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


Führer (Adolf Hitler)

Prior to 1934 the SS were nominally under the command of the ''
Sturmabteilung The (; SA; literally "Storm Detachment") was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. It played a significant role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Its primary purposes were providing protection for Nazi ral ...
'' and so it could be said that both Adolf Hitler as ''
Oberster SA-Führer The Supreme SA Leader (german: Oberster SA-Führer), was the titular head of the Nazi Party's paramilitary group, the (SA). History To centralize the loyalty of the SA, Hitler personally assumed command of the entire organization in 1930 and ...
'' and
Ernst Röhm Ernst Julius Günther Röhm (; 28 November 1887 – 1 July 1934) was a German military officer and an early member of the Nazi Party. As one of the members of its predecessor, the German Workers' Party, he was a close friend and early ally ...
as ''
Stabschef SA ''Stabschef'' (, " Chief of Staff") was an office and paramilitary rank in the '' Sturmabteilung'' (SA), the paramilitary stormtroopers associated with the Nazi Party. It was a rank and position held by the operating chief of the SA. The rank i ...
'' outranked the most senior SS position of '' Reichsführer-SS''. Following the Night of the Long Knives Hitler "raised the SS, hitherto subordinate to the SA, to the rank of an independent organisation". Hitler also was considered SS Member No. 1, Emil Maurice (considered the founder of the SS) was member No. 2, although leadership was assumed by Julius Schreck who was member No. 5. Himmler was SS member No. 168. Based on the seniority system of SS membership number, this made Hitler senior in the SS to all other members even if not by rank. After the Night of the Long Knives, when the SS became independent from the SA, Hitler was listed on SS officer rolls as member No. 1 and considered supreme commander of the entire SS (''Oberster Führer der Schutzstaffel'': Literally, "Supreme Leader of the SS") by virtue of his position as the Führer of Germany. There is no photographic record of Hitler ever wearing an actual SS uniform nor was there a special SS insignia for Hitler above that worn by Himmler.


Oberster Führer der Schutzstaffel


SS Generals

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


Reichsführer


Oberst-Gruppenführer (colonel general)


Obergruppenführer (general)


Gruppenführer (lieutenant general)


Brigadeführer (major general)


SS Officers


Oberführer (senior colonel)


Standartenführer (colonel)


Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel)

