NAME:      SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Felix Martin Julius Steiner

PW NO:             560341
RANK:              SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS
CAPTURED:     Golbasen (Norway)
DATE:               3rd May 1945

PERSONAL

D.O.B:                         23rd May 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH:    Stallupönen / Ostpreußen - Stallupönen (renamed Ebenrode in 1938) is located in the easternmost part of the former German province of East Prussia. Today, the town is known as Nesterov and is part of the Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave.
DIED:                         12 May 1966
PLACE OF DEATH:   München
NATIONALITY:        German
RELIGION:                Evangelical
OCCUPATION:         Regular Soldier
HEIGHT:                    5' 8.5"
WEIGHT:                   14 Stone
HAIR COLOUR:        Grey
EYE COLOUR:          Blue
NEXT OF KIN:          British Zone, Selm ueber Luedinghausen, Westerfelden, Nordrhein, Westfalen bei Riedweg.

NSDAP-No: 4 264 295
SS-No.: 253 351

Promotions:

• Leutnant: 27 January 1915
• Oberleutnant: 18 October 1918
• Hauptmann: 1 December 1927
• SS-Obersturmbannführer: 24 April 1935 (entered SS at that rank)
• SS-Standartenführer: 1 July 1936
• SS-Oberführer: 24 January 1940
• SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS: 9 November 1940
• SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS: 1 January 1942
• SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS: 1 July 1943

• March 1914: Volunteered for the Army and assigned to Infanterie-Regiment von Boyen (5. Ostpreußisches) Nr.41.
• 14 November 1914: Wounded in the right arm in combat.
• March 1915 - May 1915: Detached to War Academy class with I Army Corps in Königsberg.
• January 1916 - May 1916: Assigned to the Replacement Battalion of Infantry Regiment 41.
• June 1916 Transferred to Infantry Regiment 376.
• 19 August 1916: Leader of Machine Gun/Sharp Shooting Troop 97.
• October 1916 - November 1918: Leader of Machine Gun/Sharp Shooting Detachment 46.
• November 1918 - 8 January 1919: Commander of 3rd Replacement Machine Gun Company of XVII Army Corps.
• January 1919 - May 1920: Served in volunteer units in Memeland and Königsberg.
• 8 May 1920: Commander of 2nd Machine Gun Company of Schützen Regiment 2.
• October 1920 - 20 September 1923: Commander of 8th Machine Gun Company of Infantry Regiment 1.
• 21 September 1923 - March 1924: Staff Machine Gun Officer, Infantry Regiment 1.
• March 1924 - April 1929: Company Chief, 4./Infantry Regiment 1.
• October 1929-1 October 1933: Regimental Adjutant, Infantry Regiment 1.
• 2 October 1933-December 1933: Officer for special employment with the Army Command Detachment.
• December 1933: Separated from the Army and joined the Landespolizei [Land Police].
• 1 January 1934: Joined the Sturmabteilung (SA).
• 1 January 1934-October 1934: Advisor to the SA Training Command.
• October 1934-March 1935: Head of Formation Office of the SA Training Command.
• 24 April 1935: Joined the SS.
• April 1935-30 June 1936: Commander of III./SS-Standarte 1.
• 1 July 1936-1 December 1940: Commander of SS-Regiment "Deutschland" [saw combat in Poland and the Western Campaign of 1940].
• 1 December 1940-1 April 1943: Commander of SS-Division (motorized) "Germania" [later renamed "Wiking" and ultimately evolved into the 5th SS-Panzer Division].
• 1 May 1943-9 November 1944: Commanding General, III (Germanic) SS-Panzer Corps on the Eastern Front.
• 26 January 1945-3 May 1945: Commander-in-Chief, 11th SS-Army [also known as Army Group Steiner and Army Detachment Steiner] on the Eastern Front.
• 3 May 1945-27 April 1948: Prisoner of war.
  • 9th January 1946 to 11 from 1 (Graizedale Hall),
  • 31st January 1946 to LDC from Island Farmp Special Camp 11,
  • 2nd March 1946 to Island Farm Special Camp 11 from LDC
  • 11th June 1946 to LDC from Island Farm Special Camp 11
  • 2nd September 1946 to Island Farm Special Camp 11 from LDC
  • 8th May 1947 to LDC from Island Farm Special Camp 11
  • 6th November 1947 trasnferred to US custody

• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross: 15 August 1940, SS-Oberführer, commander of SS-Regiment "Deutschland" of the SS-Verfügungs-Division during the Western Campaign.
• Oakleaves (No. 159): 23 December 1942, SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS, commander of SS-Panzer Grenadier Division "Wiking" on the Eastern Front.
• Swords (No. 86): 10 August 1944, SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS, Commanding General, III (Germanic) SS-Panzer Corps on the Eastern Front.
• German Cross in Gold: 22 April 1942
• Prussian Iron Cross, 1st Class (1914): 3 November 1917
• Prussian Iron Cross, 2nd Class (1914): 9 October 1914
• 1939 Bar to Prussian Iron Cross, 1st Class: 26 September 1939
• 1939 Bar to Prussian Iron Cross, 2nd Class: 17 September 1939
• Medal for the Winter Campaign in Russia 1941/1942 ("East Medal") " Cross of Honor for Combatants 1914-1918
• Wound Badge in Black-World War I
• Finnish Cross of Liberty, 1st Class with Oak Leaves and Swords: October 1942

Note the Finnish Order of the Cross of Liberty, 1st Class with Swords

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