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.

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 man 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, while 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

Name Position SS Number Year Party Number Remarks
Oberste Führer der Schutzstaffel        No Insignia (1934–1945)
Adolf Hitler Born 20 April 1889; died 30 April 1945 when he was 56. 1 1934 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 points by all officers.

Reichsführer

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Reichsführer-SS         (1925–1945)
Julius Schreck First 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
5 Leader of the Stoßtrupp-Hitler, forerunner of the SS (1923); officially joined SS (1925) 53
Joseph Berchtold Second Reichsführer-SS
1926–1927
Co-leader of the Stoßtrupp-Hitler; forerunner of the SS (1923) 750
Erhard Heiden Third Reichsführer-SS
1927–1929
Member of the Stoßtrupp-Hitler, forerunner of the SS (1923); officially joined SS (1925) 74
Heinrich Himmler Fourth Reichsführer-SS
1929–1945
Chief of German Police
Minister of the Interior
Chief of the replacement Army
168 2 August 1925 14303
Karl Hanke Final Reichsführer-SS
1945
203013 15 February 1933 102606

Oberst-Gruppenführer (colonel general)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Oberst-Gruppenführer         (April 1942–1945)
Kurt Daluege Commander of the Ordnungspolizei (Orpo-Order Police) 1119 1928 31981
Sepp Dietrich Original commander of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) and later commander of the 6th SS Panzer Army 1177 5 May 1928 89015
Paul Hausser Commander of the II SS Panzer Corps 239795 February 1934 4158779
Franz Xaver Schwarz NSDAP Treasurer 38500 16 September 1931 6

Obergruppenführer (general)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Obergruppenführer         (1932–1945)
Friedrich Alpers Staatssekretär / SS-Obergruppenführer /Staatsrat / Generalforstmeister /Major der Reserve (Luftwaffe) 6427 March 1931 132812
Max Amann Honorary SS Member. Party leader for the Reich of the Department Press 53143 3
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski Higher SS and Police Leader of Central Russia 9831 15 February 1931 489101
Herbert Backe Minister of Agriculture 1944–1945 22766 1 October 1933 87882
Gottlob Berger Commander of the SS-Hauptamt 275991 1936 426875
Werner Best Reich Plenipotentiary of Denmark 23377 1931 341338
Wilhelm Bittrich Waffen-SS combat commander, II SS Panzerkorps 39177 1934 829700
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle Leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party Foreign Organization 276915 13 September 1933 999185
Martin Bormann Secretary of Hitler/Party leader for the Reich in charge of the NSDAP Chancellery 555 1937 60508
Philipp Bouhler Head of the Action T4/Party Leader for the Reich in charge of the Hitler's Chancellery (Kanzlei des Führers) 54932 20 April 1933 12
Walter Braemer born 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
223.910 1 October 1935 4.012.32
Franz Breithaupt Commanding general of the SS and Police Courts 39719 1 December 1932 602663
Walter Buch Party Leader for the Reich as Chairman of the Inquiry and Mediation Board 81353 1 July 1933 7733
Dr. Leonardo Conti State Secretary for health matters 3.982 72.225
Richard Walther Darré First Director of the Race and Settlement Office ('Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt' or RuSHA), and Minister of the Reich for Food and Agriculture 6882 July 1930 248156
Karl-Maria Demelhuber Commanded the SS-Standarte Germania, 6. SS-Gebirgs-Division Nord, XII. SS-Armeekorps and XVI. SS-Armeekorps. 252392 15 March 1935 4439
Otto Dietrich Party Leader for the Reich as NSDAP Press Chief
Honorary rank
101349 1932 126727
Karl von Eberstein Early 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 II 1386 1 April 1929 15067
Joachim Albrecht Eggeling Gauleiter of Saxony and Anhalt
High President of Merseburg
186155 1935 11579
Theodor Eicke First chief of the Inspektion der Konzentrationslager (Concentration Camps Inspectorate) and commander of the SS Totenkopf Division 2921 August 1930 114901
Karl Fiehler Lord mayor of Munich/Party Leader of the Reich in charge of the communal policy 91724 31 July 1933 37
Albert Forster Gauleiter of Danzig 158 12 June 1926 1924
August Frank Born 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 1984 5669 8 April 1932 1471185
Hans Frank General Governor of Poland 1939 1945
Karl Hermann Frank Higher SS and Police Leader of Bohemia and Moravia. State Minister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1943–1945 310466 6600002
Herbert Otto Gille Waffen-SS commander 39854 December 1931 537337
Curt von Gottberg General of Waffen-SS 45923 September 1932 948753
Ernst-Robert Grawitz Reichsarzt SS and Polizei; Head of German Red Cross; son in law of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Siegfried Taubert 27.483 November 1931 1.102.844
Ulrich Greifelt Held 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. 72909 1667407
Arthur Greiser Gauleiter of Reichsgau Wartheland 10795 1929 166635
August Heissmeyer Commander of the SS Education Main Office 4370 21573
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf He wore the uniform of a General der Polizei in his capacity as Polizeipresident Berlin

SA Obergruppenführer

None
Rudolf Hess Also Deputy-Führer of the NSDAP until 11 May 1941 50 1 November 1925 16
Konrad Henlein Gauleiter of the Sudetenland 310307 6600001
Maximilian von Herff Commander of the SS Personnel Main Office 405894 1 April 1942 8858661
Reinhard Heydrich Chief of the RSHA; President of Interpol; chaired the 1942 Wannsee Conference; Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia 10120 14 July 1931 544916
Friedrich Hildebrandt Born 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. 128.802 5 December 1933 3.653
Richard Hildebrandt Born 13. März 1897. Served in World War I and Postwar in Freikorps, Led the SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt tried ajudged and executed 10 March 1952, Warsaw Poland for war crimes committed during the time of Nazi Germany. 7088 February 1931 89221
Hermann Höfle Born 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 Bratislava 463903 July 1943 3924970
Friedrich Jeckeln Higher SS and Police Leader of Eastern Russia 4367 12 January 1930 163348
Hugo Jury Born 13 July 1887. Gauleiter of the Gau of "Reichsgau Niederdonau" (Lower Austria). As of 1940 he was also Reich Governor, and as of 1942 also Reich Defence Commissar, for this region. Died 8 May 1945 292.777 12 March 1938 410.338
Hans Jüttner Commander of the SS-Führungshauptamt 264497 541163
Ernst Kaltenbrunner Second Chief of the RSHA after Heydrich's assassination. Executed by hanging in October 1946. 13039 300179
Hans Kammler Born 26 August 1901. Head of V-2 program. Declared legally dead 9 May 1945 113619 20 May 1933 1011855
Georg Keppler Keppler commanded the 2. SS-Division Das Reich, 3. SS-Division Totenkopf, I. SS-Panzerkorps, III.(germanische) SS-Panzerkorps and the XVIII.SS-Armee-Korps. 273799 10 October 1935 338211
Wilhelm Karl Keppler Secretary of state in Foreign Office; founder of the Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft 50816 August 1932 62424
Matthias Kleinheisterkamp Waffen-SS Divisional and Corps Commander 132399 8 January 1934 4158838
Wilhelm Koppe Höhere SS und Polizei Führer, HSSP in Wartheland 25955 2 January 1932 305584
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger Higher SS and Police Leader of Poland 6123 16 March 1931 3995130
Walter Krüger Commander of: 4th SS Polizei Panzer Division. 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. IV SS Panzer Corps. VI. SS-Freiwilligen-Armeekorps (lettisches) 266184 3991530
Hans Lammers Minister of the Reich. Head of the Reich Chancellery (honorary rank) 118404 1010355
Hartmann Lauterbacher Gauleiter, Reichsstatthalter, Oberpräsident, SS-Obergruppenführer, member of the Reichstag / Preußischer Staatsrat 382406 9 November 1940 86837
Werner Lorenz Commander of the Main Office of Ethnic Germanization (Hauptamt Volkdeutsche Mittelstelle) 6636 1931 337994
Benno Martin SS-Obergruppenführer, General of the Waffen-SS and Police and Higher SS leader (Polizei und Höherer SS) in Nuremberg. 187117 10 April 1934 2714474
Emil Mazuw Landeshauptmann (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. 2556 7 June 1930 85231
Wilhelm Murr Born 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 Mai 1945 in Egg 147.545 9 September 1934 12.873
Konstantin von Neurath German Foreign Minister 1932–1938;Reich Protector of Bohemia Moravia 1939–1943 1937
Carl Oberg Higher SS and Police Leader of France 36075 7 April 1932 575205
Günther Pancke Higher SS and Police Leader of Denmark;Waffen-SS General 10110 1931 282737
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch Obergruppenführer, 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. 292713 March 1939 1364387
Artur Phleps Commander of the 7.SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division Prinz Eugen 401214 30 June 1941
Oswald Pohl Chief of the SS Economics and Administration Office (WVHA) 147614 1933 30842
Hans-Adolf Prützmann SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei; General of Waffen-SS 3002 142.290
Rudolf Querner From 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. 308240 22 May 1938 2385386
Hanns Albin Rauter SS and Police Leader in the Netherlands 262958 Joined Austrian Nazi Party
Wilhelm Rediess SS and Police Leader in Norway 2839 22 July 1930 25574
Joachim von Ribbentrop Foreign minister 1938–1945 63083 February 1938 1199927
Erwin Rösener 24 November 1941 – 8 May 1945 Higher SS and Police Leader at SS-Oberabschnitt Alpenland (Wehrkreis XVIII; HQ: Salzburg) 3575 1930 46771
Fritz Sauckel Gauleiter of NSDAP Gau of Thuringia 254890 1395
Paul Scharfe Commander of the SS Legal Main Office 14220 1 October 1931 665697
Julius Schaub Co-founder of the SS, personal assistant to Hitler 7 February 1925 81
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]
Arthur Seyss-Inquart Leader of NS opposition in Austria prior Anschluss, Deputy governor-general of Poland then Commissaire for the Reich in Netherlands 292771 6270392
Felix Steiner Commander of III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps 253351 4264295
Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart Born 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. 280042 378144
Fritz Wächtler Born 7 January 1891 – died 19 April 1945. Gauleiter 209 058 November 1934 35,313
Prince Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont SS-Obergruppenführer and Higher SS and Police Leader of the SS-Oberabschnitt Fulda-Werra 2139 2 March 1930 160025
Fritz Weitzel He 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. 408 1927 18833
Karl Wolff Chief of staff to Heinrich Himmler and Supreme SS and Police Leader of Italy 14235 7 October 1931 695131
Udo von Woyrsch Higher SS and Police Leader in the SS-Oberabschnitt Sudost 3689 162349
Alfred Wünnenberg SS-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)