Deported to West Germany in 1988, where he died 7 February 1992 , 13553 , , , - , Heinz Schubert , Born 27 August 1914. Defendant in Einsatzgruppen Trial sentenced to death-commuted to 10 years. Died 17 August 1987 , 107326 , 10 October 1934 , 3474350 , - , Richard Schulze , b.20 Sept 1898. Chef der Gestapo in Darmstadt. 1937 wurde er Chef der Kriminalpolizei von Gleiwitz. Im September 1939 war er im Stab der Einsatzgruppe II in Polen eingesetzt, danach war er als Kripochef in Kattowitz und ab 1941 in Königsberg (Preußen) tätig. Im August 1942 amtierte er im Rang eines Oberregierungsrates als Kriminalrat und Gruppenleiter im Reichskriminalpolizeiamt. Dort führte er im Amt V die Gruppe C (Stellvertreter ), die unter anderem nach entflohenen Kriegsgefangenen fahndete und hatte zudem die Funktion eines Verbindungsführers des RSHA zum Chef des Kriegsgefangenenwesens inne. d.29 Dec 1969 , , 1938 , 4.705.801 , - , Richard Schulze
A.k.a. Richard Schulze-Kossens , Commander of SS Officers School
Bad Tölz, Bavaria Bad or BAD may refer to: Common meanings * Evil, the opposite of moral good * Erroneous, inaccurate or incorrect *Unhealthy, or counter to well-being *Antagonist, the threat or obstacle of moral good Acronyms * BAD-2, a Soviet armored trolley ...
, , November 1934 , 264.059 , - , Johann Schwarzhuber , b.29 August 1904. Connected with
KZ Dachau , , commandant = List of commandants , known for = , location = Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany , built by = Germany , operated by = ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) , original use = Political prison , construction ...
and
KZ Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
. Executed 3 May 1947 , 142.388 , 8 April 1933 , 1.929.969 , - , Ilya Shavykin , Executed with Bronislav Kaminski 28.08.1944 , , , , - , Walter Sohst , SD Section III , , , , - , Eduard Strauch , Born 17 August 1906 Commander of Einsatzkommando 2, anschliessend commander of two Nazi organizations, the Security Police (German:
Sicherheitspolizei The ''Sicherheitspolizei'' ( en, Security Police), often abbreviated as SiPo, was a term used in Germany for security police. In the Nazi era, it referred to the state political and criminal investigation security agencies. It was made up by the ...
), or SiPo, and the Security Service (German: Sicherheitsdienst, or SD, first in Belarus (then called White Russia or White Ruthenia) and later in Belgium. In October 1944, he was transferred to the Waffen-SS. Died 15 September 1955 in prison hospital. , 19.312 , December 1931 , 623.392 , - , Dr.
Ludwig Stumpfegger Ludwig Stumpfegger (11 July 1910 – 2 May 1945) was a German doctor who served in the SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was Adolf Hitler's personal surgeon from 1944 to 1945, and was present in the ''Führerbunker'' in Berlin in late ...
, Born 11 July 1910. Worked under Dr.
Karl Gebhardt Karl Franz Gebhardt (23 November 1897 – 2 June 1948) was a German medical doctor and a war criminal during World War II. He served as Medical Superintendent of the Hohenlychen Sanatorium, Consulting Surgeon of the ''Waffen-SS'', Chief Surgeon in ...
with Dr. Fritz Fischer and Dr.
Herta Oberheuser Herta Oberheuser (15 May 1911 – 24 January 1978) was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison a ...
in medical experiments on human subjects from Ravensbrück. Hitler's personal surgeon from 1944, forward. Some sources report that he helped Magda Goebbels kill her children as they slept in the Vorbunker on 1 May 1945. Died 2 May 1945 while trying to flee Berlin , 83.668 , 2 June 1933 , 3.616.119 , - , Friedrich Suhr , Department Head in Adolf Eichmann's
Referat IV B4 Reich Security Head Office Referat IV B4, known as RSHA IV B4 (German: ' IV D4 until March 1941, or ''Judenreferat''), was a sub-department of Germany's Reich Security Head Office (''Reichssicherheitshauptamt'' or RSHA) and the Gestapo during the ...
; Commander of SS-Sonderkommando 4b &
Einsatzkommando During World War II, the Nazi German ' were a sub-group of the ' (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectu ...
6; Commander of
SiPo The ''Sicherheitspolizei'' ( en, Security Police), often abbreviated as SiPo, was a term used in Germany for security police. In the Nazi era, it referred to the state political and criminal investigation security agencies. It was made up by the ...
& SD, France; SS and Police Leader, "
Oberelsaß Oberelsaß (or Upper Alsace, ) was the southern part of the historical region Alsace or Elsass, inhabited originally by locals speaking Alemannic German. From 1871 to 1918, ''Bezirk Oberelsaß'' was a region (''Bezirk'') in the southern part o ...
" , 65824 , 1 February 1933 , 2623241 , - , Heinz Tensfeld , Born 11 May 1919.SS-Hstuf and Chef,8./Pz.Rgt.2 in Nov 1943. Killed 16 Nov 1943 at Gralimki , 400139 , , , - , Anton Thernes , Born 8 February 1892. Commandant of KZ Majdanek. Executed 3 December 1944 , , , , - ,
Wilhelm Traub Wilhelm Traub (2 April 1910 – 18 February 1946) was a German Nazi SS-''Obersturmbannführer'' who, during the Second World War, served as the occupation administrator of the Navahrudak (today, Novogrudok) area of the ''Generalbezirk Weißruthe ...
, Born 2 April 1910. ''Gebietskommissar'', " Navahrudak;" SS and Police Leader, "
Quarnero The Kvarner Gulf (, or , la, Sinus Flanaticus or ), sometimes also Kvarner Bay, is a bay in the northern Adriatic Sea, located between the Istrian peninsula and the northern Croatian Littoral mainland. The bay is a part of Croatia's internal wa ...
." Died in captivity in Yugoslavia on 18 February 1946. , 290239 , , 4355116 , - , Martin Gottfried Weiss , Born 3 June 1905
Weiden in der Oberpfalz Weiden in der Oberpfalz (official name: Weiden i.d.OPf.; Northern Bavarian: ''Weidn in da Owapfalz'') is a district-free city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located east of Nuremberg and west of the Czech border. A branch of the German Army is locat ...
. Commandant at Neuengamme concentration camp and in 1945
Dachau concentration camp , , commandant = List of commandants , known for = , location = Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany , built by = Germany , operated by = ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) , original use = Political prison , construction ...
. Executed 29 May 1946 Landsberg Germany , 31147 , , 43136 , - ,
Eduard Weiter Eduard Weiter (18 July 1889 – 2 May 1945) was a German bureaucrat who became a Schutzstaffel Obersturmbannführer and concentration camp commandant during World War II. Early life The son of a horsewhip maker, Weiter worked as a book salesman ...
, Born: 18 July 1889 in Eschwege near Kassel in Germany. Served in World War I. Commandant of
Dachau , , commandant = List of commandants , known for = , location = Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany , built by = Germany , operated by = ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) , original use = Political prison , construction ...
1943–1945. Alleged to have been shot by one of his own subordinates April 1945 and died 2 May 1945 , 276877 , October 1936 , 3.958.951 , - , Wolfgang Wetzling , Born 1909. Was also a SS-Oberfeldrichter as well as chief judge of division z.V.Defendant in 1957 trial of March 1945 Amsberger Massacre. in 1958 Sentenced to five years in prison for manslaughter in 151 cases. Sentenced to life in prison;was released on 1 March 1974 after 13 and2 years in prison , , , , - ,
Max Wielen Max Ernst Gustav Friedrich Wielen (born 3 March 1883) was the Kripo and Gestapo police chief at Breslau. He held the rank of ''Obergruppenführer''. After the war, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by a British military court for his complicity ...
, Oberregierungs- und Kriminalrat (ORuKR). Reserve captain retd. Position: Chief, Stapoleitstelle Breslau. Involved in killing of POWs from The Great Escape. Sentenced to prison 1947. Released 24 October 1952 , 128841 , , 1759395 , -


