List of SS personnel
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Between 1925 and 1945, the German SS
Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel |Sig runes]]) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II...

 grew from a mere eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS
Waffen-SS
The Waffen-SS was a multi-ethnic and multi-national military force of the Third Reich. It constituted the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel or SS, an organ of the Nazi Party. The Waffen-SS saw action throughout World War II and grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions, and served alongside...

 and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. The following list of SS personnel gives the names of persons who are counted among the organization's most famous, influential, and notorious members.

Führer (Adolf Hitler)

Prior to 1934 the SS were nominally under the command of the Sturmabteilung
Sturmabteilung
The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...

 and so it could be said that both Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

 as Oberster SA-Führer and Ernst Röhm
Ernst Röhm
Ernst Julius Röhm, was a German officer in the Bavarian Army and later an early Nazi leader. He was a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung , the Nazi Party militia, and later was its commander...

 as Stabschef SA outranked the most senior SS position of Reichsführer. Following the Night of the Long Knives
Night of the Long Knives
The Night of the Long Knives , sometimes called "Operation Hummingbird " or in Germany the "Röhm-Putsch," was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political murders...

 Hitler "raised the SS, hitherto subordinate to the SA, to the rank of an independent organisation". Hitler also was considered SS Member #1, Emil Maurice (considered the founder the SS) was Member #2, while Himmler was SS Member #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 #1 and considered supreme commander of the entire 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

Reichsführer (equivalent to Field Marshal
Field Marshal
Field Marshal is a military rank. Traditionally, it is the highest military rank in an army.-Etymology:The origin of the rank of field marshal dates to the early Middle Ages, originally meaning the keeper of the king's horses , from the time of the early Frankish kings.-Usage and hierarchical...

)

Rank Collar insignia
Reichsführer
Reichsführer-SS
was a special SS rank that existed between the years of 1925 and 1945. Reichsführer-SS was a title from 1925 to 1933 and, after 1934, the highest rank of the German Schutzstaffel .-Definition:...

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Julius Schreck
Julius Schreck
Julius Schreck was an early Nazi Party member and also the first commander of the Schutzstaffel .-Biography:...

First Reichsführer SS
1925-1926.
Hitler's chauffeur
Later held the ranks of SS Standartenführer
Standartenführer
Standartenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in the so-called Nazi combat-organisations: SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK...

 and SS-Oberführer
Oberführer
Oberführer was an early paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party dating back to 1921. Translated as “Senior Leader”, an Oberführer was typically a Nazi Party member in charge of a group of paramilitary units in a particular geographical region...


Posthumously awarded the ranks SS Brigadeführer and SS Ehrenführer of the SS Regiment Munich
5 1925 53
Joseph Berchtold
Joseph Berchtold
Joseph Berchtold , a former stationery salesman, succeeded Julius Schreck as Reichsführer SS in 1926. He was the last surviving person to hold that position and the only one to survive World War II....

Second Reichsführer of the SS
1926-1927
August 1923 750
Erhard Heiden
Erhard Heiden
Erhard Heiden was an early member of the Nazi Party and the third commander of the Schutzstaffel . Heiden was a Nazi stormtrooper who, in 1925, joined a small stormtrooper bodyguard unit known as the Schutzstaffel...

Third Reichsführer SS
1927-1929
1925
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and the Minister of the Interior from 1943, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo...

Reichsführer SS
1929-1945
Chief of German Police
Minister of the Interior
Chief of the replacement Army
168 February 1925 14303
Karl Hanke
Karl Hanke
Karl August Hanke was an official of the National Socialist German Workers Party . He served as governor of Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945 and as the final Reichsführer-SS for a few days in 1945.- Early life :Hanke was born in Lauban in Silesia, on 24 August 1903, the son of a locomotive...

Final Reichsführer SS
1945
203013 25 February 1934 102606

Oberstgruppenführer (General
General
A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....

)

Rank Collar insignia
Oberstgruppenführer
Oberstgruppenführer
Oberst-Gruppenführer was the highest commissioned SS rank with the exception of Reichsführer-SS, which was a special rank held by Heinrich Himmler...

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Kurt Daluege
Kurt Daluege
Kurt Daluege was a German Nazi SS-Oberstgruppenführer and Generaloberst der Polizei as chief of the Ordnungspolizei and ruled the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia as Deputy Protector after Reinhard Heydrich's assassination.-Early life and career:Kurt Daluege, a son of a Prussian state official,...

Commander of the Ordnungspolizei
Ordnungspolizei
The Ordnungspolizei or Orpo were the uniformed regular police force in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1945. It was increasingly absorbed into the Nazi police system. Owing to their green uniforms, they were also referred to as Grüne Polizei...

1119 1928 31981
Sepp Dietrich Original commander of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) and later commander of the 6th SS Panzer Army 1177 5 May 1928 89015
Paul Hausser
Paul Hausser
Paul "Papa" Hausser was an officer in the German Army, achieving the high rank of lieutenant-general in the inter-war Reichswehr. After retirement from the regular Army he became the "father" of the Waffen-SS and one of its most eminent leaders...

Commander of the II SS Panzer Corps
II SS Panzer Corps
The II SS Panzer Corps was a Nazi German Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on both the Eastern and Western Fronts during World War II.- Formation - Kharkov :...

239795 February 1934 4158779
Franz Xaver Schwarz
Franz Xaver Schwarz
Franz Xaver Schwarz was a German politician who served as Reichsschatzmeister of the Nazi Party during most of the Party's existence.-Early life:...

NSDAP Treasurer 38500 16 September 1931 6

Obergruppenführer (Lieutenant General
General (Germany)
General is presently the highest rank of the German Army and Luftwaffe . It is the equivalent to the rank of Admiral in the German Navy .-Early history:...

)

Rank Collar insignia
Obergruppenführer
Obergruppenführer
Obergruppenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was first created in 1932 as a rank of the SA and until 1942 it was the highest SS rank inferior only to Reichsführer-SS...

(pre-1942:)
Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Friedrich Alpers
Friedrich Alpers
Friedrich Ludwig Herbert Alpers was a German Nazi politician, and SS leader. He was also a Minister of the Free State of Brunswick, and Minister for Forestry. Friedrich was responsible for numerous war crimes in Brunswick....

6427 March 1931 132812
Max Amann
Max Amann
Max Aman was a German Nazi official with the honorary rank of SS-Obergruppenführer, politician and journalist.-Biography:Amann was born in Munich on November 24, 1891...

Honorary SS Member. Party leader for the Reich of the Department Press 53143 3
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski
Erich von dem Bach
Erich Julius Eberhard von Zelewski or Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski , was a Nazi official and a member of the SS, in which he reached the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer .- Slavic origin :...

Higher SS and Police Leader of Central Russia 9831 489101
Herbert Backe
Herbert Backe
Herbert Backe was a German Nazi politician and Obergruppenführer in the SS.Backe was born in Batumi, Georgia, the son of a trader. He studied at the Tbilisi Gymnasium from 1905 and was interned on the outbreak of World War I as an enemy alien...

Minister of Agriculture 1944-1945 22766 1 October 1933 87882
Gottlob Berger
Gottlob Berger
Gottlob Berger was a German Nazi who held the rank of Obergruppenführer during World War II and was later convicted of war crimes.In 1939, he was Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's main recruiting officer...

Commander of the SS-Hauptamt
SS-Hauptamt
The SS-Hauptamt was the central command office of the German Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany until 1940.-Formation:...

275991 426875
Werner Best
Werner Best
Dr. Werner Best was a German Nazi, jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer and Nazi Party leader from Darmstadt, Hesse. He studied law and in 1927 obtained his doctorate degree at Heidelberg...

Reich Plenipotentiary of Denmark 23377 341338
Wilhelm Bittrich
Wilhelm Bittrich
Wilhelm Bittrich was an SS-Obergruppenführer and Waffen-SS General during World War II.-Overview:...

Waffen SS combat commander, II SS Panzerkorps 39177 1934 829700
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle was the leader of the Foreign Organization of the German Nazi Party from 1933 until 1945.-Early life:...

Leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party Foreign Organization
NSDAP/AO
The NSDAP/AO was the Foreign Organization branch of the National Socialist German Workers Party . AO is the abbreviation of the German compound word Auslands-Organisation...

276915 13 Sept 1933 999185
Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann
Martin Ludwig Bormann was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler...

Secretary of Hitler
Party leader for the Reich in charge of the NSDAP Chancellery
555 September 1929 60508
Philipp Bouhler
Philipp Bouhler
Philipp Bouhler was a senior Nazi Party official who was both a Reichsleiter and Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP...

Head of the Action T4
Action T4
Action T4 was the name used after World War II for Nazi Germany's eugenics-based "euthanasia" program during which physicians killed thousands of people who were "judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination"...


Party Leader for the Reich in charge of the Führer Chancellery
54932 12
Franz Breithaupt
Franz Breithaupt
SS Lt. General Franz Breithaupt was a German Nazi General who fought in World War I and was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross.-Biography:...

Commanding general of the SS and Police Courts 39719 1 December 1932 602663
Walter Buch
Walter Buch
Walter Buch was a German jurist and SS-Obergruppenführer war criminal, as well as being Martin Bormann's father in law.-Life:...

Party Leader for the Reich as Chairman of the Inquiry and Mediation Board 81353 1 July 1933 7733
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 248156
Karl-Maria Demelhuber
Karl-Maria Demelhuber
Karl-Maria Demelhuber was an Obergruppenführer in the Waffen-SS and a Heer officer who served in both World War I and II. During World War II, Demelhuber commanded the SS-Standarte Germania, 6. SS-Gebirgs-Division Nord, XII. SS-Armeekorps and XVI. SS-Armeekorps...

Commanded the SS-Standarte Germania
2nd SS Division Das Reich
The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich was a Waffen-SS division during World War II. It is considered to be an elite formation amongst the thirty-eight divisions fielded by the Waffen-SS....

, 6. SS-Gebirgs-Division Nord
6th SS Mountain Division Nord
The 6th SS Mountain Division "Nord" was a German unit of the Waffen SS during World War II, formed in February 1941 as SS Kampfgruppe Nord ....

, XII. SS-Armeekorps and XVI. SS-Armeekorps.
252392 15 March 1935 4439
Otto Dietrich
Otto Dietrich
Dr. Otto Dietrich was an SS-Obergruppenführer, the Third Reich's Press Chief, and a confidant of Adolf Hitler.-Biography:...

Party Leader for the Reich as NSDAP Press Chief
Honorary rank
101349 126727
Karl von Eberstein
Karl von Eberstein
Freiherr Freidrich Karl von Eberstein was a member of the German nobility, 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, introduced Reinhard Heydrich to Heinrich Himmler, and was a witness at the...

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 15067
Joachim Albrecht Eggeling
Joachim Albrecht Eggeling
Joachim Albrecht Leo Eggeling was the Nazi Gauleiter of Saxony and Anhalt and the High President of the Province of Halle-Merseburg.Eggeling was born in Blankenburg am Harz, Province of Saxony...

Gauleiter of Saxony and Anhalt
High President of Merseburg
186155 1935 11579
Theodor Eicke
Theodor Eicke
Theodor Eicke was a SS Obergruppenführer , commander of the SS-Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS and one of the key figures in the establishment of concentration camps in Nazi Germany. His Nazi Party number was 114,901 and his SS number was 2,921...

Commander of the SS Totenkopf Division 2921 August 1930 114901
Karl Fiehler
Karl Fiehler
Karl Fiehler was a German politician of the Nazi Party and Lord Mayor of Munich from 1933 until 1945...

Lord mayor of Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

/Party Leader of the Reich in charge of the communal policy
91724 31 July 1933 37
Albert Forster
Albert Forster
Albert Maria Forster was a Nazi German politician. Under his administration as the Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia during the Second World War, the local non-German population suffered ethnic cleansing, mass murder, and forceful Germanisation...

Gauleiter of Danzig
Karl Hermann Frank
Karl Hermann Frank
Karl Hermann Frank was a prominent Sudeten German Nazi official in Czechoslovakia prior to and during World War II and an SS-Obergruppenführer...

Higher SS and Police Leader of Bohemia and Moravia 310460 6600002
August Frank
August Frank
August Frank was an official of the Main Economic Administration Office of the Nazi SS generally known by its initials WVHA. WVHA was, among other things, responsible for the administration of the Nazi concentration camps...

5669 1471185
Herbert Otto Gille
Herbert Otto Gille
Herbert Otto Gille was a German general, and as a winner of the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds and of the German Cross in Gold, the most highly decorated member of the Waffen SS during World War II...

Waffen SS commander 39854 537337
Curt von Gottberg
Curt von Gottberg
Curt von Gottberg was a Nazi official and military commander. Beginning in October 1942, within a few years he had personally combined the highest civil and military powers in occupied Belarus: from March 1943 as representative of the HSSPF for central Russia, and from October 1943 as the acting...

Also General der Waffen-SS 45.923 September 1932 948.753
Ernst-Robert Grawitz
Ernst-Robert Grawitz
Ernst-Robert Grawitz was a German physician in Nazi Germany during World War II.- Early life :Grawitz was born in Charlottenburg, in the western part of Berlin, Germany.- Career :...

Also General of Waffen SS; Reichsarzt SS and Polizei; Head of German red Cross; son in law of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Siegfried Taubert November 1931
Ulrich Greifelt
Ulrich Greifelt
Ulrich Heinrich Emil Richard Greifelt was an officer of the Schutzstaffel during the Nazi regime in Germany. He was found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg and died in Landsberg Prison.-Biography:Greifelt was born in Berlin in 1896, the son of a pharmacist...

72909 1667407
Arthur Greiser
Arthur Greiser
Arthur Greiser was a Nazi German politician and SS Obergruppenfuhrer. He was one of the persons primarily responsible for organizing the Holocaust in Poland and numerous other war crimes and crimes against humanity, for which he was tried, convicted and executed by hanging after World War...

Gauleiter
Gauleiter
A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau.-Creation and Early Usage:...

 of Reichsgau Wartheland
Reichsgau Wartheland
Reichsgau Wartheland was a Nazi German Reichsgau formed from Polish territory annexed in 1939. It comprised the Greater Poland and adjacent areas, and only in part matched the area of the similarly named pre-Versailles Prussian province of Posen...

10795 1929 166635
Karl Gutenberger 372303 25249
August Heissmeyer
August Heissmeyer
August Heißmeyer was a leading member of the SS. After the World War II, he was sentenced to a prison term as a war criminal. His nephew, Kurt Heissmeyer, an SS physician, was as well.-Life:After finishing school, Heißmeyer joined the Prussian military...

Commander of the SS Education Department 4370 21573
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf was a leading figure in the Nazi regime.-Early life:Helldorf was born in Merseburg, a landowner's son, Helldorf served as a lieutenant from 1915 in the First World War, and from 1918 was a member of the Prussian state assembly.-Berlin chief of police:Already by...

Not member of SS, but wore the uniform of an SS Obergruppenführer uniform in his capacity as Polizeipresident Berlin
SA Obergruppenführer
None
Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a prominent Nazi politician who was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party during the 1930s and early 1940s...

Also Deputy-Führer of the NSDAP until 1941 50 1 November 1925 16
Konrad Henlein
Konrad Henlein
Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein was a leading pro-Nazi ethnic German politician in Czechoslovakia and leader of Sudeten German separatists...

Gauleiter
Gauleiter
A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau.-Creation and Early Usage:...

 of the Sudetenland
Sudetenland
Sudetenland is the German name used in English in the first half of the 20th century for the northern, southwest and western regions of Czechoslovakia inhabited mostly by ethnic Germans, specifically the border areas of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia being within Czechoslovakia.The...

310307 6600001
Maximilian von Herff
Maximilian von Herff
Maximilian von Herff was a German Schutzstaffel general from Hanover.Herff served as an officer of the Reichswehr in the First World War, attaining the rank of colonel and winning the Iron Cross First and Second Class. During the Second World War, Herff served in North Africa as commander of the...

Commander of the SS Personnel Department 405 894 1 April 1942 8858661
Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich , also known as The Hangman, was a high-ranking German Nazi official.He was SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office and Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia...

Chief of the RSHA
RSHA
The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt was an organization subordinate to Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacities as Chef der Deutschen Polizei and Reichsführer-SS...

; President of Interpol; chaired the 1942 Wannsee Conference
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of Departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews, that Reinhard Heydrich...

; Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
10120 14 July 1931 544916
Richard Hildebrandt
Richard Hildebrandt
Richard Hermann Hildebrandt was a politician in Nazi Germany and member of the Reichstag, and an SS-Obergruppenführer. From 1943 until his capture in 1945, he led the SS-Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt , the Office of Race and Settlement of the SS...

Led the SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt 7088 89221
Karl Höfer
Karl Höfer
Karl Höfer was a German officer. During World War I he became known as the Held vom Kemmelberge for his actions at the Kemmelberg....

Oldest member of SS-born 29 December 1862 276 338.
Hermann Höfle
Hermann Höfle (SS general)
Hermann Höfle was a German SS-Obergruppenführer, General of the Waffen-SS and police, and SS and Police Leader ....

Higher SS and Police Leader in Slovakia 463903 3924970
Ulrich Greifelt
Ulrich Greifelt
Ulrich Heinrich Emil Richard Greifelt was an officer of the Schutzstaffel during the Nazi regime in Germany. He was found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg and died in Landsberg Prison.-Biography:Greifelt was born in Berlin in 1896, the son of a pharmacist...

Reich commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism 72909 1667407
Friedrich Jeckeln
Friedrich Jeckeln
Friedrich Jeckeln was an SS-Obergruppenführer who served as an SS and Police Leader in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II...

Higher SS and Police Leader of Eastern Russia 4367 12 January 1930 163348
Hans Jüttner
Hans Jüttner
Hans Jüttner was head of the SS's Main Leadership Office and also an SS Obergruppenführer.-Early life and career:...

Commander of the SS-Führungshauptamt 264497 541163
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Ernst Kaltenbrunner was an Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany during World War II. Between January 1943 and May 1945, he held the offices of Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt , President of Interpol and, as a Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei und Waffen-SS, he was the...

Second Chief of the RSHA
RSHA
The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt was an organization subordinate to Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacities as Chef der Deutschen Polizei and Reichsführer-SS...

 after Heydrich's assassination
13039 300179
Hans Kammler
Hans Kammler
General Dr Ing. Hans Friedrich Karl Franz Kammler was a civil engineer and high-ranking officer of the SS. He oversaw SS construction projects, and towards the end of World War II was put in charge of the V-2 missile programme.He is most commonly referred to as Heinz Kammler or Hans...

