Register of SS leaders in general's rank
This register of SS leaders in general's rank includes the members of the Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS, in line with the appropriate SS seniority list (Dienstaltersliste der Waffen-SS) from July 1, 1944. It contains (incomplete) further SS Honour leaders (SS-Ehrenführer) and SS-Rank leaders for special duty (SS-Rangführer zur besonderen Verwendung), short for SS Honour – and rank leaders (SS-Ehren- und Rangführer).
List of SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer
SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer (literal: SS-Colonel group leader), short SS-Obstgruf, was from 1942 to 1945 the highest commissioned rank in the Schutzstaffel (SS), with the exception of Reichsführer-SS. SS-Obstgruf was comparable to four-star ranks in English speaking armed forces (today equivalent to NATO OF-9).
Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Comments |
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Kurt Daluege | Chief of the Ordnungspolizei 1936-1943; Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia 1942 - 1943 | 1897 – 1946 | also: Generaloberst der Polizei (Colonel general of the police); executed |
Josef Dietrich (also: Sepp Dietrich) | Supreme commander 6th Panzer Army | 1892 – 1966 | also: Generaloberst der Waffen-SS (Colonel general of the Waffen-SS) |
Paul Hausser (also: Papa Hausser) | Supreme commander Army Group "Oberrhein" (Heeresgruppe "Oberrhein") | 1880 – 1972 | also: Generaloberst der Waffen-SS |
Franz Xaver Schwarz | Reichsschatzmeister der NSDAP (Reich Treasurer of the Nazi Party) | 1875 – 1947 | in internment camp until 1947 |
List of SS-Obergruppenführer
SS-Obergruppenführer (literal: SS-Senior group leader), short SS-Ogruf, was the second highest commissioned rank in the SS, comparable to three-star ranks in English speaking armed forces (today equivalent to NATO OF-8).
Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Comments |
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Friedrich Alpers (also: Fritz Alpers) | Generalforstmeister (General forest supervisor) and State Secretary in the Reichsforstamt (Reich's forest office) | 1901–1944 | suicide in 1944, while in US custody |
Max Amann | SS-Ehren- und Rangführer (SS Honour – and Rank leader); Reich Press Chamber President; Reichsleiter (Reich Leader) for the Press | 1891–1957 | labour camp until 1953 |
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (also: Erich von dem Bach) | Chef der Bandenkampfverbände (Chief of the "bandit" fighting formations) | 1899–1972 | also: General der Waffen-SS und General der Polizei (General of the Waffen-SS and General of the police); 1958–1972 imprisoned |
Herbert Backe | SS-Ehrenführer (SS Honour leader); Reichsminister für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (Reich Minister for Nutrition and Agriculture) 1942 - 1945 | 1896–1947 | suicide |
Gottlob Berger | Chief of the SS-Hauptamt (SS Main office) 1939 - 1945 | 1896–1975 | also: General der Waffen-SS (General of the Waffen-SS); until 1951 imprisoned |
Theodor Berkelmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer (Higher SS- and police leader) in the Reichsgau Wartheland | 1894–1943 | also: General der Polizei (General of the police) |
Werner Best | Deputy of Reinhard Heydrich in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office) ; Reichsbevollmächtigter (plenipotentiary) in Denmark | 1903–1989 | imprisoned until 1951 |
Wilhelm Bittrich | Commanding general II SS Panzer Corps | 1894–1979 | also: General der Waffen-SS; interned in Marseille 1948–1953 |
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter of the NSDAP Auslandsorganisation (Nazi Party Foreign Organisation) | 1903–1960 | imprisoned until 1949 |
Martin Bormann | SS-Ehrenrang; head of the Nazi Party Chancellery from 1941; Adolf Hitler's private secretary; Reichsminister without Portfolio | 1900–1945 | Died 1945, likely by suicide; remains of body were discovered in 1972, finally identified formally by means of DNA tests as those of Bormann in 1998. |
Philipp Bouhler | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief of Kanzlei des Führers (Hitler's Chancellery) | 1899–1945 | suicide |
Franz Breithaupt | Chief Hauptamt SS-Gericht (Main Office SS-Court) | 1880–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; murdered |
Walter Buch | SS-Ehrenrang; Chairman of the Highest Party Court | 1883–1949 | suicide |