Sturmbannführer (major)


Hauptsturmführer (captain)


Obersturmführer (first lieutenant)

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Kurt Asche Kurt Asche (11 October 1909 in Hamburg – 16 April 1997 in Hamburg) was SS- Obersturmführer and an officer in German-occupied Belgium. Asche was appointed head of the Office of Jewish Affairs in occupied Belgium. He was one of a number of the ...
, , , , , - , Heinz Barth , Born 15 October 1920. Involved in Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of 1944. Arrested 1981; tried 1983 sentenced to life; released 1997. Died 14 August 2007 , 458037 , 10 February 1943 , 7844901 , - , August Blei , Born 26 August 1893. KZ Mauthaushen. Tried Dachau Trials. Executed 28 May 1947. , 454747 , , , - , Johannes Alfred BÖHM , Born 17 II 1912 chief of Referat IV B (Kirchen, Konfessionen und Sekten) KdS Warschau was SS-Obersturmführer und Kriminalkommissar died Dresden – 1999. , , , , - , Arnold Büscher , Born 16 December 1899. The second and last commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, succeeding Amon Göth, from September 1944 until about January 1945. Executed 2 August 1949 , 11382 , 1931 , 556.757 , - ,
Rolf Czurda Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. A ...
, SD officer in Poland; portrayed in the film '' Schindler's List'' , 359504 , 1940(?) , , - , Carl Denhard. , On 2 July 1934 killed SS-Oberabschnittsreiterführer Anton von Hohberg and Buchwald , , , , - , Heinrich "Heinz" Georg Alfred Detmers , Born 10 April 1919. Adjutant of KZ Dachau. Died 8 June 1999. , 309.930 , , 5.545.920 , - ,
Julius Dettmann Julius Dettmann (January 23, 1894 – July 25, 1945) was a German ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) officer in the ''Sicherheitsdienst'' (Security Service; SD), known as the officer who had Anne Frank and her relatives and friends arrested and deporte ...
, Born 23 January 1894 SD Officer and member of Section IV B4 of the Gestapo in Amsterdam Netherlands. Captured. Suicide 25 July 1945 , 414,783 , , 722,240 , - , Alfred Driemel , Born 24.08.1907 in Küstrin. Officer at (KZ Dachau, KZ Salza, KZ Buchenwald, KZ Sachsenhausen) executed 19.12.1946 Berlin Germany , , , , - , Dr. Irmfried Eberl , Born 8 September 1910. Involved in
T-4 Euthanasia Program (German, ) was a campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany. The term was first used in post-war trials against doctors who had been involved in the killings. The name T4 is an abbreviation of 4, a street address of t ...
and K-Z Treblinka. Suicide 16 February 1948 , , , 687095 , - ,
Paul Egger Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...
, Luftwaffe pilot and
102nd SS Heavy Panzer Battalion The 102nd Heavy SS Panzer Battalion (german: schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 102) was a German heavy tank battalion of the Waffen-SS during World War II. It fought as part of the II SS Panzer Corps during the Battle of Normandy and was nearly dest ...
, , , , - , Friedrich August Enkelstroth , Born 18.11.1906 in Twistringen. Sipo Arnhem, SS-Obersturmführer. sentenced to 12 years imprisonment 12.04.1949 in 's-Hertogenbosch (released 28.08.1951). died 27.10.1955 in Hamburg , , , , - , Willy Lucas Falkenberg , Member of SD-section III , , , , - ,
Heinz Felfe Heinz Paul Johann Felfe (March 18, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was a German spy. At various times he worked for the intelligence services of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and West Germany. It is still not clear when he started ...
, Born 18.03.1918. SD Switzerland and Netherlands; postwar KGB spy in British Intelligence and the CIA-sponsored Gehlen Organization. Exposed 06.11.1961 and tried 1963; sentenced to 14 years but exchanged in 1969 for 3 German Students. Died 08.05.2008 , 286288 , 1936 , 3710348 , - ,
Hans Fleischhacker Hans Fleischhacker (10 March 1912 – 30 January 1992) was a German anthropologist with the Ahnenerbe and a commander in the SS of Nazi Germany. He worked with Bruno Beger on some projects, making measurements of Jewish people. He was with Beger ...
, born 10.03.1912 Töttleben. Erfurt. Involved with
SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt The SS Race and Settlement Main Office (''Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS'', RuSHA) was the organization responsible for "safeguarding the racial 'purity' of the SS" within Nazi Germany. One of its duties was to oversee the marriages of SS pe ...