Head of V-2
V-2 rocket
The V-2 rocket , technical name Aggregat-4 , was a ballistic missile that was developed at the beginning of the Second World War in Germany, specifically targeted at London and later Antwerp. The liquid-propellant rocket was the world's first long-range combat-ballistic missile and first known...

 program
113619 20 May 1933 1011855
Jürgen von Kamptz 292714 1258905
Georg Keppler
Georg Keppler
Georg Keppler was an SS-Obergruppenführer , a Heer and Polizei officer who served in both World War I and World War II. During World War II, Keppler commanded the 2. SS-Division Das Reich, 3. SS-Division Totenkopf, I. SS-Panzerkorps, III. SS-Panzerkorps and the XVIII.SS-Armee-Korps...

273799 10 October 1935 338211
Wilhelm Karl Keppler Secretary of state in Foreign Office 50816 62424
Matthias Kleinheisterkamp
Matthias Kleinheisterkamp
Matthias Kleinheisterkamp was an SS Obergruppenführer and a Heer officer who served in both World War I and World War II. During World War II, Kleinheisterkamp commanded the 3. SS-Division Totenkopf, 6. SS-Gebirgs-Division Nord, 2. SS-Division Das Reich, III. SS-Panzerkorps, VII. SS-Panzerkops,...

Waffen SS Divisional and Corps Commander 132399 8 January 1934 4158838
Kurt Knoblauch 266653 2750158
Wilhelm Koppe
Wilhelm Koppe
Wilhelm Koppe was a German Nazi commander who was responsible for numerous atrocities against Poles and Jews in Reichsgau Wartheland and the General Government during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.-Biography:Born in Hildesheim, he fought in the First World War...

Höhere SS und Polizei Führer, HSSP
SS and Police Leader
SS and Police Leader was a title for senior Nazi officials that commanded large units of the SS, of Gestapo and of the regular German police during and prior to World War II.Three levels of subordination were established for bearers of this title:...

25955 2 January 1932 305584
Paul ("Pilli") Körner Staatssekretär 714 328 1931 714328
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
IV SS Panzer Corps
The IV.SS-Panzerkorps was a German Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on the Eastern Front and in the Balkans during World War II.The Panzerkorps was formed in August, 1943 in Poitiers, France...


VI SS Panzer Corps
266184 3991530
Hans Lammers
Hans Lammers
Dr.jur. Hans Heinrich Lammers was a German jurist and prominent Nazi politician. From 1933 until 1945 he served as head of the Reich Chancellery under Adolf Hitler....

Minister of the Reich/Head of the Reich Chancellery
Reich Chancellery
The Reich Chancellery was the traditional name of the office of the Chancellor of Germany in the period of the German Reich from 1871 to 1945...


Honorary rank
118404 1010355
Werner Lorenz
Werner Lorenz
Werner Lorenz was SS head of the Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the German Reich from other parts of Europe.-Early life:...

Commander of the Office of Ethnic Germanization (SS-Hauptamt Volkdeutsche Mittelstelle) 6636 1931 337994
Benno Martin
Benno Martin
Benno Martin was a Gestapo chief, SS-Obergruppenführer, General of the Waffen-SS and Police and Higher SS leader in Nuremberg. He was also a member of the Nazi party, joining in 1933, a year before joining the SS Benno Martin ( Kaiserslautern February 12, 1893 - July 2, 1975 Munich ) was a...

187117 10 April 1934 2714474
Dr Heinrich von Maur Born 19 July 1863. Char. General der Artillerie
Regional leader of the NS-Reichskriegerbund (Veterans World War I NS association) in Wurttemberg
276907 5890310
Emil Mazuw
Emil Mazuw
Emil Mazuw, formerly Emil Maschuw, wasLandeshauptmann of the Province of Pomerania from 1940 to 1945. He was a member of the SS since 1933...

2556 7 June 1930 85231
Konstantin von Neurath
Konstantin von Neurath
Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath was a German diplomat remembered mostly for having served as Foreign minister of Germany between 1932 and 1938...

German Foreign Minister 1932-1938 1937
Carl Oberg
Carl Oberg
General Carl Albrecht Oberg was the Higher SS and Police Leader of France during the Second World War.- Nazi career :...

Higher SS and Police Leader of France 36075 7 April 1932 575205
Günther Pancke
Günther Pancke
Günther Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Pancke was an SS-Obergruppenführer and the Higher SS and Police Leader of Denmark....

Higher SS and Police Leader of Denmark
Waffen-SS General
10110 1931 282737
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch
Karl Pfeffer Wildenbruch was a staff officer of the German General Staff during World War I and a 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, he was awarded the...

292713 1364387
Artur Phleps
Artur Phleps
Artur Martin Phleps was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian and German officer who held the rank of Obergruppenführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II. An Austro-Hungarian Army officer in World War I, he served in the Romanian Army during the interwar period, before joining the military forces...

Commander of the 7.SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division Prinz Eugen
7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen
The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen. was formed on March 1942 from Volksdeutsche volunteers from Vojvodina, Croatia, Hungary and Romania, it was initially called the SS-Freiwilligen-Division Prinz Eugen....

401214 30 June 1941
Oswald Pohl
Oswald Pohl
Oswald Pohl was a Nazi official and member of the SS , involved in the mass murders of Jews in concentration camps, the so-called Final Solution.-Early years:...

Chief of the SS Economics and Administration Office (WVHA
SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt
The SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt was responsible for managing the finances, supply systems and business projects for the Allgemeine-SS...

)
147614 1933 30842
Hans-Adolf Prützmann
Hans-Adolf Prützmann
Hans-Adolf Prützmann was a Superior SS and Police Leader, as well as an SS Obergruppenführer...

Also held rank as General der Polizei und Waffen-SS; Commander of Kampfgruppe Prützmann, HöSSPF (Ukraine, Rußland-Süd, Ostland und Rußland-Nord, Nordost, Nordwest), SS-Oberabschnitt Südwest; Generalinspekteur für Spezialabwehr (General Inspector of Special Defense) Werwolf
Werwolf
Werwolf was the name given to a Nazi plan, which began development in 1944, to create a commando force which would operate behind enemy lines as the Allies advanced through Germany itself. Werwolf remained entirely ineffectual as a combat force, however, and in practical terms, its value as...

3002 12 August 1930 142290
Rudolf Querner
Rudolf Querner
Rudolf Querner was an SS-Obergruppenführer as well as a General in the Waffen-SS and the police.-Early life:...

308240 22 May 1938 2385386
Hanns Albin Rauter
Hanns Albin Rauter
Johann Baptist Albin Rauter was a high-ranking Austrian Nazi war criminal. He was the highest SS and Police Leader in the occupied Netherlands and therefore the leading security and police officer there during the period of 1940-1945...

SS and Police Leader
SS and Police Leader
SS and Police Leader was a title for senior Nazi officials that commanded large units of the SS, of Gestapo and of the regular German police during and prior to World War II.Three levels of subordination were established for bearers of this title:...

 in the Netherlands
262958 Joined Austrian Nazi Party
Wilhelm Rediess
Wilhelm Rediess
Wilhelm Rediess was the SS and Police Leader during the German occupation of Norway in the Second World War. He was also the commanding General of all SS troops stationed in occupied Norway, assuming command on 22 June 1940 until his death in 1945.- Early life :Rediess was born in Heinsberg,...

SS and Police Leader
SS and Police Leader
SS and Police Leader was a title for senior Nazi officials that commanded large units of the SS, of Gestapo and of the regular German police during and prior to World War II.Three levels of subordination were established for bearers of this title:...

 in Norway
2839 22 July 1930 25574
Wilhelm Reinhard 274104 63074
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop was Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945. He was later hanged for war crimes after the Nuremberg Trials.-Early life:...

Foreign minister 1938 - 1945 63083 February 1938 1199927
Erwin Rösener
Erwin Rösener
Erwin Friedrich Karl Rösener was an SS-Obergruppenführer who was responsible for mass executions of civilians in Slovenia and was posthumously on the indictment at the Nuremberg Trials for war crimes....

Higher SS and Police Leader
SS and Police Leader
SS and Police Leader was a title for senior Nazi officials that commanded large units of the SS, of Gestapo and of the regular German police during and prior to World War II.Three levels of subordination were established for bearers of this title:...

 SS-Oberabschnitt 'Alpenland' (Wehrkreis XVIII; HQ: Salzburg
Salzburg
-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...

)
24 Nov 1941-8 May 1945
3575 1930 46771
Ernst Sachs Inspector of the SS Signals 278781 4167008
Fritz Sauckel
Fritz Sauckel
Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel was a Nazi war criminal, who organized the systematic enslavement of millions from lands occupied by Nazi Germany...

Honorary rank
Gauleiter of NSDAP Gau of Thuringia
254890 1395
Paul Scharfe
Paul Scharfe
Paul Scharfe was Chief of the SS Legal Services. He was an SS judge and head of the SS court which was separate from civil and military courts. He joined the NSDAP party as member 665696 and the SS as member 14220. He was the recipient of the SS Honor Ring...

Commander of the SS Legal Office
Julius Schaub
Julius Schaub
Julius Schaub wasthe chief aide and adjutant of German dictator Adolf Hitler at the end of World War II....

Co-founder of the SS, personal assistant to Hitler 7 February 1925 81
Fritz Schleßmann 2480 25248
Heinrich Schmauser 3359 215704
Walter Schmitt 28737 592784
Oskar Schwerk Regional leader of the NS-Reichskriegerbund (NS Association for Veterans) for Silesia 276825 5420196
Fritz von Scholz
Fritz von Scholz
Fritz von Scholz, Edler von Rerancze, known as Fritz von Scholz was an Austrian Austro-Hungarian Army and later German Waffen SS officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars....

Commander of 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland
11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland
The 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland, also known as Kampfverband Waräger, Germanische-Freiwilligen-Division, SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 11 or 11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Nordland, was a Waffen SS, Panzergrenadier division recruited from foreign volunteers...

135638 1937 1304071
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Arthur Seyss-Inquart was a Chancellor of Austria, lawyer and later Nazi official in pre-Anschluss Austria, the Third Reich and for wartime Germany in Poland and the Netherlands...

Leader of NS opposition in Austria prior Anschluss, Deputy governor-general of Poland then Commissaire for the Reich in Netherlands 292771 6270392
Felix Steiner
Felix Steiner
Felix Martin Julius Steiner was a German Reichswehr and Waffen-SS officer who served in both World War I and World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords...

Commander of III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps
III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps
The III SS Panzer Corps was a German Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on the Eastern Front during World War II. The The III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps (III. (germanische) SS-Panzerkorps) was a German Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on the Eastern Front during World War II. The...

253351 4264295
Siegfried Taubert Also General der Waffen-SS 23128 525246
Prince Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont was the heir apparent to the throne of the Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont and a General in the SS. From 1946 until his death he was the head of the Princely House 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
Fritz Weitzel
Fritz Weitzel was a German SS Obergruppenführer.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
Otto Winkelmann 308238 1373131
Karl Wolff
Karl Wolff
Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff was a high-ranking member of the Nazi Schutzstaffel , ultimately holding the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS. He became Chief of Personal Staff to the Reichsführer and SS Liaison Officer to Hitler until his replacement in 1943...

Chief of staff to Heinrich Himmler and Supreme SS and Police Leader of Italy 14235 7 October 1931 695131
Udo von Woyrsch
Udo von Woyrsch
Udo Gustav Wilhelm Egon von Woyrsch was a high ranking Nazi, who rose to the rank of SS Obergruppenführer and was responsible for numerous murders during The Holocaust.- Early life :...

Higher SS and Police Leader in the SS-Oberabschnitt Sudost 3689 162349
Alfred Wünnenberg
Alfred Wünnenberg
Alfred Bernhard Julius Ernst Wünnenberg was SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen SS and the commander of the 4th SS Polizei Panzer Grenadier Division during World War II who was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves.-World War I:Alfred Wünnenberg was born on 20 July 1891 at Sarrebourg,...

405898 2222600

Gruppenführer (Major General)

Rank Collar insignia
Gruppenführer
Gruppenführer
Gruppenführer was an early paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party, first created in 1925 as a senior rank of the SA.-SS rank:...

(pre-1942:)
Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Ludolf von Alvensleben
Ludolf von Alvensleben
Ludolf-Hermann Emmanuel Georg Kurt Werner von Alvensleben was a Nazi official in the rank of SS-Gruppenführer and Major General of the Police. His familiar name was "Bubi" .- Background :...

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 177002 149345
Hans Baur
Hans Baur
General Hans Baur was German dictator Adolf Hitler's pilot during his political campaigns of the 1920s and 1930s...

Generalleutenant der Polizei
Hitler's Pilot
808258 None, but received Golden Party Badge
Golden Party Badge
The Golden Party Badge was a special badge of the Nazi Party. The first 100,000 members who had joined and had uninterrupted service in the Party were given the right to wear it...

Albert Ritter Von Beck Regional leader of the NS association for Veterans in Bavaria (NS-Reichskriegerbund) 153322 1937 5354436
Karl Brandt
Karl Brandt (Nazi physician)
Karl Brandt was a German Nazi war criminal. He rose to the rank of SS-Gruppenführer in the Allgemeine-SS and SS-Brigadeführer in the Waffen-SS. Among other positions, Brandt headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939 onwards and was selected as Adolf Hitler's personal...

Hitler's physician 260.353 29 July 1934 1.009.617
Carl Clauberg
Carl Clauberg
Carl Clauberg was a German medical doctor who conducted medical experiments on human beings in Nazi concentration camps during World War II...

Involved in human experiments 23876 21635
Hermann Fegelein
Hermann Fegelein
SS-Obergruppenführer Hans Georg Otto Hermann Fegelein was a General of the Waffen-SS in Nazi Germany, a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage, brother-in-law to Eva Braun through his marriage to her sister, Gretl, and husband of the sister-in-law to Adolf Hitler through Hitler's marriage to Eva...

SS-Cavalry General, Eva Braun's brother-in-law/Commander of the 8th SS Cavalry Division 66.680 1931 1,200,158
Bruno Erich Alfred Freyberg Oberburgermiester of Leipzig
Leipzig
Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

Josef Fitzthum
Josef Fitzthum
Josef Fitzthum Josef Fitzthum Josef Fitzthum (September 14, 1896, Loimersdorf, Lower Austria — January 10, 1945, Wiener Neudorf, was a senior SS Gruppenführer, Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei, politician, and Beauftragter des Reichsführer-SS Albanien (special representative of the...

SS Gruppenführer, Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei, politician, and Beauftragter des Reichsführer-SS Albanien (special representative of the Reichsführer SS in Albania) 41,936 1932 363 169
Karl Gebhardt
Karl Gebhardt
Karl Gebhardt was a German medical doctor; personal physician of Heinrich Himmler; and one of the main coordinators and perpetrators of surgical experiments performed on inmates of the concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz.-Career in the Third Reich:Gebhardt's Nazi career began with his...

"Reichsarzt-SS"; also a Major General (Generalmajor) in the Waffen SS 265894 1935 1723317
Odilo Globocnik
Odilo Globocnik
Odilo Lotario Globocnik was a prominent Austrian Nazi and later an SS leader. He was an acquaintance of Adolf Eichmann, who played a major role in the extermination of Jews and others during the Holocaust...

Higher SS and Police Leader of the Adriatic Region/Head of Operation Reinhard
Operation Reinhard
Operation Reinhard was the code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the General Government, and marked the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the use of extermination camps...

Richard Glücks
Richard Glücks
Richard Glücks was a high-ranking Nazi official. He attained the rank of a SS-Gruppenführer and a Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS and from 1939 until the end of World War II was the head of Amt D: Konzentrationslagerwesen of the WVHA; the highest-ranking Concentration Camps Inspector in Nazi...

Inspector of Concentration Camps/Amt D WVHA
SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt
The SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt was responsible for managing the finances, supply systems and business projects for the Allgemeine-SS...

58706 1932 214805
Wilhelm Harster
Wilhelm Harster
Wilhelm Harster was an SS and Police Leader. He was twice convicted of war crimes, by the Dutch and later by West Germany...

GeneralLeutnant of Police; although unable to join post war BND
Bundesnachrichtendienst
The Bundesnachrichtendienst [ˌbʊndəsˈnaːχʁɪçtnˌdiːnst] is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinated to the Chancellor's Office. Its headquarters are in Pullach near Munich, and Berlin . The BND has 300 locations in Germany and foreign countries...

 recommended SS contacts to BND as potential agents
225932 9 Nov 1933 3226594
Hans Hinkel
Hans Hinkel
Hans Hinkel was a German journalist and ministerial official in Nazi Germany....

Journalist and commissioner at the Reich Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda
Otto Hofmann
Otto Hofmann
Otto Hofmann was an Austrian SS-Gruppenführer and an official of Nazi Germany's "Race and Settlement Main Office".-Early life:Hofmann was born in Innsbruck, Tyrol. He served as a military pilot in World War I...

Head of RuSHA 1943
SS and Police Leader Southwest Germany
7646 1931 145729
Fritz Katzmann
Fritz Katzmann
Fritz Katzmann was a SS-Gruppenführer and Polizei leader who perpetrated genocide in Lemberg , Danzig, and the District of Galicia during The Holocaust. Katzmann was responsible for many of the atrocities that were perpetrated in the District of Galicia...

Higher SS and Police Leader in Lemberg (Lwów); Galicia; and Danzig-West Prussia 3065 1 July 1930 98528
Wilhelm Kube
Wilhelm Kube
Wilhelm Kube was a German politician and Nazi official. He was an important figure in the German Christian movement during the early years of Nazi rule. During the war he became a senior official in the occupying government of the Soviet Union, achieving the rank of Generalkommissar for...

General-Kommissar for Weissruthenien (now known as Belarus) 1934
Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper
Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper
Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper was a Nazi politician and a Nazi Gauleiter in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.- Life :...

Honorary rank; Gauleiter of the NS Gau Magdeburg Anhalt
Paul Moder Senator of Altona, Hamburg
Altona, Hamburg
Altona is the westernmost urban borough of the German city state of Hamburg, on the right bank of the Elbe river. From 1640 to 1864 Altona was under the administration of the Danish monarchy. Altona was an independent city until 1937...

; Strummbanfuhrer in Waffen-SS; SS-und Polizeiführer {Warsaw}
11716 1 September 1931 9425
Heinrich Müller Commander of the Gestapo
Gestapo
The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...

