Eicke akashanda semutungamiriri wechipiri wemusasa wevasungwa weDachau kubva muna Chikumi 1933 kusvika muna Chikunguru 1934, uye pamwe chete nemubatsiri wake Michael Lippert, aive mumwe wevaurayi veSA Chief Ernst Röhm panguva yehusiku hweMapanga Makuru. Muna 1939, Eicke akava mutungamiri weSS Division Totenkopf yeWaffen-SS, achitungamirira chikamu panguva yeHondo Yenyika II kuWestern Front.
uye kumabvazuva, uye kupfuurira kuwedzera nokugadzira gadziriro yemisasa yechibharo.