Theodor Eicke/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Theodor Eicke.

Nazi Gruppenfuehrer; first commandant of Dachau Concentration Camp in 1933 after release from psychiatric hospitalization; with Michael Lippert, personally killed Ernst Roehm during the Night of the Long Knives purge; first Inspector of Concentration Camps (1934-1939); commanded SS Totenkopf Division 1939-1943, when killed in a plane crash