Historically Interesting Silver Tray Presented by Fellow SS Officers to SS-Standartenführer Julian Scherner, Breslau 1936, the large tray, with presentation inscription ‘ihrem kameraden SS-Standartenführer Scherner, Breslau, den 15. im hornung 1936’ with engraved signatures by several higher ranks SS officers. 32cms circumference tray, ‘830’ silver hallmarked, maker marked ‘Gerhardt Hillman of Breslau’. <br>Julian Scherner was born in 1895, he served during WW1, being wounded and captured by the French. Scherner was involved in the famous Munich Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, where he was injured. Scherner joined the SS on 28 December 1932, and became a salaried SS officer in June 1934. Scherner commanded the SS training camp at Dachau between October 1937 and March 1940. Scherner eventually relocated to the SS Officer School at Bad Tölz. From September 1939 to 11 November 1939 he was regimental commander of the SS-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 11 “”Reinhard Heydrich””. From summer to the winter of 1940, he was commander of the 8 Totenkopf-Standarte. As an SS garrison commander of Prague, between January and September 1941, Scherner supervised preparations for the establishment of a Waffen-SS training camp at Benešov, Bohemia. On 4 August 1941, Scherner was appointed SS and Police Leader in German-occupied Kraków. He was responsible for many war crimes and was involved in the murder and deportation of people from occupied Poland during his time. At the end of the war he was demoted by the SS for his conduct in relation to stolen property. He was sent to a Waffen-SS combat unit in 1945. He was found dead shortly before the war ended in a wooded area near Heidesee between Märkisch Buchholz and Halbe