405898 2 October 1939 2222600

Gruppenführer (lieutenant general)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Gruppenführer         (1925–1945)
Ludolf von Alvensleben Born 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 1970 177002 5 April 1934 149345
Hans Baur Generalleutenant der Polizei. Hitler's Pilot 808258 69' None, but received Golden Party Badge
Dr. Karl Brandt Hitler's physician 260353 29 July 1934 1009617
Karl-Heinrich Brenner Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of Polizei 307786 11 September 1938 3460685
Josef Bürckel Born 30 March 1895, in Lingenfeld, Germersheim. Gauliter of Vienna. Died 28 September 1944 289.830 1937 33.979
Hermann Fegelein SS-Cavalry General, Eva Braun's brother-in-law. Commander of the 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer 66680 1931 1200158
Josef Fitzthum SS-Gruppenführer, Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei, politician, and Beauftragter des Reichsführer-SS Albanien (special representative of the Reichsführer SS in Albania) 41936 1932 363169
Helmuth Friedrichs Born 22 Sept 1899. Office of the Deputy Führer. Disappeared February 1945-fate unknown 278.229 1936 124.214
Bruno Erich Alfred Freyberg Born 12 July 1892. Oberburgermeister of Leipzeg, Germany. Committed suicide 18 April 1945 113.650 5.880
Karl Gebhardt "Reichsarzt-SS"; also a major general (Generalmajor) in the Waffen-SS 265894 1935 1723317
Dr. Karl Genzken Chief of Medical Office of the Waffen-SS. Involved in human experiments 207954 5 November 1933 39913
Odilo Globocnik Higher SS and Police Leader of the Adriatic Region; Head of Operation Reinhardas SSPF Lublin (Poland) 292.776 1 September 1934 442.939
Richard Glücks Inspector of Concentration Camps/Amt D WVHA 58706 1932 214805
Wilhelm Harster A 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] 225932 9 November 1933 3226594
Hans Hinkel Journalist and commissioner at the Reich Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda 9 148 1931 4.686
Otto Hofmann Head of RuSHA, 1943. SS and Police Leader Southwest Germany; Wannsee Conference participant 7646 1931 145729
Fritz Katzmann Higher SS and Police Leader in Lemberg (Lwów), Galicia and Danzig-West Prussia 3065 1 July 1930 98528
Gerhard Klopfer Born 18 February 1905. Attended Wannsee Conference 20 January 1942. Died 29 January 1987 272.227 1935 1.706.842
Wilhelm Kube General-Kommissar for Weissruthenien (now known as Belarus) 114771 1934 71682
Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper Honorary rank; Gauleiter of the NS Gau Magdeburg Anhalt 142592 6980
Georg Lörner Born 18 February 1899. Deputy Chief under Oswald Pohl of the SS-Wirtschafts-und 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. 37719 July 1932 676772
Paul Moder Senator of Altona, Hamburg; Sturmbannführer (major) in Waffen-SS; SS-und Polizeiführer {Warsaw} 11716 1 September 1931 9425
Heinrich Müller Chief of the Gestapo (Secret State Police), Amt IV (Department IV) of the RSHA; Wannsee Conference participant 107043 20 April 1934 533199
Arthur Mülverstadt SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei; Commander of 4th SS Polizei Division 292712 1331860
Werner Naumann Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft & Secretary of State in Propaganda Ministry
Arthur Nebe Chief of the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police), Amt V (Department V) of the RSHA, Einsatzgruppe B Commander (June–November 1941) 280152
Otto Ohlendorf Commander of the Inland-SD, Amt III (Department III) of the RSHA 880 28 May 1925 6531
Werner Ostendorff Dual rank as SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; Commander of 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen and 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich 257146 1 October 1935 1691488
Hermann Prieß Commander 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. 113258 1472296
Johann Rattenhuber Commander of the Reichssicherheitsdienst (RSD); (Hitler bodyguard unit) 52877 1 May 1933 3212449
Eggert Reeder Chief of the German Military Administration next to the Commander of Wehrmacht in occupied Belgium and northern France 340776 1933 1998009
Heinz Reinefarth Waffen-SS and Police General/Senior SS and Police Leader in Wartheland (former Polish Posnania) 56634 December 1932 1268933
Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig 2nd Commander of 13th Waffen SS Division 1 August 1943
Walter Schimana SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei. SSPF for Central Russia; and HSSPF for Greece; and Danube Sector 337753 1934 49402
Max Simon SS-Gruppenführer (major general) und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS

commander of the XIII SS Army Corps

83086 May 1933 1350576
Jakob Sporrenberg SS-Gruppenführer (major general) und Generalleutnant der Polizei in Minsk Russia and Lubin Poland 3809 1 October 1930 25585
Bruno Streckenbach SS-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 1977 14.713 1 September 1931 489.792
Jürgen Stroop SS and Police Leader of Warsaw; later senior SS and Police leader in Greece 44611 7 July 1932 1292297
Adolf von Bomhard Also Generalleutnant of the Ordnungspolizei; Chief of the Command Office of the Uniformed Police Main Office
Fritz von Scholz Commander of 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland 135638 1937 1304071
Baron Otto Wächter Governor of Cracow and Governor of Galicia District 235338 March 1935 301093
Dr. Richard Wendler 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. His sister was married to Gebhard Himmler, brother of Heinrich Himmler. 36050 1 April 1933 93116

Brigadeführer (major general)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Brigadeführer         (1932–1945)
Hugo von Abercron SS Major general 1933
Otto Abetz German ambassador to Vichy France; sentenced to 20 years in 1949 for war crimes; released 1954. Died 1958 253.314 1 August 1935 7.011.453
Karl Wilhelm Albert Born 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 1960 36,189 1 August 1932 1,122,215
Franz Augsberger Generalmajor der Waffen-SS-20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) 139 528 20 April 1932 360 700
Lothar Beutel Born 6 May 1902 in Leipzig. Einsatzgruppen IV commander 1939. Died 16 May 1986 in Berlin-Steglitz 2422 1930 135.238
Walther Bierkamp Born 17.12.1901 in Hamburg; SS-Brigadeführer and major of the police; SD Düsseldorf, Einsatzgruppe D, SD Krakau; suicide 15.05.1945
Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen Member of the Reichstag; chairman of the regional council (Regierungspräsident) for Stettin, and later also for Potsdam.
Dr. Hugo Blaschke Hitler's dentist. Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS 256882 2 May 1935 452082
Karl Brunner Born 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 107,161 June 1934 1,903,386
Josef Bühler Deputy governor Central Government on Kraków; attended Wannsee Conference 20 January 1942
Ernst Damzog Born 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. 36.157 15 June 1933 5.081.001
Léon Degrelle Promoted by Himmler to this rank on 2 May 1945 (unofficial)/Commander of the Waffen SS division "Wallonie" None 1 June 1943
Christoph Ludwig Diehm Born 1 March 1892. Commander of S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A.; also held rank of Generalmajor der Polizei. Died 11 February 1960 28.461 March 1932 212.531
Anton Dunckern Born 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. 3526 315601
Heinz Fanslau Born 6 June 1909. deputy chief of the WVHA, Brigadier General of the Waffen SS; in Pohl Trial sentenced to 25 years; reduced to 20 years; commuted to 15 years. died 10 March 1987 13.200 581.867
Ernst Otto Fick SS-Brigadefürer and Generalmajor der Waffen-SS 2853 124.087
Hans Fischbock Involved in Final Solution in the Netherlands; Secretary of State for economics matters next to the Reich Commissar in the Netherlands 367799
Dr. Karl Genzken Chief of Medical Office of the Waffen-SS 207954 5 November 1933 39913
Ulrich Graf A member of Hitler's bodyguards 26 8
Wilhelm von Grolman b.16 July 1894 SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei d.20 June 1985 4130 352.864
Desiderius Hampel Born 20 January 1895. SS Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Waffen SS. d 11 January 1981 468174 May 1942
Franz Hayler Born 29 August 1900 in Schwarzenfeld and died 11 September 1972 in Aschau im Chiemgau. 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. 64697 23 March 1934 754133
Eberhard Herf Born 20 March 1887. SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Polizei. executed 30 January 1946 War crimes. Cousin of SS Obergruppenführer Maximilian von Herff 411.970 9 November 1941 1.322.780
Franz Josef Huber Served as chief of the State Police (SiPo) and Gestapo for Vienna, the "Lower Danube" and "Upper Danube" regions; also a Generalmajor der Polizei 107099 4583151
Heinz Jost born 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. 36243 25 July 1934 75946
Bronislaw Kaminski Commander of Kaminski Brigade
Dr. Adolf Katz SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Waffen-SS 3199 149.075
Hans Kehrl Born 08.09.1900 Brandenburg, Amtschef (Rohstoff- und Planungsamt) im Reichsministerium für Rüstung und Kriegsproduktion. Died 26 April 1984 in Grafenau-Döffingen 276.899 13 September 1936 1.878.921
Fritz Kranefuss Head of Financial Department under Himmler 53092 964992
Hugo Kraas Born 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 1980 289.633 15. Oktober 1935 2.204.561
Christian Peder Kryssing Commander of Frikorps Danmark and SS-Kampfgruppe Kueste
Franz Kutschera SS General and Gauleiter of Carinthia. SS and Police Leader of the Poland's Warsaw district, and a Generalmajor der Polizei. 19659 1 November 1931 363031
Gustav Lombard SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Waffen-SS 185.023 May 1933 2.649.630
Kurt Meyer Waffen-SS division commander of 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. 17 559 15 October 1931 316 714
Wilhelm Mohnke Waffen-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 Berlin 15541 1 September 1931 649984
Erich Naumann SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei; commander of Einsatzgruppe B (November 1941 – March 1943) 170257
Hans Nieland Lord Mayor of Dresden 61702 33333
Danilo Novaković Protectorate of Serbia. 78 16 January 1926 57
Lukas Novaković Father of Danilo Novaković, the protectorate of Serbia during the WW2. 77 16 January 1926 56
Karl Pflaumer Interior Minister of the state of baden 62 511 1 June 1932 186 057
Karl Pflomm SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Polizei 2913 304.896
Hans Plesch SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Polizei 4339 347.695
Anton Reinthaller Brigadeführer and a member of Reichstag 292775 December 1938
Joachim Rumohr Brigadeführer und Generalmajor of the Waffen-SS 7450 1933 216161
Walter Schellenberg SD officer and second Chief of the Ausland-SD, Amt VI (Department VI) of the RSHA 124.817 10 January 1934 3.504.508
Gustav Adolf Scheel Police 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 Leader 107189 1 October 1931 391 271
Walter Schieber Born 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 1960 161.947 June 1933
August Schmidthuber CO 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. 266450 17 May 1935
Karl Eberhard Schöngarth b.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 1944 67174 1 Feb 1933 2,848,857
Walther Schröder Born. 26 November 1902. PolizeiPraesdent in Lubeck; SS and Police führer in Latvia; involved in killing of Jews in Reichskommissariat Ostland. died .31 October 1973 290.797 20 April 1938 6288
Hinrich Schuldt Awarded Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
Erwin Schulz Born 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
Hendrik Seyffardt Founder of the SS Dutch Legion
Franz Six Chief of Amt VII (Department VII) of the RSHA; charged with creation of Chief of Einsatzgruppen for England
Vorkommando of Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B
107480 1935 245679
Sylvester Stadler Born 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 1995 139,495 1933 4,159,018
Ludwig Steeg Born 22 December 1894. Mayor of Berlin Germany 1940–1945.
Died a POW 6 September 1945
127.531 1.485.884
Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz Heer panzer general 82857 1405562
Bruno Streckenbach Born 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 1977 14713 1 September 1931 489972
Otto Steinbrinck Freundeskreis der Reichsführer SS 63084 30 May 1933 2638206
Wilhelm Trabandt Colonel of 1 SS Infantry Brigade
Commander of 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Horst Wessel
218.852 May 1936 7035171
Friedrich Uebelhoer born 25 Sept 1893. Governor of the Lodz ghetto until December 1942. Disappeared 1945-fate unknown. 209059 11707
Edmund Veesenmayer Special Representative of the Reich in various South East countries. Involved in the Final Solution in Croatia, Serbia and Hungary
Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig Generalmajor der Ordnungspolizei.
Jürgen Wagner Commander of 23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland. 4th SS Polizei Division 23 692 15 June 1931 707279
Friedrich Weber Commander of the NSDAP Old Guard 265902 July 1934 15
Ernst Heinrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker Born 25 May 1882. Secretary of State Foreign Office 1938–1943. Died 4 August 1951 293.291 20 April 1938 4.814.617
Karl Maria Wiligut Section VIII (Archives) RUSHA
Himmler's Personal Staff
September 1933
Theodor Wisch SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Waffen-SS 4759 369.050
Fritz Witt First 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. 21518 1 December 1931 816769
Gustav Adolf von Wulffen Born 18 April 1878. Awarded Pour le Merite 21 April 1918. Died of Wounds 4 May 1945. 72.208 1931 495.764
Karl Arthur Zenner Born 11 June 1899. SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei. Died 16 June 1969 176 August 1926 13.539

