Question: Who did the person awarded an Iron Cross on 24 April 1944 succeed as commander of the SS Division Totenkopf ?

text: List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords or Diamonds recipients of the Waffen-SS
Recipients -- Knight 's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
The Knight 's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords is also based on the enactment Reichsgesetzblatt I S. 613 of 28 September 1941 to reward those servicemen who had already been awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross . The list is initially sorted by the chronological number assigned to the recipient .
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (German language: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) and its variants were the highest award in the military of the Third Reich. During or shortly after World War II, 457 German servicemen of the Waffen-SS, including volunteers from Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands and Norway, received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Of these, 411 presentations were formally made and evidence of the award is still available in the German Federal Archives. One recipient, Hermann Fegelein, was court-martialed and executed on 29 April 1945. According to German law he was deprived of rank and all awards previously. Fegelein must therefore be considered a de facto but not de jure recipient. A further 46 Knight's Cross, nine Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and four Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords recipients are either lacking the evidence to sustain their listings or received the award under questionable legal terms. However, all of them were accepted by the Association of Knight's Cross Recipients (Ordensgemeinschaft der Ritterkreuzträger des Eisernen Kreuzes e.V.) as legitimate recipients.
Number Name Rank Unit Date of award Notes
26 Josef Dietrich SS- Obergruppenführer SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 14 March 1943 Awarded 16th Diamonds 6 August 1944
39 August Dieckmann SS- Obersturmbannführer SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 10 10 October 1943 * Killed in action 10 October 1943
47 Herbert-Otto Gille SS- Gruppenführer SS-Panzergrenadier Division Wiking 20 February 1944 Awarded 12th Diamonds 19 April 1944
56 Hinrich Schuldt SS- Oberführer 2. lett . SS-Freiwillige-Brigade 25 March 1944 * Killed in action 15 March 1944
65 Hermann Priess SS- Brigadeführer 3 . SS-Panzer Division 24 April 1944
71 Michael Wittmann SS- Hauptsturmführer schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 22 June 1944 Killed in action 8 August 1944
77 Hans Dorr SS- Sturmbannführer SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 9 July 1944 Died of wounds 17 April 1945
83 Hermann Fegelein ? SS- Gruppenführer 8 . SS-Freiwillige-Kavallerie-Division Florian Geyer 30 July 1944 Executed 29 April 1945
85 Fritz von Scholz Edler von Rarancze SS- Gruppenführer 11 . SS-Freiwillige-Panzergrenadier Division 8 August 1944 * Died of wounds 28 July 1944
86 Felix Steiner SS- Obergruppenführer III . ( germanisches ) SS-Panzerkorps 10 August 1944
90 Paul Hausser SS- Oberstgruppenführer 7 . Armee 28 August 1944
91 Kurt Meyer SS- Standartenführer 12 . SS-Panzer-Division 27 August 1944
94 Theodor Wisch SS- Brigadeführer 1 . SS-Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 30 August 1944
95 Otto Baum SS- Standartenführer 2 . SS-Panzer Division 2 September 1944
116 Heinz Harmel SS- Brigadeführer 10 . SS-Panzer Division 15 December 1944
119 Joachim Peiper SS- Obersturmbannführer SS-Panzer-Regiment 1 11 January 1945
120 Walter Krüger SS- Obergruppenführer VI . Waffen-Armeekorps der SS 11 January 1945 Suicide 22 May 1945
129 Helmut Dörner SS- Oberführer 4 . SS-Polizei Panzergrenadier Division 1 February 1945 Killed in action 11 February 1945
138 Otto Kumm SS- Brigadeführer 7 . SS-Freiwillige-Gebirgs-Division 17 Mar 1945
140 Georg Bochmann SS- Standartenführer 18 . SS-Freiwillige-Panzergrenadier-Division Horst Wessel 26 March 1945