Worn pair of officer's collar tabs to SS-Hauptsturmführer Max Pausch. Extremely rare "Totenkopf" machine-woven so-called "flatwire" type. Horizontal skull. Three rank pips. Matching patina and signs of wear. Definitely one pair. Good condition 2. Nicely worn. No moth damage.
Max Pausch was promoted an SS-Hauptsturmführer end of 1944 as a "Schutzhaftlagerführer" of Außenlager Guten II (Mauthausen).
SS-Hauptsturmführer Max Pausch was born on 22.4.1894 and served during WW1.
SS number: 54021. NSDAP: 1440350.
1935-1939 - band leader III./SS-Standarte "Germania"
1940-1941 - SS-Regiment "Nordland"
1941-1943 - SS-Ers.Btl. 5 "Wiking"
1944 - serving with a musician in Berlin
1944-1945 serving as Schutzhaftlagerführer of Außenlagers Gusen II
Pausch was a US POW and sentenced to death at the so-called "Dachau / Mauthausen Folgeprozesse" on 22.10.1947. He was hanged on 12.11.1948 in Landesberg prison.