Josef Bürckel | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS (Personal Staff Reichsführer SS) ; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) Vienna 1939 - 1940, Westmark 1941 - 1944 | 1895–1944 | |
Leonardo Conti | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; German / Swiss physician, Reich's health leader | 1900–1945 | suicide |
Richard Walther Darré | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (Race - and Settlement Main Office); Reichsminister of Nutrition and Agriculture 1933 - 1942; Reich Farmers Leader | 1895–1953 | imprisoned until 1950 |
Karl Maria Demelhuber | Commander in Chief Armed forces staff East Coast | 1896–1988 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
Otto Dietrich | SS-Ehrenrang; NSDAP Press Chief; Reich Press Chief | 1897–1952 | imprisoned until 1950 |
Karl von Eberstein (also: Friedrich Karl von Eberstein) | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer South | 1894–1979 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
Joachim Albrecht Eggeling | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP Magdeburg-Anhalt 1935 - 1937, Halle-Merseburg 1937 - 1945 | 1884–1945 | suicide |
Theodor Eicke | Commander SS Division Totenkopf | 1892–1943 | also: General der Waffen-SS; killed in action |
August Eigruber | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Upper Danube | 1907–1947 | executed in Landsberg |
Karl Fiehler | SS-Ehrenrang; Lord Mayor of Munich; Reichsleiter for Municipal Policy | 1895–1969 | interned until 1949 |
Albert Forster | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Danzig | 1902–1952 | executed in Warsaw |
August Frank | Staff Oberkommando des Heeres | 1898–1984 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; imprisoned until 1954 |
Karl Hermann Frank | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Bohemia and Moravia; State Secretary for Bohemia and Moravia; Reichsminister for Bohemia and Moravia | 1898–1946 | also: General der Polizei; executed in Prague |
Herbert Gille (also: Herbert Otto Gille) | Commanding general IV SS Panzer Corps | 1897–1966 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
Curt von Gottberg | Commanding general XII SS Army Corps | 1896–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Ernst-Robert Grawitz | Reich's physician of the SS- and police | 1899–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Ulrich Greifelt | Chief of Staff to the Stabshauptamt des Reichskommissars für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums (Main Staff Office of the Reich's Commissioner for Strengthening of the German Nationality) | 1896–1949 | also: General der Polizei; imprisoned until 1949 |
Arthur Greiser | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Wartheland | 1897–1946 | executed in Posen |
Karl Gutenberger | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer West | 1905–1961 | also: General der Waffen; imprisoned until 1953 |
Karl Hanke | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP Lower Silesia; last Reichsführer-SS | 1903–1945 | killed attempting escape |
August Heissmeyer | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Spree; Chief SS-Hauptamt 1935 - 1939; Chief Hauptamt Dienststelle Heissmeyer (Main Office Division Heißmeyer) | 1897–1979 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief Constable of Potsdam, later Berlin | 1896–1944 | contacts to resistance circles, executed in Berlin-Plötzensee |
Konrad Henlein | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Sudetenland | 1898–1945 | suicide |
Maximilian von Herff | Chief SS-Personalhauptamt (SS Main Recruitment Office) | 1893–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
Rudolf Hess | SS-Ehrenrang; Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler; Reichsminister without Portfolio | 1894–1987 | imprisoned after Nuremberg trials until 1987; suicide |
Reinhard Heydrich | Chief Reichssicherheitshauptamt 1939-1942 Oberster Befehlshaber der Sicherheitsdienst Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia 1941 - 1942 | 1904–1942 | also: General der Polizei; assassinated in Prague |
Friedrich Hildebrandt | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Mecklenburg | 1898–1948 | executed in Landsberg |
Richard Hildebrandt | Chief Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt | 1897–1952 | also: General der Waffen-SS; executed in Poland |
Hermann Höfle | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Slovakia | 1898–1947 | also: General Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed in Bratislava |
Otto Hofmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer South West; Chief SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt | 1896–1982 | also: General der Polizei; imprisoned 1945–1954 |
