The Work Places 🇩🇪

Spring, 1938. After being assigned Second Adjutant to Reichsführer SS, Peiper moved into the ornate five-storey baroque building at Prinz-Albrechtstraße 8 in Berlin. Since 1934 this former-hotel served as the headquarters of Himmler while its lower levels and cellars belonged to the Secret State Police (Gestapo). The work place of Peiper was in an anteroom on the top floor, separated from the office of Himmler by a heavy, soundproof oak door.

The buildings, including the first building of the Ethnological Museum of Berlin (at the southern corner with Stresemannstraße), were destroyed by Allied bombing in early 1945 and demolished after the war.

Photo taken in 1933 from the SW direction of the main building of former Prinz Albrecht-Hotel. The shape of window frames on the ground floor of the “central hallway building” was clearly seen. Copyright © Bundesarchiv.

The interior of Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8 building in 1934. Copyright © Bundesarchiv.

Photo taken from the same direction of the previous one in 1934.
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Photo taken from the SW direction to the main building in post-war time.

Another photo shows back entry of the main building from 102 Wilhelmtstraße gardens. the degree of damage of building was shocking.

Details of the entrance door on Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8 ( Now Niederkirchnerstraße )

Photo taken from intersection Prinz-Albrechtstraße / Wilhelmstraße. Then and now.
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Photo taken from intersection Prinz-Albrechtstraße / Wilhelmstraße. Then and now.

 

 

The Classmates

The list of the 2nd SS-Junkerschulen Candidates, who were promoted to SS-Untersturmführer on 20th of April 1936, on the SS-Junkerschule Braunschweig.

Joachim Peiper, SS-Nr 132496, ranked as the 17th Candidate on the list, was not a NSDAP member at that time.

Many famous Waffen SS commanders like Otto Baum (5th), Karl Ullrich (12th), Otto Weidinger (14th), Herbert Kuhlmann (30th), and Johannes “Hannes” Mühlenkamp (48th) were amongst this echelon.

 

In July 1938, Quedlinburg. 🇩🇪

Down the half-timbered buildings of old Quedlinburg to the burial site of King Heinrich the 1st, Henry the Fowler, the annual summer ceremony took place for its third time in July 1938.

Peiper served his first assignment here to meet Heinrich Himmler after he was assigned to the staff of the SS-Reichsführer, as shown in his “Dienstlaufbahn” (Service career) in his BDC personnel file.

A series of pictures show Himmler, Heydrich, Rudolf Jordan and August Heißmeyer on scene.

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