. In 1948 designated a ''Mitläufer''. case brought against him for involvement in KZ Auschwitz in 1970-but dismissed in 1971 on grounds of "insufficient evidence". Died 30 January 1992 , , 1937 , , - , , Born 27 September 1907. Commandant of KZ Westerbork. Postwar sentenced to 10 years in prison; released 1951. Died 1982 , , 1 November 1940 , , - , Kurt Gerstein , Born 11.08.1905. Munster, Westphalia. Germany. Member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS and author of the ''
Gerstein Report The Gerstein Report was written in 1945 by Kurt Gerstein, ''Obersturmführer'' of the ''Waffen-SS'', who served as Head of Technical Disinfection Services of the SS in World War II and in that capacity supplied the hydrogen cyanide-based pesticide ...
''. Died 25.07.1945 while a POW , 417.460 , 10 March 1941 , 2.136.174 , - , Werner Theodor Göttsch , Born 23 October 1912. Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III. Died 2 May 1983. , 10.238 , 15 March 1931 , 459.389 , - ,
Willy Gerhard Hack Willy or Willie is a masculine, male given name, often a diminutive form of William or Wilhelm, and occasionally a nickname. It may refer to: People Given name or nickname * Willie Aames (born 1960), American actor, television director, and scree ...
, Born. 26 March 1912. {SS-Oberscharführer} in SS-Panzer-Pionier-Battalion 3: Feb. 1942;SS-Obersturmführer in SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt: Jan. 1945; in charge of construction site Schwalde V. {Jewish-American POWS were held here}. Hanged 26 July 1952, Dresden. , 70329 , , , - ,
Georg Güßregen Georg Güßregen (Georg Güssregen) was born July 4, 1890. He was an SS Obersturmführer. He joined the Nazi Party on September 10, 1939. His SS Membership number was 222498. He had one party number: 3988326. Service history Promoted to Obersc ...
, Born 1890. Gross-Rosen 1941,
Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
1942 and Flossenburg 1943 , 222498 , 10 September 1939 , 3988326 , - , Walter Heinrich , Born 1910. Largerfuhrer KZ Amersfoort. Disappeared February 1945-fate unknown. , , , , - ,
Karl-Friedrich Höcker Karl-Friedrich Höcker (11 December 1911 – 30 January 2000) was a Nazi war criminal, German commander in the SS and the adjutant to Richard Baer, who was a commandant of Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to December 1944. In 2006 ...
, Born 11 December 1911. Adjutant at
KZ Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
. From 1965 to 1970 in prison; 1989 sentenced to four years. Died 30 January 2000 , 182.961 , October 1933 , 4.444.757 , - ,
Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald Anton Freiherr von Hohberg und Buchwald (21 September 1885 – 2 July 1934 (date estimated)) was a German officer in the Prussian Army and also in the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS). He was murdered on 2 July 1934. Life Hohberg was born in Wismar, M ...
, Former SS-Oberabschnittsreiterführer {regional SS Cavalry leader; reported killed by SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski during Night of the Long Knives in 1934 , , , , - , Arno Bernhard Huhn , Born 28.08.1911 in Potsdam. Sipo Arnhem, SS-Obersturmführer. sentenced to 17 years imprisonment 20.10.1948 in Arnhem (released 10.05.1954) , , , , - ,
Hans Hermann Junge Hans Hermann Junge (11 February 1914 – 13 August 1944)Some sources give date of death as 18 August 1944. Junge, Traudl (2002). ''Until the Final Hour'', London, Notes section #10. . was a German SS officer who served as aide-de-camp and ...
, Born 11 February 1944. Member of SS Division Leibstandarte;Führerbegleitkommando; SS Division Hitlerjugend. Killed in Normandy France 13 August 1944 , , 1933 , , - , Herbert Junk , Born 21.05.1898, Breslau.member of the KdS Warschau. Kommandant Gefängnis Dzielnastrasse ("Henkerstube Pawiak"): 1942 – III 1943.SS-Obersturmführer: 30.01.1944 BdSuSD Krakau 03.44.gef. 15.06.1944 , SS airfield security guard in France , , , , - , Johann Kantschuster. , Born 20 May 1897. KZ Dachau; KZ Ravensbruck; Fort Breendonk (Belgium). Missing 1945 fate unknown , 58541 , 1931 , 76941 , - , Michael Karkoc , Born 6 March 1919. An Lt of the Ukrainian Legion and later the Waffen SS. Died 14 December 2019 , , , , - , Dr.
Johann Paul Kremer Johann Paul Kremer (26 December 1883 – 8 January 1965) was German professor, physician and war criminal. He was a professor of anatomy and human genetics at Münster University who joined the Wehrmacht on May 20, 1941. He served in the SS in t ...
