April 24, 1897 - Michael Lippert
His career traced a path through some of the most consequential institutions of the Nazi state — concentration camp administration followed by frontline SS command — placing him at the intersection of the regime's machinery of terror and its military apparatus. Lippert was also present at the Night of the Long Knives, where he participated in the execution of SA leader Ernst Röhm, an act that helped consolidate Hitler's grip on power.
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Michael Hans Lippert (24 April 1897 – 1 September 1969) was a mid-level paramilitary commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. He commanded several concentration camps, including Sachsenhausen, before becoming a commander of the SS-Freiwilligen Legion Flandern and the SS Division Frundsberg. He and Theodor Eicke shot and killed Sturmabteilung (SA) leader Ernst Röhm on 1 July 1934, during the Night of the Long Knives. In 1957, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison by a West German court for his part in Röhm's death.
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