List of SS personnel

Between 1925 and 1945, the German Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV), which ran the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. The following list of SS personnel gives the names of notable persons who are counted among the organization's most famous, influential or notorious members. Women were not allowed to join the SS[citation needed] but were allowed into the SS-Gefolge and many served within the concentration camps.

Führer (Adolf Hitler)

Oberster SA-Führer and SS Member no. 1 Adolf Hitler at SA Parade in Nürnberg, September 1935; SA at the left; SS-Sturmbannführer Jakob Grimminger behind car
Inspection by the Nazi party and Himmler at the Dachau concentration camp on 8 May 1936

Prior to 1934 the SS were nominally under the command of the Sturmabteilung[1] and so it could be said that both Adolf Hitler as Oberster SA-Führer and Ernst Röhm as Stabschef SA outranked the most senior SS position of Reichsführer-SS. Following the Night of the Long Knives Hitler "raised the SS, hitherto subordinate to the SA, to the rank of an independent organisation".[2] Hitler also was considered SS Member No. 1, Emil Maurice (considered the founder of the SS) was member No. 2, although leadership was assumed by Julius Schreck who was member No. 5. Himmler was SS member No. 168. Based on the seniority system of SS membership number, this made Hitler senior in the SS to all other members even if not by rank.

After the Night of the Long Knives, when the SS became independent from the SA, Hitler was listed on SS officer rolls as member No. 1 and considered supreme commander of the entire SS (Oberster Führer der Schutzstaffel: Literally, "Supreme Leader of the SS") by virtue of his position as the Führer of Germany. There is no photographic record of Hitler ever wearing an actual SS uniform nor was there a special SS insignia for Hitler above that worn by Himmler.

Oberster Führer der Schutzstaffel

NamePositionSS numberYearParty numberRemarks
Oberster Führer der Schutzstaffel        No Insignia (1934–1945)
Adolf Hitler11934DAP: 555
3,680
This position was held by Hitler alone.

SS Generals

Following is the list of persons holding the title positions as well as actual highest ranks of the Schutzstaffel (SS) since the earliest inception of the armed SS units in Nazi Germany. The ranks include distinctive insignia designs worn on the collar at one points by all officers.

Reichsführer

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Reichsführer-SS         (1925–1945)
Julius SchreckFirst Reichsführer-SS
1925–1926
Hitler's chauffeur
Later held the ranks of SS-Standartenführer and SS-Oberführer
Posthumously awarded the ranks SS-Brigadeführer and SS-Ehrenführer of the SS Regiment Munich
5Leader of the Stoßtrupp-Hitler, forerunner of the SS (1923); officially joined SS (1925)53
Joseph BerchtoldSecond Reichsführer-SS
1926–1927
Co-leader of the Stoßtrupp-Hitler; forerunner of the SS (1923)750
Erhard HeidenThird Reichsführer-SS
1927–1929
Member of the Stoßtrupp-Hitler, forerunner of the SS (1923); officially joined SS (1925)74
Heinrich HimmlerFourth Reichsführer-SS
1929–1945
Chief of German Police
Minister of the Interior
Chief of the replacement Army
1682 August 192514303
Karl HankeFinal Reichsführer-SS
1945
20301315 February 1933102606

Oberst-Gruppenführer (colonel general)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Oberst-Gruppenführer         (April 1942–1945)
Kurt DaluegeCommander of the Ordnungspolizei (Orpo-Order Police)1119July 193031981
Sepp DietrichOriginal commander of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) and later commander of the 6th SS Panzer Army11175 May 192889015
Paul HausserCommander of the II SS Panzer Corps239795February 19344158779
Franz Xaver SchwarzNSDAP Treasurer3850016 September 19316

Obergruppenführer (general)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Obergruppenführer         (1932–1945)
Friedrich AlpersStaatssekretär / SS-Obergruppenführer /Staatsrat / Generalforstmeister /Major der Reserve (Luftwaffe)6427March 1931132812
Max AmannHonorary SS Member. Party leader for the Reich of the Department Press531433
Erich von dem Bach-ZelewskiHigher SS and Police Leader of Central Russia983115 February 1931489101
Herbert BackeMinister of Agriculture 1944–1945227661 October 193387882
Gottlob BergerCommander of the SS-Hauptamt2759911936426875
Werner BestReich Plenipotentiary of Denmark233771931341338
Wilhelm BittrichWaffen-SS combat commander, II SS Panzerkorps391771934829700
Ernst Wilhelm BohleLeader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party Foreign Organization27691513 September 1933999185
Martin BormannSecretary of Hitler/Party leader for the Reich in charge of the NSDAP Chancellery555193760508
Philipp BouhlerHead of the Action T4/Party Leader for the Reich in charge of the Hitler's Chancellery (Kanzlei des Führers)5493220 April 193312
Walter Braemerborn 7 January 1883. Involved in War Crimes in Poland; captured 2 May 1945-released October 1947;
1945 request for extradition for war crimes in Poland was refused by the British government in 1950. Died 13 June 1955
2239101 October 1935401232
Franz BreithauptCommanding general of the SS and Police Courts397191 December 1932602663
Walter BuchParty Leader for the Reich as Chairman of the Inquiry and Mediation Board813531 July 19337733
Dr. Leonardo ContiState Secretary for health matters398272225
Richard Walther DarréFirst Director of the Race and Settlement Office ('Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt' or RuSHA), and Minister of the Reich for Food and Agriculture6882July 1930248156
Karl-Maria DemelhuberCommanded the SS-Standarte Germania, 6. SS-Gebirgs-Division Nord, XII. SS-Armeekorps and XVI. SS-Armeekorps.25239215 March 19354439
Otto DietrichParty Leader for the Reich as NSDAP Press Chief
Honorary rank
1013491932126727
Karl von EbersteinEarly member of the Nazi Party, the SA, the SS, Reichstag delegate, an HSSPF and SS-Oberabschnitt Führer, head of the Munich Police in World War II13861 April 192915067
Joachim Albrecht EggelingGauleiter of Saxony and Anhalt
High President of Merseburg
186155193511579
Theodor EickeFirst chief of the Inspektion der Konzentrationslager (Concentration Camps Inspectorate) and commander of the SS Totenkopf Division2921August 1930114901
Karl FiehlerLord mayor of Munich/Party Leader of the Reich in charge of the communal policy9172431 July 193337
Albert ForsterGauleiter of Danzig15812 June 19261924
August FrankBorn 5 April 1898. Frank became SS Administrative Officer of the Special Purpose Troops (SS-Verfügungstruppe) and of the concentration camp guards, the SS Death's Head units (SS-Totenkopfverbände or SS-TV), although somewhat limited in his authority in the second capacity. In February 1940, Frank became chief supply officer of the Waffen-SS and SS-TV units under Pohl. In Pohl Trial sentenced to life in prison; 1951 commuted to 15 years. Died March 198456698 April 19321471185
Hans FrankGeneral Governor of Poland 1939-1945
Karl Hermann FrankHigher SS and Police Leader of Bohemia and Moravia. State Minister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1943–19453104666600002
Herbert Otto GilleWaffen-SS commander of 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking39854December 1931537337
Curt von GottbergGeneral of Waffen-SS45923September 1932948753
Ernst-Robert GrawitzReichsarzt SS and Polizei; Head of German Red Cross; son in law of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Siegfried Taubert27483November 19311102844
Ulrich GreifeltHeld the rank of major general by 1941, and then being appointed as "Chief of SS German Nationhood Staff", a position he held from November 1941 through his arrest by the Allied forces in May 1945.729091667407
Arthur GreiserGauleiter of Reichsgau Wartheland107951929166635
Karl GutenbergerPolice President in Duisburg and in Essen. Higher SS and Police Leader "West." Oversaw "Operation Karnival" in which Werwolf operatives murdered Aachen Lord Mayor Franz Oppenhoff372303June 194025249
August HeissmeyerCommander of the SS Education Main Office437021573
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von HelldorfHe wore the uniform of a General der Polizei in his capacity as Polizeipresident Berlin

SA Obergruppenführer

None
Konrad HenleinGauleiter of the Sudetenland3103076600001
Maximilian von HerffChief of the SS Personnel Main Office, 1942–19454058941 April 19428858661
Rudolf HessAlso Deputy-Führer of the NSDAP until 11 May 1941501 November 192516
Reinhard HeydrichChief of the RSHA; President of Interpol; chaired the 1942 Wannsee Conference; Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia1012014 July 1931544916
Friedrich HildebrandtBorn 19 September 1898, Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin) Served in World War I and Postwar in Freikorps, and a Gauleiter; tried, convicted and executed 5 November 1948 in Landsberg am Lech for war crimes committed during the Nazi era.1288025 December 19333.653
Richard HildebrandtBorn 13. März 1897. Served in World War I and the Freikorps. Higher SS and Police Leader in Danzig and Black Sea area. Led the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (1943-1945). Convicted of crimes against humanity and executed on 10 March 1951, in Bydgoszcz, Poland.7088February 193189221
Hermann HöfleBorn 12 September 1898 in Augsburg; Served in World War I and postwar in the Freikorps; Higher SS and Police Leader in Slovakia; tried and executed 9 December 1947 in Bratislava463903July 19433924970
Friedrich JeckelnHigher SS and Police Leader of Eastern Russia436712 January 1930163348
Hugo JuryBorn 13 July 1887. Gauleiter of the Gau of "Reichsgau Niederdonau" (Lower Austria). As of 1940 he was also Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) and, as of 1942, also Reich Defense Commissioner for this region. Died 8 May 194529277712 March 1938410338
Hans JüttnerCommander of the SS-Führungshauptamt264497541163
Ernst KaltenbrunnerSecond Chief of the RSHA after Heydrich's assassination. Executed by hanging in October 1946.13039300179
Hans KammlerBorn 26 August 1901. Head of V-2 program. Declared legally dead 9 May 194511361920 May 19331011855
Georg KepplerKeppler commanded the 2. SS-Division Das Reich, 3. SS-Division Totenkopf, I. SS-Panzerkorps, III.(germanische) SS-Panzerkorps and the XVIII.SS-Armee-Korps.27379910 October 1935338211
Wilhelm Karl KepplerSecretary of state in Foreign Office; founder of the Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft50816August 193262424
Matthias KleinheisterkampWaffen-SS Divisional and Corps Commander1323998 January 19344158838
Wilhelm KoppeHöhere SS und Polizei Führer, HSSP in Wartheland259552 January 1932305584
Friedrich-Wilhelm KrügerHigher SS and Police Leader of Poland612316 March 19313995130
Walter KrügerCommander of: 4th SS Polizei Panzer Division. 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. IV SS Panzer Corps. VI. SS-Freiwilligen-Armeekorps (lettisches)2661843991530
Hans LammersMinister of the Reich. Head of the Reich Chancellery (honorary rank)1184041010355
Hartmann LauterbacherGauleiter, Reichsstatthalter, Oberpräsident, SS-Obergruppenführer, member of the Reichstag / Preußischer Staatsrat3824069 November 194086837
Werner LorenzCommander of the Main Office of Ethnic Germanization (Hauptamt Volkdeutsche Mittelstelle)66361931337994
Benno MartinSS-Obergruppenführer, General of the Waffen-SS and Police and Higher SS leader (Polizei und Höherer SS) in Nuremberg.18711710 April 19342714474
Emil MazuwLandeshauptmann (nominal governor) of the Province of Pomerania from 1940 to 1945. A member of the SS since 1933, he held the ranks of SS-Obergruppenführer, General of the Waffen-SS (1944), General of Police (1942) and Ostsee Higher SS and Police leader (1939–1945). He was engaged in euthanasia during the Second World War. Convicted after the war of crimes associated with abuses of political prisoners and Jews; sentenced to 16 years imprisonment.25567 June 193085231
Wilhelm MurrBorn 16. Dezember 1888 in Esslingen am Neckar;Gauleiter of Württemberg-Hohenzollern, and from early 1933 held the offices of State President and Reichsstatthalter ("Reich Governor") of Württemberg. Died 14 May 1945 in Egg.1475459 September 193412873
Konstantin von NeurathGerman Foreign Minister 1932–1938; Reich Protector of Bohemia Moravia 1939–19431937
Carl ObergHigher SS and Police Leader of France360757 April 1932575205
Günther PanckeHigher SS and Police Leader of Denmark;Waffen-SS General101101931282737
Karl Pfeffer-WildenbruchObergruppenführer, General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei, during World War II, he commanded the 4th SS Polizei Division and the VI SS Army Corps and the IX SS Mountain Corps.292713March 19391364387
Artur PhlepsCommander of the 7.SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division Prinz Eugen40121430 June 1941
Oswald PohlChief of the SS Economics and Administration Office (WVHA)147614193330842
Hans-Adolf PrützmannSS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei; General of Waffen-SS3002142290
Rudolf QuernerFrom 1 May 1941 to the end of January 1943 Querner was SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Nordsee in Military district X, based in Hamburg. He worked closely with Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann Querners had responsibility over all police matters and was involved in the deportation of the Hamburg Jews, which began at the end of October 1941.30824022 May 19382385386
Hanns Albin RauterSS and Police Leader in the Netherlands262958Joined Austrian Nazi Party
Wilhelm RediessSS and Police Leader in Norway283922 July 193025574
Joachim von RibbentropForeign minister 1938–194563083February 19381199927
Erwin Rösener24 November 1941 – 8 May 1945 Higher SS and Police Leader at SS-Oberabschnitt Alpenland (Wehrkreis XVIII; HQ: Salzburg)3575193046771
Ernst SachsBorn 24 December 1880. Chief of Telecommunications at the Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS and a consultant for intelligence. In July 1948 he was sentenced to 30 months in a labour camp, five years of professional restriction, and 30% confiscation of assets. Died 23 August 1956.2787819 November 19364167008
Fritz SauckelGauleiter of NSDAP Gau of Thuringia2548901395
Paul ScharfeCommander of the SS Legal Main Office142201 October 1931665697
Julius SchaubCo-founder of the SS, personal assistant to Hitler7February 192581
Dr. Johann Friedrich Scheid[3]Director of Hermsdorf-Schönburg GMBH. Had Honorary SS Rank. In August 1944 presided over a secret meeting with German industrialists to using assets to rebuild Germany in the postwar period.[4][5] Listed in 1944 reference[6] and 1946 reference[7]
Ernst-Heinrich SchmauserHigher SS and Police Leader "Südost" in Silesia; also General der Polizei; General of the Waffen-SS335914 October 1930215704
Walter SchmittChief of the SS Personnel Main Office, 1939–1942287371 August 1931592784
Arthur Seyss-InquartLeader of NS opposition in Austria prior Anschluss, Deputy governor-general of Poland then Commissaire for the Reich in Netherlands2927716270392
Felix SteinerCommander of III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps2533514264295
Dr. Wilhelm StuckartBorn 16 November 1902. Reich Interior State Secretary; author of Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935; participant in Wannsee Conference in 1942. In 1949, sentenced to 4 years but released for time already served. Died in a car accident in 1953.280042378144
Fritz WächtlerBorn 7 January 1891 – died 19 April 1945. Gauleiter209058November 193435313
Prince Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and PyrmontSS-Obergruppenführer and Higher SS and Police Leader of the SS-Oberabschnitt Fulda-Werra21392 March 1930160025
Fritz WeitzelHe became a member of Nazi Party in 1925 and of SS in 1926. In 1930 he was promoted to leader of SS in Rheinland and Ruhr. He became Polizeipräsident in Düsseldorf in 1933, and Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer West in 1938.408192718833
Karl WolffChief of staff to Heinrich Himmler and Supreme SS and Police Leader of Italy142357 October 1931695131
Udo von WoyrschHigher SS and Police Leader in the SS-Oberabschnitt Südost3689162349
Alfred WünnenbergSS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen SS and the commander of the 4th SS Polizei Panzer Grenadier Division

Last Commander of the Main Office for Uniformed Police forces (Ordnungspolizei)

