Commands
- Commander of the SS-Regiment "Deutschland" 1 June 1936 to 1 December 1940
- 1 December 1940 to 1 January 1943 Commander of SS-Germania Division (mot),
- On 31 December 1940 SS-Germania Division renamed SS-Wiking Division
- On 9 November 1942 SS-Wiking redesignated 5.SS-Wiking Panzergrenadier Division (I),
- 10 May 1943 to November 9, 1944 Commander of the III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps
- 26 November 1944 to March 5, 1945 Commander of the XI SS Panzer Army
- Command of the III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps a corps in the Third Panzer Army
- On 21 April 1945 what remained of Steiner's command redesignated Army Detachment Steiner
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