SS Officers

Oberführer (senior colonel)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Oberführer         (1926–1945)
Humbert Achamer-Pifrader Born 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 Linz 275750 September 1935 614104
Josef Altstötter Member of Reich Ministry of Justice; member of SA # 31; tried 1947 in Judges' Trial-released 1950-died 1979 289.254 15 May 1937 5.823.836
Adolf Ax Waffen-SS commander. Chief of Staff of the Commander of the Waffen-SS in The Netherlands 1942-1944 3848 1 December 1930 378043
Hans Christoph Baier Born 4 November 1893 At Pohl Trial sentenced 10 years. Died 16 March 1969 279.458 1 August 1937 2.572.143
Werner Blankenburg born 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 1957 124744
Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock He 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 405821 2223186
Ernst Boepple SS officer and assistant to Josef Bühler, born as Erwin Hermann Lambert
Herbert Frederic Böttcher Born 29.10.1903 Stettin. 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 1950 459
Karl-Heinz Bürger SS and police leader in North Caucasus 156 309 30 January 1933 68 902
Alfred Buntru Also a hydraulic engineer and informant for the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) 1937
Prince Christoph of Hesse Born 14 May 1901. Also reserve captain at RFSS staff. Luftwaffe major. Killed in airplane accident 7 October 1943 35903 February 1933 1 498 608
or 696 176
Karl Diebitsch Artist 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. 141990 1 May 1920
November 1933.
1,436 {membership lapsed},
4,690,956 reinstated.
Rudolf Diels First commander of the Gestapo until April 1934; later Chief of the Regional Gouvernement (Regierungsprasident) of Köln 187116 April 1934 3955308
Eduard Deisenhofer Waffen-SS combat commander
Oskar Dirlewanger born 26 Sept 1895; Leader of Dirlewanger Brigade; died 7 June 1945 357267 1,098,716
Heinrich Fehlis born 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 Porsgrunn 272.255 1935 2.862.366
Arthur Frank Fuchs Killed 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 21.12.1942 21 December 1942
Wilhelm Fuchs born 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. 62.760 1 December 1932 1.038.061
Paul Otto Geibel Born 10.6.1896 Gerlach. Participated in executions of Poles and Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto ruins.Sentenced to life imprisonment by a Polish court after the war, committed suicide in the Mokotów prison in 1966
Fridolin Glass Born 1910. Commander of SS Regiment 89 before outbreak of World War II. Killed in action 1943 155.767 April 1934 440.452
PAul Heigl Born 19 April 1887.Generaldirektor der Nationalbiobliothek in Wien 1938 - 1945. Died 8 April 1945 (Suicide) 310001
Karl Höfer Oldest member of SS – born 29 December 1862 276338
Hubert Klausner Gauleiter of Carinthia
Martin Kohlroser Born 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 1967 3.149 1 December 1930 371.577
Erhard Kroeger Former leader of the National Socialist Group in Estonia. Commander of Einsatzkommando 6/Einsatzgruppe C 357243 23 October 1938 7 675 747
Johannes Georg "Hans" Lörner Born 6 March 1893. Member of WVHA and brother of Gruppenführer Georg Lörner. In 1947 sentenced to 10 years in prison-released 1951. 83.683 1 April 1933 2.541.670
Hans Loritz KZ commander Esterwegen concentration camp 4.165 1 August 1930 298.668
Emil Maurice SS Member No. 2, credited with co-founding the SS 2 February 1925 39
Konrad Meyer-Hetling Born 15 May 1901. Died 25 April 1973 74.695 20 June 1933 908.471
Hermann Muhs Born 16 May 1894. Secretary of State and Minister for Church Affairs (Minister für Kirchenfragen) in Nazi Germany. Died 13 April 1962
Georg Wilhelm Müller Born 39 December 1909. Assistant to Goebbels in the Propaganda Ministry Aka "Müller-Oslo" [Assigned to Norway]; died 30 April 1989 3.554 1930 74.380
Thomas Müller Waffen-SS combat commander
Erich Neumann Born 31 May 1892. Participant Wannsee Conference. Arrested after World War II but released because of poor health. Died 23 March 1951 222.014 August 1934 2.645.024
Friedrich Panzinger Born 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 1959 322,118. April 1937 1,017,341.
Ferdinand Porsche He 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). None 5643287
Emanuel Schafer Member of Einsatzkommando, SD, and Himmler's personal staff 280018 4659879
Julian Scherner SS and Police Leader of Kraków
Gerhard Markus Schneider SS lead agent
Julius Schreck First Reichsführer-SS 5 February 1925 53
Emil Sembach SS headquarters in Silesia killed during the Long knives night in 1934. 6.640 1 April 1932 3.575
Otto Steinhäusl Police President of Vienna and Leader of Interpol. 292773 1938
Benno von Arent Born 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 1956 1931
Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg Born 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 (Wurzburg): 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. 292 792 1 459 955
Paul Gebhard Gustav Werner Born 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 Leinfelden 290389 5 November 1937 3025030
Gustav Adolf Wiemann Waffen-SS Officer and son-in-law of SS-Oberstgruppenführer Paul Hausser 1938
Arpad Wigand SS 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. 2999 30682

Standartenführer (colonel)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Standartenführer         (1925–1945)
Humbert Achamer-Pifrader Born 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 1945 275.750 September 1935 614.104
Gunter d'Alquen Born 24 October 1910. Chief of Propaganda OKW; Editor of Das Schwarze Korps;Commander of the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers. Died 15 May 1988. 8452 1931 66.689
Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben Born 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 1953 52.195 1.313.391
Emil Augsburg In 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 1981 307,925 11 September 1938 5,518,743
Rudolf Batz Born 10 November 1903. Einsatzkommando2; KDS Cracow; Gestapo Chief Hanover Germany. Died 8 February 1961 272458 10 December 1935
Paul Blobel Born 13 August 1894. Einsatzgruppe C, Einsatzkommando 4a Commander (June 1941 – 13 January 1942). Executed 7 June 1951 29100 January 1932 844662
Ferdinand Brandner Born 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 Collani Born 13 February 1908 in Stettin, died 29 July 1944 at Narva (suicide) Waffen-SS Officer
Professor Max de Crinis Born 29 May 1889. Psychiatric director of the clinic "La charité" of Berlin. Also worked with RuSHA/Action T-4. Suicide 2 May 1945 276 171 1936 688 247
Eugen Dollmann Served as Himmler's personal representative to the Italian government and the Vatican.[8] Died 1985 289259 3 402 541
Erich Ehrlinger Born 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. Died 31 July 2004 107493 May 1935 541195
Franz Viktor Eirenschmalz Born 20 October 1901. At Pohl Trial sentenced to hang-commuted to 9 years 10.051 June 1931 644.902
Waldemar Fegelein born 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 2000
229780 2942829
Hermann Florstedt born 18 February 1895. Commandant of Majdanek Concentration Camp. Executed 15 April 1945 8660 1931 488 573
Karl Gesele born 15 August 1912. With 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS and 37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow. Died 8 April 1968 10,596 August 1931
Hans Friedemann Götze Born 3 November 1897. Son of SS Brigadeführer Friedemann Götze. Commander of SS Heimwehr Danzig KIA 3 May 1940
Herbert Richard Golz SS commander of security in occupied Montenegro 357154
Jakob Grimminger Born 25 April 1892. Member of SS-Standarte 1 and bearer of the Blutfahne. Died 28 January 1969 135 25 February 1926 759
Kurt Gruber Born 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 Hansen Born 31 July 1908. Commander of the 1st SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment in the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. Died 7 March 1990 27813 1931 478376
Heinrich Heim Born 15 June 1900; one of three compilers of Hitler's Table Talk Died 26 June 1988 1782
Gebhard Ludwig Himmler born 29 July 1898. Brother of Heinrich Himmler. Died 1982 214.049 30 January 1944 1.117.822
Peter Högl Reichssicherheitsdienst deputy commander 249998 3289992
Franz Joseph, Prince of Hohenzollern-Emden Born 1891. Expelled from SS November 1944. Died 1964. 276 691 1933 3765580
Walter Huppenkothen Born 31 December 1907. Died 5 April 1978 126785 1 May 1933 1950150
Erich Georg Heinrich Isselhorst Born 5 February 1906. An Einsatzkommando leader; Held posts within the Gestapo and SS in Cologne, Munich, Stuttgart and Strasbourg. Executed 23 February 1948 267,313 October 1934 1,269,847
Karl Jäger Commander of Einsatzkommando 3/Einsatzgruppe A. Author of the infamous Jäger Report. 62823 1932 359269
Vilis Janums Born 7 January 1894. Commander in the 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian). Died 6 August 1981
Rudolf Lange SD Commander of Latvia, Commander Einsatzkommando A-2. Wannsee Conference participant 93501 1 March 1933 1159583
Michael Lippert Killed SA leader Ernst Röhm July 1934

SS-Totenkopf Officer then Commander of the NCO School of the Waffen-SS in Arnhem (the Netherlands)

2 968 10 March 1931 246 989
Enno Lolling Concentration Camps Inspectorate; Physician with Amt D III of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt for Medical Services and Camp Hygiene, with headquarters at Oranienburg 179,765 28 August 1933 4,691,483
Josef Albert Meisinger The Butcher of Warsaw as Commander of the Security Police and SD 36134 5 March 1933 3201697
Rudolf Mildner b.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 275.741 1935 614.080
Erich Mix Born 27 June 1898 Trzcińsk. Served in World War I and World War II. Also Mayor of Settina and Wiesbaden. Died 9 April 1971 132400 1 September 1933 1.334.064
Professor Dr. Wilhelm Pfannenstiel SS physician at Bełżec and Auschwitz 273083 1934 2828629
Joachim Peiper Waffen-SS Commander of LSSAH Kampfgruppe Peiper (the unit involved in the Malmedy massacre) (branch: Panzertruppe) 132496 16 Oct 1933
Heinrich Petersen Commander of 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Horst Wessel 134.299 964.574
Ruediger Pipkorn Born 19 November 1909. 1945 commander of 35th SS and Police Grenadier Division. Killed 25 April 1945
Walther Rauff Vanghøj Born 19 June 1906. Spearheaded gas van engineering. Died 14 May 1984 290.947 January 1938 5.216.415
Alfons Rebane Born 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
Sverre Riisnæs Born 6 Nov 1897. Minister of Justice Quisling Government of Norway. Died 21 June 1988
Arthur Rödl KZ Commander -Gross-Rosen concentration camp; Buchenwald concentration camp; 1.240 1928 98.023
Rudolf Scheide Born 24 December 1908. Acquitted at Pohl Trial 2.351 1930 93.508
Max Schimmelpfennig Born 25 February 1896. Commander of SS-Unterführerschule Posen-Treskau 1 May 1943 – fall 1943. Cammander of SS- und Waffen-Unterführerschule Laibach fall 1943 – 17 February 1945. Died 12 September 1982 422.167 3.683.016
Heinrich Seetzen Born 22 June 1906. Died 28 September 1945 (suicide) 267,231 1 February 1935 2,732,725
Wolfram Sievers Born 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
275325 1935 144983
Josef Spacil Born 3 January 1907. SS economist at the Higher SS and Police Leader office for southern Russia. Chief of Section II RSHA. Died 8 June 1967 6797 10 April 1931 1,200,941
Günther Tamaschke Born 26 February 1896. Commandant of the Lichtenburg and Ravensbrück concentration camps. Died 14 October 1959 851 1927 36,978
Hilmar Wäckerle First commandant of Dachau concentration camp 9.729 1 March 1931 530.715
Ernst Woermann Born 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 Zander Born 22 April 1911. Was an adjutant to Martin Bormann. Died 27 September 1974. 27789 552659

Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Obersturmbannführer         (1933–1945)
Fritz Arlt Born 12 April 1912. Died 21 April 2004 1.376.685
Georg Betz Born 15 June 1903. SS officer who served as Adolf Hitler's personal co-pilot and Hans Baur's substitute.
Died 2 May 1945
625419 1932
Helmut Bischoff Gestapo chief of Poznań and Magdeburg; director of security for the V-weapons program 272403 November, 1935 203122
Johannes Karl Bernhard Bobermin Born 1 October 1903 At Pohl trial sentenced to 20 years-reduced to 15 years.Died February 1960 139.845 September 1933 2.633.234
Dr. Otto Bradfisch Einsatzgruppe B, Einsatzkommando 8 commander (June 1941 – 1 April 1942) 310810 26 September 1938 405869
Werner Braune Commanded Einsatzkommando 11b/Einsatzgruppe Special Purpose Unit D. 107,364 November 1934 581,277
Fritz Darges Born 8 February 1913. With 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich and 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
Died 25 October 2009
72.222 1 April 1933 4.166.936
Léon Degrelle Born 15 June 1906. Belgian Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander. Died 31 March 1994 None 1 June 1943 None
Fritz Dietrich Born 6 August 1898. SS police chief (SS und PolizeiStandortführer ) in Liepāja (German:Libau), Latvia. Postwar tried and executed 22 October 1948 280034 May 1936 2674343
Adolf Eichmann Born 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 1962 45326 1 April 1932 889895
Alfred Karl Wilhelm Filbert Born 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 Fleischhacker Born 10 March 1912. SS-Rasse- und SiedlungshauptamtDied 30 January 1992 307399 1940 7501920
Bruno Gesche 4th Commander of the SS-Begleitkommando des Führers 1934–1945 1093 1927 8592
Werner Göttsch Born 23. October 1912 in Kiel; d 2. May 1983 in Kiel 10.238 15 March 1931 459,389
Fritz Hartjenstein Commandant at Birkenau, Natzweiler concentration camp, Flossenbürg
Karl Hass born 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 2004 117557
Werner Haase Born 2 August 1900. Hitler's Personal physician. Died 30 November 1950 while a POW of USSR 254.097 1 April 1941 3.081.672
Georg Ritter von Hengl Born 21 October 1897. Commander XIX Mountain Corps. Died 19 March 1952 1 July 1934
Georg Albert Wilhelm Heuser Born 27 February 1913; Chief of the KDS [Gestapo] Minsk. Died 30 January 1989
Fritz Hippler Film producer of The Eternal Jew 284122 10 April 1937 62133
Wilhelm Höttl RSHA
Head of Counter Intelligence for Central and Southeastern Europe; second in command to Himmler's representative in Hungary
309510 1938 6309616
Rudolf Höß Commander of Auschwitz concentration camp 193616 20 September 1933 3240
Maximilian Viktor Jesuiter Born Szczecin;executed by the Soviets in Minsk (Bielorussia) on 06 II 1948 1932
Kurt Georg Jurgschait Head of security in Grini detention camp at Norway
Dr. Ernest Marcel Kah born Baden-Baden Germany; became NSDAP member 1 Sept 1932 290543 1 August 1937 1298873
Vinzenz Kaiser Born 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 1945 17127 10 October 1931 54828
Herbert Kappler Born 23 September 1907. Commander of SS and Police Forces in Rome, Italy. In prison from 1948 until escape 1977; died 9 February 1978 55211 8 May 1933 594899
Erich Kempka Born 16 September 1910. Hitler's chauffeur and an original member of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers. Died 24 January 1975 2803 1 April 1930 225639
Max Kiefer Born 15 September 1889, served as SS officer. At Pohl Trial sentenced to life-commuted to 20 years. died 21 February 1974
Horst Klein Born 27 February 1910. Acquitted Pohl trial 114.488 April 1933 2.167.516
Max Koegel Section Commander at Auschwitz 1254463 4 March 1936 215.123
Johannes König SS-RSHA. 452.432
Dr. Eduard Krebsbach Born 8 August 1894; served 1940 in 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf; stationed at KZ Mauthuasen and KZ Kaiserwald; executed for war crimes 28 May 1947 106 821 1933 4 142 556
Bodo Lafferentz On 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". 347155 17 February 1939 2594441
Arthur Liebehenschel Commandant 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. 29254 1 February 1932 932760
Heinz Linge Born 23 March 1913. Hitler's valet 1935–1945. Died 9 March 1980 35795 1932 1.260.490
Kurt Lischka Born 16 August 1909. Tried 1979 with Herbert Hagen and Erich Heinrichsohn. Died 16 May 1989 195590 1 June 1933
Knud Børge Martinsen Commander of Frikorps Danmark
Gerhard Kurt Maywald Born 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 Mere Born 22 February 1903; Died 5 April 1969
Brunon Müller-Altenau Born 13 September 1905.Gestapo and Einsatzkommando Ek2. Tried 1947 sentenced to 20 years; released 1952.Died 1 March 1960
Kunz Andreas Emil Karl Mummenthey Born 11 July 1906 At Pohl Trial sentenced to Life-commuted to 20 years. Released 18 December 1953 221.079 1934 4.302.359
Gustav Adolf Nosske Head of Aachen Gestapo in 1935 and head of Frankfort Gestapo 1936–1941. Head of Einsatzkommando 12 from 1941–1942. 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
Hermann Pook Born 1 May 1901 Obersturmbannführer of the Waffen SS, chief dentist of the WVHA. At Pohl Trial-sentenced to 10 years. Reported to have died 1983 155.870 1 June 1933 2.045.1140
Karl Rabe Born 11.06.1905; Muehlhausen. Became member of NSDAP 1 June 1930 54628 1 June 1932 259544
Karl Rasche Head of Dresdner Bank; sentenced 1949 in Ministries Trial to served 7 years; released 1950-died 1951 323.879 May 1939 2.207.508
Harald Riipalu Born 13 February 1912. Estonian member of the SS. Died 4 April 1961
Franz Schädle Last commander of Hitler's personal bodyguard unit, (SS-Begleitkommando des Führers) 2605 1 February 1930 73.203
Hermann Schaper Born 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. 3484 105606
Dr. Otto Furrer Born 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 1935 3500544
Heinz Schubert Born 27 August 1914. Defendant in Einsatzgruppen Trial sentenced to death-commuted to 10 years. Died 17 August 1987 107326 10 October 1934 3474350
Richard Schulze b.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), die unter anderem nach entflohenen Kriegsgefangenen fahndete und hatte zudem die Funktion eines Verbindungsführers des RSHA zum Chef des Kriegsgefangenenwesens inne. d.29 Dec 1969 1938 4.705.801
Richard Schulze
A.k.a. Richard Schulze-Kossens
Commander of SS Officers School Bad Tölz, Bavaria November 1934 264.059
Johann Schwarzhuber b.29 August 1904. Connected with KZ Dachau and KZ Auschwitz. Executed 3 May 1947 142.388 8 April 1933 1.929.969
Ilya Shavykin Executed with Bronislav Kaminski 28.08.1944
Marko Jesper Matošević Croat. 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. 802001 1 August 1937
Eduard Strauch Born 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 19.312 December 1931 623.392
Dr. Ludwig Stumpfegger 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. 83.668 2 June 1933 3.616.119
Christian Frederik von Schalburg Commander of Frikorps Danmark
Heinz Tensfeld Born 11 May 1919.SS-Hstuf and Chef,8./Pz.Rgt.2 in Nov 1943. Killed 16 Nov 1943 at Gralimki 400139
Anton Thernes Born 8 February 1892. Commandant of KZ Majdanek. Executed 3 December 1944
Martin Gottfried Weiss Born 3 June 1905 Weiden in der Oberpfalz. Commandant at Neuengamme concentration camp and in 1945 Dachau concentration camp. Executed 29 May 1946 Landsberg Germany 31147 43136
Eduard Weiter Born: 18 July 1889 in Eschwege near Kassel in Germany. Servedin 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 1945 276877 October 1936 3.958.951
Max Wielen Oberregierungs- 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 1952 128841 1759395