Friedrich Jeckeln | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Ostland, Ukraine | 1889–1946 | also: General der Polizei; executed in Riga |
Hugo Jury | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Lower Danube | 1887–1945 | suicide |
Hans Jüttner | Chief SS-Führungshauptamt (SS Main Office) | 1894–1965 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned until 1950 |
Ernst Kaltenbrunner | Chief Reichssicherheitshauptamt 1943-1945 | 1903–1946 | also: General der Waffen-SS; executed after Nuremberg trials |
Hans Kammler | SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt, Chef Amt C (Bauwesen) SS Main Management – and Administration Office, Chief Office division C (Construction) | 1901–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Jürgen von Kamptz | Commander in Chief of the Ordnungspolizei in Italy | 1891–1954 | also: General der Polizei |
Karl Kaufmann | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Hamburg | 1900–1966 | imprisoned for short periods between 1948 and 1953 |
Georg Keppler | acting on behalf of the Commanding general III SS Panzer Corps | 1894–1966 | also: General der Waffen-SS; interned until 1948 |
Wilhelm Keppler | SS-Ehrenrang; industrialist | 1882–1960 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned until 1951 |
Dietrich Klagges | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Ministerpräsident Free State Brunswick | 1891–1971 | imprisoned until 1957 |
Matthias Kleinheisterkamp | Commanding general XI SS Army Corps | 1893–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Kurt Knoblauch | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief Office division B | 1885–1952 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned1949–1951 |
Wilhelm Koppe | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer East | 1896–1975 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1960–1962 |
Paul Körner | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Undersecretary in Prussia | 1893–1957 | imprisoned until 1951 |
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger | Commanding general V SS Mountain Corps; Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer East | 1894–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Walter Krüger | Commanding general VI SS Army Corps | 1890–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Hans Heinrich Lammers | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief of the German Reich Chancellery; Reichsminister without Portfolio (Reichskanzlei) | 1879–1962 | imprisoned until 1951 |
Hartmann Lauterbacher | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Deputy Reich Youth Leader (Reichjugendführer); Gauleiter NSDAP South Hanover – Brunswick | 1909–1988 | interned until 1947 |
Werner Lorenz | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office) | 1891–1974 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned until 1955 |
Benno Martin | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Main | 1893–1975 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; interned until 1948; imprisonment 1953, absolved |
Heinrich von Maur | SS-Ehrenrang; Stab Upper Sector South West | 1863–1947 | also: General of the Artillery |
Emil Mazuw | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Baltic Sea | 1900–1987 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned until 1951 |
Wilhelm Murr | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Württemberg; | 1888–1945 | suicide |
Konstantin von Neurath | SS-Ehrenrang; Reichsminister for Foreign Affairs 1933 - 1938; Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia 1939 - 1943 | 1873–1956 | imprisoned after Nuremberg trials until 1954 |
Carl Oberg | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Paris | 1897–1965 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; imprisoned until 1962 |
Günther Pancke | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Danmark | 1899–1973 | also: General der Polizei; imprisoned until 1953 |
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch | SS-Führungshauptamt; Commanding general in Hungary | 1888–1971 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
Artur Phleps | Commanding general V SS Mountain Corps | 1881–1944 | also: General der Waffen-SS; killed in action |
Oswald Pohl | Chief SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt | 1892–1951 | also: General der Waffen-SS; executed in Landsberg |
