SS Police Regiment Brixen
The SS Police Regiment Brixen was a security formation of the Nazi German Police (the Ordnungspolizei) which existed for approximately 18 months between 1943 and 1945. The unit was formed from ethnic Germans living in Italy and was a "sister" regiment to the SS Police Regiment Bozen. The unit was attached for operational purposes to the 15th SS Police Regiment, which was the regular SS garrison security formation assigned to the Italian Social Republic.
The Brixen unit operated primarily in northern Italy along the Alps, mainly involved in anti-partisan duties. The unit was disbanded in early 1945, just weeks before the final capitulation of German forces in Italy.
Senior Order of Battle
- Supreme SS and Police Command (Italien) - SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff
- SS and Police Command (Mitteitalien-Verona) - SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Harster
- SS and Police Regiment 15 (Regular SS Garrison in Rome) - Oberstleutnant der Schutzpolizei Ludwig Buch
- SS Police Regiment "Bozen" (Ethnic SS Regiment)
- SS Police Regiment "Brixen" (Ethnic SS Regiment)
- SS and Police Regiment 15 (Regular SS Garrison in Rome) - Oberstleutnant der Schutzpolizei Ludwig Buch
- SS and Police Command (Mitteitalien-Verona) - SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Harster
The overall military command which encompassed the corresponding SS units was the German 14th Army under the command of Generaloberst (Colonel General) Eberhard von Mackensen who in turn answered to Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, considered the highest-ranking German commander in the Italian theater.
References
- Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican, Gallagher, J. (1969)