, Born 26 December 1883. SS doctor at
Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
; involved in Human experiments; tried 1947 Auschwitz trial death sentence cummuted to life in prison; released 1958; died 1965 , 262703 , 1934 , 1265405 , - ,
Aleksander Laak Aleksander (Alexander) Laak (24 August 1907 – 6 September 1960) was a lieutenant and the commander of the Jägala concentration camp during the German occupation of Estonia. The estimates for the number of killed at Jägala concentration camp ...
, Born 1907. Lt in the Estonian Security Police and the SD. Commander of
Jägala concentration camp Jägala concentration camp was a labour camp of the Estonian Security Police and SD during the German occupation of Estonia during World War II. The camp was established in August 1942 on a former artillery range of the Estonian Army near the vi ...
. Died on 6 September 1960 Canada. , , , , - ,
Bruno Lohse Bruno Lohse (17 September 1911 – 19 March 2007) was a German art dealer and SS-Hauptsturmführer who, during World War II, became the chief art looter in Paris for Hermann Göring, helping the Nazi leader amass a vast collection of plundered a ...
, Born 17 September 1911. Goering's Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce in Paris. Died 19 March 2007 , , 1933 , , - , Dr.
Franz Lucas Franz Bernhard Lucas (September 15, 1911, in Osnabrück – December 7, 1994, in Elmshorn) was a German concentration camp doctor. Early life and education Franz Lucas was the son of a butcher.Ernst Klee: ''Auschwitz. Täter, Gehilfen und Opfer ...
, Born 15 September 1911, in Osnabrück, Germany. Assigned to KZ Auschwitz. died 7 December 1994, in Elmshorn, Germany. , 350030 , 15 November 1937 , , - , Gottfried Meir , Involved in killing of Ettore Ovazza family 11 October 1944, Meir was charged in 1954 in Klagenfurt but found not guilty. He was however convicted in absentia by a military court in Turin in 1955 and sentenced for life but never extradited. , , , , - ,
Ernst Misselwitz Ernst Misselwitz (31 August 1909 –?) was an SS-''Hauptscharführer'' who worked for the Gestapo (Secret State Police). He became head of the unit IV E of the RSHA -Reich Security Main Office of the Paris Gestapo. In 1952 he was found guilty o ...
, He became a trusted agent of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), and led numerous operations against the French Resistance. Ernst Misselwitz ran the interrogation and torture chamber in Paris Gestapo HQ. Before working Paris Misselwitz worked shorty in the Gestapo HQ in Lyon. With the Liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944, Misselwitz fled to Germany. In October 1945, the 36-year-old Misselwitz reported to the French security services. Misselwitz was arrested and imprisoned for a short time, and offered to be a spy among the inmates, starting in early 1946. In 1952 Misselwitz was convicted in a Paris court in absentia, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment for the torture of Brossolett, but was never found or arrested, as after his release he became a secret agent for the French special services. , , , , - , Heinz Müller , Born 27 July 1915 , 193096 , , , - ,
Rudolf Neugebauer Rudolf Neugebauer (21 December 1912 December 1944) was a German SS Hauptsturmführer during the Nazi era. He served as the head of the Vilnius Gestapo (Secret State Police) in German-occupied Lithuania and personally killed Jacob Gens. Biograp ...
, Born 21.12.1912. Usf 12.3.38 with SDHA 1938; 1941, promotion to KK of KK z.Pr. Neugebauer, Stapo Darmstadt. BBL 14/41; head of the Vilnius Gestapo 2–42 till 10–43; shot and killed
Jacob Gens Jacob Gens (1 April 1903 – 14 September 1943) was the head of the Vilnius Ghetto government. Originally from a merchant family, he joined the Lithuanian Army shortly after the independence of Lithuania, rising to the rank of captain ...
14 September 1943;1945, SS-Hstuf KK Rolf Neugebauer, Stapo Darmstadt, "abgeordnet zum Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) Ungarn", awarded KVK I m.S. BBL 4/45 , 266047 , , 1086615 , - ,
Josef Oberhauser Josef Oberhauser (21 January 1915 – 22 November 1979) was a low-ranking German SS commander during the Nazi era. He participated in Action T4 and Operation Reinhard. Oberhauser was the only person to be successfully convicted of crimes committ ...
