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...

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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....

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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:...

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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

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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...
  
  

External links

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