Sturmbannführer (major)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Sturmbannführer         (1921–1945)
Gustav Abb SS major and Head of central administration of libraries in Poland July 1940
Hans Aumeier Deputy Commandant KZ Auschwitz 2.700 August 1929 164.755
Richard Baer Commander at KZ Auschwitz I 44225 1932 454991
Rudolf Batz Born 10 November 1903. Leader of Einsatzkommando 2; KdS (Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei) in Cracow and shortly after that became the head of the Gestapo in Hannover. Committed suicide after 1961 arrest. 272458 10 December 1935 2955
Ernst Biberstein Commander 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.
272962 13 September 1936 40718
Friedrich Boßhammer Born 20 December 1906. Associate of Adolf Eichmann; deported Jews from Italy. Tried for war crimes in 1968. Died in custody 17 December 1972 307.435 1 October 1937 2.326.130
Karl Bömelburg Gestapo leader in France 35898 1931 892239
Hermann Otto Bundtke Born 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 war 323.311 1 May 1939 3.471.565
Anton Burger Commandant of Theresienstadt concentration camp
Joseph Darnand French Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander
Erich Deppner Born 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 2005 177 571 1 254 844
Adolf Diekmann Born 18 December 1914. Involved in Oradour-sur-Glane massacre. KIA 29 June 1944
Josef Hugo Dischner Commandant of KZ Westerbork
Walter Drexler Awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 239247 March 1938
Otto Förschner KZ Commandant 191.554 5 274 260
Yuri Igor Frolov Member of S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A.
Dr. Helmut Hugo Glaser Born 27 September 1910 in Gmuend, Austria. Joined NSDAP 8 May 1931 301760 10 OCt 1930 444132
Kurt Andreas Graaf Born 8 January 1909. Member of SD-section III. Died 2 September 1972 36.179 27 July 1932 183.351
Dr. Herbert Grohmann Born 13 September 1908 in Breslau {Wroclaw}. A doctor of Waffen-SS and became a member of NSDAP 1 June 1931 51663 18 January 1932 544053
Adam Grünewald Commandant of Herzogenbusch concentration camp 1934
Hans Günther Adolf Eichmann deputy. Brother of Rolf Günther 290.129 1937 119.925
Rolf Günther Adolf Eichmann deputy. Brother of Hans Günther 290.130 1937 472.421
Bernard Harald Haase Born 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 Hamann Born 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 1945 314267 958322
Ernst Hermann Himmler Born 23 December 1905. Brother of Heinrich Himmler. Killed in Battle of Berlin May 1945 1933 676777
Wilhelm Höttl Served as political advisor to Edmund Veesenmayer, German plenipotentiary in Hungary during 1944. Hoettl testified for the defense at the Nuremberg trials.[8] 309510 6309616
Hermann Höfle Deputy head of the Aktion Reinhard programme. Postwar member of Gehlen Organization 307469
Axel Holst Born 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 1935 185012
Hans Hüttig born 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 Jankuhn Member of Ahnenerbe
Max Joseph Jesuiter Born 1897. Stabsführer der SSPF Warschau; as Chief of Staff cosigned Stroop Report 19 April 1943 – 9 May 1943. Died 1972
Helmut Kämpfe SS Officer captured by the French Resistance, which led to Oradour sur Glane massacre 124.465 2.387.476
Karl-Heinz Keitel Kavallerie-Regiment Nord; 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Maria Theresia; 37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow
Hans Josef Kieffer Deputy Gestapo leader in France 280104 2632427
Ludwig Kepplinger Waffen-SS sergeant
Wilhelm Kment Commander, 1st Company, 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich
Decorated personally by Himmler
167103 Prior to 1935 4262124
Werner Knab Gestapo chief in Norway
Commander of the Security Police in Lyon, France
191584 1935 3269940
Horst Kopkow Born 29 November 1910 Ortelsburg East Prussia. Counterintelligence against Spy rings whuch 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. 46034 1931 607161
Hans Kraus born 6.01.1904 Riga Latvia. SS major 357289 1 June 1940
Bernhard Krüger Born 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 Kunz Dentist and head of Waffen SS medical Office 284787 1936 5104323
Dr. Rudolf Lange Einsatzgruppe A, Einsatzkommando 2 Commander (3 December 1941 – 1944) 290308 1936
Hans Latza HSSP Norway 129260 2180945
Ernst Lerch Chief of Odilo Globočnik's office during Operation Reinhard, later as Stabsführer then Sturmbannführer 309,700 1 March 1934 1,327,396
Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling Born 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[9] SS-Sturmbannführer: 30.01.1941[10] Provided affidavit in 1947 to exonerate war criminal Viktor Brack at the Nuremberg trials.[11] 56074 April 1933 1726624
Georg Konrad Morgen SS judge and lawyer
Alfred Naujocks Born 20 September 1911 An SD commander, leader of the Gleiwitz incident. died 4 April 1966 624279 1930 or 1931 26246
Alexander Bernhard Hans Piorkowski Born 11 October 1904. Commandant of KZ Dachau. Executed 22 October 1948. 8,737 1 June 1933 161,437
Dr. Kurt Plötner Born 19 October 1905. Involved in Human Experiments. Postwar recruited by the CIA. Died 26 February 1984.
Paul Otto Radomski born 21 September 1902. Commandant of the Syrets concentration camp and Haidari concentration camp. Relieved of command in 1944. Reported died 14 March 1945 2.235 96.942
Karl Rahm Commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp
Walter Reder born 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 Ruckdeschel Born 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 1986 234.190 20 Oct 1934
August Schiffer Tried and executed 26 July 1946 in killing US Soldier Roderick Stephen Hall and murders of six other Allied soldiers
Johannes Claus Schmidt Born 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 Schmitt Commandant of the concentration camp Fort Breendonk and the SS-Sammellager Mecheln 44291 March 1932 19192
Joseph Tobias Schreieder Born 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 Schumann SS major and physician involved in human Experiments 190.002
Otto Skorzeny Waffen SS/RSHA commando leader 295979
Karl Julian Sommer Born 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
Walter Hugo Stamm Born 1904. Connected with the SD and Section IV {Gestapo} Warsaw. Died 1970 291041 3472486
Karl Streibel Specialist Officer attached to Staff Oberabschnitt Ost as referent zbz in Arbeitsstab der Allgemeine SS Lublin; duty as leiter der Ausbildungslager Trawinki in stab SSPF Lublin 60152 554023
Dr. Carl Værnet SS major; physician involved in human experiments
Wernher von Braun Born 23 March 1912. Allgemeine-SS battalion officer (also SS Horseriding Club). Involved with slave labor in V-2 Program. Died 16 June 1977 185068 1940 5,738,692
Hans-Georg von Charpentier Born 16 July 1902. Awarded Knights Cross of the Iron Cross. KIA 9 March 1945 258019 May 1935 1375222
Johann von Leers SS Officer and Propagandist
Dr. Albert Widmann Born 8 June 1912. Chemist involved in Action T4 killings and human experiments. Arrested 1959-served 6 years 6 months. Died 24 December 1986 351098 December 1939 5454700
Christian Wirth Commandant of Bełżec extermination camp 345.464 April 1939 420.383
Dr. Eduard Wirths Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarztat) at the KZ Auschwitz 311.594 1934
Herbert Klaus Wölk Born 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 02.08.1957 15.429 278.643
Carltheo Zeitschel Born 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 Zill Born 28 March 1906 Plauen. Kommandant of Natzweiler-Struthof and Flossenbürg concentration camps. In 1955 sentenced to Life inprisoment later reduced to 15 years. Died 23 October 1974 Dachau, Germany 535 1 August 1926 20.063

Hauptsturmführer (captain)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Hauptsturmführer         (1928–1945)
Franz Abromeit Born 08.08.1907, RSHA. Died 30.06.1964. 272353 329305
Walter Albers Born 06.08.1905. Sipo Amsterdam, sentenced to 12 years imprisonment 08.11.1949 in Amsterdam (released 22.12.1952)
Siegfried Assmuss Date 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. [A Officer of the Ukrainian Legion was Lt. Michael Karkoc(1919-2019)] 49 786 721 802
Klaus Barbie Head of the Gestapo in Lyon, France 272 284 26 September 1935 4.583.085.
Dr. Bruno Beger Racial anthropologist who worked for the Ahnenerbe.
Peter Bell Reported to have been killed in Holland on orders of superior Karl Eberhard Schongarth
Wolfgang Birkner KdS Warschau (Komandeur der Sicherheitspolizei); Kommando SS Bialystok 265.793 3,601,309
Hans Carl Christian Blumenthal Born 1909 in Bremen. Sipo Amsterdam (III),. sentenced to 7 years imprisonment 25.11.1949 in Amsterdam (released 16.02.1951) died 1987
Joachim Boosfeld SS Obersturmführer 362.256 1939
Alois Brunner Born 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. 342767 10 August 1939 510 064
Karl Chmielewski the "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 Imprisonment 63935 1932 1508254
Douglas Berneville-Claye British impostor/forger; member of Staff of III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps
Theodor Dannecker born 27.03.1913 in Tübingen;, SD Belgium, Sonderkommando Eichmann in Sofia and Hungary;-suicide 10.12.1945 in Bad Tölz
Heinz Drescher Kriminalrat der Polizei, Head of Central fingerprint collection with RKPA within RSHA 290306 9.11.1938
Dr. Hans Kurt Eisle Born 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, Egypt 237,421 1933 3,125,695
Rolf Engel Born 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 1993 1933
Siegfried Wolfgang Fehmer SD/Gestapo/Kriminalrat, a police investigator, and headed the infamous Abteilung IV headquartered in Victoria Terrasse, Norway 290166 181345
Henk Feldmeijer Born 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 Fenet Born 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 Fiebig Born 22 September 1909.
Dr. Horst Fischer Born 31 December 1912. Doctor at KZ Auschwitz. Executed in East Germany 8 July 1966 293.397 1 November 1933 5.370.071
Hermann Florstedt Born 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 1945 8.660 May 1931 488.573
Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Born 22 April 1910. Aide to Werner Best. Also served in SS Panzer Corps. Died 31 July 2001 May 1931
Karl Fritzsch Born 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 war 7287 1930 261135
Paul Fuchs Chief 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[12]
Wilhelm Gerstenmeier Born 1908. Involved in Harvest Festival massacre of Jews. Executed 3 December 1944 for war crimes. 13300
Franz Goering Served as assistant to Walter Schellenberg from 1944.[8]
Amon Göth Commander of the Plaszow concentration camp 43673 1930 510764
Viktor Eberhard Gräbner 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen. Awarded the Knight's Cross. KIA during Operation Market Garden, 1944 247812
Heinrich Hamann Born 1 September 1908 in Bordesholm. Untersturmführer: 30 January 1937. Ostuf: 12 March 1938. Chief of Grenzpolizeikommisariat Neu Sandez: December 1939 – 12 Augsut 1943. Promoted to Kriminalkommissar in January 1940. Chief of GPK in Jaslo: 12 Augsut 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 16.04.1993 33 531 1931
Oscar Hans Employee 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. 101662 1933
Karl Hass SD member. Participant in the Ardeatine Caves massacre 1934
Walter Hauck Born 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 Hering In Action T4 and later served as the second and last Commandant of Bełżec extermination camp during Operation Reinhard
Dr. Kurt Heissmeyer Doctor involved in "experiments" on Jewish children at Bullenhuser Damm
Dr. August Hirt Had Jews gassed for their skeletons 100.414 1 April 1933
Franz Hoessler K-Z Auschwitz; KZ Bergen Belsen 41.940 1931 1.374.713
Wilhelm Gottlieb Hohmann Born 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 Hoven K-Z Buchenwald physician 244.594 1934
Heinz Kessler[13] SS officer 193182
Karl Kloskowski Served in 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich and SS Brigade Westfalen 1936
Franz Konrad Acquisitions officer Warsaw Ghetto 46204 January 1933 1085499
Max Hermann Richard Krahner 1968 sentenced to Life in prison for being a German Overseer of Jewish Sonderkommando 1005
Waldemar Kraft Held Honorary rank in the SS
Josef Kramer Commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; involved with Dr. August Hirt in killing of Jews in 1943 32.217 20 June 1932 753.597
Karl Wilhelm Krause Born 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 2001 236 858
Hans Kruger Born 1909.Arrested 1959 war crimes; tried 1965–1967; sentenced 1968 to life in prison. Released 1986; died 1988
Henri Lafont Head of the French Gestapo
Ewald Lindloff born 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 1945 1 May 1932
Maximilian List Commandant of Lager Sylt and Lager Norderney labour camps on Alderney
Heinz Macher Leader of the SS group ordered to blow up the castle Wewelsburg
Dr. Josef Mengele Born 16 March 1911. Medical officer at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Involved with human experiments.
Died 7 February 1979
317885 May 1938 5574974
Georg Simon Michaelson born.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. 29337 103613
Erich Priebke SD and Sicherheitspolizei commander in Rome, Italy
Sigmund Rascher German SS doctor, who carried out deadly experiments on humans in the Nazi concentration camp of Dachau 1939
Franz Karl Reichleitner Second and last Commandant of Sobibor extermination camp 357065 6369213
Eduard Roschmann Born 25 November 1908. Commandant of the Riga Ghetto; Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und SD IV = Department 4 (Gestapo). Lived in Argentina; Died 8 August 1977 Paraguay 152681 1938
Bernd Rosemeyer Born 14 October 1909. Stab des SS-Hauptamt; professional race-car driver killed car accident 1 January 1938 214952 1. January 1936
Arthur Rudolph[13] Rocket engineer and one of developers of V-2 program 193418
Hermann Schaper Kommando SS Zichenau-Schröttersburg 3484 105606
Dr. Heinrich Schmidt Born 27 March 1912. SS Physician involved with six KZ Camps. Twice tried for warcCrimes-and acquitted.
Died 28 November 2000
23069 1937 555,294
Wilhelm Schröder[14] NSDAP official, first lieutenant of Waffen-SS and a member of Sturmabteilung 177382
Günther Schwägermann Adjutant to Dr. Joseph Goebbels. 312.231
Heinrich Schwarz Administrative aide to Rudolf Höß. Commandant of Auschwitz III-Monowitz 1943–1945. Commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof 1945
Siegfried Seidl Born 24 August 1911. Commandant of Theresienstadt concentration camp. Executed 4 February 1947 46.106 1932 300.378
Franz Stangl Born 26 March 1908 Commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps;died in prison 28 June 1971 296,569 March 1938 6,370,447
Erich Steidtmann Born 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 Streibel born 11 October 1903 Bavaria. Commander of Trawniki concentration camp. Reportedly died 1986. 1933
Max Teichmann[14] SS officer 177718 1977669
Richard Thomalla SS commander; Head of SS central building administration; Lead architect of Operation Reinhard camps 41.206 1932 1.238.872
Eduard Paul Tratz Zoologist and officer in the Ahnenerbe
Leo Klaus Volk Born 2 May 1909. Adjutant for Oswald Pohl. Died 1973 219.415 November 1933 2.639.413
Otto Albrecht Alfred von Bolschwing born 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, California 353.603 1933 984.212
Rudolf von Ribbentrop Waffen-SS Officer (branch: Panzertruppe)
Fritz Ritterbusch Dob 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. 9.107 1931 6.317
Walter Oscar Wache Born 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 Africa 80401 1932 1300059
Bernhard Wehner Born 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 1995 414.073 1942 518.544
Hermann Weiser Waffen-SS captain and recipient of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 351242
Paul Werner Born 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 Wiesmann Born 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]
Michael Wittmann Born 22 April 1914. Waffen-SS Panzer ace with the LSSAH (branch: Panzertruppe) KIA 8 August 1944 311623 October 1936
Hans Woellke Commander of Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118. Killed in combat on 22 March 1943