4058982 October 19392222600

Gruppenführer (lieutenant general)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Gruppenführer         (1925–1945)
Ludolf von AlvenslebenBorn 17 March 1901. Held ranks of NSDAP-Reichstagsabgeordneter, SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; commander of the Selbstschutz of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia and Major General of the police (1943). Higher SS and Police leader in Silesia. Escaped to Argentina. Died 1 April 19701770025 April 1934149345
Hans BaurHitler's Pilot80825869'None, but received Golden Party Badge
Adolf von BomhardAlso Generalleutnant of the Ordnungspolizei; Chief of the Command Office of the Uniformed Police Main Office
Dr. Karl BrandtHitler's physician26035329 July 19341009617
Karl-Heinrich BrennerGruppenführer and Generalleutnant of Polizei30778611 September 19383460685
Josef BürckelBorn 30 March 1895, in Lingenfeld, Germersheim. Gauliter of Vienna. Died 28 September 1944289830193733979
Carl ClaubergGerman gynocologist at Auschwitz and later Ravensbrück.Unknown1933Unknown
Hermann FegeleinSS-Cavalry General, Eva Braun's brother-in-law. Commander of the 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer6668019311200158
Josef FitzthumSS-Gruppenführer, Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei, politician, and Beauftragter des Reichsführer-SS Albanien (special representative of the Reichsführer SS in Albania)419361932363169
Helmuth FriedrichsBorn 22 Sept 1899. Office of the Deputy Führer. Disappeared February 1945-fate unknown2782291936124214
Alfred FreybergBorn 12 July 1892. Minister-President of Anhalt; Oberbűrgermeister of Leipzig; suicide 18 April 194511365022 November 19335880
Karl Gebhardt"Reichsarzt-SS"; also a major general (Generalmajor) in the Waffen-SS26589419351723317
Dr. Karl GenzkenChief of Medical Office of the Waffen-SS. Involved in human experiments2079545 November 193339913
Odilo GlobocnikHigher SS and Police Leader of the Adriatic Region; Head of Operation Reinhard as SSPF Lublin (Poland)2927761 September 1934442939
Richard GlücksInspector of Concentration Camps/Amt D WVHA587061932214805
Hans HaltermannSS and Police Leader in Kiev, Charkow and Mogilew276294193644393
Wilhelm HarsterA lieutenant general in the SS and Commander of the Security Police and SD first in the Netherlands and then in Italy, Harster was directly connected with the Holocaust in two countries.[8]2259329 November 19333226594
Paul HennickeSS and Police Leader in Rostow-Awdejewka, Kiev; Police President of Weimar133224 February 192936492
Hans HinkelJournalist and commissioner at the Reich Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda914819314686
Otto HofmannHead of RuSHA, 1943. SS and Police Leader Southwest Germany; Wannsee Conference participant76461931145729
Fritz KatzmannSS and Police Leader in Radom, Lemberg; Higher SS and Police Leader in Danzig-West Prussia30651 July 193098528
Gerhard KlopferBorn 18 February 1905. Attended Wannsee Conference 20 January 1942. Died 29 January 198727222719351706842
Wilhelm KubeGeneral-Kommissar for Weissruthenien (now known as Belarus)114771193471682
Wilhelm Friedrich LoeperHonorary rank; Gauleiter of the NS Gau Magdeburg Anhalt1425926980
Georg LörnerBorn 18 February 1899. Deputy Chief under Oswald Pohl of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, SS WVHA); chief of Amtsgruppe B, (Division B) of the WVHA, and deputy chief of Amtsgruppe W (Division W) of the WVHA. Condemned to death in 1946-commuted to 15 years-released March 1954-died 21 April 1959. Brother of SS Colonel Hans Loerner.37719July 1932676772
Wilhelm MeinbergReich Chairman of the Reichsnährstand; Board of Directors, Reichswerke Hermann Göring; Chairman of the neo-Nazi Deutsche Reichspartei, 1955–1960.994367 October 1933218582
Paul ModerSenator of Altona, Hamburg; Sturmbannführer (major) in Waffen-SS; SS-und Polizeiführer {Warsaw}117161 September 19319425
Heinrich MüllerChief of the Gestapo (Secret State Police), Amt IV (Department IV) of the RSHA; Wannsee Conference participant10704320 April 1934533199
Arthur MülverstadtSS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei; Commander of 4th SS Polizei Division2927121331860
Werner NaumannFreundeskreis der Wirtschaft & Secretary of State in Propaganda Ministry
Arthur NebeChief of the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police), Amt V (Department V) of the RSHA, Einsatzgruppe B Commander (June–November 1941)280152
Otto OhlendorfCommander of the Inland-SD, Amt III (Department III) of the RSHA88028 May 19256531
Werner OstendorffDual rank as SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; Commander of 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen and 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich2571461 October 19351691488
Hermann PrießCommander of 3rd SS Division Totenkopf following the death of Theodor Eicke in February 1943. Commanding officer of the 1st SS-Panzerkorps "Leibstandarte" during the Battle of the Bulge. Hermann Prieß was convicted of war crimes because of his involvement in the Malmedy massacre and was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. He was released in 1954.1132581472296
Johann RattenhuberCommander of the Reichssicherheitsdienst (RSD); (Hitler bodyguard unit)528771 May 19333212449
Eggert ReederChief of the German Military Administration next to the Commander of Wehrmacht in occupied Belgium and northern France34077619331998009
Heinz ReinefarthWaffen-SS and Police General/Senior SS and Police Leader in Wartheland (former Polish Posnania)56634December 19321268933
Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig2nd Commander of 13th Waffen SS Division1 August 1943
Walter SchimanaSS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei. SSPF for Central Russia; and HSSPF for Greece; and Danube Sector337753193449402
Fritz von ScholzBorn 9 December 1896. Commander of 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland. Died 28 July 194413563819371304071
Siegfried Seidel-DittmarschChief, SS-Fuhrungstabs; Chief, SS-Amt18615October 1931
Max SimonSS-Gruppenführer (major general) und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS

commander of the XIII SS Army Corps

83086May 19331350576
Jakob SporrenbergSS-Gruppenführer (major general) und Generalleutnant der Polizei in Minsk Russia and Lubin Poland38091 October 193025585
Bruno StreckenbachSS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS. Captured by Soviets and in 1952 was sentenced to 25 years in prison, but released 10 October 1955. The West German government brought Streckenbach to trial in 1973, but the case was dismissed due "to the defendant's poor health". Died on 28 October 1977147131 September 1931489792
Jürgen StroopSS and Police Leader of Warsaw; later senior SS and Police leader in Greece446117 July 19321292297
Harald TurnerChief of military administration's staff in Serbia; Deputy Chief, SS Race and Settlement Main Office34,799April 1932970,460
Baron Otto WächterBorn 8 July 1901. Governor of Kraków and Governor of Galicia District. Died 14 July 1949235338March 1935301093
Dr. Richard WendlerGorn 22 January 1898. Gouverneur von Lublin 15.2.42 – 27.2.41; MWGB Gouverneur Krakau to 25.5.43; Gouverneur Lublin 26.5.43 – 22.7.44; involved with the Czestochowa Ghetto. Died 28 August 1972. His sister was married to Gebhard Himmler, brother of Heinrich Himmler.360501 April 193393116
Karl ZechPolice President in Essen; SS and Police Leader in Kraków District. Expelled from the SS and committed suicide 1 April 1944.455519 January 1931408563

Brigadeführer (major general)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Brigadeführer         (1932–1945)
Hugo von AbercronSS Major general1933
Otto AbetzGerman ambassador to Vichy France; sentenced to 20 years in 1949 for war crimes; released 1954. Died 19582533141 August 19357011453
Karl Wilhelm AlbertBorn 8 September 1898. Joined the NSDAP and SS in 1932 and began working for the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the intelligence service of the SS. In autumn 1933, as an SS-Sturmführer, Albert was entrusted with the direction of the SD-Oberabschnitt West section of the SD, located in Düsseldorf, and later the Oberabschnitt Rhein section, located in Frankfurt. In 1935, he succeeded Werner Best as the chief of staff and the organization of the central administration of the SD. After the reorganization of the SD in January 1936, Albert took over the management of one of its three bureaus, the newly created Amt I (Administration). This promotion made him one of the five leaders highest in the hierarchy, along with Reinhard Heydrich, Werner Best, Heinz Jost and Franz Six. After the founding of the SS-(RSHA), Albert took over the Central Section I (staff, administration, organization). In April 1939, Albert was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer. In 1939, he was appointed along with Werner Best, Walter Schellenberg and Kurt Pomme as director of the Stiftung Nordhav. During World War II, Albert was chief of police in Litzmannstadt (Łódź). After his replacement in 1944, he became the successor to the district president Hans Burkhardt in the district Hohensalza in Reichsgau Wartheland. Interned until 1947. Died 21 April 1960361891 August 19321122215
Georg Altner[9]
Alwin-Broder Albrecht[10]
Franz AugsbergerGeneralmajor der Waffen-SS-20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian)13952820 April 1932360700
Lothar BeutelBorn 6 May 1902 in Leipzig. Einsatzgruppen IV commander 1939. Died 16 May 1986 in Berlin-Steglitz24221930135238
Walther BierkampBorn 17 December 1901 in Hamburg; also a Generalmajor der polizei; Commander of SiPo and SD: Düsseldorf, Belgium & northern France, General Government, Südwest; Commander of Einsatzgruppe D; Acting Higher SS and Police Leader, Südost; suicide 15 May 1945.310,1721 April 19391,408,449
Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-SchönhausenMember of the Reichstag; chairman of the regional council (Regierungspräsident) for Stettin, and later also for Potsdam.
Dr. Hugo BlaschkeHitler's dentist. Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS2568822 May 1935452082
Wilhelm BörgerMinisterial Director, Reich Ministry of Labor2470661935150841
Herbert BöttcherSS and Police Leader "Radom;" Police Director, Memel; Police President, Kassel; also Generalmajor der Polizei. Hanged as a war criminal in Radom, 12 June 1950.323036March 19397093097
Andreas BolekHonorary Gauleiter; SD Main Office; Police President, Magdeburg; also Generalmajor der Polizei.2892109 November 193750648
Karl BrunnerBorn 26 July 1900. A German lawyer; head of the Einsatzkommando 4/I during the invasion of Poland; SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of the police and the SS and police leader in Salzburg Austria and Bolzano Italy. Postwar part of the Gehlen Org. Not prosecuted for war Crimes. Died 7 December 1980.107161June 19341903386
Josef BühlerDeputy governor Central Government on Kraków; attended Wannsee Conference 20 January 1942
Ernst DamzogBorn 30 October 1882, Strassburg {France} Involved with the Einsatzgruppen in killing Jews and Poles; also involved in KZ Chelmo killings as well.-died July 1945 Helle.3615715 June 19335081001
Léon DegrellePromoted by Himmler to this rank on 2 May 1945 (unofficial)/Commander of the Waffen SS division "Wallonie"None1 June 1943None
Christoph DiehmBorn 1 March 1892. SS and Police Leader "Shitomir," "Lemberg" & "Kattowitz." Commander of S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A.; also Generalmajor der Polizei. Died 11 February 196028461March 1932212531
Hans DöringSS and Police Leader in "Stalino-Donezgebiet;" also Generalmajor der Polizei13276 January 1929106490
Anton DunckernBorn 29 June 1905. Commander of the Security Police (SiPo) and SD in Occupied Lorraine (Metz); also a Generalmajor der Polizei. From 31 May to 1 July 1953, Dunckern was tried as a war criminal before the Military Court of the 6th Region in Metz; sentenced to 20 years at hard labor. In June 1954, he was granted an early release from a prison; died 9 December 1985.3526315601
Heinz Karl FanslauBorn 6 June 1909. In January 1934 he became an auditor in the SS Central Administration Office at Munich. On 1 March 1938, he became a member of the SS Special [Purpose] units, which later came to be known as the Waffen SS. Deputy chief of the WVHA, Brigadier General of the Waffen SS; "Evidence was introduced that while defendant Fanslau was in command of the supply battalion of the Viking division, which was engaged in the campaign against Russia in the Ukraine, a number of atrocities were perpetrated against the Jews in the vicinity of Tarnopol by the troops under Fanslau's command. The character of this proof has made the Tribunal reluctant to accept it as true beyond a reasonable doubt..."[IMT] in Pohl Trial sentenced to 25 years; reduced to 20 years; commuted to 15 years. died 10 March 1987132001 July 1931581867
Ernst Otto FickSS-Brigadefürer and Generalmajor der Waffen-SS2853124087
Richard FiedlerSS and Police Leader "Montenegro;" also Generalmajor der Polizei3377691 August 193933777
Hans FischböckInvolved in Final Solution in the Netherlands; Secretary of State for economics matters next to the Reich Commissar in the Netherlands367799
Paul Otto GeibelSS and Police Leader of the Warsaw district, and a Generalmajor der Polizei. Convicted of war crimes and committed suicide in a Polish prison in 1966.313910December 1938761353
Dr. Karl GenzkenChief of Medical Office of the Waffen-SS2079545 November 193339913
Ulrich GrafA member of Hitler's bodyguards268
Walter GranzowMinister-president of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; president of the Deutsche Rentenbank1288012 October 1933482923
Ludwig GrauertState Secretary in the Prussian and Reich Ministry of the Interior1184752 June 19333262849
Wilhelm von Grolmanb.16 July 1894 SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei d. 20 June 19854130352864
Wilhelm GüntherSS and Police Leader "Bergvölker-Ordshonikidse;" "Rowno;" Commander of SiPo and SD in Trieste; also Generalmajor der Polizei6963814 March 19331094209
Desiderius HampelBorn 20 January 1895. SS Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Waffen SS. d. 11 January 1981468174May 1942
Hermann HarmSS and Police Leader "Dnjepropetrovsk-Kriwoi Rog;" "Lithauen"21342February 1932204385
Ernst HartmannSS and Police Leader, "Tschernigow;" "Shitomir;" "Pripet;" "Wolhynien-Luzk"898224 October 1930; rejoined 30 April 1937160298
Franz HaylerBorn 29 August 1900 in Schwarzenfeld. He was a German self-employed salesman who rose during the Third Reich to State Secretary and acting Reich Economics Minister as a member of the NSDAP and the SS. He died 11 September 1972 in Aschau im Chiemgau.6469723 March 1934754133
Max HenzePolice President in Kassel, Bromberg, Danzig and Essen; also a Generalmajor der Polizei. Hanged in Bydgoszcz, Poland for war crimes, 10 March 1951.11677 June 192780481
Eberhard HerfBorn 20 March 1887. SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Polizei. Executed 30 January 1946 War crimes. Cousin of SS Obergruppenführer Maximilian von Herff4119709 November 19411322780
Walther HewelPermanent Representative of the Reichsminister for Foreign Affairs to the Führer12 July 1937
Kurt HintzeSS and Police Leader "Lithauen." Killed in an air raid on 13 November 1944 in Kattowitz.2820661 July 193798200
Franz Josef HuberServed as chief of the State Police (SiPo) and Gestapo for Vienna, the "Lower Danube" and "Upper Danube" regions; also a Generalmajor der Polizei1070994583151
Heinz Jostborn 9 July 1904. SD officer and original Chief of the Ausland-SD, Amt VI (Department VI) of the RSHA & Commander of Einsatzkommando A (29 March – 2 September 1942). Tried in Einsatzgruppen Trial of 1947–1948. In 1951, Jost was released from Landsberg prison. He then worked in Düsseldorf as a real estate agent. He died on 12 November 1964 at Bensheim.3624325 July 193475946
Bronislaw KaminskiCommander of Kaminski Brigade
Dr. Adolf KatzSS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Waffen-SS3199149075
Hans KehrlBorn 08.09.1900 Brandenburg, Amtschef (Rohstoff- und Planungsamt) im Reichsministerium für Rüstung und Kriegsproduktion. Died 26 April 1984 in Grafenau-Döffingen27689913 September 19361878921
Wilhelm KeilhausBorn 11 December 1898. July 1934 involved in the Röhm affair.In July 1943 was appointed inspector for intelligence in the SS Main Command Office. From August 1944 to 1945 he was chief of telecommunications for Reich Minister Himmler.Died 11 January 1977209,0601 April 19341,399,935
Fritz KranefussHead of Financial Department under Himmler53092964992
Hugo KraasBorn 25 January 1911 He served in the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and was the last commander of the SS Division Hitlerjugend. Kraas was investigated for the murder of several dozens of Italian Jews in Italy; he was tried in absentia in Italy in 1955 and was found guilty. The investigation also took place in West Germany in 1965 but stalled for "lack of evidence". Died 20 February 198028963315 October 19352204561
Hans KrebsHonorary Gauleiter; Regierungspräsident, Aussig2928021 April 193886
Christian Peder KryssingHighest ranking foreigner in the Waffen-SS. Commander of Frikorps Danmark and SS-Kampfgruppe Kueste.
Franz KutscheraSS General and Gauleiter of Carinthia. SS and Police Leader of the Poland's Warsaw district, and a Generalmajor der Polizei.196591 November 1931363031
Gustav LombardSS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Waffen-SS185023May 19332649630
Johann-Erasmus Freiherr von Malsen-PonickauSS and Police Area Commander, "Istrien;" Police President of Frankfurt am Oder, Posen & Halle39141 March 1930213542
Günther MerkSS and Police Leader (SSPF) "Charkow;" Commander of Ordnungspolizei in Krakau; also: Generalmajor der Polizei; convicted of war crimes and executed by firing squad in the Soviet Union.3471331 November 19391346722
Kurt MeyerWaffen-SS division commander of 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend.1755915 October 1931316714
Wilhelm MohnkeWaffen-SS divisional commander of the LSSAH and (Kommandant) Battle Commander for the defence of the central government district (Zitadelle sector) that included the Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker during the Battle of Berlin155411 September 1931649984
Hinrich MöllerPolice Chief in Neumünster; Police Director of Flensburg; SS and Police Leader (SSPF) "Estland." Imprisoned for murder and Kristallnacht atrocities.574115 October 1930113298
Erich NaumannSS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei; commander of Einsatzgruppe B (November 1941 – March 1943)170257
Hans NielandLord Mayor of Dresden6170233333
Walther OberhaidacherGauleiter of Styria; Police President of Bochum and Dresden; Generalmajor der Polizei29120730 January 193850478
Karl PflaumerInterior Minister of the state of Baden625111 June 1932186057
Karl PflommSS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Polizei2913304896
Hans PleschSS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Polizei; Police President of Munich, 1943–194543391 December 1930347695
Anton ReinthallerBrigadeführer and a member of Reichstag292775December 1938
Ernst August RodeBorn 9 August 1894. Served in World War I and postwar in Freikorps Leib-Kurassier-Regiment "Großer Kurfürst" until 25 July 1919 and then became a member of the Schutzpolizei. In December 1939 he was appointed commander of a battalion of the Security Police (Sipo) in Bydgoszcz. He was also deployed in Białystok. He became First General Staff Officer (Ia) to the Commander of the Order Police (BdO) in Norway. At the end of August 1940 he was appointed deputy commander of the Moravian Police Regiment in Brno. From 6 February 1941 to 22 May 1941 he commanded the Police Battalion 315, leading the battalion from April to May 1941 in newly occupied Yugoslavia.From 16 May 1941 he was employed as a Fourth General Staff Officer (Id; responsible for training and organization) and deputy of the First General Staff Officer (Ia) at the Kommandostab Reichsführer SS in the Hauptamt zur Partisanenbekämpfung. In August 1943 he was temporarily given command of the Latvian SS Volunteer Brigade. In September 1943 he was appointed liaison officer to the command posts of the Wehrmacht on the staff of the Chief of the Gang Fighting Units (BKV), which led the fight against the partisans. He was promoted to SS Brigadeführer and Major General of the Waffen-SS with effect from 21 June 1944. The promotion to Major General of the Schutzpolizei was also set for this date. He was appointed Chief of Staff of Bach-Zelewski as successor to SS-Standartenführer Heinz Lammerding in the summer of 1944, retaining his command as Chief of the Command Staff Reichsführer SS. Involved in suppression of Warsaw Uprising 1944. Witness in Nuremberg Trials. Died 12 September 1955 Göttingen.401,3991 July 19411,937,929
Dr. Bruno Karl Hermann Rothardt.Born 21 August 1891 in Danzig, Prussia. SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Dr.med.
Died on 28 April 1980 Niefern-Öschelbronn.
276754430880
Joachim RumohrBrigadeführer und Generalmajor of the Waffen-SS74501933216161
Karl SchäferSS and Police Leader (SSPF) "Weissruthenien;" "Dnjepropetrowsk-Krivoi-Rog." Killed in action, 2 November 1943.20865October 1931419439
Walter SchellenbergSD officer and second Chief of the Ausland-SD, Amt VI (Department VI) of the RSHA12481710 January 19343504508
Gustav Adolf ScheelPolice Major General; Leader of the National Socialist Students' Federation, Superior SS and Police Leader in Salzburg, Gauleiter in Salzburg. Leader of the Berlin SD School; Inspector of the Security Police (SiPo) and the SD in Stuttgart; Leader of the Nazi Old Gentlemen's Federation; Chairman of the Reich Student Works; President of the German Study Works for Foreigners; Member of the Reich Labour Chamber and the Reichstag; commander of the SiPo and the SD under Chief of the civil administration in Alsace; Leader of the SD Upper Division South (Munich); Inspector of the SiPo and the SD under the higher SS and Police leaders South and Main; Higher SS and Police leader; Leader of the SS Upper Division Alpenland (Salzburg); Volkssturm Leader1071891 October 1931391271
Walter SchieberBorn 13 September 1896. head of the Armaments Supply Office under Albert Speer. After 1947 employed by the US for ten years in chemical warfare research in West Germany. Died 29 June 1960161947June 1933
August SchmidthuberCO of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen from 20 January 1944 to 8 May 1945, and the 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) from May 1944 onwards.26645017 May 1935
Karl Eberhard Schöngarthb.22 April 1903. Commander of an Einsatzgruppen; perpetrated the Massacre of Lviv professors, among other atrocities; Wannsee Conference participant; executed 16 May 1946 after being found guilty of killing an Allied POW 21 November 1944671741 Feb 19332848857
Walther SchröderBorn 26 November 1902. Polizeipräsident in Lübeck (1933–1945); SS and Police Leader (SSPF) "Lettland;" "Estland"; involved in killing of Jews in Reichskommissariat Ostland. Died 31 October 1973.29079720 April 19386288
Hinrich SchuldtAwarded Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
Erwin SchulzBorn 27 November 1900, Berlin. Chief of Einsatzkommando 5 In May 1941. Sentenced to 20 years in Einsatzgruppen Trial; commuted to 15 years January 1951-released 9 January 1954. Died 11 November 1981.1935
Hans SchwedlerSS and Police Leader in "Krakau;" Inspector of SS-Totenkopfstandarten; also Generalmajor der Waffen-SS. Suicide 2 May 1945.60740November 1932455899
Hendrik SeyffardtFounder of the SS Dutch Legion
Franz SixChief of Amt VII (Department VII) of the RSHA; charged with creation of Chief of Einsatzgruppen for England
Vorkommando of Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B
1074801935245679
Sylvester StadlerBorn 30 December 1910. Commander of the SS Division Das Reich, SS Division Hohenstaufen and a recipient of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves. Died 23 August 199513949519334159018
Franz Walter StahleckerCommander of the SS security forces Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) for the Reichskommissariat Ostland in 1941–42. Stahlecker commanded Einsatzgruppe A, the most murderous of the four Einsatzgruppen (death squads during the Holocaust) active in German-occupied Eastern Europe.73,0411 May 19323,219,015
Ludwig SteegBorn 22 December 1894. Mayor of Berlin Germany 1940–1945.
Died a POW 6 September 1945
1275311485884
Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und CamminetzHeer panzer general828571405562
Bruno StreckenbachBorn 7 February 1902. Awarded 30 January 1939 Golden Party Badge; Chief of Amt I (Department I), Administration and Personal of the RSHA; and Einsatzgruppen Commander, 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer. Died 28 October 1977147131 September 1931489972
Otto SteinbrinckFreundeskreis der Reichsführer SS6308430 May 19332638206
Karl TausSS and Police Leader "Görz;" headed underground SS forces in Austria, 1934–1937678627 December 1930301453
Willy TensfeldSS and Police Leader "Charkov;" "Stalino-Donezgebiet;" "Oberitalien-West;" also Generalmajor der Polizei147241 September 1931753405
Fritz TittmannSS and Police Leader "Nikolajew;" died in unclear circumstances, April 1945292520 April 193812225
Wilhelm TrabandtColonel of 1 SS Infantry Brigade
Commander of 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Horst Wessel
218852May 19367035171
Friedrich Uebelhoerborn 25 Sept 1893. Governor of the Lodz ghetto until December 1942. Disappeared 1945-fate unknown.20905911707
Edmund VeesenmayerSpecial Representative of the Reich in various South East countries. Involved in the Final Solution in Croatia, Serbia and Hungary202122June 1934873780
Wilhelm Fritz von RoettigBorn 25 July 1888. Generalmajor der Ordnungspolizei. Killed in action Poland 10 September 1939.
Jürgen WagnerCommander of 23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland. 4th SS Polizei Division2369215 June 1931707279
Friedrich WeberCommander of the NSDAP Old Guard265902July 193415
Ernst Heinrich Freiherr von WeizsäckerBorn 25 May 1882. Secretary of State Foreign Office 1938–1943. Died 4 August 195129329120 April 19384814617
Karl Maria WiligutSection VIII (Archives) RUSHA
Himmler's Personal Staff
September 1933
Theodor WischSS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Waffen-SS4759369050
Fritz WittFirst commander of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. Awarded the Knight's Cross on 4 September 1940. He was killed by an allied naval barrage in 1944.215181 December 1931816769
Karl Emil WrobelBorn 26 February 1882 Breslau. Held the rank of Generalarzt der Polizei. Surrendered at the Battle of Berlin 2 May 1945. Died 2 October 1949 Shuya, Ivanovo oblast.
Gustav Adolf von WulffenBorn 18 April 1878. Awarded Pour le Merite 21 April 1918. Died of Wounds 4 May 1945.722081931495764
Lucian WysockiPolice President in Oberhausen; Mülheim an der Ruhr; Duisburg; Kassel; SS and Police Leader in "Litauen"; also Generalmajor der Polizei36519921 June 1940132988
Carl ZennerBorn 11 June 1899. Police President in Aachen; SS and Police Leader "Weissruthenien;" also Generalmajor der Polizei; convicted war criminal. Died 16 June 19691761 August 192613539
Paul ZimmermannSS and Police Leader "Nikolajew;" also Generalmajor der Polizei2768561 August 1933940783

