page_title: Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS / Operations
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Berlin, Reichstagseröffnung, Himmler, Karl Wolff (r.) Zentralbild Reichstagseröffnung am 12. Dezember 1933, nach den Reichstagswahlen vom 12.11., in der Krolloper am Königsplatz in Berlin. UBz.:der Reichsführer - SS Heinrich Himmler (links) trifft mit seinem Adjutanten SS-Oberführer Karl Wolff zur Reichstagssitzung ein. 42745-33 [Scheerl Bilderdienst] Abgebildete Personen: Himmler, Heinrich: Reichsführer der SS, Deutschland (GND 11855123X) Wolff, Karl: SS-Obergruppenführer, General, Adjutant Heinrich Himmlers, 1964 vom Schwurgericht München zu 15 Jahren Zuchthaus verurteilt, Bundesrepublik Deutschland
context_page_description: The Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS was a main office of the SS which was established in 1933 by Heinrich Himmler to serve as a personal office coordinating various activities and projects subordinate to the Reichsführer-SS.
context_section_description: In 1933, Karl Wolff came to the attention of Himmler who in June 1933, appointed Wolff his adjutant and made him chief of the office of his Personal Staff. Himmler also appointed Wolff the SS Liaison Officer to Hitler. As Himmler's principle adjutant and close associate, Wolff's daily activities involved overseeing Himmler's schedule and serving as a liaison with other SS offices and agencies. The office conveyed the wishes/interests of the Reichsführer to all branches, offices, and subordinated units within the SS. It also handled Himmler's personal correspondence and awarded decorations. Wolff managed Himmler's affairs with the Nazi Party, state agencies and personnel. Following the assassination of  Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, Wolff fell out with Himmler and was replaced by Maximilian von Herff who served as its head until the end of the war.
  Himmler also established several special project teams under the authority of his personal office.  This included the staff of the Wewelsburg castle as well as the Ahnenerbe. This team of experts was interested in the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan race. It conducted experiments and launched voyages with the intent of proving that prehistoric and mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world.
caption: Heinrich Himmler with his adjutant Karl Wolff in 1933.
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