Obersturmführer (first lieutenant)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Obersturmführer         (1932–1945)
Heinz Barth Born 15 October 1920. Involved in Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of 1944. Arrested 1981; tried 1983 sentenced to life; released 1997. Died 14 August 2007 458037 10 February 1943 7844901
August Blei Born 26 August 1893. KZ Mauthaushen. Tried Dachau Trials. Executed 28 May 1947. 454747
Johannes Alfred BÖHM Born 17 II 1912 chief of Referat IV B (Kirchen, Konfessionen und Sekten) KdS Warschau was SS-Obersturmführer und Kriminalkommissar died Dresden – 1999.
Arnold Büscher Born 16 December 1899. The second and last commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, succeeding Amon Göth, from September 1944 until about January 1945. Executed 2 August 1949 11382 1931 556.757
Rolf Czurda SD officer in Poland; portrayed in the film Schindler's List 359504 1940(?)
Heinrich "Heinz" Georg Alfred Detmers Born 10 April 1919. Adjutant of KZ Dachau. Died 8 June 1999. 309.930 5.545.920
Julius Dettmann Born 23 January 1894 SD Officer and member of Section IV B4 of the Gestapo in Amsterdam Netherlands. Captured. Suicide 25 July 1945 414,783 722,240
Dr. Irmfried Eberl Born 8 September 1910. Involved in T-4 Euthanasia Program and K-Z Treblinka. Suicide 16 February 1948 687095
Paul Egger Luftwaffe pilot and 102nd SS Heavy Panzer Battalion
Friedrich August Enkelstroth Born 18.11.1906 in Twistringen. Sipo Arnhem, SS-Obersturmführer. sentenced to 12 years imprisonment 12.04.1949 in 's-Hertogenbosch (released 28.08.1951). died 27.10.1955 in Hamburg
Willy Lucas Falkenberg Member of SD-section III
Heinz Felfe Born 18.03.1918. SD Switzerland and Netherlands; postwar KGB spy in British Intelligence and the CIA-sponsored Gehlen Organization. Exposed 06.11.1961 and tried 1963; sentenced to 14 years but exchanged in 1969 for 3 German Students. Died 08.05.2008 286288 1936 3710348
Hans Fleischhacker born 10.03.1912 Töttleben. Erfurt. Involved with SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt. In 1948 designated a Mitläufer. case brought against him for involvement in KZ Auschwitz in 1970-but dismissed in 1971 on grounds of "insufficient evidence". Died 30 January 1992 1937
Albert Konrad Gemmeker Born 27 September 1907. Commandant of KZ Westerbork. Postwar sentenced to 10 years in prison; released 1951. Died 1982 1 November 1940
Kurt Gerstein Born 11.08.1905. Munster, Westphalia.Germany. Member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS and author of the Gerstein Report. Died 25.07.1945 while a POW 417.460 10 March 1941 2.136.174
Werner Theodor Göttsch Born 23 October 1912. Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III. Died 2 May 1983. 10.238 15 March 1931 459.389
Willy Gerhard Hack Born. 26 March 1912. {SS-Oberscharführer} in SS-Panzer-Pionier-Battalion 3: Feb. 1942;SS-Obersturmführer in SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt: Jan. 1945; in charge of construction site Schwalde V. {Jewish-American POWS were held here}. Hanged 26 July 1952, Dresden. 70329
Karl-Friedrich Höcker Born 11 December 1911. Adjutant at KZ Auschwitz. From 1965–1970 in prison; 1989 sentenced to four years. Died 30 January 2000 182.961 October 1933 4.444.757
Arno Bernhard Huhn Born 28.08.1911 in Potsdam. Sipo Arnhem, SS-Obersturmführer. sentenced to 17 years imprisonment 20.10.1948 in Arnhem (released 10.05.1954)
Herbert Junk SS airfield security guard in France
Dr. Johann Paul Kremer Born December 26, 1883. SS doctor at Auschwitz; involved in Human experiments; tried 1947 Auschwitz trial death sentence cummuted to life in prison; released 1958; died 1965 262703 1934 1265405
Aleksander Laak Born 1907. Lt in the Estonian Security Police and the SD. Commander of Jägala concentration camp. Died on 6 September 1960 Canada.
Bruno Lohse Born 17 September 1911. Goering's Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce in Paris. Died 19 March 2007 1933
Dr. Franz Lucas Born 15 September 1911, in Osnabrück, Germany.Assigned to KZ Auschwitz. died 7 December 1994, in Elmshorn, Germany. 350030 15 November 1937
Gottfried Meir Involved in killing of Ettore Ovazza family 11 October 1944, Meir was charged in 1954 in Klagenfurt but found not guilty. He was however convicted in absentia by a military court in Turin in 1955 and sentenced for life but never extradited.
Ernst Misselwitz He became a trusted agent of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), and led numerous operations against the French Resistance. Ernst Misselwitz ran the interrogation and torture chamber in Paris Gestapo HQ. Before working Paris Misselwitz worked shorty in the Gestapo HQ in Lyon. With the Liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944, Misselwitz fled to Germany. In October 1945, the 36-year old Misselwitz reported to the French security services. Misselwitz was arrested and imprisoned for a short time, and offered to be a spy among the inmates, starting in early 1946. In 1952 Misselwitz was convicted in a Paris court In absentia, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment for the torture of Brossolett, but was never found or arrested, as after his release he became a secret agent for the French special services.
Heinz Müller[13] Born 27 July 1915 193096
Rudolf Neugebauer Born 21.12.1912.Usf 12.3.38 with SDHA 1938; 1941, promotion to KK of KK z.Pr. Neugebauer, Stapo Darmstadt. BBL 14/41; head of the Vilnius Gestapo 2–42 till 10–43; shot and killed Jacob Gens 14 September 1943;1945, SS-Hstuf KK Rolf Neugebauer, Stapo Darmstadt, "abgeordnet zum Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) Ungarn", awarded KVK I m.S. BBL 4/45 266047 1086615
Josef Oberhauser Born 21 January 1915. Served in SS Guard Detachment at KZ Belzec. Postwar 1948 sentenced to 15 years in prison and 10 years deprivation of civil rights; given amnesty and released 1956. 1964 sentenced to 4.5 years in prison-released after serving half his sentence. Died 22 November 1979. 288.121 November 1935
Karlis Ozols Born 1912. Commanded a Latvian/SD murder commando in Minsk Ghetto and Ghettos of Slutzk and Riga Ghetto. In August 1943 commanded 4th Company of the 282-A. Schutzmannschaft Battalion in Rīga. Transferred to the Lettische Freiwilligen Polizei Regiment 2 as the III Battalion on 4 February 1944 of the Latvian Legion. Died 2001 in Australia
Friedrich Peter Member of an Einstatzgruppe. Leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) 1938
Richard Reinhard Ferdinand Pruchtnow Born 8 April 1892. Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III. Died 22 June 1943 27.487 November 1931 531.273
Franz Rademacher Born 20 February 1906. German Foreign Office official involved in the Shoah. Died 17 March 1973
Pio Filippani Ronconi Born 10 March 1910. Volunteer for the Waffen SS. Died 11 February 2010
Johann Schwarzhuber Born 29 August 1904. KZ Auschwitz and KZ Ravensbruck. Tried and executed 3 May 1947 142.388 5 May 1933 1.929.969
Walter Sohst Born 23 February 1898. Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III. Died 14 November 1964 36.087 1 September 1932 1.090.541
Hans Sommer (SS officer) Born 26 June 1914. Worked with Police in France. GDR agent after the war, as a Stasi agent planted into the post-war Gehlen Organization. 119 157 1 December 1932 1442457
Hans Stern Served in 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland and SS Brigade Westfalen
Arnold Strippel Born 6 February 1911 Unhausen. b. III Wachtruppe Sachsen: 1 June 1934 – 1938. b. 3 SS-TSta Thuringen: 1938–1941. 1941–1942 Stabsscharführer at Natzweiler commandant's office. Feldführer / KZ Lublin u. 2 Lagerführer: June 1942 – 5 July 1943. KZ Ravensbrück: 7.1943. Lagerführer KZ Herzogenbusch: 7.43–10.44. KZ Neuengamme: 10.44–5.45. {also involved with KZ Auschwitz; Sachsenburg; Buchenwald; Majanek} Involved in Bullenhuser Damm killings in 1945. Frankfurt Sentence 21x lebenslange Haft + 10 Jahre Haft 1.6.1949; released 21.4.1969. Frankfurt Sentence to the same sentence before + 121'500 Mark Busse 8.1969. Majdanek 3 Sentence 3 Jhr. + 3 Mte. Haft 30.6.1981. Died 1995 in Frankfurt-Kalbach 236290 4334442
Anton Thumann Schutzhaftlagerführung Gross-Rosen concentration camp Neuengamme concentration camp 24.444 1.726.633
Hans Tidow SS-Obersturmführer der Waffen-SS 3087 124.424
Walter Trautwein Born 21 November 1910 Mannheim; SA member 1929–1934; Served with Kripo (former mechanic);Commissioned SS-Ustuf. on 20 Apr.1938;DAL Dec.1938=SD-Hauptamt;Promoted SS-Ostuf. 20 Apr.1939; Einsatzkommando B – in Poland Sep. 1939;Promoted on 20 Apr. 1940;RSHA Sipo Trier. Vermisst 1 Oct. 1944 Wloszczowa 107112 210651
Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald Former SS-Oberabschnittsreiterführer {regional SS Cavalry leader; reported killed by SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski during Night of the Long Knives in 1934
Norbert Berghe von Trips Born 18.1.1912 Graz, Referat IV D (Ausgewanderters, zak³adnicy.) Participated in executions of Poles and Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto ruins.
Paul Werner born 12.10.1895.Usf 20.4.35 Osf 11.9.38 attached to Stammabteilung bezirk 16 45847 1434282
Walter Witossek Born 03.02.1901 in Dresden.KdS Warschau. Participated in executions of Poles and Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto ruins.died in hospital in Wroclaw
Friedrich Wolffhardt Born 7 December 1899. In April 1941, he was commissioned on the proposal of Martin Bormann, who was friends with him, to set up a library within the framework of the "Guide Library" (Sonderauftrag) of Linz.[He was also associated with Professor Hans Posse). He headed the collection point for the library as part of the party law firm in Munich's leader building. The collection point was moved in August 1943 to the former Villa of Camillo Castiglioni to Grundlsee near Bad Aussee, which stored books 1944/45 in the Salt mine Altaussee. On 21 February 1945, he was called to war service at his own request and has been missing since 1945.