SS Officers

Oberführer (senior colonel)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Oberführer         (1926–1945)
Humbert Achamer-PifraderBorn 21 November 1900 in Teplitz-Schönau, Married Maria Hauser in 1929, Joined NSDAP on 10 November 1931, SS-Oberführer and Oberst der Polizei, Einsatzgruppe A Commander (10 September 1942 – 4 September 1943), head of the Gestapo in Darmstadt in 1940, Inspector of the SiPo and SD in Wiesbaden July 1942, Inspector of the SiPo and SD in Berlin September 1943. Died 25 April 1945 in Linz275750September 1935614104
Josef AltstötterMember of Reich Ministry of Justice; member of SA # 31; tried 1947 in Judges' Trial-released 1950-died 197928925415 May 19375823836
Benno von ArentBorn 19 July 1898 in Görlitz, Prussia. His uncle was Benno von Arent (Generalleutnant). Member of the Freikorps. Joined the Nazi Party in 1932 he was one of the founders of the "Bund nationalsozialistischer Bühnen- und Filmkünstler" ("Union of national-socialist stage and movie artists"), which was renamed "Kameradschaft deutscher Künstler" ("fellowship of German artists") after Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Arent was appointed "Reichsbühnenbildner" ("Reich stage designer") in 1936 and "Reichsbeauftragter für die Mode" ("Reich agent for fashion") in 1939. He designed the diplomatic uniform of the Nazi diplomatic service. In 1944, he was given the rank of SS-Oberführer. Died 14 October 19561931
Adolf AxWaffen-SS commander. Chief of Staff of the Commander of the Waffen-SS in The Netherlands 1942-194438481 December 1930378043
Hans Christoph BaierBorn 4 November 1893 at Pohl Trial sentenced 10 years. Died 16 March 19692794581 August 19372572143
Hermann Baranowski[11]
Werner Blankenburgborn 19 June 1905 in Caputh. Involved in Nazism "Euthanasia"-program Action T4, the annihilation of the Polish Jews in the "Aktion Reinhard", and the experiments with castration by X-Rays in KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau. Officially declared dead 31 December 1945 in 1956 ironically he actually died under alias Werner Bieleke 28 November 1957124744
Walter BertschMinister of Economy and Labour in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Friedrich-Wilhelm BockHe was born 6 May 1897. His military service; 2 August 1914 to 1 February 1919 F.A.R 31.; Alleged to have been member of Freikorps. 10 July 1924....Leutnant {police}; 1 April 1928...Oberleutnant {police}; 1 January 1934...Hauptmann {police}; 1 April 1936...Major {police}; 1 November 1941...Sturmbannführer (Joined SS at this rank); 5 January 1942...Obersturmbannführer; Einsatzgruppe B, Sonderkommando 7c Commander (June 1942); 9 November 1943...Standartenführer; 1 August 1944...Oberführer. Commander of 9.SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, 4.SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division, 19.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS. Died 11 March 1978 Hanover, Germany.4058212223186
Ernst BoeppleSS officer and assistant to Josef Bühler, born as Erwin Hermann Lambert
Parseval von HüttenBorn 29.10.1903 Dresden. Participated in executions of Poles and Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto ruins. Sentenced to death by a Polish court after the war and executed on 12 June 1950459
Karl-Heinz BürgerSS and police leader in North Caucasus15630930 January 193368902
Alfred BuntruAlso a hydraulic engineer and informant for the Sicherheitsdienst (SD)1937
Otto Willy Gerhard Calliebeb.1893 at Züllichow. Lt deR Flieger-Abteilung 301 1917–18. World War II: Vice Inspector of the NPEA Inspection state offices and SS Oberführer as vice-inspector post war Deutscher Gymnasiallehrer und Napola-Leiter. Died 20 March 19761917
Prince Christoph of HesseBorn 14 May 1901. Also, reserve captain at RFSS staff. Luftwaffe major. Killed in airplane accident 7 October 194335903February 19331498608
or 696176
Karl DiebitschArtist and soldier responsible for much of the Third Reich SS regalia. Prof. Diebitsch worked with graphic designer Walter Heck to design the all-black SS uniform. Also with his business partner Industrialist Franz Nagy, Diebitsch began the production of art porcelain at the porcelain factory Porzellan Manufaktur Allach.1419901 May 1920
November 1933.
1436 {membership lapsed},
4,690,956 reinstated.
Rudolf DielsFirst commander of the Gestapo until April 1934; later Chief of the Regional Government (Regierungsprasident) of Köln187116April 19343955308
Eduard DeisenhoferWaffen-SS combat commander
Oskar Dirlewangerborn 26 Sept 1895; Leader of Dirlewanger Brigade; died 7 June 19453572671098716
Heinrich Fehlisborn 1 November 1906 in Wulften am Harz. Was a member of the Einsatzgruppen during Operation Weserübung; commanded the Sicherheitspolizei and Sicherheitsdienst in Norway; died 11 May 1945 in Porsgrunn27225519352862366
Werner FrommSS and Police Leader in Bialystok; Police Area Commander in Sarajevo; also Oberst of police and Untersturmführer in the Waffen-SS1708015 June 1931753170
Arthur Frank FuchsKilled in an RAF air raid on Berlin during the night of 17 January 1943. On the recommendation of his Superior Paul Otto Geibel he was admitted into the SS posthumously during Feb. 43 with effect 21.12.194221 December 1942
Wilhelm Fuchsborn 1 September 1898 in Mannheim. SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei, Leader of Einsatzgruppe "Serbien" from April 1941 to January 1942 and Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) {Serbia}, Kommandeur of Sicherheitspolizei and des SD in Litauen, Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) Ostland in Riga and from 15 September 1943 to 27 May 1944 Leader of Einsatzkommandos 3 {USSR}. Died 24 January 1947 Belgrade.627601 December 19321038061
Fridolin GlassBorn 1910. Commander of SS Regiment 89 before outbreak of World War II. Killed in action 1943155767April 1934440452
Erich GritzbachChief of the Staff Office, Prussian State Ministry, 1938–194580,17425 September 19333,473,289
Paul HeiglBorn 19 April 1887. Generaldirektor der Nationalbiobliothek in Wien 1938–1945. Died 8 April 1945 (suicide).310001
Ernst-Albrecht HildebrandtPolice President, Hof; Dessau. SS and Police Leader (SSPF) in Central Upper Italy.255171 February 19321664468
Karl HöferOldest member of SS – born 29 December 1862276338
Richard KaasererBorn 21 August 1896 in Austria-Hungary. SS and Police leader in Sandžak and Central Norway. Executed by Yugoslavia in January 1947.977415 July 19321087778
Hubert KlausnerGauleiter of Carinthia
Willi KrichbaumPost World War II member of the Gehlen Organization
Martin KohlroserBorn 8 January 1905. With 34th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Landstorm Nederland; commander in the Waffen SS during World War II who was awarded the German Cross in Gold. died 14 November 196731491 December 1930371577
Erhard KroegerFormer leader of the National Socialist Group in Estonia. Commander of Einsatzkommando 6/Einsatzgruppe C35724323 October 19387675747
Johannes Georg "Hans" LörnerBorn 6 March 1893. Member of WVHA and brother of Gruppenführer Georg Lörner. In 1947 sentenced to 10 years in prison-released 1951.836831 April 19332541670
Hans LoritzKZ commander Esterwegen concentration camp41651 August 1930298668
Emil MauriceSS Member No. 2, credited with co-founding the SS2February 192539
Konrad Meyer-HetlingBorn 15 May 1901. Died 25 April 19737469520 June 1933908471
Hermann MuhsBorn 16 May 1894. Secretary of State and Minister for Church Affairs (Minister für Kirchenfragen) in Nazi Germany. Died 13 April 1962544201 June 1931 (Expelled 2 April 1941.)152594
Georg Wilhelm MüllerBorn 39 December 1909. Assistant to Goebbels in the Propaganda Ministry Aka "Müller-Oslo" [Assigned to Norway]; died 30 April 19893554193074380
Thomas MüllerWaffen-SS combat commander
Erich NeumannBorn 31 May 1892. State Secretary in the Four Year Plan; Wannsee Conference participant. Arrested after World War II but released because of poor health. Died 23 March 195122201413 August 19342645024
Friedrich PanzingerBorn 1 February 1903. Served as the head of Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) Amt IV A, from September 1943 to May 1944 and the commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe A in the Baltic States and Belarus. From 15 August 1944 forward, he was chief of RSHA Amt V, the Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo), also known as the Reichskriminalpolizeiamt (RKPA). Responsible for the murder of prisoner of war French general Gustave Marie Maurice Mesny on 19 January 1945 near the village of Nossen. Arrested in 1946. Twice sentenced to 25 years of forced labor in Moscow 22 March 1952. Released as a so-called Nichtamnestierter ("non-amnestied") in September 1955 and repatriated to Germany. Member of the German Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) under Reinhard Gehlen. Committed suicide after being arrested for war crimes 8 August 1959322118.April 19371017341.
Ferdinand PorscheHe made contributions to advanced German tank designs: Tiger I, Tiger II, and the Elefant, as well as the super-heavy Panzer VIII Maus tank, which was never put into production. He also made contributions in aircraft design, including the Junkers Ju 88, and the Focke-Wulf Ta 152. Additionally, he helped develop and manufacture retaliatory weapons (Vergeltungswaffen), such as the V-1 flying bombs (Fi 103 flying bombs).None5643287
Heinz RochBorn 17 January 1905. SS and Police Leader in Crimea, Bialystok District and Northern Norway. Committed suicide in Trondheim 5 May 1945.288319 June 192634475
Ferdinand von Sammern-FrankeneggBorn 17.3.1897 Grieskirchen. Stub: 9 November 1937; Staff: 17.3.38; Führer 37 SS – Standarte (Linz): 12.3 – 31.12.1938; Reichstag deputy 1938–1944; b. Stab SS – Oberabschnitt Nordost: 1.1 – 7.2.1939; m.d.F. SS – Abschnitt IX: 1.3 – 1.7.1939; Stabsführer SS – Oberabschnitt Main: 1.7 – 1.9.1939; Führer SS – Abschnitt IX (Würzburg): 1.9.1939 – 15.5.1942; Oberf: 30.1.41; SSPF Warschau: 15.5.1942 – 19.4.1943; b.m. SS – Abschnitt IX: 1.6 – 1.7.1943; Führer at RFSS staff: 1.7.1943; Polizeigebietsführer Esseg: 15.7.1943 – 20.9.1944; Brif u. Gen.Mjr d. Pol: 20.4.1944; killed 20.9.1944 b. Banja Luka.2927921459955
Emanuel SchaferMember of Einsatzkommando, SD, and Himmler's personal staff2800184659879
Julian SchernerSS and Police Leader of Kraków
Gerhard Markus SchneiderSS lead agent
Julius SchreckFirst Reichsführer-SS5February 192553
Emil SembachSS headquarters in Silesia killed during the Long knives night in 1934.66401 April 19323575
Otto SomanBorn 24 October 1899. A member of the SD holding positions such as 1943 inspector of the security police and the SD (IdS) in Wiesbaden and in 1944 he was appointed inspector of the Customs Border Protection for the entire Reich territory and the occupied lands to the deputy chief of Office IV(Gestapo)and inspector general Wilhelm Krichbaum. Postwar served a Jail sentence for War Crimes. In 1951 recruited as an Agent of the Gehlen organization; he is also suspected of having been a member of the Ministry of State Security [Russian Secret Service]. Died.7 December 1956256381 November 193158502
Otto SteinhäuslPolice President of Vienna and Leader of Interpol.2927731938
Paul Gebhard Gustav WernerBorn 4.11.1900. Served in World War I 1918. Also served in SS Security service; also a deputy to Arthur Nebe and Friedrich Panzinger. Involved in the Shoah; SS Oberführer and Oberst Der Polizei. Died 15. Feb 1970 Leinfelden2903895 November 19373025030
Gustav Adolf WiemannWaffen-SS Officer and son-in-law of SS-Oberstgruppenführer Paul Hausser1938
Arpad WigandSS and Police leader (SS-und Polizeiführer (SSPF)) in Warsaw from 4 August 1941 until 23 April 1943. Aide to Erich von dem Bach Zelewski. In 1981, Wigand was found guilty in Hamburg for war crimes and was sentenced to 12.5 years.299930682
Werner ZschintzschState Secretary, Ministry of Science, Education and Culture; Regierungspräsident, Wiesbaden District27665716 June 19363495469