, Born 21 January 1915. Served in SS Guard Detachment at KZ Belzec. Postwar 1948 sentenced to 15 years in prison and 10 years deprivation of civil rights; given amnesty and released 1956. 1964 sentenced to 4.5 years in prison-released after serving half his sentence. Died 22 November 1979. , 288.121 , November 1935 , , - , Karlis Ozols , Born 1912. Commanded a Latvian/SD murder commando in Minsk Ghetto and Ghettos of
Slutzk Slutsk ( officially transliterated as Sluck, be, Слуцк; russian: Слуцк; pl, Słuck, lt, Sluckas, Yiddish/Hebrew: סלוצק ''Slutsk'') is a city in Belarus, located on the Sluch River south of Minsk. As of 2022, its population is ...
and Riga Ghetto. In August 1943 commanded 4th Company of the 282-A. Schutzmannschaft Battalion in Rīga. Transferred to the Lettische Freiwilligen Polizei Regiment 2 as the III Battalion on 4 February 1944 of the Latvian Legion. Died 2001 in Australia , , , , - , Friedrich Peter , Member of an Einstatzgruppe. Leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) , , 1938 , , - , Richard Reinhard Ferdinand Pruchtnow , Born 8 April 1892. Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III. Died 22 June 1943 , 27.487 , November 1931 , 531.273 , - ,
Franz Rademacher Franz Rademacher (20 February 1906 – 17 March 1973) was a German lawyer and diplomat. As an official in the Nazi government of the Third Reich during World War II, he was known for initiating action on the Madagascar Plan. Nazi beginnings Rad ...
, Born 20 February 1906. German Foreign Office official involved in the
Shoah The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ar ...
. Died 17 March 1973 , , , , - , Hans Reisser , Member of RBK. Helped Burn Hitler and Eva Brauns Bodies May 1945. , , , , - , Pio Filippani Ronconi , Born 10 March 1910. Volunteer for the Waffen SS. Died 11 February 2010 , , , , - ,
Hermann Schaper Hermann Schaper (August 1911 – 2002), was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He was a Holocaust perpetrator responsible for atrocities committed by the ''Einsatzgruppen'' in German-occupied Poland and the Soviet Union and was convicted ...
, Born 12 August 1911. He was a Holocaust perpetrator responsible for atrocities committed by the Einsatzgruppen in German-occupied Poland and the Soviet Union and was convicted after the war of numerous war crimes. Charged in 1964. Legal proceedings against him were terminated on 2 September 1965 despite his positive identification by the courts. He was retried in Germany in 1976 for other crimes against Poles and Jews and was sentenced to six years in prison, however following an appeal this was overturned and his health was declared too fragile for a new trial. On 10 April 2002, Hermann Schaper was interrogated in Germany in the presence of a Polish prosecutor in connection with the investigation into the pogrom in Jedwabne conducted at the time by the Institute of National Remembrance. He was unable to ask most of the questions prepared because the court doctor declared the witness unfit to participate in the proceedings. Reported to have died in his nineties in 2002 , 3484 , 1937 , 105606 , - ,
Johann Schwarzhuber Johann Schwarzhuber (29 August 1904 – 3 May 1947) was a German '' SS-Obersturmführer'', who was in charge of various concentration subcamps during World War II. His positions included the ''Schutzhaftlagerführer'' of the Auschwitz-Birkenau ...
, Born 29 August 1904. KZ Auschwitz and KZ Ravensbruck. Tried and executed 3 May 1947 , 142.388 , 5 May 1933 , 1.929.969 , - , Walter Sohst , Born 23 February 1898. Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III. Died 14 November 1964 , 36.087 , 1 September 1932 , 1.090.541 , - ,
Hans Sommer (SS officer) Hans Sommer (born 26 June 1914) is a German national who served in the ''Sicherheitsdienst'' during World War II. After the war, he found a working relationship with Gehlen Organisation Agent # 2857and was subsequently a spy for the '' Stasi ...
, Born 26 June 1914. Worked with Police in France. GDR agent after the war, as a
Stasi The Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the (),An abbreviation of . was the Intelligence agency, state security service of the East Germany from 1950 to 1990. The Stasi's function was similar to the KGB, serving as a means of maint ...
agent planted into the post-war Gehlen Organization. Died 31 October 1987. , 119 157 , 1 December 1932 , 1442457 , - , Hans Stern , Served in
11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland The 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland (german: 11. SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier-Division "Nordland") was a Waffen-SS division recruited from foreign volunteers and conscripts. It saw action, as part of Army Group North, i ...