 (Secret State Police), Amt IV (Department IV) of the RSHA
107043 20 April 1934 533199
Artur Nebe Commander of the Kriminalpolizei
Kriminalpolizei
is the standard term for the criminal investigation agency within the police forces of Germany, Austria and the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland. In Nazi Germany during 1936, the Kripo became the Criminal Police Department for the entire Reich...

 (Criminal Police), Amt V (Department V) of the RSHA
280152
Otto Ohlendorf
Otto Ohlendorf
Otto Ohlendorf was a German SS-Gruppenführer and head of the Inland-SD , a section of the SD. Ohlendorf was the commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe D, which conducted mass murder in Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and, during 1942, the north Caucasus...

Commander of the Inland-SD, Amt III (Department III) of the RSHA 880 28 MAy 1925 6531
Johann Rattenhuber
Johann Rattenhuber
Johann Rattenhuber , also known as Hans Rattenhuber, was a German police and SS general . Rattenhuber was the head of German dictator Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard from 1933 to 1945.-Biography:Rattenhuber was born in Munich, where he made a career as a police officer...

Commander of the Reichssicherheitsdienst
Reichssicherheitsdienst
The Reichssicherheitsdienst was an SS security force of Nazi Germany. Originally the personal bodyguards of Adolf Hitler, it later provided men for the protection of other high-ranking leaders of the Nazi regime...

 (RSD); (Hitler bodyguard unit)
52877 1 May 1933 3212449
Dr. Carl Retzlaff Generalmajor der Polizei; Kommandeur Schupo Hamburg 1935 337770
Heinz Reinefarth
Heinz Reinefarth
Heinrich Reinefarth was a German military officer during and government official after World War II. During the Warsaw Uprising his troops committed numerous war atrocities. After the war Reinefarth became the mayor of the town of Westerland and member of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag...

Waffen-SS and Police General/Senior SS and Police Leader in Wartheland (former polish Posnania) 56.634 December 1932 1,268,933
Alfred Rodenbucher Higher SS and Police Leader in Wurttemberg Stuttgart 8229 413 447
Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig
Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig
Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig was a German Wehrmacht General who transferred to the Waffen-SS during World War II and led the "13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar" over 1943 and 1944. Sauberzweig was a bespectacled Prussian career army officer who had earned an Iron Cross in his late teens...

2nd Commander of 13th Waffen SS Division
Walter Schimana
Walter Schimana
Walter Schimana was a German Nazi Party and SS member, who rose to General rank during World War II, and was HSSPF in occupied Greece from October 1943.- Early life :Schimana was born in Troppau, then part of Austria-Hungary, the son of a newspaper editor...

SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei
SSPF for Central Russia; and HSSPF for Greece; and Danube Sector
1934 49402
Max Simon
Max Simon
Max Simon was a German SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS during World War II, who was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves. Simon was a private in the Prussian Army during World War I and was one of the first members of the SS in the early 1930s...

SS-Gruppenführer (Major General) und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS 83086 May 1933 1350576
Jakob Sporrenberg
Jakob Sporrenberg
Jakob Sporrenberg was a SS Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei in Minsk, Russia and Lublin, Poland.-Biography:Jakob Sporrenberg was born on 16 September 1902 in Düsseldorf, Germany....

SS Gruppenführer (Major General) und Generalleutnant der Polizei in Minsk Russia and Lubin Poland 3.809 1 October 1930 25.585
Walter Staudinger SS-Gruppenführer (Major General) und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; Artillery commander of LSSAH 252 652 3 201 960
Jürgen Stroop
Jürgen Stroop
Jürgen Stroop, , was a high-ranking Nazi Party and Gestapo official during World War II. In 1952, he was extradited to Poland, convicted of war crimes, and hanged.-Early life:Jürgen Stroop was born in Detmold, in the Principality of Lippe, German Empire, the son of a police officer...

SS and Police Leader of Warsaw; later senior SS and Police leader in Greece 1932

Brigadeführer (Brigadier General
Brigadier General
Brigadier general is a senior rank in the armed forces. It is the lowest ranking general officer in some countries, usually sitting between the ranks of colonel and major general. When appointed to a field command, a brigadier general is typically in command of a brigade consisting of around 4,000...

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Rank Collar insignia
Brigadeführer
Brigadeführer
SS-Brigadeführer was an SS rank that was used in Nazi Germany between the years of 1932 and 1945. Brigadeführer was also an SA rank....

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Otto Abetz
Otto Abetz
Dr. Heinrich Otto Abetz was the German ambassador to Vichy France during World War II.-Early years:Abetz was born in Schwetzingen on May 26, 1903. He was the son of an estate manager, who died when Otto was only 13...

German ambassador to Vichy France
Vichy France
Vichy France, Vichy Regime, or Vichy Government, are common terms used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers from July 1940 to August 1944. This government succeeded the Third Republic and preceded the Provisional Government of the French Republic...

253.314 1 August 1935 7.011.453
Franz Augsberger
Franz Augsberger
Franz Xaver Josef Maria Augsberger was a Brigadeführer of the Waffen-SS.-Early life:Franz Augsberger was the son of a hotel owner in Vienna, then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...

Also Generalmajor der Waffen-SS-20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) 139 528 20 April 1932 360 700
Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Count Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen was a German politician and German Resistance figure.Born in Berlin, he was a grandson of the Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. He was a member of the Nazi Party and in 1933 he was elected to the Reichstag as a Nazi member...

Member of the Reichstag
Reichstag (Weimar Republic)
The Reichstag was the parliament of Weimar Republic .German constitution commentators consider only the Reichstag and now the Bundestag the German parliament. Another organ deals with legislation too: in 1867-1918 the Bundesrat, in 1919–1933 the Reichsrat and from 1949 on the Bundesrat...

; chairman of the regional council (Regierungspräsident) for Stettin, and later also for Potsdam.
Hugo Blaschke
Hugo Blaschke
Dr Hugo Johannes Blaschke was a German dental surgeon notable for being Adolf Hitler’s personal dentist from 1933 to April 1945 and for being the chief dentist on the staff of Heinrich Himmler with the rank of SS Brigadeführer.Blaschke was born in Neustadt and studied dentistry in Berlin and at...

Hitler's dentist. Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen SS 256882 2 May 1935 452082
Léon Degrelle
Léon Degrelle
Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle was a Walloon Belgian politician, who founded Rexism and later joined the Waffen SS which were front-line troops in the fight against the Soviet Union...

Promoted by Himmler to this rank on 2 May 1945 (unofficial)/Commander of the Waffen SS division "Wallonie" None 1 June 1943
Anton Dunckern
Anton Dunckern
Anton Leonhard Dunckern was a German SS-General.- Life :Born the son of a judicial bailiff Dunckern grew up in Munich...

Commander of the Security Police and SD in Occupied Lorraine (Metz)/Also Generalmajor der Polizei 3526 315601
Johannes Engel Reichsamtsleiter
Karl Genzken
Karl Genzken
Karl August Genzken , a physician, he conducted human experiments on prisoners of several concentration camps. He was a Major General of the Waffen-SS and the Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS...

Chief of Medical Office of the Waffen-SS
Waffen-SS
The Waffen-SS was a multi-ethnic and multi-national military force of the Third Reich. It constituted the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel or SS, an organ of the Nazi Party. The Waffen-SS saw action throughout World War II and grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions, and served alongside...

207954 5 November 1933 39913
Ulrich Graf (Nazi) Hitler's Bodyguard 26 8
Heinz Jost
Heinz Jost
Heinz Jost was an SS Brigadeführer and a Generalmajor of Police...

SD officer and original Chief of the Ausland-SD, Amt VI (Department VI) of the RSHA
& Commander of Einsatzkommando
Einsatzkommando
During World War II, the Nazi German Einsatzkommandos were a sub-group of five Einsatzgruppen mobile killing squads—up to 3,000 men each—usually composed of 500-1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to kill Jews, Romani, communists and the NKVD collaborators in the captured...

 A
36243 25 July 1934 75946
Franz Josef Huber Also served as a Generalmajor der Polizei 107099 4583151
Bronislaw Kaminski
Bronislaw Kaminski
Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski was the commander of the S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A. , an anti-partisan formation made up of people from the so-called Lokot Autonomy territory in the Nazi Germany occupied areas of Russia, which was later...

Commander of Kaminski Brigade
Fritz Kranefuss
Fritz Kranefuss
Friedrich Carl Arthur Kranefuß , known as Fritz Kranefuß, was a German industrialist and a Wehrwirtschaftsführer in the Third Reich....

Head of Financial Department under Himmler 53092 964992
Christian Peder Kryssing
Christian Peder Kryssing
Christian Peder Kryssing , commonly known as C.P. Kryssing, was a Danish artillery officer and an ardent anti-communist but not a member of the Danish Nazi party, DNSAP....

Commander of Frikorps Danmark
Frikorps Danmark
Free Corps Denmark was a Danish volunteer free corps created by the Danish Nazi Party in cooperation with Germany, to fight the Soviet Union during the Second World War. On June 29, 1941, days after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the DNSAP's newspaper Fædrelandet proclaimed the creation...

 and SS-Kampfgruppe Kueste
Franz Kutschera
Franz Kutschera
Franz Kutschera was an SS General and Gauleiter of Carinthia...

SS General
General
A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....

 and Gauleiter
Gauleiter
A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau.-Creation and Early Usage:...

 of Carinthia
Carinthia (state)
Carinthia is the southernmost Austrian state or Land. Situated within the Eastern Alps it is chiefly noted for its mountains and lakes.The main language is German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Austro-Bavarian group...

. SS and Police Leader
SS and Police Leader
SS and Police Leader was a title for senior Nazi officials that commanded large units of the SS, of Gestapo and of the regular German police during and prior to World War II.Three levels of subordination were established for bearers of this title:...

 of the Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

's Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

 district, and a Major-General of the police
19659 1 November 1931 363031
Gustav Lombard
Gustav Lombard
Gustav Lombard was an SS Brigadeführer who served in World War II. During World War II, Lombard commanded the 8. SS-Division Florian Geyer, 23. SS-Mountain Division Kama and the 31. SS-Volunteer Grenadier Division...

SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS 185.023 May 1933 2.649.630
Kurt "Panzermeyer" Meyer
Kurt Meyer (Panzermeyer)
Kurt Meyer, nicknamed "Panzermeyer", served as an officer in the Waffen-SS during the Second World War. He saw action in many major battles, including the Invasion of France, Operation Barbarossa, and the Battle of Normandy.Meyer was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and...

Noted for his command of 1st SS Reconnaissance Battalion (LSSAH) and later the Waffen SS division commander of 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend
12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend
The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend was a German Waffen SS armoured division during World War II. The Hitlerjugend was unique because the majority of its junior enlisted men were drawn from members of the Hitler Youth, while the senior NCOs and officers were generally veterans of the Eastern...

.
17 559 15 October 1931 316 714
Wilhelm Mohnke
Wilhelm Mohnke
SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke was one of the original 120 members of the SS-Staff Guard "Berlin" formed in March 1933. From those ranks, Mohnke rose to become one of Adolf Hitler's last remaining generals.Mohnke saw action with the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler in France, Poland...

Waffen SS divisional commander and (Kommandant) Battle Commander for the defence of the central government district (Zitadelle sector) that included the Reich Chancellery
Reich Chancellery
The Reich Chancellery was the traditional name of the office of the Chancellor of Germany in the period of the German Reich from 1871 to 1945...

 and Führerbunker
Führerbunker
The Führerbunker was located beneath Hitler's New Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. It was part of a subterranean bunker complex which was constructed in two major phases, one part in 1936 and the other in 1943...

 during the Battle of Berlin
Battle of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European Theatre of World War II....

15541 1 September 1931 649984
Hans Nieland
Hans Nieland
Hans Heinrich Nieland was a politician of the German Nazi-Party and Lord Mayor of Dresden from 1940 until 1945.- Life :...

Lord Mayor of Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

61702 33333
Walter Schellenberg
Walter Schellenberg
Walther Friedrich Schellenberg was a German SS-Brigadeführer who rose through the ranks of the SS to become the head of foreign intelligence following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944.-Biography:...

SD officer and second Chief of the Ausland-SD, Amt VI (Department VI) of the RSHA 10 January 1934
Gustav Adolf Scheel
Gustav Adolf Scheel
Gustav Adolf Scheel was a German physician and "multifunctionary" in the time of the Third Reich...

Police Major General; (SA and SS member, Leader of the National Socialist Students' Federation, Organizer of the SD in the southwest, Superior SS and Police Leader in Salzburg, Gauleiter in Salzburg from November 1941). Leader of the Heidelberg Student Body; Honorary Senator of the University of Heidelberg;Leader of the Berlin SD School; Inspector of the Security Police 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; Commander of the Security Police and the SD under Chief of the civil administration in Alsace;Member of the Reichstag; Leader of the SD Upper Division South (Munich); Inspector of the Security Police 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); Volkstrum Leader
Karl Eberhard Schöngarth
Karl Eberhard Schöngarth
Eberhard Karl Schöngarth was a German Nazi, appointed SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei on Himmler’s orders in 1943. He was a war criminal who perpetrated mass murder and genocide in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.Schöngarth was born in Leipzig, Saxony...

Commander of Einsatzgruppen
Einsatzgruppen
Einsatzgruppen were SS paramilitary death squads that were responsible for mass killings, typically by shooting, of Jews in particular, but also significant numbers of other population groups and political categories...

; perpetrated the Massacre of Lviv professors, among other atrocities
Hinrich Schuldt
Hinrich Schuldt
SS-Brigadeführer Hinrich Schuldt was a German Waffen-SS officer and a posthumous recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords...

Awarded Knight's Cross with oak Leaves and Swords
Franz Six
Franz Six
Dr. Franz Alfred Six was a Nazi official who rose to the rank of SS-Brigadeführer. He was appointed by Reinhard Heydrich to head department Amt VII, Written Records of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt...

Commander of Amt VII (Department VII) of the RSHA; Charged with creation of Chief of Einsatzgruppen
Einsatzgruppen
Einsatzgruppen were SS paramilitary death squads that were responsible for mass killings, typically by shooting, of Jews in particular, but also significant numbers of other population groups and political categories...

 for England
Vorkommando of Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B
107480 1935 245679
Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz
Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz
Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz was a German Army officer. Strachwitz saw action in World War I, but rose to fame for his command of armored forces in World War II.-Early life:...

Heer
German Army
The German Army is the land component of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. Following the disbanding of the Wehrmacht after World War II, it was re-established in 1955 as the Bundesheer, part of the newly formed West German Bundeswehr along with the Navy and the Air Force...

 panzer general
82857 1405562
Bruno Streckenbach
Bruno Streckenbach
Bruno Heinrich Streckenbach held the rank of SS-Brigadeführer , when he was the head of Amt I : Administration and Personnel of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt , but eventually achieved the rank of SS-Gruppenführer both in Allgemeine-SS and Waffen-SS...

Awarded 30 January 1939 Golden Party Badge
Golden Party Badge
The Golden Party Badge was a special badge of the Nazi Party. The first 100,000 members who had joined and had uninterrupted service in the Party were given the right to wear it...

; Commander of Amt I (Department I), Administration and Personal of the RSHA; and Einsatzgruppen; Commander, 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer
8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer
The 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer was a Waffen-SS cavalry Division during World War II. It was formed in 1942 from a cadre of the SS Cavalry Brigade which was involved in anti partisan operations behind the front line and was responsible for the extermination of tens of thousands of the...

14713 1 September 1931 489972
Otto Steinbrinck
Otto Steinbrinck
Brigadier General Otto Steinbrinck was a German industrialist and an accused in the Nuremberg Flick Trial....

Freundeskreis der Reichsführer SS 63084 30 May 1933 2638206
Theobald Thier Also a Generalmajor der Polizei
Executed Kraków Poland 12 July 1949
250198 June 1935 1744848
Wilhelm Trabandt
Wilhelm Trabandt
August Wilhelm Trabandt was a Brigadeführer in the Waffen SS during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.He also served in World War I and...

Colonel of 1 SS Infantry Brigade
1 SS Infantry Brigade
The 1 SS Infantry Brigade was a unit of the German Waffen SS formed from former concentration camp guards for service in the Soviet Union behind the main front line during the Second World War. They conducted anti-partisan operations in the rear of the advancing German army and were involved in...


Commander of 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Horst Wessel
218.852
Friedrich Uebelhoer Łódź Ghetto 1939
Gauinspekteur Gau Wartheland 1940 - 10.43 MWGB Regierungspräsident Merseberg 10.43 - 45 Died 31 12 1950 See http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=117690
209059 11707
Jürgen Wagner
Jürgen Wagner
Jürgen Wagner was a Brigadeführer in the Waffen SS during World War II, he was the commander of the 23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland and was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves.-Early life:Jürgen Wagner was born on 9 September 1901 in Strasbourg, and was the son of Ernst...

Commander of 23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland
4th SS Polizei Division
4th SS Polizei Division
The SS Polizei Division was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded as part of the Waffen-SS during World War II.The division was formed in 1939 as part of the Ordnungspolizei...

23 692 15 June 1931 707279
Friedrich Weber Commander of the NSDAP Old Guard 265902 July 1934 15
Wilhelm Werner World War I war criminal. See http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=73806 ;
Member of Himmler's personal staff
9916 15 July 1931 332139
Karl Maria Wiligut
Karl Maria Wiligut
Karl Maria Wiligut was an Austrian Ariosophist- Biography :...

Section VIII (Archives) RUSHA
RuSHA
The Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt-SS , , was the organization responsible for "safeguarding the racial 'purity' of the SS" within Nazi Germany....


Himmler's Personal Staff
September 1933
Fritz Witt
Fritz Witt
Fritz Witt was a German Waffen-SS officer who served with the 1.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler before taking command of the 12.SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend...

Commander of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend
12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend
The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend was a German Waffen SS armoured division during World War II. The Hitlerjugend was unique because the majority of its junior enlisted men were drawn from members of the Hitler Youth, while the senior NCOs and officers were generally veterans of the Eastern...

21518 1 December 1931 816769

Oberführer (Senior Colonel
Senior Colonel
Senior Colonel is a field grade officer rank placed between a regular Colonel and a Major General. The rank typically exists in militaries that do not maintain a rank of Brigadier General/Brigadier....