Standartenführer (colonel)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Standartenführer         (1925–1945)
Humbert Achamer-PifraderBorn 21 November 1900 Bohemia. Served in Austrian Army in World War I. In 1935 chief of Gestapo in Darmstadt. By July 1942, he was Chief of Security Police and SD in Wiesbaden. In September 1942 he became commander of Einsatzgruppen A, which was responsible for the mass murder of civilians (mostly Jewish). In addition, he was commander of the Security Police (SiPo) in Riga. On 31 August 1943, awarded with the Iron Cross 2nd Class award. In 1944 he returned to the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin and took over as Chief of Security Police in the field units of the Unit IV B. Killed in air raid 21 April 1945275.750September 1935614.104
Gunter d'AlquenBorn 24 October 1910. Chief of Propaganda OKW; Editor of Das Schwarze Korps;Commander of the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers. Died 15 May 1988.8452193166.689
Ludolf Jakob von AlvenslebenBorn 9 August 1899. A senior staff member of the Operation Reinhard group assigned by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler to systematically murder the Jews of Europe. He ended the war as SS and Police Leader (SSPF) of Adria-West, Northern Italy. He escaped investigation after the war and is reported to have died when his car overturned on a road outside Dortmund. Died 23 August 195352.1951.313.391
Emil AugsburgIn 1939–40 and again in the summer and fall of 1941 he joined the Security Police to carry out what were called "special duties" (spezielle Aufgaben), a euphemism for executions of Jews and others the Nazis considered undesirable. Augsburg was used by CIC from 1947 to 1948 as an expert on Soviet affairs.[8] Reported died 1981307,92511 September 19385,518,743
Rudolf BatzBorn 10 November 1903. Einsatzkommando2; KDS Cracow; Gestapo Chief Hanover Germany. Died 8 February 196127245810 December 1935
Paul BlobelBorn 13 August 1894. Einsatzgruppe C, Einsatzkommando 4a Commander (June 1941 – 13 January 1942). Executed 7 June 195129100January 1932844662
Ferdinand BrandnerBorn 17 November 1903. An Austrian aerospace designer and was responsible for the most powerful turboprop engine ever built, the Kuznetsov NK-12, while interned in the Soviet Union under Operation Osoaviakhim following World War II. Died 20 December 1986
Hans CollaniBorn 13 February 1908 in Stettin, died 29 July 1944 at Narva (suicide) Waffen-SS Officer
Professor Max de CrinisBorn 29 May 1889. Psychiatric director of the clinic "La charité" of Berlin. Also worked with RuSHA/Action T-4. Suicide 2 May 1945276 1711936688 247
Eugen DollmannServed as Himmler's personal representative to the Italian government and the Vatican.[8] Died 19852892593 402 541
Erich EhrlingerBorn 14 October 1910. Einsatzkommando commander. After the end of the war, Ehrlinger went into hiding in Schleswig-Holstein under the alias of Erich Fröscher. In 1950, he moved with his family to Konstanz and worked under a false name as a host in the local casino. In 1952, he married for the second time and started using his real name, and by 1954 worked as a foreman in Volkswagen in Karlsruhe. In December 1958, he was arrested. Two years later Ehrlinger was sentenced by the State Court of Karlsruhe (Landsgericht Karlsruhe) to twelve years imprisonment. The case was appealed and his sentence was officially remitted in 1969, four years after he was released from prison.[citation needed] Died 31 July 2004107493May 1935541195
Franz Viktor EirenschmalzBorn 20 October 1901. At Pohl Trial sentenced to hang-commuted to 9 years10.051June 1931644.902
Waldemar Fegeleinborn 9 January 1912. Commander of 2nd SS Cavalry Regiment; 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer;37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow. Brother of Hermann Fegelein. Died 20 November 20002297802942829
Hermann Florstedtborn 18 February 1895. Commandant of Majdanek Concentration Camp. Executed 15 April 194586601931488 573
Karl Geseleborn 15 August 1912. With 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS and 37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow. Died 8 April 196810,596August 1931
Hans Friedemann GötzeBorn 3 November 1897. Son of SS Brigadeführer Friedemann Götze. Commander of SS Heimwehr Danzig KIA 3 May 1940
Herbert Richard GolzSS commander of security in occupied Montenegro357154
Jakob GrimmingerBorn 25 April 1892. Member of SS-Standarte 1 and bearer of the Blutfahne. Died 28 January 196913525 February 1926759
Kurt GruberBorn 21 October 1904 in Syrau, Vogtland – died 24 December 1943 in Dresden. He was a Nazi politician and from 1926 to 1931 the first chairman of the Hitler Youth (Hitler-Jugend or HJ).7270
Max HansenBorn 31 July 1908. Commander of the 1st SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment in the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. Died 7 March 1990278131931478376
Heinrich HeimBorn 15 June 1900; one of three compilers of Hitler's Table Talk Died 26 June 19881782
Gebhard Ludwig Himmlerborn 29 July 1898. Brother of Heinrich Himmler. Died 1982214.04930 January 19441.117.822
Peter HöglReichssicherheitsdienst deputy commander2499983289992
Franz Joseph, Prince of Hohenzollern-EmdenBorn 1891. Expelled from SS November 1944. Died 1964.276 69119333765580
Walter HuppenkothenBorn 31 December 1907. Died 5 April 19781267851 May 19331950150
Erich Georg Heinrich IsselhorstBorn 5 February 1906. An Einsatzkommando leader; Held posts within the Gestapo and SS in Cologne, Munich, Stuttgart and Strasbourg. Executed 23 February 1948267,313October 19341,269,847
Karl JägerBorn 20 September 1888. Commander of Einsatzkommando 3/Einsatzgruppe A. Author of the infamous Jäger Report. Died 22 June 1959628231932359269
Vilis JanumsBorn 7 January 1894. Commander in the 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian). Died 6 August 1981
Rudolf LangeBorn 18 April 1910. SD Commander of Latvia, Commander Einsatzkommando A-2. Wannsee Conference participant. Died c. 23 February 1945935011 March 19331159583
Michael LippertBorn 24 April 1897. Killed SA leader Ernst Röhm July 1934. SS-Totenkopf Officer then Commander of the NCO School of the Waffen-SS in Arnhem (the Netherlands). In 1957, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison by a West German court for his part in Röhm's murder. Died 1 September 19692 96810 March 1931246 989
Enno LollingBorn 19 July 1888. Concentration Camps Inspectorate; Physician with Amt D III of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt for Medical Services and Camp Hygiene, with headquarters at Oranienburg. Died 27 May 1945179,76528 August 19334,691,483
Josef Albert MeisingerBorn 14 September 1899. The Butcher of Warsaw as Commander of the Security Police and SD. Tried and executed 7 March 1947361345 March 19333201697
Rudolf Mildnerb.7 July 1902. The chief of the Gestapo at Katowice and was the head of the political department at Auschwitz, conducting "third degree" methods of interrogation from March 1941 until September 1943. As such, he frequently sent prisoners to Auschwitz for incarceration or execution. He visited Auschwitz on several occasions. In December 1944, he was appointed chief of the SiPo, Gestapo and SD in Vienna. After the war, Mildner testified at the Nuremberg Trials and remained in custody until released in 1949. Post War fate unknown; According to CIA report was allowed to escape to South America.275.7411935614.080
Erich MixBorn 27 June 1898 Trzcińsk. Served in World War I and World War II. Also Mayor of Settina and Wiesbaden. Died 9 April 19711324001 September 19331.334.064
Professor Dr. Wilhelm PfannenstielBorn 12 February 1890. SS physician at Bełżec and Auschwitz. After the war he was interned by the Americans until 1950. Died 1 November 1982.27308319342828629
Joachim PeiperBorn 30 January 1915. Waffen-SS Commander of LSSAH Kampfgruppe Peiper (the unit involved in the Malmedy massacre) (branch: Panzertruppe) Sentenced to execution in 1946; sentence commuted and released in 1956. Killed by person or persons unknown 14 July 1976.13249616 Oct 1933
Heinrich PetersenCommander of 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Horst Wessel134.299964.574
Ruediger PipkornBorn 19 November 1909. 1945 commander of 35th SS and Police Grenadier Division. Killed 25 April 1945
Walther Rauff VanghøjBorn 19 June 1906. Spearheaded gas van engineering. Died 14 May 1984290.947January 19385.216.415
Alfons RebaneBorn 24 June 1908. Awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Nicknamed "Estonian Rommel". Postwar worked for MI6 and involved in Operation Jungle. Died 8 March 1976
Karl RaddatzChief of Staff to SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei Karl Gutenberger. Involved in "Operation Karnival" March 1945 which resulted in death of Dutch Border Guard Jozef Saive and Aachen Mayor Franz Oppenhoff. 22.10.1949 is also accused by the jury court of the Aachen Regional Court for aiding and abetting manslaughter in combination with crimes against humanity sentenced to 4 years in prison and 3 years of loss of honour. On 22.09.1952 sentence commuted to 18 months
Sverre RiisnæsBorn 6 Nov 1897. Minister of Justice Quisling Government of Norway. Died 21 June 1988
Arthur RödlKZ Commander -Gross-Rosen concentration camp; Buchenwald concentration camp;1.240192898.023
Martin SandbergerCommanded Sonderkommando 1a. Commander of Sicherheitspolizei and Sicherheitsdienst in Estonia. Arrested and sentenced to death in 1947. Sentence commuted by West German courts in 1958 and Sandberger released.1936
Rudolf ScheideBorn 24 December 1908. Acquitted at Pohl Trial2.351193093.508
Max SchimmelpfennigBorn 25 February 1896. Commander of SS-Unterführerschule Posen-Treskau 1 May 1943 – fall 1943. Commander of SS- und Waffen-Unterführerschule Laibach fall 1943 – 17 February 1945. Died 12 September 1982422.1673.683.016
Walter SchuhmannBorn 3 April 1898. Head of the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization. Member of the Prussian State Council. Reichstag member. Died 2 December 1956347,1161 November 193919,874
Heinrich SeetzenBorn 22 June 1906. Died 28 September 1945 (suicide)267,2311 February 19352,732,725
Wolfram SieversBorn 10 July 1905. Himmler's personnel Staff
General Secretary of the Ahnenerbe
Deputy of Managing Board of Directors of Reich Research Council. Executed 2 June 1948
2753251935144983
Josef SpacilBorn 3 January 1907. SS economist at the Higher SS and Police Leader office for southern Russia. Chief of Section II RSHA. Died 8 June 1967679710 April 19311,200,941
Eugen SteimleCommanded Sonderkommando 7a and Einsatzkommando 4a.272,5751932
Günther TamaschkeBorn 26 February 1896. Commandant of the Lichtenburg and Ravensbrück concentration camps. Died 14 October 1959851192736,978
Hilmar WäckerleFirst commandant of Dachau concentration camp9.7291 March 1931530.715
Ernst WoermannBorn 30 March 1888. On 11 April 1949 Woermann was sentenced to 7 years in prison. On 12 December, it was lowered to 5 years. However, he was released early in 1950 or 1951. Died 5 July 1979.4.789.453
Wilhelm ZanderBorn 22 April 1911. Was an adjutant to Martin Bormann. Died 27 September 1974.27789552659

Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Obersturmbannführer         (1933–1945)
Fritz ArltBorn 12 April 1912. Died 21 April 20041.376.685
Georg BetzBorn 15 June 1903. SS officer who served as Adolf Hitler's personal co-pilot and Hans Baur's substitute. Died 2 May 19456254191932
Helmut BischoffGestapo chief of Poznań and Magdeburg; director of security for the V-weapons program272403November, 1935203122
Johannes Karl Bernhard BoberminBorn 1 October 1903 at the Pohl trial sentenced to 20 years – reduced to 15 years.
Died February 1960
139.845September 19332.633.234
Dr. Otto BradfischEinsatzgruppe B, Einsatzkommando 8 commander (June 1941 – 1 April 1942)31081026 September 1938405869
Werner BrauneCommanded Einsatzkommando 11b/Einsatzgruppe Special Purpose Unit D.107,364November 1934581,277
Fritz DargesBorn 8 February 1913. With 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich and 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. Died 25 October 200972.2221 April 19334.166.936
Léon DegrelleBorn 15 June 1906. Belgian Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander. Died 31 March 1994None1 June 1943None
Joachim Karl Paul Nikolaus DeumlingBorn 25 January 1910. Head of Unit IV D 2(General Government Affairs in the Reich) in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and Headed Einsatzkommando 10b as SS-Obersturmbannführer und Oberregierungsrat [March 1943-January 1945] in Croatia; postwar worked for the British Army of the Rhine after the war, but the British blacklisted him for security reasons in 1951; became Intelligence Adviser for Egypt President Gamal Abdel Nasser[12] Arrested on 26 June 1967 in RSHA Trial; released in December 1968. Investigated in 1969 for aiding and abetting the murder of at least 3,823 people { investigations did not lead to an indictment and trial] Died 2 April 2007187.7081.942.286
Fritz DietrichBorn 6 August 1898. SS police chief (SS und PolizeiStandortführer ) in Liepāja (German:Libau), Latvia. Postwar tried and executed 22 October 1948280034May 19362674343
Hermann Dohna-FinckensteinDeputy District Administrator, Rosenberg Kreis1028801 November 1931808228
Adolf EichmannBorn 19 March 1906. Head of the Gestapo's Sub-Office of Resettlement and later head of the Office of Jewish Affairs under RSHA Amt IV Gestapo and officially known as sub-department, Referat IV B4. Tried and found guilty of war crimes and hanged 1 June 1962453261 April 1932889895
Alfred Karl Wilhelm FilbertBorn 8 September 1905. Leader of Einsatzkommando 9 (EK 9) in Einsatzgruppe B (EGr B) in June 1941, Arrested August 1959. Sentenced to life; request for revision rejected April 1963; fired for liability April 1975. Died 1 August 1990.August 1932
Hans FleischhackerBorn 10 March 1912. SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt Died 30 January 199230739919407501920
Alfred Franke-GrickschBorn 30 November 1906 in Berlin. Executed 18 August 1952 in Moscow.1935
Dr. Otto FurrerBorn 7 August 1910. Psychology researcher with the NSDStB. He went on to join the SS in October 1935. He became a research leader in human experiments involving information extraction.5 October 19353500544
Bruno Gesche4th Commander of the SS-Begleitkommando des Führers 1934–1945109319278592
Werner GöttschBorn 23 October 1912 in Kiel; died 2 May 1983 in Kiel10.23815 March 1931459,389
Fritz HartjensteinCommandant at Birkenau, Natzweiler concentration camp, Flossenbürg
Karl Hassborn 5 October 1912. Joined SD 1934. Involved in deportation of 1,000 Jews to KZ Auschwitz; placed Princess Mafalda of Savoy in German custody. Involved in Ardeatine massacre. Postwar used by US to Spy on USSR; sentenced to life in prison in 1988; died under house arrest 21 April 2004117557
Werner HaaseBorn 2 August 1900. Hitler's Personal physician. Died 30 November 1950 while a POW of USSR254.0971 April 19413.081.672
Georg Ritter von HenglBorn 21 October 1897. Commander XIX Mountain Corps. Died 19 March 19521 July 1934
Johan Bastiaan van Heutsz Jr.Born 1 October 1882, The Hague, Netherlands. Highest ranking Dutch Waffen-SS member. Served in 5. SS-Pz.Div. 'Wiking', 'Landwacht Nederland', 4. SS-Freiw.Pz.Gren.Brig. 'Nederland', Indische legion. Died 25 April 1945 (probably).39334313 June 1941
Georg Albert Wilhelm HeuserBorn 27 February 1913; Chief of the KDS [Gestapo] Minsk. Died 30 January 1989
Fritz HipplerFilm producer of The Eternal Jew28412210 April 193762133
Wilhelm HöttlBorn 19 March 1915. RSHA Head of Counter Intelligence for Central and Southeastern Europe; second in command to Himmler's representative in Hungary. "Höttl was released from confinement in December 1947 and the US Army refused his extradition to the Austrian People's Courts, which at the time took action against Nazi perpetrators. In March 1948 he got in contact with the CIC and became subsequently control chief of two espionage operations, namely "MOUNT VERNON" and "MONTGOMERY". His task was to conduct espionage against the Communist Party of Austria and Soviet activities in the Soviet-occupied part of Austria. Höttl was described by the CIC as "an excellent source for ideas, both concrete and theoretical, on the expansion of American Intelligence in Austria." He Died 27 June 199930951019386309616
Rudolf HößCommander of Auschwitz concentration camp19361620 September 19333240
Maximilian Viktor JesuiterBorn Szczecin;executed by the Soviets in Minsk (Bielorussia) on 06 II 19481932
Kurt Georg JurgschaitHead of security in Grini detention camp at Norway
Dr. Ernest Marcel Kahborn Baden-Baden Germany; became NSDAP member 1 Sept 19322905431 August 19371298873
Vinzenz KaiserBorn 28 February 1904 Waltersdorf, Austria. An "Old Guard" NSDAP member. Formed SA troop in 1927. 1934 fled Austria and joined SS Austrian Legion Adolf Eichmann was also a member of this unit}. 1931 member of SS with rank of Sturmführer. Member of LSSAH. 1938 part of Anschluss-company commander in SS Regiment Der Führer later part of 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. Also member of 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS and 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen. Awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Died while a POW 19/20 April 19451712710 October 193154828
Herbert KapplerBorn 23 September 1907. Commander of SS and Police Forces in Rome, Italy. In prison from 1948 until escape 1977; died 9 February 1978552118 May 1933594899
Erich KempkaBorn 16 September 1910. Hitler's chauffeur and an original member of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers. Died 24 January 197528031 April 1930225639
Max KieferBorn 15 September 1889, served as SS officer. At Pohl Trial sentenced to life-commuted to 20 years. died 21 February 1974
Horst KleinBorn 27 February 1910. Acquitted Pohl trial114.488April 19332.167.516
Max KoegelSection Commander at Auschwitz12544634 March 1936215.123
Johannes KönigSS-RSHA.452.432
Dr. Eduard KrebsbachBorn 8 August 1894; served 1940 in 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf; stationed at KZ Mauthuasen and KZ Kaiserwald; executed for war crimes 28 May 1947106 82119334 142 556
Bodo LafferentzOn staff of the SS "Race and Settlement Central Agency". Later involved in researching oil shale sites and wind power also V-2 Rocket development. Organised the Bayreuth opera "War Festival".34715517 February 19392594441
Arthur LiebehenschelCommandant of the Majdanek and Auschwitz death camps, succeeding Rudolf Höß. Served as an adjutant in the Columbia and Lichtenburg camps, Inspectorate of Concentration Camps, and as a senior director in the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Prosecuted in the Auschwitz Trial in Kraków and executed by hanging on 28 January 1948.292541 February 1932932760
Heinz LingeBorn 23 March 1913. Hitler's valet 1935–1945. Died 9 March 19803579519321.260.490
Kurt LischkaBorn 16 August 1909. Tried 1979 with Herbert Hagen and Erich Heinrichsohn. Died 16 May 19891955901 June 1933
Knud Børge MartinsenCommander of Frikorps Danmark
Marko Jesper MatoševićCroat. Commander and overseer of Livac-Zapolje, Usora-Soli and Posavje provinces. Tasked with defense of food supply lines against Yugoslav Partisan paramilitary and suppressing communist rebellion, former spy. Suspected to have migrated to Argentina by the end of the war in 1945 or defecting to Bleiburg, Austria.8020011 August 1937
Gerhard Kurt MaywaldBorn 16 April 1913; involved with Maly Trostenets extermination camp. Settled after the war in West Germany. In 1970, the public prosecutor's office in Koblenz ended an investigation against him "because of the absence of sufficient evidence of guilt". On 4 August 1977 Maywald was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for murder and complicity involving 8,000 Jews in Latvia. Date of death unknown
Ain-Ervin MereBorn 22 February 1903; Died 5 April 1969
Brunon Müller-AltenauBorn 13 September 1905. Gestapo and Einsatzkommando Ek2. Tried 1947 sentenced to 20 years; released 1952. Died 1 March 1960.
Kunz Andreas Emil Karl MummentheyBorn 11 July 1906 at Pohl Trial sentenced to Life-commuted to 20 years. Released 18 December 1953221.07919344.302.359
Gustav Adolf NosskeHead of Aachen Gestapo in 1935 and head of Frankfort Gestapo 1936–1941. Head of Einsatzkommando 12 from 1941 to 1942. In April 1942 Nosske joined the RSHA office in Berlin concerning the Occupied Eastern Territories. In 1943 he was appointed head of the "Foreigners and Enemies of the State" division of the Gestapo. From August 1943 to September 1944 he was head of the state police in Düsseldorf. On 10 April 1948 Nosske was sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes. In 1951 his sentence was commuted to ten years in prison.1933
Rudolf Oebsger-RöderBorn March 1912. SD-Leader at Einsatzkommando 16 Bromberg, 1940 Head of The Office Group II A (Basic Research) in Office II (SD-Inland) of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), leader of the Einsatzkommando Cluj in Hungary 1944; arrested 1946 and sentenced to 18 months in prison in November 1948 (Not carried out because he had already served time in Interment camp). Recruited 1948 as employee of the Gehlen organization/Federal Intelligence Service [Relieved from duties summer 1964]; investigated but not charged for war crimes. Was a correspondent in D.K. Died 21 June 1992267.393April 1935475.061
Hermann PookBorn 1 May 1901 Obersturmbannführer of the Waffen SS, chief dentist of the WVHA. At Pohl Trial-sentenced to 10 years. Reported to have died 1983155.8701 June 19332.045.1140
Karl RabeBorn 11.06.1905; Muehlhausen. Became member of NSDAP 1 June 1930546281 June 1932259544
Karl RascheHead of Dresdner Bank; sentenced 1949 in Ministries Trial to serve 7 years; released 1950-died 1951323.879May 19392.207.508
Harald RiipaluBorn 13 February 1912. Estonian member of the SS. Died 4 April 1961
Franz SchädleLast commander of Hitler's personal bodyguard unit, (SS-Begleitkommando des Führers)26051 February 193073.203
Christian Frederik von SchalburgCommander of Frikorps Danmark
Hermann SchaperBorn 12 August 1911. Commander of Kommando SS Zichenau-Schroettersburg and Einsatzgruppe B. In 1976 sentenced to six years in prison but released for medical reasons.3484105606
Konrad SchellongBorn 7 February 1910. Joined SA 1932; service (in SS Special Command "Saxony" [SS-Sonderkommando "Sachsen"], later SS Guard Unit "Saxony" [SS-Wachverbande "Sachsen"] and SS Death's Head Unit "Saxony" [SS-Totenkopfverbaende "Sachsen"]), concentration camp (Konzentrationslager – KL) Sachsenberg 1934–1936; service, SS Death's Head Regiment "Upper Bavaria" (SS-TV Standarte "Oberbayern") at KL Dachau (on 1 Dec 1937 and on 1 Mar 1938) until late 1939; service, SS-Division "Wiking" to Jul 1942; commander, SS Volunteer Legion "Flanders" (Kdr. SS-Freiwilligen-Legion "Flandern") 11 or 14 Jul 1942-May 1943; commander, SS Volunteer Assault Brigade "Langemarck" (Kdr. SS-Freiwilligen-Sturmbrigade "Langemarck") 31 May-19 Oct 1944; commander, 27th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Langemarck" (Kdr. 27.SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division "Langemarck") (on 19 Oct 1944) [Knights Cross 1945] Served "..as a guard and later commander at the Sachsenburg and Dachau Nazi death camps from 1934 to 1939." Moved to Chicago IL after the war; became US citizen 1962; complaint filed against him by US Justice Department Office of Special Investigations (OSI) 17 Mar 1981; put on trial 25 May-4 Jun 1982; US Citizenship revoked 9 Sept 1982 (NYT 10 Sept 1982:14:6); appeal filed 1 May 1983; decided in favor of U.S. Govt. 24 Aug 1983; deportation charges filed by OSI 8 Dec 1983; decision on appeal pending as of Sept 1984; verdict upheld by Seventh Circuit court Oct 1986; Supreme Court refused to review Apr 1987 (NYT 7 Apr 1987:II:2:1; NYT 24 Apr 1987:6:4); deportation to West Germany announced 23 Sept 1988 (NYT 8 Oct 1982:10:1; NYT 24 Sept 1988:6:6; ABR-SS; Schellong v. INS, 547 F. Supp. 569; Schellong v. INS, 717 F.2d 329; Schellong v. INS, 805 F.2d 655; cert. denied Schellong v. INS, 465 U.S. 1007; Dienstaltersliste der Waffen-SS [1 Jul 1944]).} Deported to West Germany in 1988, where he died 7 February 199213553
Heinz SchubertBorn 27 August 1914. Defendant in Einsatzgruppen Trial sentenced to death-commuted to 10 years. Died 17 August 198710732610 October 19343474350
Richard Schulzeb.20 Sept 1898. Chef der Gestapo in Darmstadt. 1937 wurde er Chef der Kriminalpolizei von Gleiwitz. Im September 1939 war er im Stab der Einsatzgruppe II in Polen eingesetzt, danach war er als Kripochef in Kattowitz und ab 1941 in Königsberg (Preußen) tätig. Im August 1942 amtierte er im Rang eines Oberregierungsrates als Kriminalrat und Gruppenleiter im Reichskriminalpolizeiamt. Dort führte er im Amt V die Gruppe C (Stellvertreter Kurt Amend [de]), die unter anderem nach entflohenen Kriegsgefangenen fahndete und hatte zudem die Funktion eines Verbindungsführers des RSHA zum Chef des Kriegsgefangenenwesens inne. d.29 Dec 196919384.705.801
Richard Schulze
A.k.a. Richard Schulze-Kossens
Born 2 October 1914, Berlin. Germany. Commander of SS Officers School Bad Tölz, Bavaria Died 3 July 1988 Dusseldorf. GermanyNovember 1934264.059
Johann Schwarzhuberb.29 August 1904. Connected with KZ Dachau and KZ Auschwitz. Executed 3 May 1947142.3888 April 19331.929.969
Ilya ShavykinExecuted with Bronislav Kaminski 28.08.1944
Walter SohstSD Section III
Eduard StrauchBorn 17 August 1906 Commander of Einsatzkommando 2, anschliessend commander of two Nazi organizations, the Security Police (German:Sicherheitspolizei), or SiPo, and the Security Service (German:Sicherheitsdienst, or SD, first in Belarus (then called White Russia or White Ruthenia) and later in Belgium. In October 1944, he was transferred to the Waffen-SS. Died 15 September 1955 in prison hospital.19.312December 1931623.392
Dr. Harold StrohschneiderBorn 1 June 1907 Graz, Austria. Physician. Wounded in Rommel Campaign. SS Oberstrumfuhrer 20 April 1944. Postwar moved to Arusha, Tanzania where he lived in the 1960's. Died Natural causes [Cancer] His widow Otti returned to Austria where she also died.309484
Dr Walter StrohschneiderBorn 6 October 1908. Drahowitz, Suddenland. Member of the SD. SS Oberstrumfuher
20 April 1942. Between July 1942 and March 1943, SS-Ostuf Walter Strohschneider was initially assigned to EK 12 (EGr D) as commander of Teilkommando "Budennowsk", and then Leiter SIPO/SD Aussenstelle "Wladimir Wolynsk". In April 1944 he was assigned to Einsatzgruppe "F" in Hungary, and between May 25 and June 6 he led the liquidation of the Cluj (Kolozsvar) ghetto. In May 1945 during Battle of Berlin he was "missing" fate unknown.
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Dr. Ludwig StumpfeggerBorn 11 July 1910. Worked under Dr. Karl Gebhardt with Dr. Fritz Fischer and Dr. Herta Oberheuser in medical experiments on human subjects from Ravensbrück. Hitler's personal surgeon from 1944, forward. Some sources report that he helped Magda Goebbels kill her children as they slept in the Vorbunker on 1 May 1945. Died 2 May 1945 while trying to flee Berlin83.6682 June 19333.616.119
Friedrich SuhrDepartment Head in Adolf Eichmann's Referat IV B4; Commander of SS-Sonderkommando 4b & Einsatzkommando 6; Commander of SiPo & SD, France; SS and Police Leader, "Oberelsaß"658241 February 19332623241
Heinz TensfeldBorn 11 May 1919.SS-Hstuf and Chef,8./Pz.Rgt.2 in Nov 1943. Killed 16 Nov 1943 at Gralimki400139
Anton ThernesBorn 8 February 1892. Commandant of KZ Majdanek. Executed 3 December 1944
Wilhelm TraubBorn 2 April 1910. Gebietskommissar, "Navahrudak;" SS and Police Leader, "Quarnero." Died in captivity in Yugoslavia on 18 February 1946.2902394355116
Martin Gottfried WeissBorn 3 June 1905 Weiden in der Oberpfalz. Commandant at Neuengamme concentration camp and in 1945 Dachau concentration camp. Executed 29 May 1946 Landsberg Germany3114743136
Eduard WeiterBorn: 18 July 1889 in Eschwege near Kassel in Germany. Served in World War I. Commandant of Dachau 1943–1945. Alleged to have been shot by one of his own subordinates April 1945 and died 2 May 1945276877October 19363.958.951
Wolfgang WetzlingBorn 1909. Was also a SS-Oberfeldrichter as well as chief judge of division z.V.Defendant in 1957 trial of March 1945 Amsberger Massacre. in 1958 Sentenced to five years in prison for manslaughter in 151 cases. Sentenced to life in prison;was released on 1 March 1974 after 13 and2 years in prison
Max WielenOberregierungs- und Kriminalrat (ORuKR). Reserve captain retd. Position: Chief, Stapoleitstelle Breslau. Involved in killing of POWs from The Great Escape. Sentenced to prison 1947. Released 24 October 19521288411759395

Sturmbannführer (major)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Sturmbannführer         (1921–1945)
Gustav AbbSS major and Head of central administration of libraries in PolandJuly 1940
Hans AumeierDeputy Commandant KZ Auschwitz2.700August 1929164.755
Richard BaerCommander at KZ Auschwitz I442251932454991
Rudolf BatzBorn 10 November 1903. Leader of Einsatzkommando 2; KdS (Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei) in Kraków and shortly after that became the head of the Gestapo in Hanover. Committed suicide after 1961 arrest.27245810 December 19352955
Wilhelm BeisnerBorn 18 August 1911. In August 1930 joined the SA and in September 1930 the NSDAP. Officer with Einsatzkommando Egypt. Also in 1944 Commander of the Security Police and SD in Trieste. Postwar was an arms dealer and trade agent in Arab countries. Recruited for German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in October 1957. On 16 October 1960 injured in car explosion in which he lost his leg. Lived in Tunis from 1961 and remained there – at least until the 1980s – as a discussion scout for the BND. Died sometime after 1980.65,698November 1930374.194
Ernst BibersteinCommander of SS action command 6/action group C [EK 6/Egr. C].
Tried 1947/1948 and sentenced to death. Sentence commuted to Life imprisonment in 1951. After 1958 prison release, reported to have been part of the Gehlen Org. Died 8 December 1986.
27296213 September 193640718
Rudolf BilfingerWürttemberg Gestapo lawyer, 1937.[13]
Friedrich BoßhammerBorn 20 December 1906. Associate of Adolf Eichmann; deported Jews from Italy. Tried for war crimes in 1968. Died in custody 17 December 1972307.4351 October 19372.326.130
Karl BömelburgGestapo leader in France358981931892239
Wernher von BraunBorn 23 March 1912. Allgemeine-SS battalion officer (also SS Horseriding Club). Involved with slave labor in V-2 Program. Died 16 June 197718506819405,738,692
Hermann Otto BundtkeBorn Zduny (Krs. Krotochin/Prov. Posen) 05.09.1897. SS-Sturmbannführer und Major der Schutzpolizei. As Commander of the Third Battalion of the 23rd SS Regiment and the Police (Battalion III/SS-Polizei Regiment 23) participated in executions of Poles and Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto ruins. Was the commander of the Schutzpolizei Bataillon z.b.V. der BdO Rhein-Westmark between XI 1944 and 28 III 1945. Awarded War Cross of Merit I. Class with Swords. Residing in Solingen after the war323.3111 May 19393.471.565
Anton BurgerCommandant of Theresienstadt concentration camp
Hans-Georg von CharpentierBorn 16 July 1902. Awarded Knights Cross of the Iron Cross. KIA 9 March 1945258019May 19351375222
Joseph DarnandBorn 19 March 1897. French Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander, executed 10 October 1945
Erich DeppnerBorn 8 August 1910; Ustuf 9 Nov 38; Hstuf 20 Apr 39. Connected with KZ Westerbork; Amersfoot; Vught. Postwar employed by the Gehlen Org. 1964 tried for war Crimes [Acquitted]. Died 13 December 2005177 5711 254 844
Adolf DiekmannBorn 18 December 1914. Involved in Oradour-sur-Glane massacre. KIA 29 June 1944
Josef Hugo DischnerCommandant of KZ Westerbork
Walter DrexlerAwarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross239247March 1938
Otto FörschnerKZ Commandant191.5545 274 260
Yuri Igor FrolovMember of S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A.
Dr. Helmut Hugo GlaserBorn 27 September 1910 in Gmuend, Austria. Joined NSDAP 8 May 193130176010 OCt 1930444132
Kurt Andreas GraafBorn 8 January 1909. Member of SD-section III. Died 2 September 197236.17927 July 1932183.351
Dr. Herbert GrohmannBorn 13 September 1908 in Breslau {Wroclaw}. A doctor of Waffen-SS and became a member of NSDAP 1 June 19315166318 January 1932544053
Adam GrünewaldCommandant of Herzogenbusch concentration camp1934
Hans GüntherBorn 22 August 1910. Adolf Eichmann deputy. Brother of Rolf Günther. Killed 5 May 1945290.1291937119.925
Rolf GüntherBorn 8 January 1913. Adolf Eichmann deputy. Brother of Hans Gunther. Died August 1945290.1301937472.421
Bernard Harald HaaseBorn 14 October 1910 Altleis. Commandant SD-Aussenstelle Groningen. Death sentence 20 March 1950. Commuted 21 January 1950. Released 1 September 1959. Died 9 September 1968 at Bensberg
Joachim HamannBorn 18, May 1913. Served in Einsatzkommando 3 and 4b 22 June 1941 – 2 October 1941. Commanded the Rollkommando Hamann. Worked at Amt IV of RSHA (Gestapo). Aide to Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Died 13 July 1945314267958322
Ernst Hermann HimmlerBorn 23 December 1905. Brother of Heinrich Himmler. Killed in Battle of Berlin May 19451933676777
Dr. Ernst HolzlöhnerBorn 23 February 1899 in Insterburg, Germany. Committed suicide June 19451934
Wilhelm HöttlServed as political advisor to Edmund Veesenmayer, German plenipotentiary in Hungary during 1944. Hoettl testified for the defense at the Nuremberg trials.[8]3095106309616
Hermann HöfleDeputy head of the Aktion Reinhard programme. Postwar member of Gehlen Organization307469
Axel HolstBorn 11 August 1891 Vallby Sweden. Immigrated to Germany and became member of SS Reiter Troop; attached to SS Oberabschnitt Nord; became a Sturmbannführer on 23 June 1934. Killed in a riding accident 26 January 1935185012
Hans Hüttigborn 5 April 1894. Involved in KZ Buchenwald, KZ Sachsenhausen, KZ Flossenbürg, KZ Natzweiler-Struthof, KZ Herzogenbusch, Grini detention camp. Detained 1945. Sentenced to death 2 July 1954. Released 1956. Died 23 February 1980.March 1932
Professor Herbert JankuhnMember of Ahnenerbe
Max Joseph JesuiterBorn 1897. Stabsführer der SSPF Warschau; as Chief of Staff cosigned Stroop Report 19 April 1943 – 9 May 1943. Died 1972
Helmut KämpfeSS Officer captured by the French Resistance, which led to Oradour sur Glane massacre124.4652.387.476
Karl-Heinz KeitelKavallerie-Regiment Nord; 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Maria Theresia; 37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow
Hans Josef KiefferDeputy Gestapo leader in France2801042632427
Ludwig KepplingerWaffen-SS sergeant
Wilhelm KmentCommander, 1st Company, 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich
Decorated personally by Himmler
167103Prior to 19354262124
Werner KnabGestapo chief in Norway
Commander of the Security Police in Lyon, France
19158419353269940
Dr. Richard KorherrBorn 30 October 1903. Chief inspector of the statistical bureau of the SS. Author of the Korherr Report. Died 24 November 1989.
Horst KopkowBorn 29 November 1910 Ortelsburg East Prussia. Counterintelligence against Spy rings such as Red Orchestra and MI6 and SOE agents-of which he was authorized executions of said agents; Postwar employee of MI6. Died 13 October 1996. Glenskirchen Germany.460341931607161
Hans Krausborn 6.01.1904 Riga Latvia. SS major3572891 June 1940
Bernhard KrügerBorn 26 November 1904. Leader of VI F4A (RSHA) aka Operation Bernhard. Detained by the British after the War and turned over to the French; released; acquitted at Denazilization hearing. Died 1989.528729
Dr. Helmut KunzDentist and head of Waffen SS medical Office28478719365104323
Willi Paul Franz "Willy" LagesBorn 5 October 1901 Braunschweig, Germany.Was head of the Aussenstelle (regional office) der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienstes for North Holland and Utrecht. He had an office in Amsterdam. Lages became partly responsible for the deportation of Jews from the Netherlands to concentration and extermination camps in Germany and occupied Poland and was involved in the arrest of the resistance fighter Johannes Post and was present at his execution and that of other resistance fighters, on 16 July 1944. He was also responsible for the Silbertanne murder of the writer A.M. de Jong and for the execution of Hannie Schaft. Tried in 1949 and sentenced to death [sentence commuted]. Released in 1966 for medical treatment in Germany. Because he could not be extradited according to the German constitution, it came down to the fact that, as long as he would refrain from traveling outside Germany, he was a free man. Died Braunlage,Germany 2 April 1971.2677293 552 661
Dr. Rudolf LangeEinsatzgruppe A, Einsatzkommando 2 Commander (3 December 1941 – 1944)2903081936
Hans LatzaSS and Police Judge in Norway1292602180945
Johann von LeersSS Officer and Propagandist
Ernst LerchChief of Odilo Globočnik's office during Aktion Reinhard, later as Stabsführer then Sturmbannführer309,7001 March 19341,327,396
Hans-Georg MayerCommandant of Palbianice ghetto in occupied Poland.367,7671 August 19403,069,636
Georg MichalsenA leading organizer of Aktion Reinhard, involved in liquidation of Polish ghettos; SS and Polizeigebietkommandeur of Trieste2933710 January 1932103613
Johann MieselBorn 1914. Postwar a government official and Mayor's representative of Grömitz. Defendant in 1957 trial of March 1945 Amsberger Massacre. in 1958 found guilty only of aiding and abetting manslaughter. Miesel was only slightly involved in the crime and also disapproved of Kammler's order. Since the expected sentence would be less than three years, the court decided to apply Paragraph 4 of the Impunity Act 1954. Sentenced to four years in prison on 5 May 1961;sat in Neumünster for six months
Georg Konrad MorgenBorn 8 June 1909. SS judge and lawyer. Died 4 February 1982
Alfred NaujocksBorn 20 September 1911 An SD commander, leader of the Gleiwitz incident. died 4 April 19666242791930 or 193126246
Alexander Bernhard Hans PiorkowskiBorn 11 October 1904. Commandant of KZ Dachau. Executed 22 October 1948.8,7371 June 1933161,437
Dr. Kurt PlötnerBorn 19 October 1905. Involved in Human Experiments. Postwar recruited by the CIA. Died 26 February 1984.
Paul Otto Radomskiborn 21 September 1902. Commandant of the Syrets concentration camp and Haidari concentration camp. Relieved of command in 1944. Reported died 14 March 19452.23596.942
Karl RahmCommandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp
Walter Rederborn 4 Feb 1915 Czechoslovakia. May have been involved in suppression of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and was definitely involved in Marzabotto massacre of 1944. Sentenced to life in prison in 1951 and released in 1985. Died 26 April 1991
Ludwig RuckdeschelBorn 15 March 1907. The Nazi Gauleiter of Bayreuth. Arrested 1947-sentenced to 8 years; 1949 sentence changed to 13 years. Released 1952. Died 8 November 1986234.19020 Oct 1934
von Salishmember of SD; aka Captain von Seidlitz involved in Venlo incident
August SchifferTried and executed 26 July 1946 in killing U.S. Soldier Roderick Stephen Hall and murders of six other Allied soldiers
Johannes Claus SchmidtBorn 11 March 1908. Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III. Involved in killing of Kurt von Schleicher 30 June 1934. Died 23 December 1976.30 June 1933
Philipp Johann Adolf Schmittborn 10 November 1902. Commandant of the concentration camp Fort Breendonk and the SS-Sammellager Mecheln. Tried and Executed 9 August 195044291March 193219192
Joseph Tobias SchreiederBorn 15 August 1904. With German Intelligence Officer Hermann Giskes he ran the Englandspiel operation in which over 50 Dutch Agents were captured due to SOE refusal to follow its own Security checks. Postwar worked for the Ghelen Org.15 August 1934
Dr. Horst SchumannBorn 1 May 1906. Physician involved in human Experiments. Tried 1970–1971; released from prison 1972.
Died 5 May 1983
190.002
Christian ShnugBorn 28 January 1891. Member of Lebensborn e.V.Commander of I. Sturmbann of SS-Standarte 27 (as per SS-DAL of 1 July 1935 and of 1 Dec. 1936);Attached to the Staff of Abschnitt XII (as per SS-DAL of 1 Dec. 38); Commander of II. Sturmbann of 118th SS-Standarte (as per SS-DAL of 1 Oct. 42);Commander of II. Sturmbann of 116th SS-Standarte (as per SS-DAL of 1 Oct. 43 and of 1 Oct. 44). Living 1972 reported died several years later.25738765 687
Otto SkorzenyWaffen SS/RSHA commando leader295979
Karl Julian SommerBorn 25 March 1915. At Pohl Trial-sentenced to hang; commuted to lifetime imprisonment in 1949;commuted to 20 years in 1951. Released 11 December 1953
Adolf FeitelEinsatzkommando 10b (January–May 1945)
Walter Hugo StammBorn 1904. Connected with the SD and Section IV {Gestapo} Warsaw. Died 19702910413472486
Karl StreibelSpecialist Officer attached to Staff Oberabschnitt Ost as referent zbz in Arbeitsstab der Allgemeine SS Lublin; duty as leiter der Ausbildungslager Trawinki in stab SSPF Lublin60152554023
Karl Freiherr Michel von TüßlingBorn 27. July 1907 in Tüßling, Bavaria. In 1935 summoned to Berlin; from 1936, personal adjutant of Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler, who was in charge of Hitler's Chancellery (Kanzlei des Führers) and head of the euthanasia programme Aktion T4[14] SS-Sturmbannführer: 30.01.1941[15] Provided affidavit in 1947 to exonerate war criminal Viktor Brack at the Nuremberg trials.[16]56074April 19331726624
Dr. Carl VærnetSS major; physician involved in human experiments
Dr. Albert WidmannBorn 8 June 1912. Chemist involved in Action T4 killings and human experiments. Arrested 1959-served 6 years 6 months. Died 24 December 1986351098December 19395454700
Christian WirthCommandant of Bełżec extermination camp345.464April 1939420.383
Dr. Eduard WirthsChief SS doctor (SS-Standortarztat) at the KZ Auschwitz311.5941934
Herbert Klaus WölkBorn 21 June 1905. Kriminalrat der Polizei. Served in the staff of the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) in the Netherlands; head of a Sipo-Sonderkommando; chief Aussenstelle der Sipo and SD in Rotterdam. Sentenced to 20 years imprisonment 24.07.1949 in Den Haag; released 02.08.195715.429278.643
Carltheo ZeitschelBorn 13 March 1893. Was the desk officer for Jewish affair (Judenreferent) at the German embassy in Paris, France. Alleged to have been killed 21 April 1945; in 1954 sentenced in absentia for his crimes to lifelong forced labor.20 April 1939
Egon ZillBorn 28 March 1906 Plauen. Kommandant of Natzweiler-Struthof and Flossenbürg concentration camps. In 1955 sentenced to life imprisonment, later reduced to 15 years. Died 23 October 1974 Dachau, Germany5351 August 192620.063

