Einsatzkommandos in Poland, 1939
The Sicherheitsdienst deployed the following order of battle as Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommandos for the 1939 Polish Campaign:
Einsatzgruppe I, also known as EG I–Wien: commanded by SS-Standartenführer Bruno Streckenbach; deployed with the German Fourteenth Army
Einsatzkommando 1/I: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Ludwig Hahn
Einsatzkommando 2/I: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Bruno Müller
Einsatzkommando 3/I: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Alfred Hasselberg
Einsatzkommando 4/I: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Brunner
Einsatzgruppe II, also known as EG II–Oppeln: commanded by SS-Obersturmbannführer Emanuel Schäfer; deployed with the German Tenth Army
Einsatzkommando 1/II: commanded by SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Sens
Einsatzkommando 2/II: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Karl-Heinz Rux
Einsatzgruppe III, also known as EG III–Breslau: commanded by SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans Fischer; deployed with the German Eighth Army
Einsatzkommando 1/III: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Scharpwinkel
Einsatzkommando 2/III: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Fritz Liphardt
Einsatzgruppe IV, also known as EG IV–Dramburg: commanded by SS-Brigadeführer Lothar Beutel (replaced by Josef Albert Meisinger in October 1939); deployed with the German Fourth Army
Einsatzkommando 1/IV: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Helmut Bischoff
Einsatzkommando 2/IV: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Walter Hammer
Einsatzgruppe V, also known as EG V–Allenstein: commanded by SS-Standartenführer Ernst Damzog; deployed with the German Third Army
Einsatzkommando 1/V: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Heinz Gräfe
Einsatzkommando 2/V: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Robert Schefe
Einsatzkommando 3/V: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Walter Albath
Einsatzgruppe VI: commanded by SS-Oberführer Erich Naumann; deployed in Wielkopolska area
Einsatzkommando 1/VI: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Franz Sommer
Einsatzkommando 2/VI: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Gerhard Flesch
Einsatzgruppe z. B.V: commanded by SS-Obergruppenführer Udo von Woyrsch and later SS-Oberführer Otto Rasch; deployed in Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia
Einsatzkommando 16, also known as EK–16 Danzig: commanded by SS-Sturmbannführer Rudolf Tröger; deployed in Pomerania.