)

Rank Collar insignia
Oberführer
Oberführer
Oberführer was an early paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party dating back to 1921. Translated as “Senior Leader”, an Oberführer was typically a Nazi Party member in charge of a group of paramilitary units in a particular geographical region...

(pre-1942:)
Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Josef Altstötter Member of Reich Ministry for Justice-Ministerialdirektor und Leiter der Abteilung für bürgerliches Recht im Reichsjustizministerium (RMJ); member of SA # 31; tried 1947 in Judges' Trial
Judges' Trial
The Judges' Trial was the third of the 12 trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II. These twelve trials were all held before U.S...

-released 1950
289.254 15 May 1937 5.823.836
Adolf Ax
Adolf Ax
Adolf Ax was a German SS-Oberführer , who was decorated with Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross ....

Waffen SS commander 3848 1 December 1930 378043
Horst Bender SS judge 122746 1 April 1933 1261871
Kurt Benson Oberleutnant der Reserve 1642 August 1929 19227
Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock
Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock
SS-Oberführer Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock was a German Waffen-SS officer who during his career commanded three SS-divisions, the 9.SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, the 4.SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division and the Latvian 19.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS...

Commander of 9.SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen
9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen
The 9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen", also known as SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 9, SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 9 Hohenstaufen or 9. SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, was a German Waffen-SS Armoured division which saw action on both the Eastern and Western Fronts during World War II. The...

, 4.SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division
4th SS Polizei Division
The SS Polizei Division was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded as part of the Waffen-SS during World War II.The division was formed in 1939 as part of the Ordnungspolizei...

,
19.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS
19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian)
The 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS was an Infantry Division of the Waffen SS during World War II. It was the second Latvian division formed in January 1944, after its sister unit, the 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS...

405821 2223186
Karl-Heinz Bürger
Karl-Heinz Bürger
Karl-Heinz Bürger was a German SS-Oberführer, SS and Police Leader and colonel.- Nazi background :...

Also und Oberst der Polizei 156 309 30 January 1933 68 902
Karl Diebitsch
Karl Diebitsch
Professor Karl Diebitsch was an artist and soldier responsible for much of the Third Reich SS regalia, including the Chained SS Officer's dagger scabbard. Diebitsch worked with graphic designer Walter Heck to design the all-black SS uniform...

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
Allach (porcelain)
Allach porcelain was produced in Germany between 1935 and 1945.-History:Master of ceramics Franz Nagy had owned the land since 1925 that the Munich-Allach facility was built on. With his business partner, the porcelain artist Prof. Karl Diebitsch, he began the production of porcelain art...

.
141990 1 May 1920
November 1933.
1,436 {membership lapsed},
4,690,956 reinstated.
Karl-Heinz Bertling Commander of the Indian Legion of the SS
World War I veteran. Served in the Freikorps
Freikorps
Freikorps are German volunteer military or paramilitary units. The term was originally applied to voluntary armies formed in German lands from the middle of the 18th century onwards. Between World War I and World War II the term was also used for the paramilitary organizations that arose during...

 Ehrhardt Brigade 1919.
Holder of the Golden Nazi Party Badge.
60258 1 November 1930 370275
Prince Christoph of Hesse Also Hauptmann d.R.;
b. Stab RFSS;
Luftwaffe Major
35903 1 498 608
or 696 176
Rudolf Diels
Rudolf Diels
Rudolf Diels was a German politician and SS-Oberführer. A protégé of Hermann Göring, Diels was in charge of the Gestapo from 1933 to 1934....

First commander of the Gestapo until April 1934; later Chief of the Regional Gouvernement (Regierungsprasident) of Köln 187116 April 1934 3955308
Dr Eduard Deisenhofer
Eduard Deisenhofer
Dr. Eduard Deisenhofer was an officer and commander in the German Waffen-SS who served with several combat divisions on both the eastern and western fronts, earning several high grade distinctions, such as the Close Combat Clasp, and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...

Waffen SS combat commander
Dr Oskar Dirlewanger
Oskar Dirlewanger
Oskar Paul Dirlewanger was a World War II officer of the SS who commanded the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger, a penal battalion composed of German criminals...

Leader of Dirlewanger Brigade 357267 1,098,716
Wilhelm Fuchs
Wilhelm Fuchs
Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Wilhelm Fuchs was a Nazi Einsatzkommando leader. From April 1941 to January 1942 he commanded Einsatzgruppe Serbien. From 15 September 1943 through 27 May 1944 he commanded Einsatzkommando 3....

SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei, Leader of Einsatzgruppe "Serbien" and Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) {Serbia}, Kommandeur of Sicherheitspolizei and des SD in Litauen, BdS Ostland in Riga and Leader of Einsatzkommandos 3 {USSR}. 62.760 1 December 1932 1.038.061
Karl Höfer
Karl Höfer
Karl Höfer was a German officer. During World War I he became known as the Held vom Kemmelberge for his actions at the Kemmelberg....

Hubert Klausner
Hubert Klausner
Hubert Klausner was an NSDAP Gauleiter and a Landeshauptmann of Carinthia....

Gauleiter of Carinthia
Erhard Kroeger
Erhard Kroeger
Erhard Kroeger or “Kröger” was a Latvian-born Baltic German SS officer involved in the resettlement of Baltic Germans before World War II, and later attached to General Vlasov and the German sponsored Russian Liberation Army of World War II.-Early years:Erhard Kroeger grew up in Riga, Latvia, a...

Commander of Einsatzkommando 6/Einsatzgruppe C 357243 23 October 1938 7 675 747
Georg Martin Waffen SS commander 87679 5649799
Emil Maurice
Emil Maurice
Emil Maurice was an early member of the Nazi Party and is regarded by historians as the founder of the SS. A watchmaker by trade, Maurice was a close associate of Adolf Hitler with a personal friendship dating back to at least 1919...

SS Member #2, credited with founding the SS 2 February 1925 39
Thomas Müller Waffen-SS combat commander
Friedrich Panzinger Chief of Amt IV Section A, of the RSHA
RSHA
The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt was an organization subordinate to Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacities as Chef der Deutschen Polizei and Reichsführer-SS...

;
Einsatzgruppe A
Member of Gehlen Organization
Gehlen Organization
Gehlen Organization was an intelligence agency established in June 1946 by U.S. occupation authorities in the United States Zone of Germany, and consisted of former members of the 12th Department of the Army General Staff...

322118 5017341
Ferdinand Porsche
Ferdinand Porsche
Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian automotive engineer and honorary Doctor of Engineering. He is best known for creating the first hybrid vehicle , the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, as well as the first of many Porsche automobiles...

None 5643287
Emanuel Schafer
Emanuel Schäfer
Emanuel Schäfer was an SS-Oberführer and a protégé of Reinhard Heydrich in Nazi Germany....

Einsatzkommando
Einsatzkommando
During World War II, the Nazi German Einsatzkommandos were a sub-group of five Einsatzgruppen mobile killing squads—up to 3,000 men each—usually composed of 500-1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to kill Jews, Romani, communists and the NKVD collaborators in the captured...

/SD
Sicherheitsdienst
Sicherheitsdienst , full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS, or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. The organization was the first Nazi Party intelligence organization to be established and was often considered a "sister organization" with the...

/Himmler's personal staff
280018 4659879
Julian Scherner
Julian Scherner
Julian Scherner was a Nazi Party official who served in the SS as an SS-Oberführer...

SS and Police Leader of Kraków
Kraków
Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

Julius Schreck
Julius Schreck
Julius Schreck was an early Nazi Party member and also the first commander of the Schutzstaffel .-Biography:...

First Reichsführer SS 5 February 1925 53
Emil Sembach
Emil Sembach
Emil Sembach was an SS-Oberführer attached to the SS headquarters of Silesia. In 1934, after being caught by Reinhard Heydrich's Sicherheitsdienst , for embezzlement and also for having a homosexual relationship with Kurt Wittje, he was expelled from the party and the SS...

SS headquarters in Silesia 6.640 1 April 1932 3.575
Otto Steinhäusl
Otto Steinhäusl
Otto Steinhäusl was an Austrian-born SS-Oberführer, Polizeipräsident of Vienna, and President of Interpol .-Early career:...

Police President of Vienna and Leader of Interpol
Interpol
Interpol, whose full name is the International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL, is an organization facilitating international police cooperation...

. See http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=41928
292773 1938
Gustav Adolf Wiemann
Paul Hausser
Paul "Papa" Hausser was an officer in the German Army, achieving the high rank of lieutenant-general in the inter-war Reichswehr. After retirement from the regular Army he became the "father" of the Waffen-SS and one of its most eminent leaders...

Waffen-SS Officer and Son-In-Law of Oberstgruppenführer Paul Hausser 1938
Johannes Zingler 10 196 March 1931 544378

Standartenführer (Colonel)

Rank Collar insignia
Standartenführer
Standartenführer
Standartenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in the so-called Nazi combat-organisations: SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK...

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Gunter d'Alquen
Gunter d'Alquen
Gunter d'Alquen was Chief Editor of the SS weekly, Das Schwarze Korps the official newspaper of the Schutzstaffel , and commander of the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers Gunter d'Alquen (October 24, 1910 - May 15, 1998) was Chief Editor of the SS weekly, Das Schwarze Korps ("The Black Corps") the...

Chief of Propaganda OKW; Editor of Das Schwarze Korps
Das Schwarze Korps
Das Schwarze Korps was the official newspaper of the Schutzstaffel . This newspaper was published on Wednesdays and distributed free of charge. Each SS member was supposed to read the publication and urge others to do so as well...

;Connected with SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers
SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers
SS-Kriegsberichter-Kompanie SS-Kriegsberichter-Abteilung SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers The SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers was a German Waffen SS war correspondent formation which reported on the actions of all Waffen SS combat formations, seeing action in all major theatres of war with the exception of North...

8452 1931 66.689
Albert Brummenbaum 274 111 232 194
Max de Crinis
Max de Crinis
Professor Max de Crinis held a Chair in psychiatry in Cologne and Berlin, and was a medical expert for the Action T4 Euthanasia Program....

psychiatric director of the Clinic "La charité" of Berlin. Also worked with RuSHA/Action T-4 276 171 1936 688 247
Waldemar Fegelein
Waldemar Fegelein
Waldemar Fegelein was a Standartenführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...

Commander of 2nd SS Cavalry Regiment; 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer
8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer
The 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer was a Waffen-SS cavalry Division during World War II. It was formed in 1942 from a cadre of the SS Cavalry Brigade which was involved in anti partisan operations behind the front line and was responsible for the extermination of tens of thousands of the...

;
37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow
37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow
37. SS Freiwilligen Kavallerie Division "Lützow" was ordered to be formed in February 1945, consisting of remnants of 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer and 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Maria Theresia, including former's SS Pionier Battalion 8, in addition to mostly 16- or 17-year old...

. Brother of Hermann Fegelein
Hermann Fegelein
SS-Obergruppenführer Hans Georg Otto Hermann Fegelein was a General of the Waffen-SS in Nazi Germany, a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage, brother-in-law to Eva Braun through his marriage to her sister, Gretl, and husband of the sister-in-law to Adolf Hitler through Hitler's marriage to Eva...

.
232 194
Hermann Florstedt
Hermann Florstedt
Hermann Florstedt , born in Bitsch, became the third Commandant of Majdanek concentration camp in October 1942.A World War I veteran, Florstedt was awarded the Iron Cross....

Commandant of Majdanek
Majdanek
Majdanek was a German Nazi concentration camp on the outskirts of Lublin, Poland, established during the German Nazi occupation of Poland. The camp operated from October 1, 1941 until July 22, 1944, when it was captured nearly intact by the advancing Soviet Red Army...

 Concentration Camp
8660 1931 488 573
Karl Gesele
Karl Gesele
Karl Gesele was a Standartenführer in the Waffen SS during World War II. Who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.-Early life:Karl Gesele was born on the 15...

37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow
37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow
37. SS Freiwilligen Kavallerie Division "Lützow" was ordered to be formed in February 1945, consisting of remnants of 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer and 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Maria Theresia, including former's SS Pionier Battalion 8, in addition to mostly 16- or 17-year old...

10596 August 1931
Jakob Grimminger
Jakob Grimminger
Jakob Grimminger was a member of the Schutzstaffel who was famous for carrying the Blutfahne, the ceremonial Nazi flag....

Leader of Standarten 1 and bearer of the Blutfahne
Blutfahne
The Blutfahne was a Nazi Swastika flag which was used in the attempted Nazi Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, Germany on 9 November 1923 and one of the most revered objects of the German Nazi Party...

135 25 February 1926 759
Peter Högl
Peter Högl
Peter Högl was a German officer holding the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer who spent time in the Führerbunker in Berlin at the end of World War II.-Early life and career:...

Member of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers
SS-Begleitkommando des Führers
SS-Begleitkommando des Führers was originally an eight-man SS squad assigned with protecting the life of Adolf Hitler during the early 1930s.-Formation:...

249998 3289992
Karl Jäger
Karl Jäger
Karl Jäger was a Swiss-born SS-Standartenführer and Einsatzkommando leader who perpetrated acts of genocide.-Early life and career:...

Commander of Einsatzkommando 3/Einsatzgruppe A. Author of the infamous Jäger Report
Jäger Report
The Jäger Report was written on 1 December 1941 by Karl Jäger, commander of Einsatzkommando 3, a killing unit of Einsatzgruppen A which was attached to Army Group North during the Operation Barbarossa...

.
62823 1932 359269
Rudolf Lange
Rudolf Lange
Dr. Martin Franz Erwin Rudolf Lange was a prominent Nazi police official. He served as commander of the SD and SIPO in Riga, Latvia...

SD Commander of Latvia, Commander Einsatzkommando A-2. Wannsee Conference
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of Departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews, that Reinhard Heydrich...

 participant
93501 1 March 1933 1159583
Sebastian Leveque Waffen-SS officer 251321 4321123
Michael Lippert
Michael Lippert
Michel Hans Lippert or Michael Lippert was an SS Standartenführer, Police officer and a German soldier who served in both World War I and World War II. During World War II. Lippert commanded several concentration camps, including Sachsenhausen, before becoming a commander of the SS-Freiwilligen...

Killed SA leader Ernest Rohm July 1934 2 968 10 March 1931 246 989
Hans Lovell Commander of Second Panzer Division [LSSAH] 8876 1934 86.775
Professor Dr. Wilhelm Pfannenstiel SS physician at Bełżec and Auschwitz 273083 2828629
Jochen Peiper Commander of LSSAH Kampfgruppe Peiper (the unit involved in the Malmedy massacre
Malmedy massacre
The Malmedy massacre was a war crime in which 84 American prisoners of war were murdered by their German captors during World War II. The massacre was committed on December 17, 1944, by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper , a German combat unit, during the Battle of the Bulge.The massacre, as well as...

)
132496 16 Oct 1933
Heinrich Petersen (SS officer)
Heinrich Petersen (SS officer)
Heinrich Petersen was a Standartenführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross ; which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.-Early life:Heinrich Petersen was...

Commander of 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Horst Wessel 134.299 964.574
Julius Ritter Assistant to Fritz Sauckel
Fritz Sauckel
Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel was a Nazi war criminal, who organized the systematic enslavement of millions from lands occupied by Nazi Germany...

34 491 1 December 1931 680 323
Wolfram Sievers
Wolfram Sievers
Wolfram Sievers was Reichsgeschäftsführer, or managing director, of the Ahnenerbe from 1935 to 1945.-Early life:...

Himmler's personnel Staff
General Secretary of the Ahnenerbe
Deputy of Managing Board of Directors of Reich Research Council
275325 1935 144983
Herbert Scholz Staff from the RF SS 70.360 505.786
Dr. Wilhelm Staudinger Received the Blood Order
Blood Order
The Blood Order , officially known as the Decoration of 9 November 1923 , was one of the most prestigious decorations in the Nazi Party...

; head of the Abteilung Presse und Propaganda within the Reichsamt für Agrapolitik; worked with the RSHA
RSHA
The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt was an organization subordinate to Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacities as Chef der Deutschen Polizei and Reichsführer-SS...

269.365 108.007
Eugen Steimle Commander of Sonderkommando 7A of Einsatgruppe B
Einsatzkommando
During World War II, the Nazi German Einsatzkommandos were a sub-group of five Einsatzgruppen mobile killing squads—up to 3,000 men each—usually composed of 500-1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to kill Jews, Romani, communists and the NKVD collaborators in the captured...

 and Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatgruppe C
Einsatzkommando
During World War II, the Nazi German Einsatzkommandos were a sub-group of five Einsatzgruppen mobile killing squads—up to 3,000 men each—usually composed of 500-1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to kill Jews, Romani, communists and the NKVD collaborators in the captured...

; Department VIb of RSHA
RSHA
The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt was an organization subordinate to Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacities as Chef der Deutschen Polizei and Reichsführer-SS...

April 1936 272.575
Ludolf-Jacob von Alvensleben SS- und Polizeiführer Udine (Friuli). 52 195 1 313 391
Hilmar Wäckerle
Hilmar Wäckerle
Hilmar Wäckerle was a German soldier in both the German Imperial Army and the Waffen-SS and the first commandant of Dachau concentration camp.-War service:...

first commandant of Dachau concentration camp. 9.729 1 March 1931 530.715
Dr Josef Witiska Chief of SIPO and SD in Slovakia and Chef, Einsatzgruppe H, Slowakei 422296 1 March 1938 6289103
Wilhelm Zander
Wilhelm Zander
Wilhelm Zander was an adjutant to Martin Bormann during World War II.As the war in Europe ended, he had accompanied Bormann to the Führerbunker in Berlin...

Assistant to Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann
Martin Ludwig Bormann was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler...

27789 552659

Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel)

Rank Collar insignia
Obersturmbannführer
Obersturmbannführer
Obersturmbannführer was a paramilitary Nazi Party rank used by both the SA and the SS. It was created in May 1933 to fill the need for an additional field grade officer rank above Sturmbannführer as the SA expanded. It became an SS rank at the same time...

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Friedrich Wilhelm Altena Member of VOMI
Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle
The Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle was an NSDAP agency founded to manage the interests of the Volksdeutsche who lived outside the borders of Nazi Germany....

. Murdered an Allied POW pilot on 9 August 1944. Details here.
354102 316030
Johann Beck Waffen SS as a SS Ostuf and Allgemeine SS as a SS Obhur 179 6.911
Hans Bludau SS doctor-SS Führungshauptamt
SS Führungshauptamt
The SS-Führungshauptamt was the operational headquarters of the SS.It was responsible for the administration of Officer Schools , Medical services, logistics, and rates of pay...

