successor to the SS-Sturmbannführer Egon book to the commander of the SS-news-Sturmbann in Berlin-Adlershof, whose more complete list and he performed henceforth responsible. On 1 July 1936 he transferred to the staff of the SS regiment "Germany". A little later the commander of the III. Battalion appointed, he participated in the occupation of the Sudetenland in part and in November 1938 the staff of the new "Der Führer" SS Regiment reassigned.

Since January 1939, the rank of SS-Standartenfiihrer, Ballauff was in World War II from January 1940 SS garrison commander of Prague. From January 1941 to June 1941, he led the in occupied Poland stationed 10th SS Totenkopfstandarte, then for two months a regiment of the 6th SS Mountain Division "Nord" , which in Finland in the Continuation War was used. By the end of 1941 Ballauff was the SS Main Office assigned, including as Chief of Infantry. In 1942 he took over as commander of the Junker School Brunswick, which in June 1944 due to severe bomb damage after Posen Treskau was moved. Officially, he remained its commander until February 1945. The last transport from 1 May 1943, he held the rank of SS brigade leader and Major General of the Waffen-SS held.

Beginning of 1945, Ballauff on the training area hiking from two Junker battalions and spare units of the Battle Group Hauser "battle group Ballauff", in the central portion of the fortress Front Or-Warta-sheet was used. As leader of the battle group Ballauff to the room Zielenzig been surprised by an enemy shock troops and be narrowly escaped capture. This apparently he lost in his possession precise plans of armor works on or arc, which the Soviet forces to further advance very relieved. [4]

1945-1973
In May 1945 he was arrested by a British command in Hamburg, where Ballauff was staying with relatives. With the number 560,269 prisoners, he was transferred to England for three years. On March 10, 1947, he came from the stock 252 in the Iceland Farm Special Camp 11 (Bridgend, Wales), and on July 5, 1947 in the London District Prison. About the bearings 43, he was on October 6, 1947 in the internment camp Neuengamme transferred, where he was released in the summer of 1948. After returning to his hometown of Dusseldorf, he took over the hardware store owner as his parents, where he remained until his death. The farm work in the 1960s up to 400 people. [5]

Awards

 * Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse (1914)


 * 1939 Spange zum Eisernen Kreuzes 2er Klasse (1914)


 * Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse mit Schwertern


 * Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern


 * Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer


 * Ehrendegen des Reichsführers-SS


 * SS-Ehrenring