A key recruiter amongst Albanians for the Waffen-SS was SS-Standartenführer[lower-alpha 3] Karl von Krempler. For about six months the division included about 1,000 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo and the Sandžak who made up the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment (I/2), which later became the 1st Battalion of the 28th Regiment (I/28).[14][15][16] The division later recruited a further 500 men from the Sandžak.[17]