310384 1 November 1938 2765344
Hans Bissinger Commander of Field-Ersatz-Brigade 102
II SS Panzer Corps
II SS Panzer Corps
The II SS Panzer Corps was a Nazi German Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on both the Eastern and Western Fronts during World War II.- Formation - Kharkov :...

53698 1 April 1932 1200004
Werner Braune
Werner Braune
Karl Rudolf Werner Braune was a German member of the Nazi police and military organization known as the Schutzstaffel, or, more commonly, by its German initials, SS. He held the rank of Obersturmbannführer...

Commanded Einsatzkommando 11b/Einsatzgruppe Special Purpose Unit D. 107,364 November 1934 581,277
Dr. Friedrich Buchardt Commanded Einsatzkommando 9/Einsatzgruppe B Jan 1943-OCt 1944
Leon Degrelle
Léon Degrelle
Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle was a Walloon Belgian politician, who founded Rexism and later joined the Waffen SS which were front-line troops in the fight against the Soviet Union...

Belgian Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander None 1 June 1943 None
Fritz Dietrich (Nazi official)
Fritz Dietrich (Nazi official)
Fritz Dietrich was a German SS officer who held a doctoral degree . His name is also seen as Emil Diedrich.- Career summary :...

SS police chief (SS und PolizeiStandortführer ) in Liepāja
Liepaja
Liepāja ; ), is a republican city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea directly at 21°E. It is the largest city in the Kurzeme Region of Latvia, the third largest city in Latvia after Riga and Daugavpils and an important ice-free port...

 (German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

:Libau), Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

.
Adolf Doldi RFSS RSD (Hitler's pilot) 276881 1722844
Hans Dorr
Hans Dorr
Hans Dorr was a German Waffen-SS Obersturmbannführer who served with the 5. SS-Panzer-Division Wiking and was a commander of the SS-Regiment Germania. He was wounded 16 times during WWII and died at a Field hospital near Judenburg only a month before the war's end...

Waffen-SS officer May 1933
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Otto Eichmann was a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust...

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. 45326 1 April 1932 889895
Hans Fleischhacker
Hans Fleischhacker
Hans Fleischhacker was a German anthropologist with the Ahnenerbe and a Schutzstaffel Obersturmführer....

SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt 307399 1940 7501920
Bruno Gesche
Bruno Gesche
SS-Obersturmbannführer** Bruno Gesche was a Lieutenant Colonel of the SS in Nazi Germany, a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage, and the commander of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard for the periods June 1934 – April 1942 and December 1942 – December 1944.-Early career:Gesche's aspirations for a...

4th Commander of the SS-Begleitkommando des Führers
SS-Begleitkommando des Führers
SS-Begleitkommando des Führers was originally an eight-man SS squad assigned with protecting the life of Adolf Hitler during the early 1930s.-Formation:...

 1934-1945
1093 1927 8592
Walter Hänsch RSHA
RSHA
The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt was an organization subordinate to Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacities as Chef der Deutschen Polizei and Reichsführer-SS...

 I D-2; RSHA
RSHA
The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt was an organization subordinate to Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacities as Chef der Deutschen Polizei and Reichsführer-SS...

 I D; Sonderkommando
Sonderkommando
Sonderkommandos were work units of Nazi death camp prisoners, composed almost entirely of Jews, who were forced, on threat of their own deaths, to aid with the disposal of gas chamber victims during The Holocaust...

 4-B Einsatzkommando
Einsatzkommando
During World War II, the Nazi German Einsatzkommandos were a sub-group of five Einsatzgruppen mobile killing squads—up to 3,000 men each—usually composed of 500-1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to kill Jews, Romani, communists and the NKVD collaborators in the captured...

  Convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials, sentenced to death, commuted to 15 years imprisonment.
252573 1 August 1935 537256
Fritz Hartjenstein
Fritz Hartjenstein
Friedrich "Fritz" Hartjenstein was an SS-Obersturmbannführer in the SS-Totenkopfverbände...

Commandant at Birkenau
Auschwitz concentration camp
Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...

; Natzweiler concentration camp; Flossenbürg
Flossenbürg concentration camp
Konzentrationslager Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the Schutzstaffel Economic-Administrative Main Office at Flossenbürg, in the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria, Germany, near the border with Czechoslovakia. Until its liberation in April 1945, more than 96,000 prisoners...

Fritz Hippler
Fritz Hippler
Fritz Hippler was a German filmmaker who ran the film department in the Propaganda Ministry of the Third Reich, under Joseph Goebbels. He is most famous as director of the propaganda film Der ewige Jude ....

Film producer of The Eternal Jew
The Eternal Jew
The Eternal Jew is an antisemitic German Nazi propaganda film, presented as a documentary. Its title in German is Der ewige Jude, the German term for the character of the "Wandering Jew" in medieval folklore. At the insistence of Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, the film was...

284122 10 April 1937 62133
Wilhelm Höttl
Wilhelm Höttl
Wilhelm Höttl or Hoettl was an Austrian Nazi Party member, SS officer, secret agent, author and doctor of history....

RSHA
RSHA
The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt was an organization subordinate to Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacities as Chef der Deutschen Polizei and Reichsführer-SS...


Head of Counter Intelligence for Central and Southeastern Europe
2nd in command to Himmler's representative in Hungary
309510 1938 6309616
Rudolf Höß
Rudolf Höß
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was an SS-Obersturmbannführer , and from 4 May 1940 to November 1943, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, where it is estimated that more than a million people were murdered...

Commander of Auschwitz concentration camp 193616 20 September 1933 3240
Josef Jahn 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen
9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen
The 9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen", also known as SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 9, SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 9 Hohenstaufen or 9. SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, was a German Waffen-SS Armoured division which saw action on both the Eastern and Western Fronts during World War II. The...

2431
Frederik Jensen Waffen-SS 456 051 4 April 1941 None
Herbert Kappler
Herbert Kappler
Herbert Kappler , was the head of German police and security services in Rome during World War II...

Commander of SS and Police Forces in Rome, Italy 55211 8 May 1933 594899
Sepp Krafft Commander of S.S. Panzergrenadier Bataillon 16 during Operation Market Garden 424 020
Bodo Lafferentz
Bodo Lafferentz
Bodo Lafferentz was a member of the Nazi Party from 1933 and an SS-Obersturmbannführer from 1939. He served in World War I and received the Iron Cross 2nd Class in 1916....

Staff of the SS "Race and Settlement Central Agency". Later involved in researching oil shale sites and wind power also V-2 Rocket
V-2 rocket
The V-2 rocket , technical name Aggregat-4 , was a ballistic missile that was developed at the beginning of the Second World War in Germany, specifically targeted at London and later Antwerp. The liquid-propellant rocket was the world's first long-range combat-ballistic missile and first known...

 development. Organised the Bayreuth opera "War Festival"
Bayreuth Festival
The Bayreuth Festival is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner are presented...

.
347155 17 February 1939 2594441
Arthur Liebehenschel
Arthur Liebehenschel
Arthur Liebehenschel was a commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps during World War II. He was convicted of war crimes after the war and executed.-Biography:...

Commandant of the Majdanek
Majdanek
Majdanek was a German Nazi concentration camp on the outskirts of Lublin, Poland, established during the German Nazi occupation of Poland. The camp operated from October 1, 1941 until July 22, 1944, when it was captured nearly intact by the advancing Soviet Red Army...

 and Auschwitz death camps, succeeding Rudolf Höß
Rudolf Höß
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was an SS-Obersturmbannführer , and from 4 May 1940 to November 1943, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, where it is estimated that more than a million people were murdered...

. Served as an adjutant in the Columbia Haus and Lichtenburg
Lichtenburg (concentration camp)
Lichtenburg was a Nazi concentration camp, housed in a Renaissance castle in Prettin, near Wittenberg in eastern Germany. Along with Sachsenburg, it was among the first to be built by the Nazis, and was operated by the SS from 1933 to 1939. It held as many as 2000 male prisoners from 1933 to 1937...

 camps, Inspectorate of Concentration Camps and as a senior director in the SS Economics Department. Prosecuted in the Auschwitz Trial
Auschwitz trial
The Auschwitz trial began on November 24, 1947, in Kraków, when Polish authorities tried 41 former staff of the Auschwitz concentration camps. The trials ended on December 22, 1947....

 in Kraków and executed by hanging on January 28, 1948.
1934
Kurt Lischka
Kurt Lischka
Kurt Werner Lischka was an SS Lieutenant Colonel and Gestapo chief assigned to Paris in Occupied France during World War II....

Tried 1979 with Herbert Hagen and Erich Heinrichsohn
Knud Børge Martinsen
Knud Børge Martinsen
Knud Børge Martinsen was a Danish officer and the third commander of Frikorps Danmark.-Biography:Knud Børge Martinsen was born in Sandved in 1905 and became a soldier in 1928. After only ten years of service he was an officer with a rank of Captain Lieutenant...

Commander of Frikorps Danmark
Frikorps Danmark
Free Corps Denmark was a Danish volunteer free corps created by the Danish Nazi Party in cooperation with Germany, to fight the Soviet Union during the Second World War. On June 29, 1941, days after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the DNSAP's newspaper Fædrelandet proclaimed the creation...

Georg Konrad Morgen
Georg Konrad Morgen
Georg Konrad Morgen was an SS judge and lawyer who investigated crimes committed in Nazi concentration camps.-Life:...

SS judge
Max Rostock SS and SD official in Lidice
Lidice
Lidice is a village in the Czech Republic just northwest of Prague. It is built on the site of a previous village of the same name which, as part of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was on orders from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal...


Sentenced to death but pardoned in 1960; Postwar Spy for Czechoslovika State Security in West Germany. See http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=1116704#1116704
Harald Riipalu
Harald Riipalu
Harald Riipalu was an Estonian military commander and one of four commanders who earned the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross when fighting in the German army in World War II.-Early life:Harald Riipalu was born in Saint Petersburg where his family was lessee in a manor...

Estonian member of the SS
Hermann Schaper Commander in kommando SS Zichenau-Schroettersburg and Einsatzgruppe B 3484 105606
Heinz Schubert Defendant in Einsatzgruppen Trial
Einsatzgruppen Trial
The Einsatzgruppen Trial was the ninth of the twelve trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II. These twelve trials were all held before U.S...

 sentenced to death-commuted to 10 years
107326 10 October 1934 3474350
Richard Schulze
A.k.a. Richard Schulze-Kossens
Commander of SS Officers School Bad Tolz, Bavaria
Hans Seigling Also held rank as an Oberstleutnant
Oberstleutnant
Oberstleutnant is a German Army and Air Force rank equal to Lieutenant Colonel, above Major, and below Oberst.There are two paygrade associated to the rank of Oberstleutnant...

 in the Schutzpolizei
Schutzpolizei
The Schutzpolizei , or Schupo for short, is a branch of the Landespolizei, the state level police of the German states. Schutzpolizei literally means security or protection police but is best translated as Uniformed Police....


Commander of German Police Battalion 57 and Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling
Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling
Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling - was a Nazi German auxiliary police brigade formed by 31 July 1944 at East Prussia from the retreated from Belarus dozen remnants of the SiPo, SD, Ordnungsdienst units, Kommandanturas personnel and BKA units composed from the Ukrainians, Belarusians,...


Last commander of the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian)
30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian)
The 30th SS Grenadier Division was a German Waffen SS infantry division formed largely from Belarussian, Russian and Ukrainian personnel of the Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling in August 1944 at Warsaw, Poland. The division was moved by rail to southeastern France by mid-August 1944 to combat the...

450.683 1940 3.279.337
Conrad Schellong 135553 28 December 1932 1428412
Hans Sommer
Hans Sommer
Hans Sommer was a German national who served as SS Obersturmführer in the Sicherheitsdienst during World War II. After the war, he found a working relationship with Gehlen Org...

SD
Sicherheitsdienst
Sicherheitsdienst , full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS, or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. The organization was the first Nazi Party intelligence organization to be established and was often considered a "sister organization" with the...

 during the war
Post war member in CIA-sponsored West German Gehlen Organization and later in East German Stasi
Stasi
The Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (abbreviation , literally State Security), was the official state security service of East Germany. The MfS was headquartered...

1932
Dr Karl Sommer Amt DII 272426 220064
Eduard Strauch
Eduard Strauch
Eduard Strauch was an SS-Obersturmbannführer, commander of Einsatzkommando 2, commander of two Nazi organizations, the Security Police , or Sipo, and the Security Service , first in Belarus – then called White Russia or White Ruthenia – and later in Belgium...

Commander of Einsatzkommando 2
Einsatzgruppen
Einsatzgruppen were SS paramilitary death squads that were responsible for mass killings, typically by shooting, of Jews in particular, but also significant numbers of other population groups and political categories...

, anschliessend commander of two Nazi organizations, the Security Police (German:Sicherheitspolizei
Sicherheitspolizei
The Sicherheitspolizei , often abbreviated as SiPo, was a term used in Nazi Germany to describe the state political and criminal investigation security agencies. It was made up by the combined forces of the Gestapo and the Kripo between 1936 and 1939...

), or Sipo, and the Security Service (German:Sicherheitsdienst
Sicherheitsdienst
Sicherheitsdienst , full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS, or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. The organization was the first Nazi Party intelligence organization to be established and was often considered a "sister organization" with the...

, or SD, first in Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

 (then called White Russia or White Ruthenia) and later in Belgium. In October 1944, he was transferred to the military branch of the SS (Waffen-SS
Waffen-SS
The Waffen-SS was a multi-ethnic and multi-national military force of the Third Reich. It constituted the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel or SS, an organ of the Nazi Party. The Waffen-SS saw action throughout World War II and grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions, and served alongside...

).
19.312 December 1931 623.392
Edmund Trinkl Oberregierungsrat RSHA
RSHA
The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt was an organization subordinate to Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacities as Chef der Deutschen Polizei and Reichsführer-SS...

 Berlin
Dept I A 6
Former member of Van Epp & Roehm's Reichsflagge Freikorps
Freikorps
Freikorps are German volunteer military or paramilitary units. The term was originally applied to voluntary armies formed in German lands from the middle of the 18th century onwards. Between World War I and World War II the term was also used for the paramilitary organizations that arose during...

 brigade
Christian Frederik von Schalburg
Christian Frederik von Schalburg
Christian Frederik von Schalburg was a Danish army officer and the second commander of Free Corps Denmark.-Biography:...

Commander of Frikorps Danmark
Frikorps Danmark
Free Corps Denmark was a Danish volunteer free corps created by the Danish Nazi Party in cooperation with Germany, to fight the Soviet Union during the Second World War. On June 29, 1941, days after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the DNSAP's newspaper Fædrelandet proclaimed the creation...

Walter Vollmer SD
Sicherheitsdienst
Sicherheitsdienst , full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS, or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. The organization was the first Nazi Party intelligence organization to be established and was often considered a "sister organization" with the...

 during the war
KGB
KGB
The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...

 double agent in CIA-sponsored West German Gehlen Organization
21889 241213
Wilhelm Wiebens Commanded Einsatzkommando 9/Einsatzgruppe B Feb 1942-Jan 1943 16617 546524
Max Wielen Oberregierungs- und Kriminalrat (ORuKR); Hauptmann d.R. a.D. Position: Chief, Stapoleitstelle Breslau. Involved in Killing of POWS from The Great Escape; Sentenced to prison 1947 but released after serving a few years 128841 1759395
Erich Zacharias Chief, Grenzpolizeikommissariat (GPK) Zlin; Executed 1948 after being tried for Involvement in Killing of POWS from The Great Escape

Sturmbannführer (Major)

Rank Collar insignia
Sturmbannführer
Sturmbannführer
Sturmbannführer was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party equivalent to major, used both in the Sturmabteilung and the Schutzstaffel...

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Franz Abromeid IV B 4 of the Serbian Higher SS Division.
Hans Aumeier
Hans Aumeier
Hans Aumeier was a Nazi war criminal, an SS-Sturmbannführer and the deputy commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp.-Life before the War:...

Deputy Commandant KZ Auschwitz 2.700 August 1929 164.755
Kurt Bartsch SS Kavallerie-Ausbidldungs und Ersatz-Abteilung 8 460 816 (V) 1942 None
Ernst Biberstein
Ernst Biberstein
Ernst Emil Heinrich Biberstein was an SS-Obersturmbannführer , member of the SD and...

Commander of SS action command 6/action group C [EK 6/Egr. C].
After 1958 prison release reported to have been "co_Worker" Gehlen Org
272962 13 Sept 1936 40718
Karl Bömelburg Gestapo
Gestapo
The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...

 leader in France
35898 1931 892239
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun was a German rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II and in the United States after that.A former member of the Nazi party,...

Allgemeine-SS battalion officer (also SS Horseriding Club) 185068 1933
Anton Burger
Anton Burger
Anton Burger born in Neunkirchen, Austria, was a Nazi war criminal, Sturmbannführer in the German Nazi SS. In 1942 was sent by Adolf Eichmann to Brussels, Belgium, in order to coordinate the efforts towards deportation of Belgian, Dutch and French Jews. He was later sent to Salonika in Greece by...

Commandant of Theresienstadt concentration camp
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Theresienstadt concentration camp was a Nazi German ghetto during World War II. It was established by the Gestapo in the fortress and garrison city of Terezín , located in what is now the Czech Republic.-History:The fortress of Terezín was constructed between the years 1780 and 1790 by the orders...

Joseph Darnand
Joseph Darnand
Joseph Darnand was a French soldier and later a leader of the Vichy French collaborators with Nazi Germany....

French Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander
Walter Drexler
Walter Drexler
Walter Drexler was a Sturmbannführer in the Waffen SS during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.Walter Drexler was born on the 25...

Awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was a grade of the 1939 version of the 1813 created Iron Cross . The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was the highest award of Germany to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership during World War II...

239247 March 1938
Emmeran Dummler Hauptman d.R 11769 298748
Günther Farohs 62 935 2 331 191
Walter Gerth
Walter Gerth
Walter Gerth was a Sturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.Sturmbannführer Walter Gerth was awarded the...

Awarded Knights Cross. Member of 1st SS Panzer Division LSSAH 372351
Hans Günther
Hans Günther (SS officer)
Hans Günther was an SS-Sturmbannführer who was the head of the "Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague" during World War II. He was in charge of the deportation of Czech Jews to death camps during the Holocaust. He was killed by Czech partisans in 1945.-Career:Günther worked as an...

Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Otto Eichmann was a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust...

 deputy;Brother of Rolf Günther
290.129 1937 119.925
Rolf Günther
Rolf Günther
Rolf Günther was a German major who served as Sturmbannführer in the SS and who acted as deputy to Adolf Eichmann....

Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Otto Eichmann was a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust...

 deputy; Brother of Hans Günther
290.130 1937 472.421
Herbert Hagen Tried 1979 with Kurt Lischka
Kurt Lischka
Kurt Werner Lischka was an SS Lieutenant Colonel and Gestapo chief assigned to Paris in Occupied France during World War II....

 and Ernest Heinrichson for war crimes
124 273 4 583 139
Wilhelm Höttl
Wilhelm Höttl
Wilhelm Höttl or Hoettl was an Austrian Nazi Party member, SS officer, secret agent, author and doctor of history....

RSHA Officer 309510 6309616
Hermann Höfle
Hermann Höfle
Hermann Julius "Hans" Höfle was an Austrian-born SS-Sturmbannführer . He was deputy to Odilo Globocnik in the Aktion Reinhard program, serving as his main deportation and extermination expert...

Deputy head of the Aktion Reinhard programme. Postwar member of Gehlen Organization 307469
Professor Herbert Jankuhn
Herbert Jankuhn
Herbert Jankuhn was a German archaeologist and supporter of the Nazi Party...

member of Ahnenerbe
Ahnenerbe
The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German think tank that promoted itself as a "study society for Intellectual Ancient History." Founded on July 1, 1935, by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darré, the Ahnenerbe's goal was to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan...

Hans Josef Kieffer Deputy Gestapo
Gestapo
The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...

 leader in France
280104 2632427
Ludwig Kepplinger
Ludwig Kepplinger
Ludwig Kepplinger was a Sturmbannführer , in the Waffen SS during World War II who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.-Early life:Ludwig Kepplinger was...

Wilhelm Kment
Wilhelm Kment
Wilhelm Kment was an Austrian football manager and former football player.He played for Landstraßer AC, DSV Brünn and Wiener Sport-Club.He coached VVV-Venlo, Norway, Feyenoord, LASK Linz and Fredrikstad.-References:...

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
Sicherheitspolizei
The Sicherheitspolizei , often abbreviated as SiPo, was a term used in Nazi Germany to describe the state political and criminal investigation security agencies. It was made up by the combined forces of the Gestapo and the Kripo between 1936 and 1939...

 in Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

, France
191584 1935 3269940
Horst Kopkow
Horst Kopkow
Horst Kopkow was a Nazi Germany SS major who worked for German Security police and, after the war, was concealed by British intelligence so that they could use his knowledge in the Cold War.During World War II, Kopkow served in German national security police headquarters in Berlin...

Counterintelligence; Postwar employee of MI6 46034 1931 607161
Gerald Krause SS foreign legion commander 565 781 1940 67 324
Bernhard Krüger
Bernhard Krüger
Bernhard Krüger was a Schutzstaffel Sturmbannführer during World War II, the leader of the VI F 4a Unit in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt or RSHA....

Leader of VI F4A (RSHA
RSHA
The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt was an organization subordinate to Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacities as Chef der Deutschen Polizei and Reichsführer-SS...

) aka Operation Bernhard
Operation Bernhard
Operation Bernhard was the codename of a secret Nazi plan devised during the Second World War by the RSHA and the SS to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged Bank of England £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes...

15429 528729
Dr Helmut Kunz
Helmut Kunz
Helmut Kunz was an SS dentist who, after the suicide of Adolf Hitler, was ordered to administer anesthetic to the six children of Joseph Goebbels before they were killed.-Early years:...

Waffen SS medical Office 284787 1936 5104323
Hans Latza HSSP
HSSP
HSSP may refer to:* Homology-derived Secondary Structure of Proteins, a protein database* Healthcare Services Specification Project, a joint initiative of the Object Management Group and Health Level 7* Port Sudan Military Airport, ICAO airport code HSSP...

Norway
129260 2180945
Ernst Lerch
Ernst Lerch
Ernst Lerch was one of the most important men of Operation Reinhard , responsible for "Jewish affairs", and the mass murder of the Jews in the General Government .-Life and early career:...

Operation Reinhard
Operation Reinhard
Operation Reinhard was the code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the General Government, and marked the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the use of extermination camps...

309,700 1 March 1934 1,327,396
Heinz Linge
Heinz Linge
Heinz Linge was an SS officer who served as a valet for German dictator Adolf Hitler.- Early life :Linge was born in Bremen, Germany. Before joining the SS in 1933 he was employed as a bricklayer and was selected by Sepp Dietrich to be one of 117 original bodyguards for Adolf Hitler...

Hitler's valet 35795 1932 1.260.490
Ricard Edwin Mattel Gynecology, Kaisern Elisabethspital, Vienna, 1940 4 Nov 1938 6212863
Hubert-Erwin Meierdress
Hubert-Erwin Meierdress
Hubert-Erwin Meierdrees , usually referred to as Erwin Meierdrees, was a German Waffen-SS officer and panzer ace who served with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, SS-Verfügungs-Division before joining the SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf, which he served with until his death in January 1945.-Early...

Panzer ace with 1st and 2nd SS Divisions 265243 1 August 1934 3601911
Alfred Naujocks
Alfred Naujocks
Alfred Helmut Naujocks, alias Hans Müller, Alfred Bonsen, or Rudolf Möbert , was an SS-Sturmbannführer , and took part in a staged incident intended to provide the justification for the attack on Poland by Nazi Germany, which in turn provoked the Second World War in Europe.-Early life:Naujocks was...

An SD commander, leader of the Gleiwitz incident
Gleiwitz incident
The Gleiwitz incident was a staged attack by Nazi forces posing as Poles on 31 August 1939, against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany on the eve of World War II in Europe....

624279 1930 or 1931 26246
Johannes Post Kriminalkommissar; Executed 1948 after being tried for involvement in killing of POWs in The Great Escape 313999 465273
Paul Otto Radomski Commandant
Commandant
Commandant is a senior title often given to the officer in charge of a large training establishment or academy. This usage is common in anglophone nations...

 of the Syrets concentration camp
Syrets concentration camp
Syrets was the name of a Nazi concentration camp that was erected in 1942 near Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, which was then a part of the Soviet Union.- Establishment and location :...

 and Haidari concentration camp
Haidari concentration camp
The Haidari concentration camp was a concentration camp operated by the German Schutzstaffel at the Athens suburb of Haidari during the Axis Occupation of Greece in World War II...

2.235 96.942
Karl Rahm
Karl Rahm
Karl Rahm was a Sturmbannführer in the German Schutzstaffel who, from February 1944 to May 1945, served as the Commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp...

Commandant
Commandant
Commandant is a senior title often given to the officer in charge of a large training establishment or academy. This usage is common in anglophone nations...

 of the Theresienstadt concentration camp
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Theresienstadt concentration camp was a Nazi German ghetto during World War II. It was established by the Gestapo in the fortress and garrison city of Terezín , located in what is now the Czech Republic.-History:The fortress of Terezín was constructed between the years 1780 and 1790 by the orders...

Albert Sauer Kommandant of KZ Mauthausen; KZ Riga/Kaiserwald and KZ Ravensbruck 19180 862698
Dr. Alfred Schimmel Chief, Stapoleitstelle Straßburg; Executed 1948 after being tried for involvement in killing of POWs in The Great Escape 280336 400086
Herbert Scholz Also Major der Schutzpolizei(Schupo); SS- und Polizeigebietsführer in Norway and in The Netherlands; also Polizeidirektor in Augsburg. 308.265 2.840.674
Adolf Schulz-Lenhardt Detective (Kriminalrat), cities of Hamm
Hamm
Hamm is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany. It is located in the northeastern part of the Ruhr area. As of December 2003 its population was 180,849. The city is situated between the A1 motorway and A2 motorway...

 and Magdeburg
Magdeburg
Magdeburg , is the largest city and the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Magdeburg is situated on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe....

290716 5641530
Otto Skorzeny
Otto Skorzeny
Otto Skorzeny was an SS-Obersturmbannführer in the German Waffen-SS during World War II. After fighting on the Eastern Front, he was chosen as the field commander to carry out the rescue mission that freed the deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from captivity...

Waffen SS/RSHA commando leader 295979
Kurt Stawitzki/Stawizki Section 4 {Gestapo
Gestapo
The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...

} Lviv
Lviv
Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

; died Sept 20, 1959 in Bad Godesberg aka "Kurt Stein"
44889 1932 1114037
Hans Ulrich von Ortel
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth was a German police and SS officer who was one of the leading contributors to the program to exterminate the Jewish people of Poland, known as Operation Reinhard....

Commandant of Bełżec extermination camp 345.464 April 1939 420.383
Eduard Wirths
Eduard Wirths
Eduard Wirths was the Chief SS doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945...

Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarztat) at the Auschwitz extermination camp 311.594 1934

Hauptsturmführer (Captain)

Rank Collar insignia
Hauptsturmführer
Hauptsturmführer
Hauptsturmführer was a Nazi rank of the SS which was used between the years of 1934 and 1945. The rank of Hauptsturmführer was a mid-grade company level officer and was the equivalent of a Captain in the German Army and also the equivalent of captain in foreign armies...

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Klaus Barbie
Klaus Barbie
Nikolaus 'Klaus' Barbie was an SS-Hauptsturmführer , Gestapo member and war criminal. He was known as the Butcher of Lyon.- Early life :...

Head of the Gestapo in Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

, France
272 284 26 Sept 1935 4.583.085.
Bruno Beger
Bruno Beger
Bruno Beger was a German Racial anthropologist who worked for the Ahnenerbe...

Racial anthropologist who worked for the Ahnenerbe
Ahnenerbe
The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German think tank that promoted itself as a "study society for Intellectual Ancient History." Founded on July 1, 1935, by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darré, the Ahnenerbe's goal was to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan...

.
Alois Brunner
Alois Brunner
Alois Brunner is an Austrian Nazi war criminal. Brunner was Adolf Eichmann's assistant, and Eichmann referred to Brunner as his "best man." As commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, Brunner is held responsible for sending some 140,000 European Jews to...

Commandant of Drancy internment camp
Drancy internment camp
The Drancy internment camp of Paris, France, was used to hold Jews who were later deported to the extermination camps. 65,000 Jews were deported from Drancy, of whom 63,000 were murdered including 6,000 children...

. Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Otto Eichmann was a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust...

's assistant
342767
Douglas Berneville-Claye
Douglas Berneville-Claye
Douglas Webster St Aubyn Berneville-Claye , born Douglas Berneville Claye, was a British Nazi collaborator and member of the S.S. British Free Corps during World War II.-Early life:...

British imposter/forger; member of Staff of III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps
III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps
The III SS Panzer Corps was a German Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on the Eastern Front during World War II. The The III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps (III. (germanische) SS-Panzerkorps) was a German Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on the Eastern Front during World War II. The...

Siegfried Wolfgang Fehmer
Siegfried Wolfgang Fehmer
Siegfried Wolfgang Fehmer was a German Gestapo officer during World War II. He was stationed in Norway during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, and at the end of the war he was a Kriminalrat, the police investigator heading the infamous Abteilung IV from its headquarter in Victoria...

SD/Gestapo/Kriminalrat, a police investigator, and headed the infamous Abteilung IV headquartered in Victoria Terrasse,Norway 290166 181345
Karl Fritzsch
Karl Fritzsch
SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch , was a German concentration camp officer and deputy, who first suggested and experimented with using Zyklon B gas for the purpose of mass murder.- Background :...

Member of Staff of KZ Dachau; KZ Auschwitz; KZ Flossenbürg. Introduced Zyclon B gas into Auschwitz; Involved in death of Saint Maximilian Kolbe
Maximilian Kolbe
Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe OFM Conv was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi German concentration camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II.He was canonized on 10 October 1982 by Pope John Paul II, and...

7287 1930 261135
Horst Alberto Carlos Fuldner Argentina born SS Officer-alleged to have been part of "ODessa" Escape network 31.170 999.254
Amon Göth
Amon Göth
Amon Leopold Göth was an Austrian Nazi and the commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Płaszów, General Government...

Commander of the Plaszow Labor Camp 43673 1930 510764
Heinrich Gottschling Also a Kriminalkommissar der Polizei. Was in Gestapo Cracow; Headed Gestapo in Olomouc; Brno; Prague Kladno and Tabor 18259 641758
Viktor Eberhard Gräbner
Viktor Eberhard Gräbner
Viktor Eberhard Gräbner was a Oberleutnant in the Heer who transferred to the Waffen SS with the rank of Hauptsturmführer during World War II...

9th SS Reconnaissance Battalion, 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen; awarded the Knight's Cross
Knight's Cross
Knight's Cross refers to a distinguishing grade or level of various orders that denotes bravery and leadership on the battlefield....

. KIA Operation Market Garden 1944
247812
Kurt Hans Einsatzkommando 4A. 335652
Oskar Hans SD-Hauptamt 101662
Karl Hass
Karl Hass
Karl Hass was a German Lieutenant-Colonel in the SS whose involvement in the Ardeatine massacre while serving in Italy led to allegations of war crimes...

SD; participant in the Ardeatine Caves massacre
Ardeatine massacre
The Fosse Ardeatine massacre was a mass execution carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome....

1934
Gottlieb Hering
Gottlieb Hering
Gottlieb Hering was an SS-Hauptsturmführer who served in Action T4 and later as the second and last Commandant of Bełżec extermination camp during Operation Reinhard...

In Action T4
Action T4
Action T4 was the name used after World War II for Nazi Germany's eugenics-based "euthanasia" program during which physicians killed thousands of people who were "judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination"...

 and later as the second and last Commandant of Bełżec extermination camp during Operation Reinhard
Operation Reinhard
Operation Reinhard was the code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the General Government, and marked the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the use of extermination camps...

Willy Herzberger 2nd Commander of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers
SS-Begleitkommando des Führers
SS-Begleitkommando des Führers was originally an eight-man SS squad assigned with protecting the life of Adolf Hitler during the early 1930s.-Formation:...

Dr August Hirt
August Hirt
August Hirt , an SS-Hauptsturmführer , served as a chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg during World War II....

Had Jews gassed for their skeletons 100.414 1 April 1933
Kurt Heissmeyer
Kurt Heissmeyer
Kurt Heissmeyer was a Nazi physician involved in medical experimentation on concentration camp inmates including children. He was involved in an infamous tuberculosis experiment conducted on 20 Jewish children at Neuengamme concentration camp...

doctor involved in "experiments" on Jewish children at Bullenhuser Damm
Bullenhuser Damm
Bullenhuser Damm School is located at 92–94 Bullenhuser Damm, a street in the Rothenburgsort section of Hamburg, Germany. During heavy air raids many portions of Hamburg were destroyed including the Rothenburgsort section which received heavy damage. The school was only partly damaged. By 1943 the...

Franz Hoessler
Franz Hoessler
SS-Obersturmführer Franz Hössler was a German Nazi concentration camp officer, notorious for his crimes at Auschwitz concentration camp and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.-Early Life:...

K-Z Auschwitz; KZ Bergen Belsen 41.940 1931 1.374.713
Waldemar Hoven
Waldemar Hoven
Waldemar Hoven was a Nazi and a physician at Buchenwald concentration camp.Hoven was born in Freiburg, Germany. Between the years 1919 and 1933, he visited Denmark, Sweden, the United States, and France, returning in 1933 to Freiburg, where he completed his high school studies. He then attended...

K-Z Buchenwald physician 244.594 1934
Josef Kramer
Josef Kramer
Josef Kramer was the Commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Dubbed "The Beast of Belsen" by camp inmates; he was a notorious Nazi war criminal, directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people...

Commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle...

1932
Maximilian List
Maximilian List
Maximilian List was an architect in Berlin who became an SS officer, involved in the operation of a number of Nazi concentration camps.Maximilian List was born in Munich on February 9, 1910....

Commandant of Lager Sylt
Lager Sylt
Lager Sylt was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney in the British Crown Dependency, the Channel Islands, in operation between March 1943 and June 1944. The Germans built one concentration camp and three Labour camps on the island, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp...

 and Lager Norderney
Lager Norderney
Lager Norderney was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney, in the Channel Islands, named after the East Frisian island of Norderney.The Germans built four concentration camps on the island, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp...

 labour camps on Alderney
Alderney
Alderney is the most northerly of the Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is long and wide. The area is , making it the third-largest island of the Channel Islands, and the second largest in the Bailiwick...

Heinz Macher
Heinz Macher
Heinz Macher was an SS-Sturmbannführer and Nazi official. He was born in Chemnitz, Germany and joined the Nazi party in the early 1940s....

Leader of the SS group ordered to blow up the castle Wewelsburg
Wewelsburg
For the village of Wewelsburg see Village of WewelsburgWewelsburg is a Renaissance castle located in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the village of Wewelsburg which is a quarter of the city Büren, Westphalia, in district of Paderborn in the Alme Valley. The castle has the...

Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele
Josef Rudolf Mengele , also known as the Angel of Death was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He earned doctorates in anthropology from Munich University and in medicine from Frankfurt University...

Medical officer at Auschwitz-Birkenau 3177885 May 1938 5574974
Peter Neumann
Peter Neumann
Peter Neumann may refer to:*Peter Neumann , Canadian football player*Peter G. Neumann, computer scientist*Peter M. Neumann, OBE, British mathematician*Peter Neumann , Director of ICSR...

Captain of the 5th Viking Division
5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
The 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking was one of the elite Panzer divisions of the thirty eight Waffen SS divisions. It was recruited from foreign volunteers, from Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, The Netherlands, and Belgium under the command of German officers...

; wrote The Black March
The Black March
The Black March is an autobiography of a SS man published by Bantam Books. The book is a collection of key entries in the journal of Peter Neumann, a boy inducted from the Hitler Youth into the Schutzstaffel.- Publishing dates :...

1939
Hans-Gösta Pehrsson Swedish member of the 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland
11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland
The 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland, also known as Kampfverband Waräger, Germanische-Freiwilligen-Division, SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 11 or 11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Nordland, was a Waffen SS, Panzergrenadier division recruited from foreign volunteers...

Erich Priebke
Erich Priebke
Erich Priebke is a former Hauptsturmführer in the Waffen SS. In 1996 he was convicted of war crimes in Italy, for participating in the massacre at the Ardeatine caves in Rome, on March 24, 1944...

