Hubert-Erwin Meierdress

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hubert-Erwin Meierdrees (11 December 1916 - 4 January 1945), usually referred to as Erwin Meierdrees, was a German Waffen-SS officer and panzer ace who served with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, SS-Verf gungs-Division before joining the SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf, which he served with until his death in January 1945.Meierdrees was born in Wesel in Rhenish Prussia into a middle class family. His father was a Customs Tariff Secretary. When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, Meierdrees was still in school. He joined the Hitlerjugend when all Scout organizations were dissolved and replaced by the Nazi-run organization. As soon as he was old enough, Meierdrees applied for NSDAP membership, which he was granted on 4 April 1934 (Nr.3 601 911). Soon after, he applied to join the SS, to which he was admitted on 1 August 1934 (Nr.265 243). He was posted to the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, the SS' lite guard formation, serving as an enlisted man.