Waldeck-Pyrmont Yoshias background (Waldeck-Pyrmont)

Waldeck-Pyrmont, Yoshias background (Waldeck-Pyrmont), Obergruppenfiihrer SS. Born in 1896. Was the first among the old hereditary aristocracy, which Himmler managed to attract the cooperation of the SS. Waldeck-Pyrmont joined the Nazi movement in 1929. In 1939 he headed the district police Kassel-Maynfrankena. August 14, 1947, as a former head of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Waldeck-Pyrmont, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Landsberg prison.