Untersturmführer (second lieutenant)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Untersturmführer         (1921–1945)
Woldemar Amelung Born 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. 357294 01.02.1940 8537705
Heinrich Andergassen Born 30 July 1908. Tried and executed 26 July 1946 in killing US Soldier Roderick Stephen Hall and murders of six other Allied soldiers
Kort Paul Hans Bläse Born 26.05.1900. Sipo Rotterdam. sentenced to 20 years imprisonment 28.03.1949 in Den Haag. released 29.03.1956
Herbert Böttcher Born 5.6.1913 Gunsdorf 8.134
Wilhelm Boger Born 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-Bissingen 2779 1930 153652
Dr. Karl Brandt[13] Born 8 January 1904. Promoted 20 April 1939. Postwar tried for war crimes and executed 2 June 1948 193764
Georg Kruger Born 05 XI 1898 Karlowitz/Karłowice. SS-Untersturmführer und Kriminalobersekretär; head of Unter Referat IV B4 (Judenangelegenheiten). [Warsaw]. Died 16 II 1945 Poznań]
Dr. Heinz Brücher Born 14 January 1915. member of SS Ahnenerbe; Botanist. Died 17 December 1991 3498152
Prince Christoph of Hesse Reserve captain at RFSS staff. Luftwaffe major 35903 1498608
or 696176
Paul Dickopf Born 9 June 1910. Wartime member of SD. Postwar president of Interpol. Died 19 September 1973 337259 1937
Kurt Hermann August Döring Sipo Amsterdam (IV A and IV B), Kriminalobersekretär, SS-Untersturmführer. sentenced to 3 years imprisonment 01.07.1949 in Amsterdam (released 23.08.1950)
Dr. Hermann Gauch Born 6 May 1899. Nazi Race theorist Died 7 November 1978 222.175 1934 9.538 (1922)
3.474.227 (1934)
Kurt Gildisch Born 2 March 1904. 3rd commander of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers 1933–1934. Died 3 March 1956 13.138 29 September 1931 690.762
Maximilian Grabner Born 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 1948 September 1938 1214137
Richard Gutkaes Member of SD-section III
Rudolf Hassel head Sipo Amsterdam (department IV-B4);Kriminalsekretär. Reported arrested in the Netherlands
Ludwig Heinemann Born 03/01/1911. Promoted to SS-Untersturmführer on 12-09-1937 44.482 67.453
Fritz Henke SS-Oberscharführer
Michael Karkoc Born 6 March 1919. Service in Nazi-affiliated Ukraine Self Defense Legion/14th Waffen SS Grenadier Division as a Company Commander [Lt]. Investigated since 2003;Ordered Deported March 2018 from United States. Died December 14, 2019
Johann Klier Guard Sobibor extermination camp. Testified 1950 trial of Hermann Erich Bauer
Karl Wilhelm Franz Klünner Born 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 Knorr Born 13.10.1899 in Heiligenbeil.Sipo Groningen, SS-Untersturmführer. suicide 07.07.1945 in Scheveningen (prison
Wolfgang Kügler Was 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 Kutschmann Born 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 1986 404651 1940 7475729
Célestin Lainé Born 1908. Leader of the Bezen Perrot. Fled from a post war sentence of death. Died 1983 Dublin Ireland
Walter Wilhelm Lehne Born 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 Maringgele SS-Hauptscharführer and Zugführer
Martin James Monti Born 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 2000 1945
Dr. Hans Münch Born 14 May 1911-d.about 2001. Assigned to KZ Auschwitz.
Kārlis Mūsiņš Waffen-SS Untersturmführer
Johann Niemann Born 4 August 1913. Deputy commandant of Sobibor extermination camp Executed in revolt 14 October 1943 270.600 1934 753.836
Rudolf August Oetker born 20 September 1916 Bielefeld, Germany. Became a Ustuf:21.6.44. Died 16 January 2007 Hamburg Germany.
Alfred Otto Born 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
Josef Pospichil Born December 1899. Member of SD-section III/Gestapo. Involved KZ Majdanek; KZ Natzweiler-Struthof. Executed 14 February 1948 53.675 16 August 1932 1.096.992
Josef Rademacher Born 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 Budapest 29003 887628
Wilhelm Karl Johannes Rosenbaum Born 27 April 1915. Involved in killings at Bad Rabka. Arrested 1961; tried 1968 and sentenced to life; released 1982.Died 1984 1 July 1936
Willem Sassen born 16 April 1918. Netherlands PK ("Propaganda Kompanie"). Died 2002
Willi Schatz Dentist at Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Heinz Schildt Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III
Hanns-Martin Schleyer Born 1 May 1915. Leader of board of Zentralverband der Industrie in Prague. died 18 October 1977 221714 30 June 1933
Tscherim Soobzokov Born either 1918 or 1924. Member of North Circassian Legion.Postwar was an agent for the CIA. died 6 September 1985.
Hans Stark Born 14 June 1921 in Darmstadt. KZ Sachsenhausen; Buchenwald; Dachau; Auschwitz. Arrested April 1959; tried 1963–1964; released from prison 1968. Died 29 March 1991 319918 December 1937
Reimond Tollenaere Waffen SS Belgian Foreign Legion officer
Lauri Törni Finnish 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 Viermann Sipo Amsterdam, Kriminalsekretär, SS-Untersturmführer; sentenced to 7 years imprisonment 27.09.1949 in Amsterdam (released 31.03.1956)
Herbert Walther born 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
Paul Werner SS Dutch legion member 280216 1293714
Hans Walter Zech-Nenntwich Born 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.

SS Non-Commissioned Officers

Sturmscharführer (Regimental sergeant major)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Sturmscharführer         (1934–1945)
Johannes Wilhelm Hoffmann Born 22.05.1904. Sipo Rotterdam, SS-Sturmscharführer, Kriminalsekretär; sentenced to death 11.04.1949. commuted 13.07.1950. released 21.11.1960
Martin Johann Kohlen Born 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 Lamm Born 18.11.1907 in Berlin. Sipo Assen, SS-Sturmscharführer. sentenced to 20 years imprisonment 20.04.1949 in Den Haag (in absence)
Adolf Maurer SS security administrator of Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Hauptscharführer (sergeant major)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Hauptscharführer         (1934–1945)
Leopold Bruck Commander of a Waffen-SS squad in France
Kurt Brunow Born 9 March 1907. Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III 1 November 1931 530.892
Harold Cole Born 24 January 1906. Ex British POW and double agent for the Sicherheitsdienst against the French Resistance. Killed 8 January 1946
Lorenz Hackenholt Born 26 June 1914. SS-NCO in charge of gassing at Bełżec extermination camp; vanished May 1945; declared legally dead December 1945-fate unknown 1933 1727962
Otto Kempin Sipo Amsterdam (IV B 4), SS-Hauptscharführer. sentenced to 10 years imprisonment 08.04.1950 in Amsterdam (released 27.04.1951)
Heinz Linke Waffen-SS officer
Pieter Menten Born 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 Meyerhoff Born 05.03.1916 Völlenerfehn). KZ Vught.sentenced to 13 years imprisonment 25.10.1949 in 's-Hertogenbosch. released 01.03.1956
Otto Moll Born 24 March 1915. KZ Auschwitz. Director and Chief Head of all crematoria. Commandant of Furstengrube and Gleiwitz I concentration camps.Executed 28 May 1946 267670 1 May 1935
Detlef Nebbe Born 20 June 1912. KZ Auschwitz personnel. Sentenced to life by Supreme National Tribunal. Released by amnesty in the mid-1950s 1933
Richard Heinrich Nitsch Born 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 Schallermair Born 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 Sommer Born 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 prison 110035 15 May 1934 294863
Gustav Sorge Born 24 April 1911. KZ Esterwegen concentration camp Sachsenhausen concentration camp died in Prison 1978 1931
Erich von der Heyde Born 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 1984 1934
Gustav Franz Wagner Born 18 July 1911. Deputy commander of the Sobibór extermination camp. Died 3 October 1980 1931 443217

Oberscharführer (senior sergeant)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Oberscharführer         (1932–1945)
Ernst Barkmann Born 25 August 1919. Waffen-SS tank commander. Died 27 June 2009
Hermann Erich Bauer Born 26 March 1900. In charge of gas chambers at Sobibor extermination camp.In prison 1950–1980.
Died 4 February 1980
Rudolf Beckmann Born 20 February 1910.Action T4; Sobibor extermination camp; killed in revolt 14 October 1943
Kurt Bolender Born 21 May 1912. In charge of gas chambers at Sobibor extermination camp; Action T4 died 10 October 1966
Derk-Elsko Bruins Born 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 Bürkl Deputy commander and infamous executioner at Pawiak Prison, Warsaw, Poland. executed by Polish Underground 7 September 1943
Thomas Haller Cooper Born 29 August 1919. Anglo-German ethnic. Served in 8th Company, Totenkopf Infantry Regiment; British Free Corps; 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
Wilhelm Emmerich Born 7 February 1916. Assigned KZ Auschwitz. Shot and wounded by Franciszka Mann 23 October 1943.
Died 22 May 1945 of typhus
Karl Frenzel Born 20 August 1911. T-4 program and KZ Sobibor In prison 1966–1982 Died 2 September 1996 334948
Bruno Gesche Born 5 November 1905. A commander of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers; demoted from Obersturmbannführer 20 December 1944 for drunkenness; member of Dirlewanger Brigade Died 1980 1093 8592
Hubert Gomerski Guard at Sobibor extermination camp. Testified 1950 trial of Hermann Erich Bauer
Siegfried Graetschus Born 9 June 1916. KZ Sobibor-commanded Ukrainian guard, killed in revolt 14 October 1943 20 December 1935
Heinrich Harrer Born 6 July 1912. Austrian mountaineer and explorer in Tibet. Died 7 January 2006 73.896 1 April 1938 6.307.081
Georg Huber Born 1914 Weigendorf. KZ Vught. sentenced to 15 years imprisonment 09.11.1948 in 's-Hertogenbosch released 04.09.1951
Karl Heinrich Klaustermeyer Born 22 February 1914. Involved in suppression of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. 1965 sentenced to Life in prison.
Pardoned 8 April 1976 because of terminal cancer; died 21 April 1976
Hermann Michel Born 23 April 1912. T-4; KZ Sobibor; Operation Reinhard-fate unknown-fled to Middle East? died 1984? [unconfirmed]
Rochus Misch Born 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 2013 1937
Eric Muhsfeldt Born 18 February 1913. Senior NCO of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando. Involved in Operation Harvest Festival. Hanged 28 January 1948
Josef Oberhauser Born 21 January 1915. Involved Action T-4 and Bełżec extermination camp In Belzec Trial sentenced to 4.5 years. died 22 November 1979 288.121 November 1935
Johann Pauls Born 9 February 1908; Executed 4 July 1946 for War Crimes 1 April 1931
Walter Quakernack Born 9 July 1907; Executed 11 October 1946 for War Crimes 125266
Josef Schillinger Assigned KZ Auschwitz. Shot and killed by Franciszka Mann 23 October 1943.
Karl Silberbauer Born 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 1972 1943
Martin Weiss Born 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 1984 1934

Scharführer (sergeant)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Scharführer         (1925–1945)
Heinz Auerswald b.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 1970 216.399 7 June 1933 4.830.479
Heinrich Eicke Camp administrator Maly Trostenets extermination camp. Fled to Argentina-all trace of him lost
Erich Fuchs Born 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 1980 1934
Josef Hirtreiter Born 1 February 1909. KZ Treblina. Sentenced to life 1951. released 1977. died .27 November 1978
Samuel Kunz b.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 Lachmann Born 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 Stackelberg Born 31 October 1905. Economics Professor. Died 12 October 1946 1933

Unterscharführer (corporal)

