SOME OF THE PRISONERS HELD AT
SPECIAL CAMP
11
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NAME:
SS-Brigadeführer
und Generalmajor der Polizei Willy Tensfeld
PW NO:
209211
RANK: SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor
der Polizei
CAPTURED: Monza
DATE: 30 April 1945
PERSONAL
DATE OF BIRTH: 27 November 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH : Bernhoeved
DATE OF DEATH: 2 September 1982
PLACE OF DEATH: Hamburg
NATIONALITY: German
RELIGION: Evangelical
OCCUPATION: Regular Soldier
HEIGHT: 178cm
WEIGHT: Unknown
HAIR COLOUR: Blonde
EYE COLOUR: Blue
NEXT OF KIN: Jolly Tensfeld, Hamburg, (British
Zone)
NSDAP-No.: 753 405 (Joined
December 1931)
SS-No.: 14 724 (Joined 1 September 1931)
Promotions:
- SS-Scharführer: 19 November 1931
- SS-Truppführer: 26 November 1931
- SS-Sturmführer: 14 March 1932
- SS-Sturmhauptführer: 7 October
1932
- SS-Sturmbannführer: 30 January
1933
- SS-Obersturmbannführer: 3 September
1933
- SS-Standartenführer: 18 June 1934
- SS-Oberführer: 13 September 1936
- SS-Brigadeführer: 30 January 1941
- Generalmajor der Polizei: 1 June
1942
Assignments:
- 1909: Joined the Imperial German
Navy and served aboard U-boats during World War I.
- 1923: Separated from the Navy.
- 1923-1931: Civilian employment
in the Kiel shipyards.
- 1 September 1931: Joined the SS.
- December 1931: Joined the NSDAP.
- September 1931-November 1931:
Member of 1./III./40. SS-Standarte.
- November 1931-August 1932: Adjutant,
III./40. SS-Standarte.
- 15 August 1932-30 November 1933:
Chief of Staff, SS-Abschnitt XIV.
- 1 December 1933-16 March 1935:
Leader of 17. SS-Standarte in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg.
- 14 December 1934-1 April 1936:
Leader of 19. SS-Standarte in Münster.
- 1 April 1936-1 January 1939: Leader
of SS-Abschnitt IX (headquarters in Nürnberg, later Würzburg).
- 1 January 1939-1 June 1942: Chief
of Staff, SS-Oberabschnitt "Nordwest" (headquarters in Hamburg/Altona).
- 4 August 1941-19 May 1943: SS
and Police Leader "Charkow" in Russia (and city garrison commander).
- 19 April 1943-20 May 1943: At
the same time, temporary SS and Police Leader "Shitomir" in Russia.
- September 1943-January 1944: SS
and Police Leader for special employment to the Supreme SS and Police
Leader "Italien" (SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff).
- September 1943-30 April 1945:
At the same time, served as Liaison Officer to the Italian Fascists.
- 23 January 1944-30 April 1945:
SS and Police Leader "Oberitalien West" (headquarters in Bologna, later
Desenzano).
- 9th January 1946 transferred to Island Farm Special Camp 11 from Camp 1
- 4th November 1946 transferred to LDC (London District Cage) from Island Farm Special Camp 11
- 13th November 1946 transferred to Island Farm Special Camp 11 from LDC
- 15th January 1947 transferred to LDC from Island Farm Special Camp 11
- 13th February 1947 transferred to Island Farm Special Camp 11 from LDC
- 13th March 1947 transferred to LDC from Island Farm Special Camp 11
- 19 June 1947 transferred to Island Farm Special Camp 11 from Rimini
- 5th October 1947 transferred
via Camp 43 to Camp No 2 WC Holding Centre Fishhack
- German
Cross in Gold: 15 February 1945 [recommended
by SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff for his leadership in a successful
operation in Domodossola against 6,000 Italian partisans with a unit of
3,000 Germans and Italians, mid-October 1944].
- Iron Cross, 1st Class
(1939): 25 September 1943
- Iron Cross, 2nd Class:
31 March 1943
- War Merit Cross, 1st
Class with Swords
- War Merit Cross, 2nd
Class with Swords
- Cross of Honor for Combatants
- NSDAP Long Service Award in Silver