Eberhardt, Erich, born 19-10-1913, in Wiesbaden

, joined the Hamburg Police Force. He then was one of the early members of the SS, which he joined in 1934 and was given the SS service number 272.747, Nazi Party Number 4 178 022. His first unit was the 8
th Company, SS Standarte Germania.

In 1936 he was selected to become an officer and sent to the SS-Junkerschule at Braunschweig,

being promoted to Untersturmführer

upon graduation. As company commander of the 12
th Company, 9
th SS Grenadier Regiment, SS Division Wiking

, he participated during the invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa

and he was awarded the Iron Cross 2
nd class in July 1941. The 3
rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf

under SS Obergruppenführer,
Kommandeu Totenkopf” Division, he murdered Ernst Röhm in 1934 in his prison cell, Theodor Eicke

was called forward by Field Marshall
Walter Model, after the Russians had broken the German front ,

and the army was in retreat. The Army Group now ordered a general push north and five Russian divisions were cut off and destroyed and the front stabilized. For his part in this action Eberhardt was awarded the Knight’s Cross on the 23-08-1944. Here with L’SS-Gruppenführer Artur Phleps

The Totenkopf was in action until the last days of the war, when Eberhardt gave an instruction for the Division to move to the west to surrender to the American forces, rather than enter Soviet captivity. On 27-04-1963, adopted as the successor to Waffen SS Obergruppenführer,
Kommandeur 12 SS LSSAH, “Hitlerjugend”,
Kurt “Panzermeyer” Meyer .
Death and burial ground of Eberhardt, Erich.