and
SS Brigade Westfalen The SS Brigade Westfalen also known as SS Ersatz Brigade Westfalen was an ad hoc unit composed of the men of the military training commands of the Paderborn area and the 507th Heavy Panzer Battalion. The unit was committed into battle in March 194 ...
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Arnold Strippel Arnold Strippel (2 June 1911 – 1 May 1994) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era and convicted criminal. As a member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, while assigned to the Neuengamme concentration camp, he was given the task of murdering ...
, Born 6 February 1911 Unhausen. b. III Wachtruppe Sachsen: 1 June 1934 – 1938. b. 3 SS-TSta Thuringen: 1938–1941. 1941–1942 Stabs
scharführer ''Scharführer'' (, ) was a title or rank used in early 20th Century German military terminology. In German, ''Schar'' was one term for the smallest sub-unit, equivalent to (for example) a "troop" , " squad", or "section". The word ''führer'' ...
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Natzweiler Natzwiller () is a Communes of France, commune in the Bas-Rhin Departments of France, department in Grand Est in northeastern France. History Built in spring 1941 on the territory of the commune, Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp opened fo ...
commandant's office. Feldführer / KZ Lublin u. 2 Lagerführer: June 1942 – 5 July 1943. KZ Ravensbrück: 7.1943. Lagerführer KZ Herzogenbusch: 7.43–10.44. KZ Neuengamme: 10.44–5.45. {also involved with KZ Auschwitz; Sachsenburg; Buchenwald; Majanek} Involved in
Bullenhuser Damm The Bullenhuser Damm School is located at ''92–94 Bullenhuser Damm'' in the Rothenburgsort section of Hamburg, Germany – the site of the Bullenhuser Damm Massacre, the murder of 20 children and their adult caretakers at the very end of W ...
killings in 1945. Frankfurt Sentence 21x lebenslange Haft + 10 Jahre Haft 1.6.1949; released 21.4.1969. Frankfurt Sentence to the same sentence before + 121'500 Mark Busse 8.1969. Majdanek 3 Sentence 3 Jhr. + 3 Mte. Haft 30.6.1981. Died 1995 in Frankfurt-Kalbach , 236290 , , 4334442 , - ,
Anton Thumann Anton Thumann (31 October 1912 – 8 October 1946) was a member of the SS of Nazi Germany who served in various Nazi concentration camps during World War II. After the war, Thumann was arrested by British occupation forces and charged with w ...
, Schutzhaftlagerführung
Gross-Rosen concentration camp , known for = , location = , built by = , operated by = , commandant = , original use = , construction = , in operation = Summer of 1940 – 14 February 1945 , gas cham ...
Neuengamme concentration camp , 24.444 , , 1.726.633 , - , Hans Tidow , SS-Obersturmführer der Waffen-SS , 3087 , , 124.424 , - , Walter Trautwein , Born 21 November 1910 Mannheim; SA member 1929–1934; Served with Kripo (former mechanic);Commissioned SS-Ustuf. on 20 Apr.1938;DAL Dec.1938=SD-Hauptamt;Promoted SS-Ostuf. 20 Apr.1939; Einsatzkommando B – in Poland Sep. 1939;Promoted on 20 Apr. 1940;RSHA Sipo Trier. Vermisst 1 Oct. 1944 Wloszczowa , 107112 , , 210651 , - , Norbert Berghe von Trips , Born 18.1.1912 Graz, Referat IV D (Ausgewanderters, zak³adnicy.) Participated in executions of Poles and Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto ruins. Died 6.6. 1980 , 281 072 , , , - , Paul Werner , born 12.10.1895. Usf 20.4.35 Osf 11.9.38 attached to Stammabteilung bezirk 16 , 45847 , , 1434282 , - , Walter Witossek , Born 03.02.1901 in Dresden. KdS Warschau. Participated in executions of Poles and Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto ruins.died in hospital in Wroclaw , , , , - , Friedrich Wolffhardt , Born 7 December 1899. In April 1941, he was commissioned on the proposal of Martin Bormann, who was friends with him, to set up a library within the framework of the "Guide Library" (Sonderauftrag) of Linz. e was also associated with Professor Hans Posse). He headed the collection point for the library as part of the party law firm in Munich's leader building. The collection point was moved in August 1943 to the former Villa of Camillo Castiglioni to Grundlsee near Bad Aussee, which stored books 1944/45 in the Salt mine Altaussee. On 21 February 1945, he was called to war service at his own request and has been missing since 1945. , , , , -


