SS-Oberabschnitt Nordwest

SS-Oberabschnitt Nordwest (SS Senior District Northwest) was a paper command of the Allgemeine-SS which was established in the occupied Netherlands during the Second World War. The position was intended as an administrative counterpart position to the much more powerful office of the Higher SS and Police Leader of the Netherlands and was intended to be held by the same person.

The command was established on May 23, 1940 with the command's name (Nordwest) adopted from a previous SS command in Hamburg. The Hamburg command was then renamed as SS-Oberabschnitt Nordsee. The Northwest SS district was not assigned any General-SS units but was rather a titular appointment assigned to Hanns Albin Rauter who was the senior most SS officer in the Netherlands. As Rauter was heavily involved with police functions and the formation of Waffen-SS units in the Netherlands, the day-to-day operation of the General-SS command was left to his chief of staff SS-Obersturmbannführer Wilhelm Montel.

The Northwest SS District collapsed when the Netherlands was liberated by the Allies in late 1944.

References
  • Yerger, Mark C. Allgemeine-SS: The Commands, Units, and Leaders of the General SS, Schiffer Publishing (1997). ISBN 0-7643-0145-4

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