Hans-Adolf Prützmann | Höchster SS- und Polizeiführer Ukraine, Ostland; Inspector General Werwolf units | 1901–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; suicide |
Rudolf Querner | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Centre | 1893–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; suicide |
Friedrich Rainer | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Salzburg 1938 - 1941, Carinthia 1941 - 1945 | 1903–1947 | executed in Ljubljana |
Hanns Albin Rauter | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer North East | 1895–1949 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed |
Wilhelm Rediess | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer East Prussia | 1900–1949 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
Wilhelm Reinhard | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1869–1955 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
Joachim von Ribbentrop | SS-Ehrenrang; Reichsminister for Foreign Affairs 1933 - 1938 | 1893–1946 | executed after Nuremberg trials |
Erwin Rösener | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Alpes Country | 1902–1946 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed |
Ernst Sachs | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1880–1956 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
Fritz Sauckel | SS-Ehrenrang; General Plenipotentiary for Deployment of Labour; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Thuringia | 1894–1946 | executed after Nuremberg trials |
Paul Scharfe | Chief SS Court Main Office; Temporary Chief Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt | 1876–1942 | |
Julius Schaub | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief Personal Adjutant of Adolf Hitler | 1898–1967 | interned until 1949 |
Gustav Adolf Scheel | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Salzburg | 1907–1979 | interned until 1948 |
Fritz Schlessmann | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Deputy Gauleiter NSDAP Essen | 1899–1964 | imprisoned until 1950 |
Ernst-Heinrich Schmauser | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Lower Silesia | 1890–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; missing in action |
Walter Schmitt (SS general) | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1879–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; executed in Dablice (Czchoslovakia) |
Oskar Schwerk | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Country leader Reich's war veteran organisation (Reichs Kriegerbund) | 1869–1950 | |
Arthur Seyss-Inquart | SS-Ehrenrang; Reichsstatthalter Austria; Reichskommissar Netherlands; Reichsminister without Portfolio | 1892–1946 | executed after Nuremberg trials |
Felix Steiner | III SS Panzer Corps | 1896–1966 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
Wilhelm Stuckart | SS-Ehrenrang; Undersecretary in the Reich Ministry of Interior | 1902–1953 | |
Siegfried Taubert | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1880–1946 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
Fritz Wächtler | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP Bavarian East Mark | 1891–1945 | shot to death by SS for desertion |
Karl Wahl | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP and Regierungspräsident Swabia | 1892–1981 | imprisoned until 1949 |
Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Fulda-Werra | 1896–1967 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; imprisoned until 1950 |
Paul Wegener | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP Weser-Ems; Reichsstatthalter Oldenburg and Bremen | 1904–1993 | imprisoned until 1951 |
Fritz Weitzel | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer West, leader North | 1904–1940 | |
Otto Winkelmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Hungary | 1894–1977 | also: General der Waffen-SS; interned until 1948 |
Karl Wolff | Chief Persönlicher Stabe Reichsführer SS; Höchster SS- und Polizeiführer Italien | 1900–1984 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1945–1949 and 1964–1969 |
Udo von Woyrsch | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Elbe | 1895–1983 | imprisoned 1945–1952 and 1957–1960 |
Alfred Wünnenberg | Commander of a Police Division; Chief Ordnungspolizei 1943-1945 | 1891–1963 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; interned until 1947 |
List of SS-Gruppenführer
SS-Gruppenführer (literal: SS-Group leader), short SS-Gruf, was the third highest commissioned rank in the SS, comparable to two-star ranks in English speaking armed forces (today equivalent to NATO OF-7.
Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Comments |
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Ludolf-Hermann von Alvensleben (also: Bubi von Alvensleben) | Höherer SS- und Parteiführer "Elbe" (Higher SS- and police leader) | 1901–1970 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei (Lieutenant general of the Waffen-SS and of the Police) |
Rūdolfs Bangerskis | Latvian general and War ministry; Inspector general of the Latvian SS-Formations | 1878–1958 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS (Lieutenant general of the Waffen-SS) |
Georg-Henning von Bassewitz-Behr | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer region North Sea | 1900–1949 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
Hans Baur | Commander flying squadron of the Führer | 1897–1993 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei |
Herbert Becker | Higher SS and Police Leader General Government | 1887-1974 | also: general inspector at the main office of the Order Police (Ordnungspolizei) |
Max von Behr | SS-Commanding officer of Berlin | 1879–1951 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Carl Blumenreuter | Office Reich's physician of the SS and police, Master medical ordnance (Sanitäts-Feldzeugmeister) | 1881–1969 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Adolf von Bomhard | Head of the police in Reichskommissariat Ukraine | 1891–1976 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei |
Walter Braemer | Nazi criminal responsible for mass murders of the civilian population | 1883–1955 | also: General of the Cavalry |
Karl Brandt (also: Karl Jakob Heinrich Brenner) | SS-Führungshauptamt (SS-Command and control main office) , physician of the euthanasia | 1881–1948 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; executed |
Karl Jakob Heinrich Brenner | Commander police battle group Brenne (Polizei-Kampfgruppe Brenner) | 1895–1954 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei |
Lothar Debes | Commander in chief of the Waffen-SS Italy | 1895–1960 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Hermann Fegelein | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief Office Division VI | 1906–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Josef Fitzthum | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Albania | 1896–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
Karl Gebhardt | Office Reich's physician of the SS and Police, Head clinician | 1897–1948 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; executed |
Karl Genzken | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief Office Division D; physician | 1895–1957 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1945–1954 |
Karl Gerland | Gauleiter NSDAP Kurhessen | 1905-1945 | |
Odilo Globočnik | Gauleiter NSDAP Vienna; Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Adriatic Coast | 1904-1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei |
Richard Glücks | SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt (SS-Management and administration main office), Chief office division D | 1898–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
József Grassy | Commander 25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS "Hunyadi" | 1894–1946 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Albert Hoffmann | Gauleiter NSDAP Westphalia South | 1907-1972 | |
Leo von Jena | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS (Personal staff Reichsführer SS) | 1876–1957 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Fritz Katzmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Vistula | 1906–1957 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
Wilhelm Kube | SS-Ehrenführer; Gauleiter NSDAP Kurmark; Generalkommissar Belarus | 1887-1943 | discharged from the SS 11 March 1936; assassinated |
Heinz Lammerding | Chief of staff Supreme command Army Group Vistula (Heeresgruppe Weichsel) | 1905–1971 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper | SS-Ehrenführer; Gauleiter NSDAP Magdeburg-Anhalt; Reichsstatthalter Anhalt and Brunswick | 1883-1935 | |
Georg Lörner | SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt, Chief Office division B | 1899–1959 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1945–1954 |
Otto Ohlendorf | Head of Amt-III: SD-Inland (Internal Intelligence); Commander in Chief Task Group D (Task groups Sicherheitspolizei and SD); | 1907–1951 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei; executed |
Werner Ostendorff | Chief of staff Supreme Command Army Group Upper Rhine | 1903–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Leo Petri | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief Office division III | 1876–1961 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Hermann Priess | Commanding general I SS Panzer Corps | 1901–1985 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Carl Friedrich von Pückler-Burghauss | Commander in Chief of the Waffen-SS Bohemia and Moravia | 1886–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Heinz Reinefarth | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Warthe | 1903–1979 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
Hans-Joachim Riecke | SS-Ehrenführer; Reichskommissar of Schaumburg-Lippe; Staatsminister of Lippe | 1899-1986 | |
Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig | SS-Führungshauptamt | 1899–1944 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Walter Schimana | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer in Greece and Vine | 1898–1946 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; suicide |