SD and Sicherheitspolizei
Sicherheitspolizei
The Sicherheitspolizei , often abbreviated as SiPo, was a term used in Nazi Germany to describe the state political and criminal investigation security agencies. It was made up by the combined forces of the Gestapo and the Kripo between 1936 and 1939...

 commander in Rome, Italy
Franz Karl Reichleitner
Franz Reichleitner
Franz Karl Reichleitner was an Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer who served in Operation Reinhard during the Holocaust. Reichleitner served as the second and last commandant of Sobibor extermination camp from 1 September 1942 until the camp's closure on or about 17 October 1943...

Second and last Commandant of Sobibor extermination camp
Sobibór extermination camp
Sobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp located on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór, Lublin Voivodeship of occupied Poland as part of Operation Reinhard; the official German name was SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor...

357065 6369213
Hans Werner Roepke Commandant of British Free Corps
British Free Corps
During World War II, the British Free Corps was a unit of the consisting of British and Dominion prisoners of war who had been recruited by the Nazis. The unit was originally known as The Legion of St...

Eduard Roschmann Commandant of the Riga
Riga
Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

 Ghetto
Ghetto
A ghetto is a section of a city predominantly occupied by a group who live there, especially because of social, economic, or legal issues.The term was originally used in Venice to describe the area where Jews were compelled to live. The term now refers to an overcrowded urban area often associated...

; Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und SD IV = Department 4 (Gestapo)
152681 1938
Bernd Rosemeyer
Bernd Rosemeyer
Bernd Rosemeyer was a German racing driver.- Career :...

Stab des SS-Hauptamt; Racing car driver killed 1 January 1938 214952 1.January.1936
Günther Schwägermann
Günther Schwägermann
Günther Schwägermann was born in Uelzen and served in the Nazi government of German dictator Adolf Hitler. From approximately late 1941, Schwägermann served as the adjutant for Dr. Joseph Goebbels. He reached the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer...

Adjutant to Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...

.
312.231
Rudolf von Ribbentrop
Rudolf von Ribbentrop
Rudolf von Ribbentrop is a former German Waffen-SS officer who served in World War II. He is the son of the German diplomat who later became Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Ribbentrop distinguished himself in the Continuation War.-Early life:Ribbentrop spent a year at Westminster School,...

Waffen-SS Officer
Theodor Emil Saevecke 396.401 1938 112.407
Siegfried Seidl
Siegfried Seidl
Dr. Siegfried Seidl was a World War II Commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp located in the present-day Czech Republic. He was later a convicted war criminal.Siegfried Seidl interrupted his law studies after a few semesters and took on various odd jobs...

Commandant of Theresienstadt concentration camp
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Theresienstadt concentration camp was a Nazi German ghetto during World War II. It was established by the Gestapo in the fortress and garrison city of Terezín , located in what is now the Czech Republic.-History:The fortress of Terezín was constructed between the years 1780 and 1790 by the orders...

46.106 1932 300.378
Otto Albrecht Alfred Von Bolschwing
Willy Whitteler Dachau concentration camp 310314
Michael Wittmann
Michael Wittmann
Michael Wittmann was a German Waffen-SS tank commander during the Second World War. Wittmann would rise to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer and was a Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross holder....

Waffen-SS Panzer ace with the LSSAH
Fritz Woehrn RSHA
RSHA
The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt was an organization subordinate to Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacities as Chef der Deutschen Polizei and Reichsführer-SS...

 IVb4
280238 11 Sept, 1938 2863618

Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant)

Rank Collar insignia
Obersturmführer
Obersturmführer
Obersturmführer was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi party that was used by the SS and also as a rank of the SA. Translated as “Senior Assault Leader”, the rank of Obersturmführer was first created in 1932 as the result of an expansion of the Sturmabteilung and the need for an additional rank in...

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Julius Dettmann
Julius Dettmann
Julius Dettmann was a German officer of the SD of the SS.Dettman belonged to the SS with the card number 414,783, and to the Nazi Party with card number 722,240, member of Section IVB4 of the Gestapo. He was stationed in Amsterdam, Holland, during the German occupation of that country...

SD Officer and member of Section IV B4 of the Gestapo in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

 Netherlands
414,783 722,240
Heinz Felfe
Heinz Felfe
Heinz Paul Johann Felfe was a German national who was a former SS Obersturmführer , who worked for the Bundesnachrichtendienst , after the Second World...

SD Switzerland and Netherlands; postwar KGB
KGB
The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...

 spy in British Intelligence and the CIA-sponsored Gehlen Organization
286288 1936 3710348
Kurt Gerstein
Kurt Gerstein
Kurt Gerstein was a German SS officer and member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS. He witnessed mass murders in the Nazi extermination camps Belzec and Treblinka...

Member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS and author of the Gerstein Report
Gerstein Report
The Gerstein Report was written by Kurt Gerstein, an Obersturmführer of the Waffen-SS in 1945 who rose to become the Head of Technical Disinfection Services of the SS. In that capacity he witnessed in August 1942 the gassing of some 3,000 Jews in the extermination camp of Belzec...

10 March 1941
Willy Hack {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 1952, Dresden. 70329
Karl-Friedrich Höcker
Karl-Friedrich Höcker
Karl-Friedrich Höcker was a SS-Obersturmführer and the adjutant to Richard Baer, who was a commandant of Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945...

Adjutant at KZ Auschwitz 182.961 October 1933 4.444.757
Willy Hund Waffen SS
Knight's Cross
Knight's Cross
Knight's Cross refers to a distinguishing grade or level of various orders that denotes bravery and leadership on the battlefield....

 holder
391949 3 April 1939 None
Dr. Irmfried Eberl
Irmfried Eberl
SS-Obersturmführer Irmfried Eberl was an Austrian Nazi war criminal who helped to establish, and was the first commandant of, the Treblinka extermination camp, where he worked from until his dismissal on . As a psychiatrist, Eberl was the only physician to command an extermination camp. In...

Involved in T-4 Euthanasia Program and K-Z Treblinka 687095
Johann Paul Kremer SS doctor at Auschwitz 262703 1934 1265405
Friedrich Peter
Friedrich Peter
Friedrich Peter was an Austrian politician who served as the chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria from 1958 to 1978.- Early life :...

Member of an Einstatzgruppe
Leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)
Freedom Party of Austria
The Freedom Party of Austria is a political party in Austria. Ideologically, the party is a direct descendant of the German national liberal camp, which dates back to the 1848 revolutions. The FPÖ itself was founded in 1956 as the successor to the short-lived Federation of Independents , which had...

1938
Friedrich-Karl (Fritz) Reuß 267 657
Albert Sauer Kommandant at KZ Mauthausen
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
Mauthausen Concentration Camp grew to become a large group of Nazi concentration camps that was built around the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen in Upper Austria, roughly east of the city of Linz.Initially a single camp at Mauthausen, it expanded over time and by the summer of 1940, the...

, KZ Riga–Kaiserwald, KZ Ravensbrück
Ravensbrück concentration camp
Ravensbrück was a notorious women's concentration camp during World War II, located in northern Germany, 90 km north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück ....

19180 862698
Walter Scharpwinkel Gestapo
Gestapo
The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...

 commander, participant in the Stalag Luft III murders
Stalag Luft III murders
The Stalag Luft III murders was a war crime perpetrated by members of the Gestapo following the "Great Escape" of Allied prisoners of war from the German Air Force prison camp known as Stalag Luft III on March 25, 1944. Of a total of 76 successful escapees, 73 were recaptured, mostly within days of...

)
290803 1053578
Kurt Schey Berlin Lawyer-stationed at KZ Buchenwald
Dr Carl {karl} Sommer SD-Hauptamt 272 426 220 064
Franz Stangl
Franz Stangl
Franz Paul Stangl was an Austrian-born SS commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust. He was arrested in Brazil in 1967, extradited and tried in West Germany for the mass murder of 900,000 people, and in 1970 was found guilty...

Commandant of the Sobibor
Sobibór extermination camp
Sobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp located on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór, Lublin Voivodeship of occupied Poland as part of Operation Reinhard; the official German name was SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor...

 and Treblinka extermination camp
Treblinka extermination camp
Treblinka was a Nazi extermination camp in occupied Poland during World War II near the village of Treblinka in the modern-day Masovian Voivodeship of Poland. The camp, which was constructed as part of Operation Reinhard, operated between and ,. During this time, approximately 850,000 men, women...

s
Arnold Strippel KZ Auschwitz; Sachsenburg; Buchenwald; Majanek; Natzweiler; Lubin; Ravensbruck; Neuengamme. Involved in Bullenhuser Damm
Bullenhuser Damm
Bullenhuser Damm School is located at 92–94 Bullenhuser Damm, a street in the Rothenburgsort section of Hamburg, Germany. During heavy air raids many portions of Hamburg were destroyed including the Rothenburgsort section which received heavy damage. The school was only partly damaged. By 1943 the...

 killings in 1945
236290 4334442
Dr. Johannes Thummler Gestapo Chief of Chemnitz [1.3.1941-43] , Gestapochef Kattowitz [1943-44]; president Gestapo – Court in KL Auschwitz) 323711
Karl-Wilhelm Voelkner (Völkner) KZ Buchenwald and KZ Flossenbuerg 160325 1932 1324620
Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald
Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald
Anton Freiherr von Hohberg und Buchwald was a German Reichswehr- and SS - Officer.-Life:...

Former SS-Oberabschnittsreiterführer {reginal SS Cavalry leader; reported killed by SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski during Night of the Long Knives
Night of the Long Knives
The Night of the Long Knives , sometimes called "Operation Hummingbird " or in Germany the "Röhm-Putsch," was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political murders...

 in 1934

Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant)

Rank Collar insignia
Untersturmführer
Untersturmführer
Untersturmführer was a paramilitary rank of the German Schutzstaffel first created in July 1934. The rank can trace its origins to the older SA rank of Sturmführer which had existed since the founding of the SA in 1921...

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Erhart Brauny Sentenced to prison 1947 for role in Gardelegen Massacre {died 1950}
Dr. Heinz Brücher
Heinz Brücher
Heinz Brücher was a member of special science unit SS Ahnenerbe , PhD in botany....

member of SS Ahnenerbe
Ahnenerbe
The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German think tank that promoted itself as a "study society for Intellectual Ancient History." Founded on July 1, 1935, by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darré, the Ahnenerbe's goal was to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan...

; Botanist
3498152
Paul Dickopf
Paul Dickopf
Paulinus Dickopf was member of the German Federal Criminal Police Office between 1965 and 1971 raising to the position of president. Under the Nazi government of Adolf Hitler he was a member of the Sturmabteilung and the Schutzstaffel. He was also the President of Interpol from 1968 -1972...

SD; postwar president of Interpol
Interpol
Interpol, whose full name is the International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL, is an organization facilitating international police cooperation...

337259 1937
Benson Freeman British defector and SS propaganda officer; member of SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers
SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers
SS-Kriegsberichter-Kompanie SS-Kriegsberichter-Abteilung SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers The SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers was a German Waffen SS war correspondent formation which reported on the actions of all Waffen SS combat formations, seeing action in all major theatres of war with the exception of North...

Fritz Henke
Fritz Henke
Fritz Henke was a Untersturmführer in the Waffen SS who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.Henke was born on the 21 June 1921 in Oldendorf, in Lower Saxony...

Awarded Knights Cross of the Iron Cross
Kurt Gildisch
Kurt Gildisch
Kurt Gildisch became the third commander of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard on 11 April 1933. He was a trained teacher, who had failed to find a classroom job and ended up in the Prussian police force...

3rd commander of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers
SS-Begleitkommando des Führers
SS-Begleitkommando des Führers was originally an eight-man SS squad assigned with protecting the life of Adolf Hitler during the early 1930s.-Formation:...

 1933-1934
Johan Klier Guard at Sobibor
Sobibór
Sobibór is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Włodawa, within Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies close to the Bug River, which forms the border with Belarus and Ukraine. Sobibór is approximately south-east of Włodawa and east of the regional capital...

Karl-Wilhelm Krause Hitler's Orderly 1934-1939;LSSAH in Apr 1938;Flak-Zug,II./Pz.Rgt.12 in Nov 44 236 858
Hermann Krumey Sonderstab d.RFSS Budapest 310 441
Walter Kutschmann Kriminalkommisar/Gestapo
Gestapo
The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...

 Chief in Drobohycz
{After being identified as living in Argentina by Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal KBE was an Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter....

 arrested on 28 June 1975;
he was later released on 29 June 1975; Kutschmann died 30 August 1986}
404651 1940 7475729
Karl Lang Shot and killed his superior Franz Breithaupt
Franz Breithaupt
SS Lt. General Franz Breithaupt was a German Nazi General who fought in World War I and was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross.-Biography:...

 28 April 1945
Markus Lienhart Killed 3 US POW airmen March 4, 1945; executed Nov 26, 1946
Leopold von Mildenstein
Leopold von Mildenstein
Leopold Itz, Edler von Mildenstein was a German writer and SS officer of the 1930s and 1940s who is remembered as a leader of the Nazi Party's support during the 1930s for the aims of Zionism. As a writer, he sometimes used the pen name LIM, his initials...

Head of SD
Sicherheitsdienst
Sicherheitsdienst , full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS, or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. The organization was the first Nazi Party intelligence organization to be established and was often considered a "sister organization" with the...

's Jewish Affairs Section (II/112), August 1934 to June 1936; promoter of co-operation between Nazi Party and Zionism
Zionism
Zionism is a Jewish political movement that, in its broadest sense, has supported the self-determination of the Jewish people in a sovereign Jewish national homeland. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement continues primarily to advocate on behalf of the Jewish state...

1932 106,678
Martin James Monti
Martin James Monti
Martin James Monti was a United States airman who enlisted in the Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet. Monti reported for training and later was commissioned as a Flight Officer. He subsequently qualified in the P-39 Aircobra and the P-38 Lightning, and was promoted to second lieutenant, when he...

US deserter/thief and SS propaganda officer; member of SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers
SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers
SS-Kriegsberichter-Kompanie SS-Kriegsberichter-Abteilung SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers The SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers was a German Waffen SS war correspondent formation which reported on the actions of all Waffen SS combat formations, seeing action in all major theatres of war with the exception of North...

1945
Johann Niemann
Johann Niemann
Johann Niemann was an SS-Untersturmführer and deputy commandant of Sobibor extermination camp...

Deputy commandant of Sobibor extermination camp
Sobibór extermination camp
Sobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp located on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór, Lublin Voivodeship of occupied Poland as part of Operation Reinhard; the official German name was SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor...

270.600 1934 753.836
Willem Sassen
Willem Sassen
Wilhelmus Antonius Sassen was a Dutch collaborator, Nazi journalist and a member of the Waffen-SS, where he had the rank of Untersturmführer corresponding to lieutenant. He became widely known around 1960 as the interviewer of Adolf Eichmann.- Private biography, family :Willem Sassen was born in...

Netherlands PK ("Propaganda Kompanie")
Hanns-Martin Schleyer Leader of board of Zentralverband der Industrie in Prague 221714 30 June 1933
Franz Schädle
Franz Schädle
SS-Obersturmbannführer Franz Schädle was the commander of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard , from 5 January 1945 until his death on 1 May 1945, aged 38.-Biography:...

Commander of the SS-Begleitkommando des Führers
SS-Begleitkommando des Führers
SS-Begleitkommando des Führers was originally an eight-man SS squad assigned with protecting the life of Adolf Hitler during the early 1930s.-Formation:...

 1945
2.605 member in 1932 73023
Tscherim Soobzokov
Tscherim Soobzokov
Tsherim Soobzokov was a Circassian man accused of collaborating with the Nazis during the invasion of the USSR and serving as a Waffen-SS officer. Soobzokov denied these charges and sued CBS and the New York Times...

Member of North Circassian Legion
Hans Sommer
Hans Sommer
Hans Sommer was a German national who served as SS Obersturmführer in the Sicherheitsdienst during World War II. After the war, he found a working relationship with Gehlen Org...

Worked with Police in France
GDR agent after the war, as a Stasi
Stasi
The Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (abbreviation , literally State Security), was the official state security service of East Germany. The MfS was headquartered...

 agent planted into the post-war Gehlen Organisation.
Max Taubner Court-martialed in 1943 for "unauthorized" killings of Jews 112659
Reimond Tollenaere
Reimond Tollenaere
Reimond Tollenaere was an SS-Untersturmführer and member of the Vlaams Nationaal Verbond , a right-wing Flemish nationalist party....

Waffen SS Belgian Foreign Legion officer
Herbert Wenzel Involved in killing of Aachen Mayor Franz Oppenhoff
Franz Oppenhoff
Franz Oppenhoff was a German lawyer who was appointed Mayor of the city of Aachen by Allied forces and subsequently murdered on the order of Heinrich Himmler.-Biography:...

 March 1945
Heinz Zeuner Aide to SS General Heinz Kammler 490 097
Johannes Zingler 10196 March 1931 544378

Sturmscharführer (Sergeant Major)

Rank Collar Insignia
Sturmscharführer
Sturmscharführer
Sturmscharführer was a Nazi rank of the Waffen-SS that existed between 1934 and 1945. The rank was the most senior enlisted rank in the Waffen-SS, the equivalent of a Sergeant Major in other military organizations...

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Rudolf Heinrich Bennewitz Was also a Kriminaloberassistent in the GESTAPO, commander SIPO und SD Aussendienststelle Prömsel (Przemyśl, Poland) from VIII 1941 to 24 VII 1944. 373 651 5 881 722
Gerhard Hiersemann Killed in Warsaw 14 August 1943
Otto Welke KZ Stutthof

Hauptscharführer (First Sergeant)

Rank Collar Insignia
Hauptscharführer
Hauptscharführer
Hauptscharführer was a Nazi paramilitary rank which was used by the Schutzstaffel between the years of 1934 and 1945. The rank was the highest enlisted rank of the SS, with the exception of the special Waffen-SS rank of Sturmscharführer....

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Eduard Brauning KZ Auschwitz
Friedrich Bremer 4./SS-Pz.Gren.Rgt. 2
Erich Frommhagen KZ Auschwitz
Lorenz Hackenholt
Lorenz Hackenholt
Lorenz Marie Hackenholt built and operated the gas chamber at the Bełżec extermination camp...

SS-NCO in charge of gassing at Bełżec extermination camp; declared legally dead-fate unknown 1933 1727962
Otto Moll
Otto Moll
Otto Moll was an SS-Hauptscharführer and part of the staff at Auschwitz. Born in Hohenschonberg, Germany on March 4, 1915 and was executed on May 28, 1946 in Landsberg am Lech....

