SS General Friedrich Jeckeln signature. '1.SS-Standarte' headed paper (SS-Standarte '1' were located in Munich). Document dated 10.6.1933. Typed document relating to SS-Truppführer Julian Scherner (later to become an SS-General). ink signature of later SS-Standartenführer Johann Maier, and blue pencil signature of later SS-General, Wilhelm Stark. Good ink signature of Jeckeln.

Content: Document concerning promotion of SS-Truppeführer Scherner.

Condition report: Two files holes. Slight wrinkling to paper. Otherwise clean.  Free from fading.

Rarity status (Up to 10 rarest):5/10.

Background to Jeckeln: Born 2 February 1895 – Died 3 February 1946. SS General. Jeckeln served in World War I as an officer. After being discharged following Germany's defeat, Jeckeln worked as an engineer before joining the Nazi Party on 1 October 1929. In January 1931, Jeckeln was accepted into the SS. By the end of 1931 he was placed in charge of a regiment and then a brigade. In 1932, Jeckeln was elected as a member of the Reichstag. In January 1933, when the Nazi Party came to national power in Germany, Jeckeln was put in charge of SS Group South. In 1936, Jeckeln was appointed SS and Police Leader of Western Germany and promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer.

Jeckeln served as an SS and Police Leader in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II. Jeckeln was the commander of one of the largest Einsatzgruppen. After the end of World War II, Jeckeln was convicted for his crimes by a Soviet military tribunal in Riga, Latvia and executed in 1946.