Fritz von Scholz | Commander 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland" | 1896–1944 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; killed in action |
Otto Schumann (also: Heinrich Eduard Otto Schumann) | Commander of the SS-Oberabschnitt West, in Düsseldorf | 1886-1952 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei |
Otto Schwab | Commander Artillery School | 1889–1959 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Max Simon | Commanding general XIII SS Army Corps | 1899–1961 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Jakob Sporrenberg | Higher Police Leader in Minsk, Belarus and Lublin, Poland | 1902-1952 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei; sentenced to death |
Walter Staudinger | Higher artillery commander 6th Panzer Army | 1898–1964 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Bruno Streckenbach | Commander 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS | 1902–1977 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Jürgen Stroop | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Rhine West Mark | 1895–1952 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed |
Karl von Fischer-Treuenfeld | SS-Führungshauptamt, Inspection Insp.6; Commander 10th SS Panzer Division "Frundsberg" | 1885–1946 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Harald Turner | Deputy chief SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (SS-Race- and settlement main office) | 1891–1947 | |
Otto Wächter (also: Baron Otto Gustav von Wächter) | Governor of the district of Kraków in the General Government | 1901–1949 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
Friedrich Weber | Instructor in veterinary medicine at the University of Munich | 1892–1955 | |
Richard Wendler | Governor of new District Lublin in the General Government | 1898–1972 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei |
Curt Wittje (also: Kurt Wittje) | Member of the German Reichstag; Chief SS-Hauptamt (SS Main office) 1934 - 1935 | 1894–1947 | discharged from the SS, November 12, 1938 |
List of SS-Brigadeführer
SS-Brigadeführer (literal: SS-Brigade leader), short SS-Brif, was the lowest general rank in the SS, comparable to one-star ranks in English speaking armed forces (today equivalent to NATO OF-6).
Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Remark |
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Heinrich Otto Abetz | German ambassador to Vichy France during World War II | 1903–1958 | also: convicted war criminal |
Franz Augsberger | 20th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division | 1905–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS (Major general of the Waffen-SS); killed in action |
Werner Ballauff | Commander SS-Waffen-Junker-School Braunschweig | 1890–1973 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Hellmuth Becker | Commander 3rd SS-Panzer Division Totenkopf | 1902–1953 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Curt Brasack | IV SS Panzer Corps, artillery-commander | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
Karl Burk | Commander 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS | 1898–1963 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Friedrich Karl Dermietzel | Army physician 6th Panzer Army | 1899–1981 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Christoph Diehm | Member of the German Reichstag; SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office) | 1892–1960 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Gustav Diesterweg | Commander SS-Waffen-Technische Lehranstalt (SS Weapon technical training centre) | 1875–19?? | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Werner Dörffler-Schuband | SS-Führungshauptamt (SS Main Command and Control Office), Chef Amt XI (Chief Office division XI) | ||
Wilhelm von Dufais | Chief communications | ||
Ernst Otto Fick | SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office), Inspector W.E. | 1898–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Fritz Freitag | Commander 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS | 1894–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS und der Polizei (Major general of the Waffen-SS and of the police); suicide |
Heinrich Gärtner | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief Office division VIII | 1889–1963 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Werner Gerlach | SS-Ehrenrang (SS Honour Rank); Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS (Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS) | 1891–1963 | |
Bruno Goedicke | SS-Commanding officer of Vienna | ||
Hermann Haertel | Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (Race- and Settlement Main Office) | ||
Desiderius Hampel | Commander 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS "Handschar" | 1895–1981 | Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Peter Hansen | Artillery commander | 1896–1967 | |
Heinz Harmel | Commander 10th SS Panzer Division "Frundsberg" | 1906–2000 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Karl Herrmann | collocated to Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer (Higher SS- and police leader) Adriatic Coast | ||
Alfred Karrasch | Commander SS Training Area Bohemia | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