Hauptsturmführer (captain)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Hauptsturmführer         (1928–1945)
Franz AbromeitBorn 08.08.1907, RSHA. Died 30.06.1964.272353329305
Walter AlbersBorn 06.08.1905. Sipo Amsterdam, sentenced to 12 years imprisonment 08.11.1949 in Amsterdam (released 22.12.1952)
Siegfried AssmussDate of birth 20.8.1912. SS-Hstuf.20.4.1939; SD-Hauptamt; SD in Lutsk. Killed 22.7.1944; Leader of the Ukrainian Self_Defense Legion. In retaliation for his death, 44 villagers of Chłaniów and Władysławin Poland were killed by the Ukrainian Self_Defense Legion.49 786721 802
Karl Babor[17]
Georg Bachmayer[18]
Klaus BarbieBorn 25 October 1913. Head of the Gestapo in Lyon, France. Died in prison 25 September 1991272 28426 September 19354.583.085.
Dr. Bruno BegerRacial anthropologist who worked for the Ahnenerbe.
Peter BellReported to have been killed in Holland on orders of superior Karl Eberhard Schongarth
Wolfgang BirknerBorn 27 October 1913. KdS Warschau (Komandeur der Sicherheitspolizei); Kommando SS Bialystok. Killed 24 March 1945265.7933,601,309
Hans Carl Christian BlumenthalBorn 1909 in Bremen. Sipo Amsterdam (III),. sentenced to 7 years imprisonment 25.11.1949 in Amsterdam (released 16.02.1951) died 1987
Otto Albrecht Alfred von Bolschwingborn 15 October 1909, Schoenbruch. Promoted Hstuf: 30.01.1941, (SD). SS captain and adjutant to Adolf Eichmann. After the war worked for the CIA; lost US citizenship 1981. Died 7 March 1982 in San Francisco, California353.6031933984.212
Joachim BoosfeldSS Obersturmführer362.2561939
Alois BrunnerBorn 08.04.1912, Rohrbrunn, Austria. Commandant of Drancy internment camp. Adolf Eichmann's assistant. Postwar alias Dr. Georg Fischer-resident in Syria. Alleged to have been member of West German BND. In 1989 the Syrian Government declined to extradite him to Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Alleged to have been alive as of 2001. Unknown if still alive.34276710 August 1939510 064
Kurt BrunowMember of the SD
Karl Chmielewskithe "Devil of Gusen", Schutzhaftlagerführer at Gusen concentration camp, Commandant of Herzogenbusch concentration camp, Tried and convicted in 1961 of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to Life Imprisonment6393519321508254
Christianmember of SD; aka Lieutenant Grosch involved in Venlo incident
Douglas Berneville-ClayeBritish impostor/forger; member of Staff of III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps
Johannes Max ClemensBorn 9 Feb 1902. Member of SD and postwar a KGB Spy in Gehlen Organization. Tried 1963 in Hans Felfe Trial and sentenced to 10 years. Died 1976.
Theodor Danneckerborn 27.03.1913 in Tübingen;, SD Belgium, Sonderkommando Eichmann in Sofia and Hungary. Also worked in Department of Jewish affairs as a "jewish specialist" with Adolf Eichmann.;-suicide 10.12.1945 in Bad Tölz
Heinz DrescherKriminalrat der Polizei, Head of Central fingerprint collection with RKPA within RSHA2903069.11.1938
Dr. Hans Kurt EisleBorn 13 March 1913. Assigned to KZ Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Natzweiler-Struthof, Dachau. Arrested April 1945. Tried 13 December 1945. Condemned to death-sentence commuted to life in prison. Released 26 February 1952. Died 3 May 1967 Cairo, Egypt237,42119333,125,695
Rolf EngelBorn 10 August 1912. As a member of the SD, he was stationed in Strasbourg, Member of Peenemünde Army Experimental Institute. ENGEL headed the SS DTS Research Center for Jet Drive in Großendorf near Gdansk. He was a member of the Imperial Research Council. In 1945, he was hired from a prisoner of war camp by the French occupying authority for the Laboratoire de recherches balistiques et aéro-dynamiques, a ballistic missile development center near Paris, where, according to Gerhard Bauch (1962) Cairo) was involved in the development of the Gabriel missile. He was recruited to lead an Egyptian missile program in the 1950s, which failed due to missing components. Died 23 November 19931933
Siegfried Wolfgang FehmerSD/Gestapo/Kriminalrat, a police investigator, and headed the infamous Abteilung IV headquartered in Victoria Terrasse, Norway290166181345
Henk FeldmeijerBorn Johannes Hendrik Feldmeijer (Assen, 30 November 1910) member of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands # 479. Commander of the Nederlandsche SS. Served in Waffen-SS. Member of the Sonderkommando-Feldmeijer and the killing of Dutch Resistance members in Operation Silbertanne. {Members of Sonderkommando-Feldmeijer included Heinrich Boere and Klaas Carel Faber}. Killed 22 February 1945
Henri Joseph FenetBorn 11 July 1919. A French collaborator during World War II who was awarded both the Croix de Guerre by France, and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross by Nazi Germany. Battle of Berlin, 28 April, one-hundred eight Soviet tanks had been destroyed in the southeast of Berlin within the S-Bahn. The French squads under the command of Fenet accounted for "about half" of the tanks.[5]For the success of the battalion during the Battle of Berlin Fenet was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 29 April 1945 by Wilhelm Mohnke. Died 14 September 2002
Kinrad FiebigBorn 22 September 1909.
Dr. Horst FischerBorn 31 December 1912. Doctor at KZ Auschwitz. Executed in East Germany 8 July 1966293.3971 November 19335.370.071
Hermann FlorstedtBorn 18 February 1895; World War I veteran. Served at KZ Sachsenhausen concentration camp and was Commandant of Majdanek. Charged with embezzlement and killing prisoner witness. Shot by SS 15 April 19458.660May 1931488.573
Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-SchwerinBorn 22 April 1910. Aide to Werner Best. Also served in SS Panzer Corps. Died 31 July 2001May 1931
Günther FranzGerman historian and Nazi ideologue.
Karl FritzschBorn 10 July 1903. Member of staffs of KZ Dachau, KZ Auschwitz, and KZ Flossenbürg. Introduced Zyklon B gas into Auschwitz. Involved in death of Saint Maximilian Kolbe. Reported missing 2 May 1945 – unknown if he was killed or survived the war72871930261135
Paul FuchsChief of departments IV A and IV N of Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (KdS) in Radom. Liaison officer at Polish NSZ staff. After war Fuchs operated with Hubert Jura for the US intelligence network created to work in the newly established countries controlled by the Soviet Union[19]
Hans GaierBorn 19 February 1902 Mannheim Germany. (SA-Obersturmbannführer); was also Police Hauptmann (Polizeidirektor) der Schutzpolizei Kielce Poland. Declared Legally dead in May 1954; ironically according to German Wikipedia while hiding under a false name in Graz, Austria Gaier was executed May/June 1945.662.558
Wilhelm GerstenmeierBorn 1908. Involved in Harvest Festival massacre of Jews. Executed 3 December 1944 for war crimes.13300
Franz GoeringServed as assistant to Walter Schellenberg from 1944.[8]
Amon GöthCommander of the Plaszow concentration camp436731930510764
Viktor Eberhard Gräbner9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen. Awarded the Knight's Cross. KIA during Operation Market Garden, 1944247812
Heinrich HamannBorn 1 September 1908 in Bordesholm. Untersturmführer: 30 January 1937. Ostuf: 12 March 1938. Chief of Grenzpolizeikommisariat Neu Sandez: December 1939 – 12 August 1943. Promoted to Kriminalkommissar in January 1940. Chief of GPK in Jaslo: 12 August 1943 – 1 November 1943. Chief of department IV A of KdS Krakau – 11.1943–01.1945.[Promoted SS-Hstuf:20.04.1944] Sentenced by court in Bochum in 1966 to life imprisonment. Died 16.04.199333 5311931
Oscar HansEmployee of SD-Hauptamt since 1934. Sent to Norway – Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) Oslo / Leiter I – on 25 April 1940, where he served until May 1945. Arrested 25 May 1945 Kristiansand. Stood trial but was released by the Supreme Court of Norway in August 1947. Tried July–August 1948 by British Military Court in Hamburg ("Trandum Case No. 2"). Sentenced to 15 years for killing of six British citizens.1016621933
Karl HassSD member. Participant in the Ardeatine Caves massacre1934
Walter HauckBorn 4 June 1918. Served in German Police. Also served in the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. Involved in the Ascq massacre on 1 April 1944 and a massacre at Leskovice in May 1945. Judged 1949 and sentenced to death; After requests by some widows of the Ascq massacre, his sentence was converted to life imprisonment. Released in July 1957. In 1969 and 1977, Czechoslovakia asked Germany to extradite him for punishment for the second massacre, but these requests were rejected by a Stuttgart court. In 2005, the Czech Republic again asked for his extradition. Died 6 November 2006 in Germany.382.376
Gottlieb HeringIn Action T4 and later served as the second and last Commandant of Bełżec extermination camp during Operation Reinhard
Dr. Kurt HeissmeyerDoctor involved in "experiments" on Jewish children at Bullenhuser Damm
Dr. August HirtHad Jews gassed for their skeletons100.4141 April 1933
Franz HoesslerK-Z Auschwitz; KZ Bergen Belsen41.94019311.374.713
Wilhelm Gottlieb HohmannBorn 07 I 1907 Remscheid. SS-Hauptsturmführer und Kriminal; was replaced as head Referat IV 1 (former IV A) KdS Warschau in May 1944 by SS-Hauptsturmführer und Kriminalrat Harald Wiesman; Hohmann died in 1961 of suicide.
Dr. Waldemar HovenK-Z Buchenwald physician244.5941934
Heinz Kessler[20]SS officer193182
Karl KloskowskiServed in 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich and SS Brigade Westfalen1936
Franz KonradAcquisitions officer Warsaw Ghetto46204January 19331085499
Max Hermann Richard Krahner1968 sentenced to Life in prison for being a German Overseer of Jewish Sonderkommando 1005
Waldemar KraftHeld Honorary rank in the SS
Josef KramerCommandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; involved with Dr. August Hirt in killing of Jews in 194332.21720 June 1932753.597
Karl Wilhelm KrauseBorn 05/03/1911 Michelau, Prussia. Reichsmarine 1931–34; Hitler's Valet/Orderly 1934–to mid-September 1939; LSSAH 1934-to mid-September 1939; Kriegsmarine in late 1939–1943 and Flak-Zug, II./Pz.Rgt. 12 from Dec. 1943 to 1945. Interred until June 1946; fined and released. Died 6 May 2001236 858
Hans KrugerBorn 1909. Arrested 1959 war crimes; tried 1965–1967; sentenced 1968 to life in prison. Released 1986; died 1988.
Henri LafontHead of the French Gestapo
Ewald Lindloffborn 2 September 1908. Served in 1st SS Division LSSAH. Placed in charge of disposing of Hitler's remains on 30 April 1945 by Otto Günsche. KIA 2 May 19451 May 1932
Maximilian ListCommandant of Lager Sylt and Lager Norderney labour camps on Alderney
Heinz MacherLeader of the SS group ordered to blow up the castle Wewelsburg
Dr. Josef MengeleBorn 16 March 1911. Medical officer at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Involved with human experiments.
Died 7 February 1979
317885May 19385574974
Helmut MerzBorn 1911. A Higher Regional Court Councillor from Neustadt an der Weinstraße, In 1957 during the trial of March 1945 Arnsberg Massacre, he denied his own complicity and testified as a witness for the prosecusion.
Georg Simon Michaelsonborn.13.9.1906. Promoted 30 January 1942. Involved in suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April–May 1943; sentenced to 12 years in prison Hamburg Germany 25 July 1974; reported to have died early 1990s.29337103613
Erich PriebkeSD and Sicherheitspolizei commander in Rome, Italy
Sigmund RascherGerman SS doctor, who carried out deadly experiments on humans in the Nazi concentration camp of Dachau1939
Franz Karl ReichleitnerSecond and last Commandant of Sobibor extermination camp3570656369213
Rudolf ReineckeSS Totenkopf and SS Frunsberg Divisions Died 1995
Rudolf von RibbentropWaffen-SS Officer (branch: Panzertruppe)
Fritz RitterbuschDob 11 January 1894. Served in World War I. Since the spring of 1940 to 30 January 1941 he held an unspecified role in the Division IV camp Flossenbürg KL, where then was transferred to the post of commander of one of the camp guard companies. The camp moved to the headquarters staff of KZ Hinzert, where he was adjutant to the commandant of the camp, Paul Sporrenberga. On 18 June 1943 he moved to KZ Lublin. In the spring of 1944 he was moved to KZ Gross-Rosen where since May 1944 to 13 February 1945 he was company commander and the head of sub Parschnitz in Pozici and AL Trautenau in Trutnov in the Czech Republic. He was arrested by Soviet forces on 1 January 1946. On 25 March 1946 he was sentenced to death by a Soviet Military Tribunal, a special form of a court-martial. On 14 May 1946 Ritterbusch was executed at an unknown place.9.10719316.317
Eduard RoschmannBorn 25 November 1908. Commandant of the Riga Ghetto; Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und SD IV = Department 4 (Gestapo). Lived in Argentina; Died 8 August 1977 Paraguay1526811938
Bernd RosemeyerBorn 14 October 1909. Stab des SS-Hauptamt; professional race-car driver killed car accident 1 January 1938214952November 1933
Hermann SchaperBorn 12 August 1911. Kommando SS Zichenau-Schröttersburg. Died after April 200234841937105606
Dr. Heinrich SchmidtBorn 27 March 1912. SS Physician involved with six KZ Camps. Twice tried for warcCrimes-and acquitted.
Died 28 November 2000
230691937555,294
Lothar SchmidtHead of the personnel division of the Ministry of Economics and Labor in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Briefly worked as an interpreter for the U.S. army in Bavaria before being arrested in Altötting in August 1945.[13]: 213  Not to be confused with SS-Obersturmführer Lothar de:Henry Schmidt (1912-1996).
Wilhelm Schröder[21]NSDAP official, first lieutenant of Waffen-SS and a member of Sturmabteilung177382
Günther SchwägermannAdjutant to Dr. Joseph Goebbels.312.231
Heinrich SchwarzAdministrative aide to Rudolf Höß. Commandant of Auschwitz III-Monowitz 1943–1945. Commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof 1945
Siegfried SeidlBorn 24 August 1911. Commandant of Theresienstadt concentration camp. Executed 4 February 194746.1061932300.378
Alfred SpilkerOriginally came to the new Stapoleitstelle Wien in 1938; Sipo-Einsatz in Poland from 1939 to 1944, then returned to Wien.

