He did work for the Dresdner Bank in NYC. Hedwig Potthast died age 82, on 22-09-1994 in Baden Baden. While on Himmler’s staff, Peiper met and married his wife, Sigurd “Sigi”, born Hinrich,and they had three children, Hinrich Elke Silke Mother Sigurd Hinrichsen, was a secretary on Himmler’s personal staff and a close friend of Hedwig Potthast, Himmler’s mistress. Initially he served as an Adjutant on Heinrich Himmler’s Staffīefore moving onto command various Panzer units within 1 st SS “Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler”. SS Oberstgruppenführer, Sepp Dietrich reviewed his application and admitted him into the 1 st SS “Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler ” honour guard regiment, which was re-formed as a Waffen-SS combat unit at the outbreak of war. Peiper was recruited into the SS-Verfügungstruppe in 1935 upon his graduation from college. In reality he committed suicide after allegations of homosexuality.īy the end of his military career, Jochen Peiper was the youngest regimental SS Standartenführer in the Waffen-SS, officially known as: SS Standartenführer Joachim Peiper, 1 st SS Panzer Division, Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler ( did you know). He eventually died of tuberculosis in 1942. Horst Peiper, born 1912, on the photo right with his father Woldemar and Jochen, who served as a company commander in the recce battalion of the “Totenkopf” division, officially died in an accident in East Prussia on 11-06-1941. he had two brothers, Hans-Hasso and Horst Jochen Peiper’s second brother Hans-Hasso, born 1910, unsuccessfully attempted suicide in 1931 but was left in a vegetative state. His father Woldemar Peiper was a WW I veteran, and with his wife Charlotte Marie,born Schwartz (1879–1949). Peiper, Joachim, born 30-01-1915 in Berlin, Gauleiter of Berlin was Josef Goebbels ( did you know), more often known as “Jochen Peiper ” from the common German nickname for Joachim, was a senior Waffen-SS officer and commander in the Panzer campaigns of 1939-1945.
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