Adolf Katz | Politician (NSDAP); Chief Constable | 1899–1980 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Wilhelm Keilhaus | SS-Führungshauptamt, Inspector Intelligence and Chief Communications | 1898–1977 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Hubert Klausner | Gauleiter NSDAP and Landeshauptmann Carinthia | 1892-1939 | died of a stroke |
Gottfried Klingemann | Reichssicherheitshauptamt | 1884–1953 | discharged from the Waffen-SS May 31, 1944 |
Fritz Kraemer | Commander 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" | 1900–1959 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
Gustav Krukenberg | Inspector of the French Waffen-SS Voluntary formations | 1888–1980 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Christian Peter Kryssing | III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps | 1891–1976 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; Dane |
Wilhelm Küper | Inspector General of food service | ||
Otto Kumm | Commander 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen"; Commander 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" | 1909–2004 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Franz Kutschera | Deputy and Acting Gauleiter NSDAP Carinthia; SS- und Polizeiführer Mogilev, Warsaw | 1904-1944 | assassinated in Warsaw |
Gustav Lombard | Commander 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" | 1895–1992 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Kurt Meyer | Commander 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" | 1910–1961 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Wilhelm Mohnke | Commander 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler";Commander of the government quarter for the Battle in Berlin | 1911–2001 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Kurt-Peter Müller | Corps physician V SS Mountain Corps | 1894–1993 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Walther Neblich | Commander SS-Automotive training center | ||
Karl von Oberkamp | SS-Führungshauptamt, Inspector In2 and In6 | 1893–1947 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Ernst Rode | Chief of staff to the Chef Bandenkampfverbände (Chief of formations to break up bands) | 1894–1955 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Bruno Rothardt | Corps physician II SS Panzer Corps | ||
Ludwig Ruckdeschel | Deputy and Acting Gauleiter NSDAP Bayreuth | 1907-1986 | |
Joachim Rumohr | Commander 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" | 1910–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Walther Schellenberg | Head of Amt-VI: SD-Ausland (Foreign Intelligence) | 1910-1952 | also: Generalmajor of Polizei |
Fritz Schmedes | Commander 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division | 1894–1952 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
August Schmidhuber | Commander 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS "Skanderbeg" | 1901–1947 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; executed |
Otto Schottenheim | Staff SS-Oberabschnitt (SS Supreme Sector) Main burgomaster of Regensburg | 1890–1980 | |
Franz Schwarz | Staff SS-Oberabschnitt South | 1899–1960 | |
Hans Schwedler | SS-Führungshauptamt | ||
Franz Six (also: Franz Alfred Six) | Reichssicherheitshauptamt | 1909–1975 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
August-Willhelm Trabandt | Commander 18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division "Horst Wessel" | 1891–1968 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Friedrich Tscharmann | SS-Führungshauptamt | 1871–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Herbert-Ernst Vahl | SS-Führungshauptamt, Inspection SS Armoured troops | 1896–1944 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Anton Vogler | SS-Commanding officer of Munich | 1882–19?? | |
Bernhard Voss | SS-Führungshauptamt | ||
Jürgen Wagner | Commander 4th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Brigade "Nederland" | 1901–1947 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; executed |
Theodor Wisch | Commander 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" | 1907–1995 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
Fritz Witt | Commander 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" | 1908–1944 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; killed in action |
Gustav Adolf von Wulffen (also: Gustav-Adolf von Wulffen) | Stab Reichsführer-SS; Commander Infantry-Division "Potsdam" | 1878–1945 | also: Generalmajor |
August Zehender | Commander 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Maria Theresia | 1903–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Joachim Ziegler | Commander 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland" | 1904–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; killed in action |
See also
Sources
- Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, Dieter Zinke: Die Generale der Waffen-SS und der Polizei 1933–1945. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2003 ff., ISBN 3-7648-2528-6. (in 6 volumes).
- Volume 1: A–G (Abraham–Gutenberger), Bissendorf 2003, ISBN 3-7648-2373-9
- Volume 2: H–K (Hachtel–Kutschera), Bissendorf 2005, ISBN 3-7648-2592-8
- Volume 3: LA–PL (Lammerding–Plesch), Bissendorf 2008, ISBN 3-7648-2375-5
- Volume 4: PO–SCHI (Podzun–Schimana), Bissendorf 2009, ISBN 3-7648-2587-1
- Volume 5: SCHL–T (Schlake–Turner), Bissendorf 2011, ISBN 3-7648-3209-6
- Volume 6: U-Z (Ullmann–Zottmann), Bissendorf 2012, ISBN 3-7648-3202-9
- Wolfgang Graf: Österreichische SS-Generale, Himmlers verlässliche Vasallen. Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Wien 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4