He was last reported at Lilienfeld, April 1945.

Franz StanglBorn 26 March 1908 Commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps;died in prison 28 June 1971296,569March 19386,370,447
Erich SteidtmannBorn 15 November 1914. Commander of 3rd Battalion/Police Regiment 22 during Warsaw Ghetto Uprising;
member of German Police Battalion 101 during Aktion Erntefest{harvest Festival massacre}Died 25 July 2010
160 812
Karl Streibelborn 11 October 1903 Bavaria. Commander of Trawniki concentration camp. Reportedly died 1986.1933
Max Teichmann[21]SS officer1777181977669
Richard ThomallaSS commander; Head of SS central building administration; Lead architect of Operation Reinhard camps41.20619321.238.872
Eduard Paul TratzZoologist and officer in the Ahnenerbe
Leo Klaus VolkBorn 2 May 1909. Adjutant for Oswald Pohl. Died 1973219.415November 19332.639.413
Walter Oscar WacheBorn 17.01.1908. He attended the Humanistische Gymnasium where he studied German and History. In 1928 he was a member of the Freikorps. In 1929 he became leader of the Deutschen Mittelschülerbund Österreichs which later became known as NS-Schülerbund hervorging. In 1932 he joined the NSDAP and the SS. In 1933 he became a teacher. In Austria at that time he was given a criminal record for his political activities and therefore was unable to take a job with the state as a Librarian. In 1934 he obtained a scholarship in Prague to study German Human Sciences, but was arrested for spying and deported to Germany. Granted German citizenship and worked in the RuSHA as a Historical researcher. In October 1936 he became an Assistant at the University of Köln where he became a lecturer and Professor in Middle and Modern History. He worked in a political capacity for the SS. He created film for the university promoting the National Socialist doctrine writing articles in "SS-Leithefte" at the same time wrote the book/pamphlet 'Judenfibel' as a reference to the Jews. Became a SS Untersturmführer 24.04.1937. In 1938 his work extended with the 'Ahnenerbes'. He was awarded the Iron Cross in 1941. In 1944, served in the SS Division Das Reich. Postwar reported to have settled in Republic of South Africa8040119321300059
Bernhard WehnerBorn 15 December 1909. Led sub-department BI a2 Department V aka Reichskriminalpolizeiamt {Reich Criminal Police Department} of the RSHA under Arthur Nebe. Postwar journalist for Der Spiegel; 1954 head of Düsseldorf Criminal Police Department. Died 31 December 1995414.0731942518.544
Hermann WeiserWaffen-SS captain and recipient of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross351242
Paul WernerBorn 05 IX 1890 Dragass/Dragacz]SS-Hauptsturmführer und Kriminalrat; headed briefly the Referat IV B in 1942. Participated in executions of Poles and Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto ruins.
Harald Franz WiesmannBorn 22 IV 1909 Krefeld. SS-Hauptsturmführer und Kriminalrat. Became head Referat IV 1 (former IV A) KdS Warschau in May 1944(seriously wounded on 20 VII 1944 during a riot in the Gefängnis der SIPO und des SD "Pawiak"; died 24 IV 1947 Praha]
Oskar WinklerBorn December 17th, 1910 in Jscherei, District of Lüben, Silesia. Joined the SS in 1933, the SD in 1936 and the NSDAP in 1937. Promoted to SS-Untersturmführer on April 20th, 1939 (Hitler´s Birthday). Served as SS-Obersturmführer (promoted September, 9th, 1940) in Einsatzgruppe B, EK 8 under the command of Dr. Otto Bradfisch from June to October 1941 in Belarus. He also lead a small squad of SS-men of EK 8 for separate executions. He participated in mass executions in Białystok, Novogrodek, Baranovičy, Minsk ("Prototype-Shootings" for Heinrich Himmler), Mogilev, and Gomel, as confirmed by witnesses during his trial and his own confession. Promoted to Hauptsturmführer on April 20th, 1942 (Hitler´s Birthday) to serve as Commander of the SiPo (Sicherheitspolizei) and head of division III of the SD (Sicherheitsdienst), as Second in Command of the RSHA (Reich Security Main Office) office in Bergen, Norway until the end of the war. Indicted in the Munich Einsatzgruppen-Trial together with Dr. Otto Bradfisch, Wilhelm Schulz, Carl Ruhrberg and Günther Ströh, as part of the NSG Trials (Nationalsozialistische Gewaltverbrechen - national socialist violent felonies) and sentenced to 3 1/2 years of imprisonment on July 21st, 1960 for the collaborated murder of 650 victims. Died in Georgsmarienhütte, District of Osnabrück, Lower-Saxony, on September 9th, 1980.19648919334863426
Michael WittmannBorn 22 April 1914. Waffen-SS Panzer ace with the LSSAH (branch: Panzertruppe) KIA 8 August 1944311623October 1936
Hans WoellkeCommander of Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118. Killed in combat on 22 March 1943
Rudolf LudwigBorn 27 January 1921. Died 24 August 1944. Buried in Narva, Estonia.

Obersturmführer (first lieutenant)

Untersturmführer (second lieutenant)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSĠěParty number
Untersturmführer         (1921–1945)
Woldemar / Waldemar AmelungBorn 11.11.1914 Kopjoni, Russia. Served in Latvian Army 1933–1934. Assignments: EG A, RSHA III B; Leiter Hauptaussenstelle der SIPO und des SD in Baranowitschi, VI 1942 – 11 X 1943. {Possibly participated in reprisals after Unternehmen "Hermann" (August 1943) and especially in the execution of 11 nuns?] SS-Ostuf. 9.11.1944, (SD). 1944–1945, worked in RSHA III B – Wlassow Dienststelle. Died on 19 XII 1954 in Paderborn.35729401.02.19408537705
Heinrich AndergassenBorn 30 July 1908. Tried and executed 26 July 1946 in killing US Soldier Roderick Stephen Hall and murders of six other Allied soldiers
Rudolf RoyBorn 15 August 1920. 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler & 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II. Destroyed 36 enemy tanks with his gunner, Unterscharführer Fritz Eckstein. Roy was killed during the Battle of the Bulge. He is buried in the War cemetery in Bonn - Bad Godesberg Germany, grave number 756.
Bernhard Anhalt,Defendant in 1957 trial of March 1945 Amsberger Massacre (Acquitted)
Johann Appler[22]95.219
Karl Peter BergBorn 18 April 1907. Largerfuhrer KZ Amersfoort. Captured tried and executed by firing Squad 22 November 1949
Kort Paul Hans BläseBorn 26.05.1900. Sipo Rotterdam. sentenced to 20 years imprisonment 28.03.1949 in Den Haag. released 29.03.1956
Herbert BöttcherBorn 5.6.1913 Gunsdorf8.134
Wilhelm BogerBorn 19 December 1906 Zuffenhausen. Police commissioner and member of the Political Department at Auschwitz; arrested 1959; tried 1965 later convicted of crimes against humanity; died in prison 3 April 1977 Bietigheim-Bissingen27791930153652
Dr. Karl Brandt[20]Born 8 January 1904. Promoted 20 April 1939. Postwar tried for war crimes and executed 2 June 1948193764
Erhard BraunySentenced to Life in prison for the 1945 Gardelegen Massacre;died of Lukemina in 1950
Dr. Heinz BrücherBorn 14 January 1915. member of SS Ahnenerbe; Botanist. Died 17 December 19913498152
Prince Christoph of HesseReserve captain at RFSS staff. Luftwaffe major359031498608
or 696176
Paul DickopfBorn 9 June 1910. Wartime member of SD. Postwar president of Interpol. Died 19 September 19733372591937
Kurt Hermann August DöringSipo Amsterdam (IV A and IV B), Kriminalobersekretär, SS-Untersturmführer. sentenced to 3 years imprisonment 01.07.1949 in Amsterdam (released 23.08.1950)
Benson Railton Metcalf FreemanBorn 6 October 1903. Lt RAF captured 22 May 1940; 1942-1944 worked for Germans in propaganda. In October 1944 joined Waffen SS. Captured 9 May 1945 and sentenced to ten years in prison. Subsequent life unknown.[23]
Dr. Hermann GauchBorn 6 May 1899. Nazi Race theorist Died 7 November 1978222.17519349.538 (1922)
3.474.227 (1934)
Kurt GildischBorn 2 March 1904. 3rd commander of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers 1933–1934. Died 3 March 195613.13829 September 1931690.762
Maximilian GrabnerBorn 2 October 1905. Gestapo agent and head of the Political Department at Auschwitz-infamous leader of Block 11; later executed for crimes against humanity on 28 January 1948September 19381214137
Kurt GraafMember of the SD-Section III
Richard GutkaesMember of SD-section III
Rudolf Hasselhead Sipo Amsterdam (department IV-B4);Kriminalsekretär. Reported arrested in the Netherlands
Ludwig HeinemannBorn 03/01/1911. Promoted to SS-Untersturmführer on 12-09-193744.48267.453
Fritz HenkeSS-Oberscharführer
Johann KlierGuard Sobibor extermination camp. Testified 1950 trial of Hermann Erich Bauer
Karl Wilhelm Franz KlünnerBorn 08.03.1904 in Elmschenhagen. Sipo Assen, Kriminalsekretär; SS-Untersturmführer. sentenced to 16 years imprisonment 20.04.1949 in Den Haag (released 23.05.1955)
Ernst KnorrBorn 13.10.1899 in Heiligenbeil. Sipo Groningen, SS-Untersturmführer. suicide 07.07.1945 in Scheveningen (prison
Georg KrugerBorn 05 XI 1898 Karlowitz/Karłowice. SS-Untersturmführer und Kriminalobersekretär; head of Unter Referat IV B4 (Judenangelegenheiten). [Warsaw]. Died 16 II 1945 Poznań]
Wolfgang KüglerWas an SS-Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) and a Teilkommandoführer (detachment leader) for Einsatzkommando 2, a subdivision of Einsatzgruppe A. Following World War II, he was tried and found guilty of war crimes in West Germany. His sentence was reported to have been 8 months in prison and a fine. The most serious charge against him was that he had organized and been a commandter at the massacre of about 2,700 Jews, mostly women and children, on the beach at Liepāja, Latvia.
Walter KutschmannBorn 24 July 1914. Kriminalkommisar/Gestapo Chief in Drobohycz. After being identified as living in Argentina by Simon Wiesenthal arrested on 28 June 1975; he was later released on 29 June 1975. Rearrested in 1985; Kutschmann died in prison hospital 30 August 198640465119407475729
Célestin LainéBorn 1908. Leader of the Bezen Perrot. Fled from a post war sentence of death. Died 1983 Dublin Ireland
Walter Wilhelm LehneBorn 19.03.1891 in Magdeburg. Police and Gestapo Reichsführerschule SS in Prag. Gestapo-Leitstelle in Hamburg-Altona.1936 Grenzpolizeikommissariat Flensburg.1938 politische Überwachung der Arbeiter am Westwall. Sommer 1939-1945 stellvertretender Dienststellenleiter Gestapo Pardubice.death sentence in Waldheim 1950. not executed because extradited to Czechoslovakia Extradited 15.11.1950 to Czechoslovakia
Hermann MaringgeleSS-Hauptscharführer and Zugführer
Martin James MontiBorn 24 October 1921. US Army Air Corps deserter/airplane thief and SS propaganda officer; member of SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers; in 1946 courtmartialed for stealing a plane and deseration-sentenced to 15 years [sentence suspended] served in Army Air Force 1947–1948; rearrested 1948 and charged with treason; sentenced to 25 years;paroled 1960. Died 11 September 20001945
Dr. Hans MünchBorn 14 May 1911-d.about 2001. Assigned to KZ Auschwitz.
Kārlis MūsiņšWaffen-SS Untersturmführer
Johann NiemannBorn 4 August 1913. Deputy commandant of Sobibor extermination camp Executed in revolt 14 October 1943270.6001934753.836
Rudolf August Oetkerborn 20 September 1916 Bielefeld, Germany. Became a Ustuf:21.6.44. Died 16 January 2007 Hamburg Germany.
Alfred OttoBorn 02.03.1900 Lodz. Gestapo Warsaw Referat IV A 3 c. Hiding in Paczków after the war. Trial at Warsaw in 1955. Sentenced to life imprisonment, later commuted to 25 years. Died 1968 in Warsaw prison
Horst PetriIn Poland and Ukraine, Horst participated in hunting down partisans, massacring local Jewish population in a town next to his estate, and participated in the mass deportations1934
Josef PospichilBorn December 1899. Member of SD-section III/Gestapo. Involved KZ Majdanek; KZ Natzweiler-Struthof. Executed 14 February 194853.67516 August 19321.096.992
Josef RademacherBorn 26 Aug. 1912 Völkingen/Saar. Sipo/SD. Promoted SS-Ustuf. on 9 November 1941. Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) Hungary. Vermisst Dec. 1944 Budapest29003887628
Wilhelm Karl Johannes RosenbaumBorn 27 April 1915. Involved in killings at Bad Rabka. Arrested 1961; tried 1968 and sentenced to life; released 1982. Died 19841 July 1936
Willem Sassenborn 16 April 1918. Netherlands PK ("Propaganda Kompanie"). Died 2002
Willi SchatzDentist at Auschwitz concentration camp
Heinz SchildtMember of SD-section OST and SD-section III
Hanns-Martin SchleyerBorn 1 May 1915. Leader of board of Zentralverband der Industrie in Prague. Kidnapped and killed 18 October 197722171430 June 1933
Fritz Scherwitz alias Elias SirewitzBorn August 21, 1903, Schaulen, Lithuania. Member of German Freikorps 1919. In 1939, he came to Riga as a police officer. In 1942 he ran a workshop of the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga until September 1944. in 1945 he pretended to be a persecuted Jew. On behalf of the Americans, he now began to search for interned former SS men.At the beginning of 1946, Scherwitz succeeded in becoming trustee for several trading companies in the district of Wertingen (Bavaria). In January 1947, he was given the trusteeship of all Jews who had lived in the district until 1942. It was now his task to secure former property of Jews for possibly survivors or their heirs. On 19 December 1947 he became deputy counsellor for persecuted persons in the Swabian part of Bavaria. On April 26, 1948, he was arrested.On March 3, 1949, Scherwitz was sentenced to six years in prison in Munich for shooting three Jewish prisoners. The verdict was upheld by jury on appeals on 14 December 1949 and 1 August 1950.He was released from prison in 1954. Died in Munich Germany December 4, 19621 November 1933
Hans StarkBorn 14 June 1921 in Darmstadt. KZ Sachsenhausen; Buchenwald; Dachau; Auschwitz. Arrested April 1959; tried 1963–1964; released from prison 1968. Died 29 March 1991319918December 1937
Johann Friedrich StöverBorn 8 August 1899. Largerfuhrer KZ Amersfoort. On 7 June 1949, Stöver was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Special Court in Amsterdam. He was detained in Breda. In 1950 he was sentenced to death by the Special Council of Cassation, but a year later this sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. In May 1959, the life sentence was changed to 23 years and four months. Stöver was released in November 1960 and returned to Germany. Subsequent fate unknown.
Wilhelm StröbelStuttgart lawyer.[13][24]
Reimond TollenaereWaffen SS Belgian Foreign Legion officer
Lauri TörniFinnish officer who joined the SS after the temporary peace treaty between Finland and the USSR, switching armies multiple times to continue combating communists. Ultimately ended his career as a Green Beret Major (posthumous) and US citizen in 1965 in Vietnam. Then named Larry Thorne, Törni is the only Waffen-SS member to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Friedrich Carl Ferdinand ViermannSipo Amsterdam, Kriminalsekretär, SS-Untersturmführer; sentenced to 7 years imprisonment 27.09.1949 in Amsterdam (released 31.03.1956)
Herbert Waltherborn 23 April 1922. Served in both the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and 12th SS Panzer Division Hitler Youth. Wounded and captured in the Ardennes Battles December 1944. Postwar book editor and historian. Died 25 February 2003.
Herbert WenzelPart of the "Werewolf" "Operation Karnival" in March 1945 which resulted in deaths of border guard Jozef Saive and Aachan Mayor Franz Oppenhoff. Wenzle changed his name to "Fritz Brandt" and died in Namibia in 1981.
Paul WernerSS Dutch legion member2802161293714
Hans Walter Zech-NenntwichBorn 10 July 1916. SS Cavalry Regiment member who was convicted for the killing of 5,200 Jews at the Pinsk Marshes and sentenced to four years in prison in 1964.
Otto WolnekBorn 5 June 1918 in Feldkirch, Austria. KZ Auschwitz.
Heinz ZeunerDefendant in 1957 trial of March 1945 Amsberger Massacre {Acquitted}