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Unterscharführer         (1934–1945)
Julius Benz Born 28 March 1924. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19 February 1944
Perry Broad Born 25 April 1921. KZ Auschwitz personnel. Served a prison sentence 1965–1969. Died 28 November 1993. 1941
Siert Bruins Born 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 1944–1945. 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 Erler Born 31 August 1904. 5 Company/SS Totenkopfsturmbann. KZ Auschwitz I. Killed in Auschwitz revolt 7 October 1944
Willi Freese Born 30 September 1921. 2 Company/SS Totenkopfsturmbann.KZ Auschwitz I. Killed in Auschwitz revolt 7 October 1944
Oskar Gröning Born 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 Hanning Born 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 2017 1940
Gerhard Hirsch Born 13.07.1922. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944
Albert Hujar/Huyar Directed executions at Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
George Kettmann Born 2 December 1898 in Amsterdam – died 10 February 1970 in Roosendaal
Jozef Kindel born 23.11.1912 in Köln. Sipo Groningen, died 05.08.1948 in prison Almelo (before his trial)
Mathias Kirmaier Born 1920. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944
Franz Maierhofer SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 18.02.1944
August Miete Born 01.11.1908. KZ Treblina. Tried 1965. Died in detention 25 July 1978
Gustav Münzberger Born 17.08.1903. KZ Treblina. Tried 1965, released 1971. Died 23 March 1977 321.758 1938
Harald Nugiseks born 22 October 1921. Member of Estonian Legion awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Died 2 January 2014
Pierre Paoli b.31 December 1921; executed 15 June 1946
Josef Purke Born 28.02.1903. 1 Company/SS Totenkopfsturmbann.KZ Auschwitz I. Killed in Auschwitz revolt 7 October 1944
Josef Riegler b.5 July 1922; Guard KZ Mauthausen; executed 27 May 1947 Landsberg Prison
Franz Schönhuber Born 10 January 1923. Age 19 Waffen-SS member; later chairman of The Republicans political party.
Died 27 November 2005
Herbert Schmidt Born 04.04.1920. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 18.02.1944
Franz Suchomel Born 3 December 1907. Treblinka, Tried 1965 and sentenced to 4 years in prison;
died 18 December 1979
Eugène Vaulot born 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 Zierke Born 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

Junior SS personnel

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Heinrich Albert Born 29.07.1924.SS Rank Sturmmann. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944
Heinrich Barbl Born 3 March 1900.SS rank Rottenführereich. He participated in the T-4 Euthanasian Program and later in the year Operation Reinhardt. He submitted his testimony in Linz on 6 September 1965 at the Austrian Ministry of Internal Affairs. No further details are known of his life and death.
Otto Beisheim Born 3 January 1924. SS Rank Sturmmann; served in artillery regiment of SS Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. Died 18 February 2013
Frederich Karl Berger Born 1926. Nazi Guard at Meppen, a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg. Denaturalization Trial began May 10, 2019 Memphis Tenn;Ordered Deported to Germany February 28,2020
Josef Blösche Born 12 Feb 1912.SS rank Rottenführer member of SD; involved in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Executed 29 July 1969 314655 6547348
Ernst Bormann Born 28.09.1924.SS Rank Sturmmann. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944
John Demjanjuk Born 3 April 1920. 1986 tried in Israel on charges of being Ivan the Terrible (Treblinka guard) KZ Treblinka; found guilty but verdict overturned on grounds of reasonable doubt; 2001 tried again for being part of personnel at KZ Sobibor; KZ Majdanek; KZ Flossenberg. 2009 deported to Germany-convicted 12 May 2011; died while appealing sentence 17 March 2012
Bruno Dey Guard at Stutthof concentration camp. Charged in October 2019 of contributing to the killings of 5,230 prisoners at Stutthof camp between 1944 and 1945. He was tried in a juvenile court due to being about 17 at that time. On 23 July 2020,age 93 he was given a two-year suspended sentence by the court in Hamburg.
Erich Dinges Born 20.11.1911. SS rank Sturmmann;Assigned to KZ Auschwitz; 22 December 1947 Auschwitz Trial sentenced to 5 years; died 23.04.1953 1 March 1932
Andreas Dörfler SS Rank Sturmmann. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944
Otto Erich Drews SS rank Rottenführer. 1968 sentenced to Life in prison along with Hauptstrumführer Max Hermann Richard Krahner and Revieroleutnant Otto Hugo Goldapp for being German Overseers of Jewish Sonderkommando 1005
Günter Grass Born 16 Oct 1927. SS rank Sturmmann; served in 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg from February 1945 until he was wounded on 20 April 1945. Captured May 1945. Author of The Tin Drum. Died 13 April 2015
Stefan Gubanski SS Rank Rottenführer. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944
Ludwik Kalkstein Ludwik "Hanka" Kalkstein, also known as Ludwik Kalkstein-Stoliński, (13 March 1920, in Warsaw – 26 October 1994, in Munich] Joined SS As "Paul Henchel"
Hans Krellner Born 29.09.1922 SS Rank Sturmmann. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944
Alfried Krupp Born 13 August 1907. member of the Förderndes Mitglied der SS. Arms/Steel industrialist/Colonel in National Socialist Flyers Corps (NSFK). Sentenced to 12 years imprisonment 1948; pardoned by John J. McCloy in 1951. Died 30 July 1967 None 1931 6989627
Erwin Lambert Born 7 December 1909, Schildow. SS rank Rottenführer; He supervised construction of the gas chambers for the Action T4 euthanasia program at Hartheim, Sonnenstein, Bernburg and Hadamar, and then at Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps during Operation Reinhard. He specialized in building larger gas chambers that killed more people than previous efforts in the extermination program. At the conclusion of Operation Reinhard, Lambert was posted to Trieste, where he continued to participate in genocide by installing cremation facilities at the concentration camp Risiera di San Sabba. After the war, Lambert was arrested on 28 March 1962. At the First Treblinka Trial in 1965, Lambert was tried for the first time and sentenced to four years imprisonment for aiding and abetting the murder of at least 300,000 people. Having already served this time, he was allowed to live as a free man. At the Sobibor Trial in 1966, Lambert was acquitted. At the trials Lambert denied involvement in the killing operation and claimed that he merely suspected that the buildings would be used for killing. Died on 15 October 1976. 1.491.565
Ivan Marchenko Born about 1911. SS Wachmann at Lodz Ghetto and operated gas Chambers at KZ Treblinka. Nicknamed Ivan the Terrible (Treblinka guard) in 1944 reported to have deserted the Germans for the partisans in Yugoslavia; alleged last sighting in Fiume, Croatia in 1945; unknown if survived the war.
Hansjörg Maurer Born 20 October 1891. Aka Hans Georg Maurer. Served as Hitlers Strossup SS Bodyguards in 1925. Retired from NSDAP 24 August 1926 after quarrel with Max Amann. USed an alias to rejoin NSDAP 31 March 1933-for which he was expelled in 1934. Died 30 December 1959 1925 76
1.724.803
Werner Messinger Born 1925.SS Rank Oberschütze . SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 02.03.1944
Karl Missy Occupation Plumber. Served in SS 1930s. On the outbreak of World War II; he was Lance Corporal in the Luftwaffe. On 3 February 1940 the Heinkel III 1H+FM of 4./KG 26 he was part of the crew as an air gunner shot down by RAF Officer Peter Townsend {1/3 credit]; Missy was one of two survivors of shot down crew, but his right leg had to be amputated because of war wounds; repatriated October 1943. Postwar was friends with Squadron leader Townsend who mentioned him in postwar biography "Duel of Eagles"; died 1981
Eric Pleasants Born 17 May 1913. British defector and member of the SS British Free Corps died July 1998 None 1940 None
Hans Ramsauer SS Rank Jäger. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944
Johann Rehbogen SS Strummann at Stutthof concentration camp. At age 94 Charged in November 2018 of accesory to murder of prisoners at Stutthof camp. He was tried in a juvenile court due to being under 21 at that time. In February 2019 trial halted for medical reasons
Dr. Eugen Sänger Born 22.09.1905.SS Rank Mann. Died 10.02.1964 1933 1.303.775
Gerhard Schneider Born 6.4.1890. Served in World War I and was 1925 bodyguard of Adolf Hitler. Promoted to Oberführer 31 July 1933 as administrative chief over the SD Main Office and the Race and Settlement Office. Brought up on charges by Heinrich Himmler on charges including Suppressing and defrauding service funds; irresponsible dissipation of service funds and damaging the image of the SS by boasting. Found guilty reduced in rank to SS Mann and dismissed 24 July 1934; succeeded in office by Oswald Pohl 30941 14 July 1932 916047
Hans Schoger SS Rank Jäger, SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944
Albert Speer Born 19 March 1905. Enrolled by order of Heinrich Himmler as a SS Man/member of Personal Staff of the SS Reichsfurher. However application never completed (Nazi conspiracy and aggression vol VI pp.256 3568-PS) becoming Nolle prosequi. Died 1 September 1981 46104 20.7.1942 474.481
Horst Tappert Born 26 May 1923. 1943 served with the "SS-Panzergrenadieregiment 1 Totenkopf" Died 13 December 2008
Wilhelm Thellman SS Rank Sturmmann. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944
Erich Topp Born 2 July 1914. Briefly member of Allgemeine-SS; dropped active NSDAP/SS membership after becoming member of armed Forces.Commander of U-552. Died 26 December 2005 1934 2621078
Ernest Werner Rank SS-Mann. Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III
Thomas Wippenbeck Born 28 August 1907. SS rank Rottenführer. Assigned to Pawiak Prison Warsaw Prison. Tried with SS Colonel Dr. Ludwig Hahn in 1972/1973-declared guilty of two cases of complicity in committing a homicide but was exonerated. No further details are known of his life and death.

SS biologist

Name Position Nationality Joined Nazi party Joined SS Years of service
Professor Wolfgang Abel Born 13 May 1905; Austrian anthropogolist and Nazi Germany's racial biologists. Vienna native. Died 1 November 1997 Austrian (Austria-Hungary) 1933 1935 1933–1945

SS-Kapellmeister

Name Position Nationality Joined Nazi party Joined SS Years of service
Hermann Paul Maximilian Abendroth Born 19 January 1883; Leader of the Nazi Reichsmusikkammer. Died 29 May 1956 German 1934 1937 1934–1945
gollark: What useful stuff would *you* be doing otherwise?
gollark: All you would need to do is... install firefox and import your bookmarks?
gollark: But seriously, you probably should read the potatOS privacy policy.
gollark: It has the MIT licenses for all the libraries too.
gollark: https://pastebin.com/NdUKJ07j

See also

Notes

Former SS Ranks changed after 1934:

References

  1. Snyder, Dr. Louis L. Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, (1989) p, 147.
  2. Bullock, Alan. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives, (1998) p, 374.
  3. Office, United States Patent (1 January 1932). Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office. The Office via Internet Archive. Scheid.
  4. "US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128".
  5. "SCHEID, Dr".
  6. Schleip, Walter (1 January 1944). "Totale rationalisierung des industriebetriebes". O.Elsner via Google Books.
  7. Butcher, Captain Harry C. (1 January 1946). My Three Years with Eisenhower via Internet Archive. Scheid.
  8. "Records of the Central Intelligence Agency (RG 263)". National Archives and Records Administration. 15 August 2016. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  9. "Nationalsozialistisches Jahrbuch 1942". Google Books (in German). 28 July 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  10. "Numery członków SS od 56 000 do 56 999". DWS-XIP Druga Wojna Światowa (in Polish). Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  11. "Harvard Law School Library – Nuremberg Trials Project". nuremberg.law.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 29 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  12. Rodak, Wojciech. "Paul Fuchs zwany "Lisem z Radomia". Gestapowiec, który szachował Podziemie". Polskatimes.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  13. "Numery członków SS od 193 000 do 193 999".
  14. "Numery członków SS od 177 000 do 177 999".
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.