The 14th SS Police Regiment (german: SS-Polizei-Regiment 14) was initially named the 14th Police Regiment (''Polizei-Regiment 14'') when it was formed in 1942 from existing
Order Police
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units (''Ordnungspolizei'') for security duties on the
Eastern Front. The regiment was destroyed in January 1943 and the survivors were used to rebuild it in Southern France several months later. The second incarnation was formed from existing police units. It was given an honorary
SS title. Shortly before the end of the war, the regiment was absorbed into the 3rd SS Police and Infantry Regiment (''SS-Police und Infanterie Regiment 3'') of the
35th SS and Police Grenadier Division
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.
Formation and organization
The regiment was ordered formed in July 1942 in Central
Russia
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from
Police Battalion 51 (''Polizei-Batallion 51''),
Police Battalion 122 and
Police Battalion 63 which were redesignated as the regiment's first through third
battalion
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s, respectively.
Lieutenant Colonel (''Oberstleutenant'')
Albert Buchmann
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Life
Buchmann was born in 1894 in Pirmasens. From 1914 ...
was appointed as the regiment's first commander. The connection between Police Battalion 63 and the regiment was only nominal as the former unit was stationed in the
Netherlands
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in July and was ultimately redesignated as III Battalion,
4th SS Police Regiment
The 4th SS Police Regiment (german: SS-Polizei-Regiment 4) was named the 4th Police Regiment (''Polizei-Regiment 4'') when it was temporarily formed in 1939 from existing Order Police (''Ordnungspolizei'') units for security duties during the in ...
. The battalion was replaced by
Police Battalion 313 when the latter unit returned to Russia around November. The regiment was destroyed near
Kharkiv
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, in January 1943 and its remnants were withdrawn to Adlershorst, (now
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Poland
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), where they were used to form the II Battalion of the reformed regiment. Buchmann was killed in action on 11 March.
[Blood, p. 147]
Notes
References
* Arico, Massimo. ''Ordnungspolizei: Encyclopedia of the German Police Battalions'', Stockholm: Leandoer and Ekholm (2010).
*Blood, Phillip W. ''Hitler's Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe'', Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books (2006).
*Tessin, Georg & Kannapin, Norbert. ''Waffen-SS under Ordnungspolizei im Kriegseinsatz 1939–1945: Ein Überlick anhand der Feldpostübersicht'', Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag (2000).
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