SS Non-Commissioned Officers

Sturmscharführer (Regimental sergeant major)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Sturmscharführer         (1934–1945)
Johannes Wilhelm HoffmannBorn 22.05.1904. Sipo Rotterdam, SS-Sturmscharführer, Kriminalsekretär; sentenced to death 11.04.1949. commuted 13.07.1950. released 21.11.1960
Martin Johann KohlenBorn 14.08.1910. Sipo Rotterdam, SS-Sturmscharführer/Kriminalsekretär. sentenced to life 11.03.1949. commuted 23.03.1950 to 21 years and 11-month imprisonment. released 10.12.1959
Karl LammBorn 18.11.1907 in Berlin. Sipo Assen, SS-Sturmscharführer. sentenced to 20 years imprisonment 20.04.1949 in Den Haag (in absence)
Adolf MaurerSS security administrator of Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Hauptscharführer (sergeant major)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Hauptscharführer         (1934–1945)
Leopold BruckCommander of a Waffen-SS squad in France
Kurt BrunowBorn 9 March 1907. Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III1 November 1931530.892
Harold ColeBorn 24 January 1906. Ex British POW and double agent for the Sicherheitsdienst against the French Resistance. Killed 8 January 1946
Lorenz HackenholtBorn 26 June 1914. SS-NCO in charge of gassing at Bełżec extermination camp; vanished May 1945; declared legally dead December 1945-fate unknown19331727962
Erich von der HeydeBorn 1 May 1900. During 1936, von der Heyde became the advisor for nitrogen and agriculture in the Political-Economic Policy Department (WIPO, Wirtschaftspolitische Abteilung) of the I.G. in Berlin. From mid-1938 he was also the counterintelligence operative of I.G. Farben's "NW 7" (intelligence) office, where his duties included counterintelligence and taking action against breaches of secrecy. In addition, he passed on reports from abroad that appeared to be of general interest, distributing them internally at the I.G. and sending them to the Wehrmacht. In this capacity, he was borrowed by the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA, Reichssicherheitshauptamt) and by 1940 had been promoted to Hauptscharführer. In September 1940, he was called up for service in the Wehrmacht, and until the war's end he served in the military-economic branch of the War Economy and Armament Office (Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamt; and later the War Economy Staff, or Wehrwirtschaftsstab). Acquitted in 1948 I.G. Farben trial. Died 5 August 19841934
Hans Juhlhead of the local Gestapo in the area around Helsingør (Elsinore) in Denmark from late summer 1943
Otto KempinSipo Amsterdam (IV B 4), SS-Hauptscharführer. sentenced to 10 years imprisonment 08.04.1950 in Amsterdam (released 27.04.1951)
Heinz LinkeWaffen-SS officer
Pieter MentenBorn 26 May 1899. Involved in 1941 Massacre of Lviv professors. Also involved in the killing of Jews. In 1949 sentenced to 8 months for working in a uniform as a Nazi Interpreter. In 1951 Dutch Govt refused his extradition to Poland. In 1980 he was sentenced to 10 years for war crimes. Died 14 November 1987
Friedrich MeyerhoffBorn 05.03.1916 Völlenerfehn). KZ Vught.sentenced to 13 years imprisonment 25.10.1949 in 's-Hertogenbosch. released 01.03.1956
Otto MollBorn 24 March 1915. KZ Auschwitz. Director and chief head of all crematoria. Commandant of Furstengrube and Gleiwitz I concentration camps. Executed 28 May 1946.2676701 May 1935
Detlef NebbeBorn 20 June 1912. KZ Auschwitz personnel. Sentenced to life by Supreme National Tribunal. Released by amnesty in the mid-1950s1933
Richard Heinrich NitschBorn 01.11.1908 Todtgüslingen. Sipo Maastricht, SS-Hauptscharführer. sentenced to life imprisonment 29.11.1948 in 's-Hertogenbosch. commuted 18.04.1959 to 22 years and 9-month imprisonment; released 05.04.1960. died 1990
Auke Bert Pattist.Born 1920, Died 2001. SS sergeant
Georg SchallermairBorn 29 December 1894. At subcamp Muehldorf August 1944 until 1945. In the Dachau Camp Trial (part of the Dachau Trials) he was sentenced to death by hanging. He was executed at Landsberg prison 7 June 1951.
Walter Gerhard Martin SommerBorn 08. February 1915. Hangman of KZ Buchenwald. Reduced in rank and sentenced to a penal Battlion. Taken POW by Red Army 1945. Status changed to war Criminal 1950. Released and exchanged 1955. Indiacted 1957 and found guilty of war Crimes 1958. Died 7 June 1988 in prison11003515 May 1934294863
Gustav SorgeBorn 24 April 1911. KZ Esterwegen concentration camp Sachsenhausen concentration camp died in Prison 19781931
Gustav Franz WagnerBorn 18 July 1911 in Vienna Austria. Deputy commander of the Sobibór extermination camp. Died 3 October 1980 in Brazil.

Wagner also served in Italy with other SS-Men from Operation Reinhard in Anti-Partisan activity.

Wagner was awarded the War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords for his service.

1931443217

Oberscharführer (staff sergeant)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Oberscharführer         (1932–1945)
Ernst BarkmannBorn 25 August 1919. Waffen-SS tank commander. Died 27 June 2009
Hermann Erich BauerBorn 26 March 1900. In charge of gas chambers at Sobibor extermination camp. In prison 1950–1980. Died 4 February 1980
Rudolf BeckmannBorn 20 February 1910. Action T4; Sobibor extermination camp; killed in revolt 14 October 1943
Kurt BolenderBorn 21 May 1912. In charge of gas chambers at Sobibor extermination camp; Action T4 died 10 October 1966
Derk-Elsko BruinsBorn 20 March 1923. Dutch Collaborator who joined the Waffen SS. Awarded the Knight's Cross Medal. Died 5 February 1986 Germany. Brother of Siert Bruins
Franz BürklDeputy commander and infamous executioner at Pawiak Prison, Warsaw, Poland. Executed by Polish Underground 7 September 1943
Wilhelm EmmerichBorn 7 February 1916. Assigned KZ Auschwitz. Shot and wounded by Franciszka Mann 23 October 1943. Died 22 May 1945 of typhus
Paul FelskoAssigned east Poland governorship. Died in soviet prison camp 15 April 1952.
Karl FrenzelBorn 20 August 1911. T-4 program and KZ Sobibor in prison 1966–1982 Died 2 September 1996334948
Bruno GescheBorn 5 November 1905. A commander of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers; demoted from Obersturmbannführer 20 December 1944 for drunkenness; member of Dirlewanger Brigade Died 198010938592
Hubert GomerskiGuard at Sobibor extermination camp. Testified 1950 trial of Hermann Erich Bauer
Siegfried GraetschusBorn 9 June 1916. KZ Sobibor-commanded Ukrainian guard, killed in revolt 14 October 194320 Dec 1935
Heinrich HarrerBorn 6 July 1912. Austrian mountaineer and explorer in Tibet. Died 7 January 200673.8961 April 19386.307.081
Heinrich HeeringBorn 29 July 1902 Reelkirchen. SS-Hscha. 12./LSSAH 01.41; SS-Ostuf. Nachsch.1 07.43;Ost IV.SS-Pz.Korps 11.4450355
Georg HeidornKriminalassistent (from Grenzpolizei Eupen-Malmedy). Involved in "Operation Karnival" March 1945 which resulted in death of Dutch Border Guard Jozef Saive and Aachen Mayor Franz Oppenhoff. In 1949 Sentenced to 1 year in prison; on 22.09.1952 LG Aachen reduced to 8 months.
Karl Heinz HennemannKriminalassistent (from Grenzpolizei Eupen-Malmedy). Involved in "Operation Karnival" March 1945 which resulted in death of Dutch Border Guard Jozef Saive and Aachen Mayor Franz Oppenhoff. In 1949 Sentenced to 1 year in prison; on 22.09.1952 LG Aachen reduced to 8 months.
Heinrich HeeringBorn 29 July 1902 Reelkirchen. SS-Hscha. 12./LSSAH 01.41; SS-Ostuf. Nachsch.1 07.43;Ost IV.SS-Pz.Korps 11.4450355
Frank HermesBorn 29 August 1919. Anglo-German ethnic. Served in 8th Company, Totenkopf Infantry Regiment; and the Panzer and Grenadier Training Battalion of the LSSAH; (Also alleged to have been involved in the Shoah). In January 1946 sentenced to hang for high treason. Sentence commuted and served 7 years in prison until January 1953. Died 1987
Georg HuberBorn 1914 Weigendorf. KZ Vught. sentenced to 15 years imprisonment 09.11.1948 in 's-Hertogenbosch released 04.09.1951
Karl Heinrich KlaustermeyerBorn 22 February 1914. Involved in suppression of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. 1965 sentenced to Life in prison. Pardoned 8 April 1976 because of terminal cancer; died 21 April 1976
Hermann MichelBorn 23 April 1912. T-4; KZ Sobibor; Operation Reinhard-fate unknown-fled to Middle East? died 1984? [unconfirmed]
Rochus MischBorn 29 July 1917. Hitler's telephone operator who in the last weeks of the war handled all of the direct communication in the Führerbunker. Died 5 September 20131937
Johannes MittagBorn 5 March 1919. Joined Waffen SS, Verfuegungstruppe then Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) 1939. Deployed mainly alongside Div. Nord in Karelia and Scandinavia. Prior part of Battles of Dunkirk, EKI, EKII, Sturmabzeichen Silber, Verwundenenabzeichen Schwarz. Died 6 August 2005.
Eric MuhsfeldtBorn 18 February 1913. Senior NCO of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando. Involved in Operation Harvest Festival. Hanged 28 January 1948
Josef OberhauserBorn 21 January 1915. Involved Action T-4 and Bełżec extermination camp In Belzec Trial sentenced to 4.5 years. died 22 November 1979288.121November 1935
Johann PaulsBorn 9 February 1908; Executed 4 July 1946 for War Crimes1 April 1931
Walter QuakernackBorn 9 July 1907; Executed 11 October 1946 for War Crimes1252661933
Herbert ScherpeBorn 20 May 1907. Stationed at KZ Auschwitz. Arrested August 1961 and sentenced to four and a half years in prison for "joint aid to the common murder" and to the loss of civil honour rights to four years. He was released on 19 August 1965. He died 23 December 19971931
Josef SchillingerAssigned KZ Auschwitz. Shot and killed by Franciszka Mann 23 October 1943.
Karl SilberbauerBorn 21 June 1911. Vienna Gestapo;SD at the Hague; Arrested Anne Frank;postwar recruited by the Federal Intelligence Service (Germany) to infiltrate neo-Nazi and pro-soviet groups. Died 2 Sept 19721943
Martin WeissBorn 21 February 1903 Karlsruhe. He was assigned to Einsatzkommando 3, part of Einsatzgruppe stationed in Bad Düben. In October 1941 he was assigned to work in the Office of the Commander of Security Police (Sicherheitsdienst or SD and Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei or Sipo) in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part of the Reichskommissariat Ostland. Was also de facto commander of the Vilna Ghetto. He was also the commander of the notorious Nazi-sponsored Ypatingasis būrys (Lithuanian special SD and German Security Police Squad), which was largely responsible for the Ponary massacre where up to 100,000 Jews were shot to death. In February 1950, a court in Würzburg found him guilty of war crimes and sentenced him to life imprisonment. In 1970, his sentence was suspended and revoked in 1977; died 19841934

Scharführer (sergeant)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Scharführer         (1925–1945)
Heinz Auerswaldb.26 July 1908. In Ordnungspolizei held the rank of Oberwachtmeister – equivalent to Scharfuehrer. He was "Kommissar für den jüdischen Wohnbezirk" ("Commissioner for the Jewish Residential District") in Warsaw Ghetto, Poland from April 1941 to November 1942. Postwar investigation stopped after he died 5 December 1970216.399[citation needed]7 June 19334.830.479[citation needed]
Heinrich EickeCamp administrator Maly Trostenets extermination camp. Fled to Argentina-all trace of him lost
Erich FuchsBorn 9 April 1902. Involved T-4 and KZ Sobibor. Fuchs was put on trial at the Bełżec Trial in Munich 1963–64, for which he was acquitted. Fuchs was rearrested and tried at the Sobibor Trial in Hagen. He was charged with participation in the mass murder of approximately 3,600 Jews. On 20 December 1966, Fuchs was found guilty of being an accessory to the mass murder of at least 79,000 Jews and sentenced to four years imprisonment. Fuchs was married for the sixth time during the trial. Fuchs died on 25 July 19801934
Josef HirtreiterBorn 1 February 1909. KZ Treblina. Sentenced to life 1951. Released 1977. Died 27 November 1978
Samuel Kunzb.1922. Volksdeutsche who served in USSR army; captured and trained as a SS Guard at Trawniki SS training camp. Posted to KZ Belzec death camp. Arrested in Berlin Germany July 2010 charged with being involved aiding deaths of 430,000 Jews and personally killing 10; Died 18 November 2010 age 89 before trial could start.
Erich LachmannBorn 6 November 1909. Assigned KZSobibor. Tried for war Crimes 1965–1966 but acquitted on grounds of mental incompence. Died 23 January 1972
Heinrich Freiherr von StackelbergBorn 31 October 1905. Economics Professor. Died 12 October 19461933
{?] ZummachOn 2 July 1934 killed SS-Oberabschnittsreiterführer Anton von Hohberg and Buchwald

Unterscharführer (corporal)

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Unterscharführer         (1934–1945)
Julius BenzBorn 28 March 1924. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19 February 1944
Perry BroadBorn 25 April 1921. KZ Auschwitz personnel. Released in 1947, he again was arrested 12 years later, freed in December 1960 after the payment of DM 50,000 as surety and again arrested in November 1964 as a defendant in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials. He was found guilty of supervising selections at Birkenau, as well as of participating in interrogations, tortures and executions, and was sentenced to four years in prison in 1965. In 1979 in Wuppertal, Broad was among those interviewed and secretly filmed by Claude Lanzmann for Shoah, his Holocaust documentary released in 1985. Died 28 November 1993.1941
Siert BruinsBorn 2 March 1921 in the Netherlands. 1943 became a German citizen. Killed a Dutchman Aldert Klaas Dijkema in September 1944. Member of Sipo in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, from 1944 to 1945. Lived in Germany which refused to extradite him to Netherlands. In 1980 sentenced to seven years for killing two Jewish brothers in April 1945. In 2013 age 92 tried in German Court for Dijkema killing. Died 28 September 2015.
Rudolph ErlerBorn 31 August 1904. 5 Company/SS Totenkopfsturmbann. KZ Auschwitz I. Killed in Auschwitz revolt 7 October 1944
Willi FreeseBorn 30 September 1921. 2 Company/SS Totenkopfsturmbann.KZ Auschwitz I. Killed in Auschwitz revolt 7 October 1944
Oskar GröningBorn 10 June 1921. Joined the SS in 1940. In Auschwitz from 1942 to 1944. Captured 1945 released 1947/1948. Tried at age 93 on 20 April 2015 charged with aiding in killing of 300,000 of 425,000 Hungarian Jews. Found guilty and sentenced to four years in prison. Died 9 March 2018.
Reinhold HanningBorn 28 December 1921. Joined the Waffen-SS at age 18. Served two years in Auschwitz. Tried at age 94 in June 2016 charged with being an accessory to killing of 170,000. Found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. Died 30 May 20171940
Gerhard HirschBorn 13.07.1922. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944
Albert Hujar/HuyarDirected executions at Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
George KettmannBorn 2 December 1898 in Amsterdam – died 10 February 1970 in Roosendaal
Jozef Kindelborn 23.11.1912 in Köln. Sipo Groningen, died 05.08.1948 in prison Almelo (before his trial)
Mathias KirmaierBorn 1920. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944
Josef Leitgeb,Part of the "Werewolf" "Operation Karnival" in March 1945 which resulted in deaths of border guard Jozef Saive and Aachan Mayor Franz Oppenhoff. Killed by a landmine 27 March 1945.
Franz MaierhoferSS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 18.02.1944
August MieteBorn 01.11.1908. KZ Treblina. Tried 1965. Died in detention 25 July 1978
Gustav MünzbergerBorn 17.08.1903. KZ Treblina. Tried 1965, released 1971. Died 23 March 1977321.7581938
Harald Nugiseksborn 22 October 1921. Member of Estonian Legion awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Died 2 January 2014
Pierre Paolib.31 December 1921; executed 15 June 1946
Josef PurkeBorn 28.02.1903. 1 Company/SS Totenkopfsturmbann.KZ Auschwitz I. Killed in Auschwitz revolt 7 October 1944
Josef Rieglerb.5 July 1922; Guard KZ Mauthausen; executed 27 May 1947 Landsberg Prison
Franz SchönhuberBorn 10 January 1923. Age 19 Waffen-SS member; later chairman of The Republicans political party.< Died 27 November 2005
Herbert SchmidtBorn 04.04.1920. SS- Fallschirmjäger. Awards: Awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Shot and killed by a French sniper while sitting beside his cousin and division commander, though thought to be a runway from lack of belongings and the disappearance of his wife. KIA < June 16, 1944
Franz SuchomelBorn 3 December 1907. Treblinka, Tried 1965 and sentenced to 4 years;
died 18 December 1979
Eugène Vaulotborn 1923 Paris. Served in 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French). Awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Killed in action on 2 May 1945
Ernst ZierkeBorn 6 May 1905. involved in Action T4 Bełżec; Dorohucza; Sobibor Camp III. Acquitted in 1964 Belzec trial and released in 1965 Sobibor trial on health grounds. Died in 1972

SS-Stabsscharführer

NamePositionNationalityJoined Nazi partyJoined SSYears of service
Gerhard PutschInvestigator for SS Judge Georg Konrad Morgen. "Disappeared" while investigating corruption in the SS

SS biologist

NamePositionNationalityJoined Nazi partyJoined SSYears of service
Professor Wolfgang AbelBorn 13 May 1905; Austrian anthropologist and one of Nazi Germany's racial biologists. Vienna native. Died 1 November 1997Austrian (Austria-Hungary)193319351933–1945

SS-Kapellmeister

NamePositionNationalityJoined Nazi partyJoined SSYears of service
Hermann Paul Maximilian AbendrothBorn 19 January 1883; Leader of the Nazi Reichsmusikkammer. Died 29 May 1956German193419371934–1945

SS-Schütze

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Schütze         (1939–1945)
Yaroslav Hunka14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)

Unknown

NamePositionSS numberJoined SSParty number
Rank Unknown (please move these to the appropriate place if you find a citation)
Gustav von Schmoller (dyplomata) [pl] (1907-1991)SS member and one of 5 lawyers in the economics branch of the Ministry of Economy and Labour in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.[13] West German diplomat to Greece (1956-1960) and Turkey, ambassador to Sweden from 1964 to 1968. Outed as a Nazi in 1967.[25]

See also

Notes

Former SS Ranks changed after 1934:

References