In February 1937, Sachs became a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS number 278,781) and was given an effective seniority date of 9 November 1936 with the rank of SS-Brigadeführer. On 1 March 1937, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler appointed him as Inspector of Communications in the SS Main Office, entrusting him with the development and management of the SS communications system. On 1 May 1937, Sachs joined the Nazi Party (membership number 4,167,008). On 1 June 1939, he was promoted to SS-Gruppenführer. From 15 May 1940, he was the President of the German Amateur Broadcasting and Receiving Service, a forerunner of the Deutscher Amateur-Radio-Club, where he strictly regulated transmission permits. In August 1940, Sachs was made Chef des Fernmeldewesens (Chief of Telecommunications) on the Personal Staff of the Reichsführer-SS. In this post, he was placed in charge of all SS signals personnel. On his initiative in 1942, the Reichsschule für-SS-Helferinnen (Reich School for the SS-Auxiliary) was established in Oberehnheim (today, Obernai, France) to help alleviate the German wartime manpower shortage. There, female SS-Auxiliary personnel were trained to serve as telephone, radio and telex machine operators in order to release more men for combat duty. On 21 June 1943, Sachs was promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS. In March 1944, he fell ill and was placed on sick leave due to nervous exhaustion. He was examined by the SS Chief Medical Officer, Reichsarzt-SS Ernst-Robert Grawitz, who determined Sachs to be unfit for duty. Sachs left office at the beginning of August 1944. However, Sachs remained active on the Personal Staff of the Reichsführer-SS as a consultant for communications. Postwar life At the end of the war, Sachs was taken prisoner of war by the Americans. In January 1947 he was interned at Ludwigsburg and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, then underwent denazification and was categorized as a "Group II offender" in July 1948 by the court in Frankfurt. He was sentenced to 30 months in a labor camp, five years of occupational restriction and confiscation of 30% of his assets. When released, Sachs settled in Berwangen (today, Kirchardt) and he died of a heart attack at Bad Wildbad on 23 August 1956. References Sources 1880 births 1956 deaths German Army personnel of World War I German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United States Nazi Party members Military personnel from Berlin Radio in Nazi Germany Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914),