KZ Auschwitz. Director and Chief Head of all crematoria. Commandant of Furstengrube and Gleiwitz I concentration camps. 267670 1 May 1935
Gerhard Palitszch At Lichtenburg, Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald & Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KZ camps. Commandant of Brunn Concentration Camp. 79466 15 March 1933
Gerhard Putsch Assistant to Georg Konrad Morgen
Georg Konrad Morgen
Georg Konrad Morgen was an SS judge and lawyer who investigated crimes committed in Nazi concentration camps.-Life:...

Georg Schallermair At KZ Dachau subcamp Muehldorf August 1944-1945. Executed June 7, 1951
Friedrich Weis Sonderkommando 10b; Kripo Linz; Kripo Frankfort/Main 367196 13 Sept 1938 126777

Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)

Rank Collar insignia
Oberscharführer
Oberscharführer
Oberscharführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that existed between the years of 1932 and 1945. Translated as “Senior Squad Leader”, Oberscharführer was first used as a rank of the Sturmabteilung and was created due to an expansion of the enlisted positions required by growing SA membership...

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Wilhelm Ardnt Hitler valet killed 21 April 1945 in plane crash
Ernst Barkmann
Ernst Barkmann
Ernst Barkmann was a German Waffen-SS soldier and panzer ace. Barkmann fought and rose to fame during World War II for his actions in command of Panther tanks.-Early life:...

Waffen-SS Panzer
Panzer
A Panzer is a German language word that, when used as a noun, means "tank". When it is used as an adjective, it means either tank or "armoured" .- Etymology :...

 ace
Erich Bauer
Erich Bauer
Hermann Erich Bauer , sometimes referred to as "Gasmeister", was a SS-Oberscharführer . He participated in Nazi Germany's Action T4 program and later in Operation Reinhard, serving as a gas chamber operator at Sobibor extermination camp...

In charge of gas chambers at Sobibor extermination camp
Sobibór extermination camp
Sobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp located on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór, Lublin Voivodeship of occupied Poland as part of Operation Reinhard; the official German name was SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor...

; Action T4
Action T4
Action T4 was the name used after World War II for Nazi Germany's eugenics-based "euthanasia" program during which physicians killed thousands of people who were "judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination"...

Kurt Bolender
Kurt Bolender
Heinz Kurt Bolender was an SS-Oberscharführer during the Second World War. In 1942 Bolender operated the gas chambers at Sobibor extermination camp, thereby directly perpetrating acts of genocide against Jews and Gypsies during the Nazi operation known as Operation Reinhard.After the war,...

In charge of gas chambers at Sobibor extermination camp
Sobibór extermination camp
Sobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp located on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór, Lublin Voivodeship of occupied Poland as part of Operation Reinhard; the official German name was SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor...

; Action T4
Action T4
Action T4 was the name used after World War II for Nazi Germany's eugenics-based "euthanasia" program during which physicians killed thousands of people who were "judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination"...

Franz Bürkl
Franz Bürkl
SS-Oberscharführer Franz Bürkl was a Gestapo officer in the Nazi-occupied Poland. He was assassinated in the Operation Bürkl on September 7, 1943....

Deputy commander and infamous executioner at Pawiak
Pawiak
Pawiak was a prison built in 1835 in Warsaw, Poland.During the January 1863 Uprising, it served as a transfer camp for Poles sentenced by Imperial Russia to deportation to Siberia....

 Prison, Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

, Poland
Karl Frenzel
Karl Frenzel
SS-Oberscharführer Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel was the commandant of Sobibor extermination camp's Lager I section, which was the section for the Sonderkommando forced-labor prisoner-workers, who also herded victims into the gas chambers...

T-4 program and KZ Sobibor 334948
Heinrich Gley KZ Belzac 1934
Hubert Gomerski Guard at Sobibor
Sobibór
Sobibór is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Włodawa, within Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies close to the Bug River, which forms the border with Belarus and Ukraine. Sobibór is approximately south-east of Włodawa and east of the regional capital...

Siegfried Graetschus
Siegfried Graetschus
Siegfried Graetschus was an SS-Oberscharführer at Sobibor extermination camp. In the process, Graetschus aided with the genocide of Jews and other peoples at Sobibor during Operation Reinhard of The Holocaust.Gratschus joined the SS in 1935 and the Nazi Party in 1936...

KZ Sobibor-commanded Ukrainian guard, killed in revolt
Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author.He is best known for his books Seven Years in Tibet and The White Spider .-Athletics:...

Austrian mountaineer and explorer in Tibet
Tibet
Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...

1938
Ernst Krause SS-Propaganda-Company. Designed the Eastern Front Medal
Eastern Front Medal
The Eastern Front Medal, , more commonly known as the Ostmedaille was instituted on May 26, 1942 to mark service on the German Eastern Front during the period November 15, 1941 to April 15, 1942...

 aka "Gefrierfleischorden" (Frozen Meat Medal)
293212 None
Karl Wilhelm Krause Hitler Chief Valet 1933-1939 {dismissed}; In 1944 with Flakzug of SS Panzer Regiment 12 in 1944 236858
Hermann Michel
Hermann Michel
Hermann Michel, sometimes referred to as "Preacher" , was a Nazi and SS-Oberscharführer . During World War II, he participated in the extermination of Jews at the Sobibor extermination camp during the Nazi operation known as Aktion Reinhard...

T-4; KZ Sobibor; Operation Reinhard
Operation Reinhard
Operation Reinhard was the code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the General Government, and marked the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the use of extermination camps...

-fate unknown-fled to Middle East?
Rochus Misch
Rochus Misch
Rochus Misch is a former Oberscharführer in the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler during World War II. He served as a courier, bodyguard and telephone operator for German leader Adolf Hitler from 1940 to 1945...

Hitler's telephone operator who in the last weeks of the war handled all of the direct communication in the Führerbunker 1937
Eric Muhsfeldt
Eric Muhsfeldt
SS-Oberscharführer Eric Mußfeldt was a senior NCO of the Sonderkommando at the Auschwitz concentration camp.-Personal life:...

Senior NCO of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando
Sonderkommando
Sonderkommandos were work units of Nazi death camp prisoners, composed almost entirely of Jews, who were forced, on threat of their own deaths, to aid with the disposal of gas chamber victims during The Holocaust...

Josef Oberhauser Bełżec extermination camp
Karl Silberbauer
Karl Silberbauer
Karl Josef Silberbauer was an Austrian SD officer holding the rank of SS-Oberscharführer , when, serving in the occupied Netherlands, he arrested Anne Frank and her family in their hiding place in 1944....

Vienna Gestapo
Gestapo
The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...

;SD
Sicherheitsdienst
Sicherheitsdienst , full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS, or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. The organization was the first Nazi Party intelligence organization to be established and was often considered a "sister organization" with the...

 at the Hague
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

; Arrested Anne Frank
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...

1943
Ottmar Toifl SS Truppführer
Truppführer
Truppführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was first created in 1930 as a rank of the Sturmabteilung , or Nazi Stormtroopers...

 and Poleizi kommissar. Killed during Night of the Long Knives
Night of the Long Knives
The Night of the Long Knives , sometimes called "Operation Hummingbird " or in Germany the "Röhm-Putsch," was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political murders...

Gustav Franz Wagner Head SS-NCO of Sobibor extermination camp
Sobibór extermination camp
Sobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp located on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór, Lublin Voivodeship of occupied Poland as part of Operation Reinhard; the official German name was SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor...

Bernard Wallerang KZ Belzac 417966
Dr. Karl Wienert 1938 part of the Schäfer-expedition in Tibet
Tibet
Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...

. {b.1912-d.1992}
288240 1143244

Scharführer (Sergeant)

Rank Collar insignia
Scharführer
Scharführer
Scharführer was a Nazi Party title that was used by several paramilitary organizations from 1925 to 1945. Translated as “Squad Leader”, the title of Scharführer can trace its origins to the First World War, where a Scharführer was often a Sergeant or Corporal who commanded special action or shock...

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Erich Fuchs Sobibor
Sobibór
Sobibór is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Włodawa, within Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies close to the Bug River, which forms the border with Belarus and Ukraine. Sobibór is approximately south-east of Włodawa and east of the regional capital...

1934
Heinrich Giese KZ Mauthausen
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
Mauthausen Concentration Camp grew to become a large group of Nazi concentration camps that was built around the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen in Upper Austria, roughly east of the city of Linz.Initially a single camp at Mauthausen, it expanded over time and by the summer of 1940, the...

Josef Gorfer Guard at Fort VII Pozen Poland 1940-1941 with SS-Wachkommando Posen, Abteilung III. Died on 17 May 1944 Italy
Erich Lachmann
Erich Lachmann
Erich Gustav Willie Lachmann was a police auxiliary and SS-Scharführer who participated in the "Operation Reinhard" in the Sobibor extermination camp.Lachmann was born in Liegnitz on November 6, 1909...

Sobibor
Sobibór
Sobibór is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Włodawa, within Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies close to the Bug River, which forms the border with Belarus and Ukraine. Sobibór is approximately south-east of Włodawa and east of the regional capital...

Bruno Langer KZ Dachau KZ Mauthausen 360008
Heinz-Hans Schütt T-4 at Grafeneck and Hadamar; KZ Sobibor
Josef Vallaster T-4 at Hartheim; KZ Sobibor-killed in Sobidor revolt
Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg
Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg
Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg was a German economist who contributed to game theory and industrial organization and is known for the Stackelberg leadership model.-Biography:...

Economics Professor 1933

Unterscharführer (Corporal)

Rank Collar insignia
Unterscharführer
Unterscharführer
Unterscharführer was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party used by the Schutzstaffel between 1934 and 1945. The SS rank was created after the Night of the Long Knives...

Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Albert Hujar Staff NCO at the Plaszow Labor Camp
Hans Hillig Involved in the Malmedy massacre
Malmedy massacre
The Malmedy massacre was a war crime in which 84 American prisoners of war were murdered by their German captors during World War II. The massacre was committed on December 17, 1944, by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper , a German combat unit, during the Battle of the Bulge.The massacre, as well as...

, tried at the Dachau Trials US011 Case No. 6-24 (US vs Valentin Bersin et al.): 16 July 1946; 10-year sentence
Robert Jührs T-4 and at Belzac; Dorohusza and Sobibor
Erwin Lambert
Erwin Lambert
Erwin Hermann Lambert was a perpetrator of the Holocaust. In profession, he was a master mason, building trades foreman, Nazi Party member and member of the Schutzstaffel with the rank of SS-Unterscharführer...

Supervised construction of gas chambers for Action T4
Action T4
Action T4 was the name used after World War II for Nazi Germany's eugenics-based "euthanasia" program during which physicians killed thousands of people who were "judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination"...

; modified gas chambers at Treblinka and Sobibor
Sobibór
Sobibór is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Włodawa, within Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies close to the Bug River, which forms the border with Belarus and Ukraine. Sobibór is approximately south-east of Włodawa and east of the regional capital...

Josef Leitgeb Involved in the killing of Aachen Mayor Franz Oppenhoff
Franz Oppenhoff
Franz Oppenhoff was a German lawyer who was appointed Mayor of the city of Aachen by Allied forces and subsequently murdered on the order of Heinrich Himmler.-Biography:...

 March 1945
Franz Schönhuber
Franz Schönhuber
Franz Xaver Schönhuber was a German journalist and author. He gained fame as a founder and eventual chairman of the German Party The Republicans.-Career:...

Waffen SS member; later chairman of The Republicans (Germany) political party
Franz Suchomel Treblinka
Treblinka extermination camp
Treblinka was a Nazi extermination camp in occupied Poland during World War II near the village of Treblinka in the modern-day Masovian Voivodeship of Poland. The camp, which was constructed as part of Operation Reinhard, operated between and ,. During this time, approximately 850,000 men, women...

Ernst Zierke
Ernst Zierke
Ernst Zierke was an SS-Unterscharführer who took part in Nazi Germany's Action T4 program and later worked at Bełżec and Sobibor extermination camps during Operation Reinhard. Zierke helped to perpetrate the Holocaust....

Bełżec; Dorohucza
Dorohucza
Dorohucza is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Trawniki, within Świdnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Świdnik and east of the regional capital Lublin.The village has a population of 753....

; Sobibor
Sobibór
Sobibór is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Włodawa, within Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies close to the Bug River, which forms the border with Belarus and Ukraine. Sobibór is approximately south-east of Włodawa and east of the regional capital...

 Camp III

SS soldiers

Rank Collar insignia
Rottenführer
Rottenführer
Rottenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was first created in the year 1932. The rank of Rottenführer was used by several Nazi paramilitary groups, among them the Sturmabteilung , the Schutzstaffel and was senior to the paramilitary rank of Sturmmann.The insignia for Rottenführer...

Sturmmann
Sturmmann
Sturmmann was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was first created in the year 1921. The rank of Sturmmann was used by the Sturmabteilung and the Schutzstaffel ....

Grenadier

Oberschütze
Oberschütze
Oberschütze is a German military rank which was first used in the Bavarian Army of the late 19th century.It was commonly introduced in the Reichswehr in 1920....



Schütze
Schütze
Schütze in German means "shooter" or "rifleman". It also occasionally occurs as a surname, as Schütz, as in the opera Der Freischütz. The word itself is derived from the German word schützen, meaning to protect, or to guard...



Obermann
Obermann
Obermann was a rank of the German Schutzstaffel which was used between the years 1942 and 1945.The rank of Obermann was exclusive to the Allgemeine-SS. It is equivalent to the Waffen-SS rank of Oberschütze....



Mann
Mann (military rank)
Mann , was a paramilitary rank used by several Nazi Party paramilitary organizations between 1925 and 1945. The rank is most often associated with the SS, and also as a rank of the SA where Mann was the lowest enlisted rank and was the equivalent of a Private.In 1938, with the rise of the...

Anwärter
Anwärter
Anwärter is a German title which translates as “Candidate”. In modern day Germany, the title of Anwärter is typically used by those applying for employment and also as a designation for members of the Bundeswehr who are under consideration for a leadership assignment.During the Third Reich,...

(No Insignia)
Bewerber
Bewerber
Bewerber was an SS rank used in Nazi Germany from 1942 to 1945. The rank of Bewerber was the lowest possible SS rank and was assigned to those personnel who were under consideration for candidacy in the SS...

(No Uniform)
Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Heinrich Barbl
Heinrich Barbl
Heinrich Barbl was an Austrian-born SS-Rottenführer. He participated in the T-4 euthanasia program and later Operation Reinhard.-Early career:...

Rottenführer; participated in the T-4 Euthanasia Program
Action T4
Action T4 was the name used after World War II for Nazi Germany's eugenics-based "euthanasia" program during which physicians killed thousands of people who were "judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination"...

 and later Operation Reinhardt.
Josef Blösche
Josef Blösche
Josef Blösche was a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party in Germany, and served in the SS and SD during World War II as a Rottenführer...

Rottenführer; member of SD; involved in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp....

314655 6547348
Hugo Hubener Rottenfuhrer; stepfather of Third Reich opponent Helmuth Hubener
Helmuth Hübener
Helmuth Guddat Kunkel Hübener was the youngest opponent of the Third Reich to be sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof and executed.-Life:...

Ragnar Johansson Swedish member of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
The 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking was one of the elite Panzer divisions of the thirty eight Waffen SS divisions. It was recruited from foreign volunteers, from Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, The Netherlands, and Belgium under the command of German officers...

 and 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland
11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland
The 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland, also known as Kampfverband Waräger, Germanische-Freiwilligen-Division, SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 11 or 11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Nordland, was a Waffen SS, Panzergrenadier division recruited from foreign volunteers...

]. Killed 1 May 1945 in Battle of Berlin
Battle of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European Theatre of World War II....

 while driver for Hauptsturmführer Hans-Gösta Pehrsson
Alfried Krupp Freundeskreis der Reichsführer SS
Arms/Steel industrialist/Colonel in National Socialist Flyers Corps (NSFK)
National Socialist Flyers Corps
The National Socialist Flyers Corps was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party that was founded in 1937 as a successor to the German Air Sports Association, during the years when a German Air Force was forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles...

None 1934 6989627
Josef Oberle Dutch SS guard at Amersfoort
Amersfoort
Amersfoort is a municipality and the second largest city of the province of Utrecht in central Netherlands. The city is growing quickly but has a well-preserved and protected medieval centre. Amersfoort is one of the largest railway junctions in the country, because of its location on two of the...

 concentration camp
Eric Pleasants
Eric Pleasants
Eric Pleasants was a British citizen during World War II who defected to serve in the Waffen-SS. Pleasants was an SS-Schütze in the British Free Corps which, in 1941, became a foreign legion of the Waffen-SS....

British defector and member of the SS British Free Corps
British Free Corps
During World War II, the British Free Corps was a unit of the consisting of British and Dominion prisoners of war who had been recruited by the Nazis. The unit was originally known as The Legion of St...

None 1940 None
Sebastian Schmid Driver at Dachau concentration camp. War Crimes Defendant
Albert Speer
Albert Speer
Albert Speer, born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office...

 
Reichminister for Armaments and War Production 46 104 20 July 1942 474 481
Erich Topp
Erich Topp
Rear Admiral Erich Topp was the third most successful of German U-Boot Experten commanders of World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords...

 
Briefly member of Allgemeine-SS; dropped active NSDAP/SS membership after becoming member of armed Forces 1934 2,621,078
Berend Johan Westerveld Dutch SS Guard at Amersfoort
Amersfoort
Amersfoort is a municipality and the second largest city of the province of Utrecht in central Netherlands. The city is growing quickly but has a well-preserved and protected medieval centre. Amersfoort is one of the largest railway junctions in the country, because of its location on two of the...

 concentration camp

See also

  • Ex-Nazis, List of living Nazis and List of former Nazis influential after 1945
  • Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel
    Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel
    The uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel were paramilitary ranks and uniforms used by the SS between 1925 and 1945 to differentiate that organization from the regular German armed forces, the German state, and the Nazi Party....

  • Orpo rank
  • Glossary of Nazi Germany
  • List of Nazi Party leaders and officials
  • Nuremberg Trials
    Nuremberg Trials
    The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany....

  • RuSHA Trial
    RuSHA Trial
    The RuSHA Trial was the eighth of the twelve trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II. These twelve trials were all held before U.S...


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