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considered a Hauptamt of the SS Supreme Command (Reichsführung-SS). However,
it differed markedly in both organization and function from the other SS
Hauptämter. While once described by Günther d'Alquen as the Central HQ of
the SS Supreme Conmand (Zentrale Befehlstelle der Relchsfflhrung SS).-*- it be-
came finally a heterogeneous collection of offices nhich had only their
subordination to th* Relchsfuhrer SS in common. What coordination there was
among their activities emanated from the office of the Chief of tha Personal
Staff (Der Chef des Persönlichen Stabes) in Berlin. Chief of the Personal
Staff, for many years, was SS-Ober gruprenf(ihrer Karl Wolff, General of Police
and Supreme SS and Police Leader in Italy (IIBchstor SS und ?F Itclien,).
Functionally the Personal Staff had four major parts:
(1) The Feldkomnandostelle (Field Conrrand HQ), which was the personal
HQ of Himmler*
(2) Special officers, appointed by the FF-SS and responsible to him
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through the Feldkommandostelle.
(3) The dffice of Chief o Staff and offices which were responsible
to him.
GO Offices personally supervised by Hlnrler without channelized
reference to either the FelcT&ostelle or the Chief of Staff.
The most important function of the Personal Staff were centered in
the Feldkommandostelle. Himmler's actual field HQ. In organization the
FeT.ükonnandostelie closely ressembled a military HQ and, for the greater
1. d'Alquen, Die 3S. Berlin, 1939, p. 24„
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