Germany, Waffen-Ss. A Wehrpaß & Id Card To Ss-Oberscharführer Heinrich Pauser, Ss Totenkopf

A Wehrpaß & ID Card To SS-Oberscharführer Heinrich Pauser On SS Totenkopf Sturmbann Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen; The Wehrpaß is a second type specimen, dated to Hamburg on January 4, 1939. Measuring 105x147mm, better than fine condition with scuffing, fraying, and creasing of the cover, some damage to the spine, and two punched holes, one with a small rip at the top.

The SS Lower Leader ID card states that Pauser is an SS-Unterscharführer in SS Standarte 28, having received his promotion on April 20, 1937. It is dated to April 22, 1937, and shows a facsimile of Himmler and a signature in black ink of the Leader of SS Standarte 28, Jürgen Stroop (1895–1952), later an SS-Gruppenführer and Lieutenant General of the Waffen-SS, leading the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.

Footnote:Georg Heinrich Karl Pauser was born on April 14, 1898 in Hamburg. He served in Infantry Regiment 75 in the rank of Gefreiter (Lance Corporal) from November 1916 to January 1919. Pauser joined the SS at an unknown date and had been promoted to SS-Unterscharführer by 1937. He was a recipient of the Sudetenland Medal. On August 31, 1939, Pauser joined the SS Totenkopf Sturmbann of concentration camp Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg (north of Berlin) for political prisoners. He was promoted to SS-Scharführer on January 1, 1940 and to SS-Oberscharführer on October 1, 1941. Pauser served with the Commandant’s Office Sachsenhausen starting February 21, 1943.