Michael Lippert

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Michael Lippert
24 April 1897(1897-04-24) — 1 September 1969 (aged 72)
Place of birth	Schönwald
Place of death	Wuppertal
Allegiance	German Empire (to 1918) Weimar Republic (to 1922) Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Waffen SS
Years of service	1914-1945
Rank	SS-Standartenführer
Commands held	SS-Freiwilligen Legion Flandern 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Honor Roll Clasp of the Heer EK I EK II

Michael Lippert was born the fifth child of Johann and Margaret Lippert on 24 April 1897 in Schönwald, Upper Franken, which was located east of Freiburg in the Black Forest. He attended the Volksschule for seven years and the Fortbildungsschule for three years.

After the outbreak of World War I, Michael Lippert volunteered for service in November 1914 with the Bavarian King's 1st Chevauleger Regiment Kaiser Nikolaus von Rußland (Nürnberg), of the III Bavarian Army Corps. Lippert served on both the western and eastern fronts, and returned home in October 1917 with decorations including the Iron Cross Second Class, the Bavarian War Merit Cross Third Class with Swords (equivalent to Iron Cross First Class), War Cross 1914/18, and the Bavarian Honorary Merit Military Device. He began pilot training at the Second Flying School in Neustadt, and received his pilot's license on 20 October 1918. At the end of the war, Lippert entered the ceramic industry.

Married with one child by October 1921, Lippert joined the Bavarian Police in Regensburg, where he remained until February 1929 as a mounted riding and tournament instructor. His second son was born in 1922.1

On 15 November 1931, Lippert was commissioned an SS Second Lieutenant with the SS Group South, 2nd Company, III Battalion, 31st Death's Head Regiment. The 31st Regiment was one of many regiments that was bestowed a commemorative or honorific name associated either with Nazi members killed during the Putsch or in the struggle against communism, or geographical names.2

From 19 June to 5 July 1933, Lippert attended an SS Officer's Course at the German Hochschule für Leibesübungen, held in Berlin-Grünwald at the German Stadion.3