English: Kurt Weisse (born 1909) as a SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer in 1939 while serving in the III./SS-Totenkoft-Infanterie-Regiment. 11.

On January 23, 1943, SS-Hauptsturmführer Weisse was court-martialed by the SS-Totenkopf Division under the command of SS-Obersturmbannführer Heinz Lammerding. The charges brought against him included the assault of a junior soldier and the fatal striking of a subordinate. After a thorough investigation and trial, Weisse was found guilty of all charges and initially sentenced to life imprisonment. However, his sentence was later commuted, and he was reassigned to serve in the notorious Sonderbattalion Dirlewanger.

In July 1943, he was in charged of commanding the 1st Company 1st Battalion of the SS-Sonderbattalion Dirlewanger (the Dirlewanger Brigade) and adjutant to SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Oskar Dirlewanger (at that time). 

Weisse climb to the rank of SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer in 1945 as the Second World War progressed. On May 1 1945, Weisse, who was now a division operations officer, along with the remnant of 36th Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS (the Dirlewanger Brigade) made an attempted to reach the western allied line . Weisse donned the uniform of an army private and went into British captivity. On March 5, 1946 he escaped. (Source : The cruel hunters : SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger , Hitler's most notorious anti-partisan unit)