Untersturmführer (second lieutenant)

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Roderick Stephen Hall Captain (United States O-3), Captain Roderick Stephen Goodspeed Hall (August 1915 – February 20, 1945) was an American military officer and agent of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. Hall was betrayed and captured behin ...
and murders of six other Allied soldiers , , , , - , Bernhard Anhalt, , Defendant in 1957 trial of March 1945 Amsberger Massacre (Acquitted) , , , , - ,
Johann Appler Johann Paulus Appler (13 June 1892 – 21 December 1978) was a member of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) and World War I veteran. World War I service Born in 1892, from 1898 to 1912, Appler attended the elementary and advanced training school in Urphertsh ...
, , , , 95.219 , - , Karl Peter Berg , Born 18 April 1907. Largerfuhrer KZ Amersfoort. Captured tried and executed by firing Squad 22 November 1949 , , , , - , Kort Paul Hans Bläse , Born 26.05.1900. Sipo Rotterdam. sentenced to 20 years imprisonment 28.03.1949 in Den Haag. released 29.03.1956 , , , , - , Herbert Böttcher , Born 5.6.1913 Gunsdorf , 8.134 , , , - , Wilhelm Boger , Born 19 December 1906 Zuffenhausen. Police commissioner and member of the Political Department at
Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
; arrested 1959; tried 1965 later convicted of
crimes against humanity Crimes against humanity are widespread or systemic acts committed by or on behalf of a ''de facto'' authority, usually a state, that grossly violate human rights. Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity do not have to take place within the ...
; died in prison 3 April 1977 Bietigheim-Bissingen , 2779 , 1930 , 153652 , - , Dr. Karl Brandt , Born 8 January 1904. Promoted 20 April 1939. Postwar tried for war crimes and executed 2 June 1948 , 193764 , , , - , Erhard Brauny , Sentenced to Life in prison for the 1945
Gardelegen Massacre The Gardelegen massacre was a massacre perpetrated by the local population (Volkssturm, Hitlerjugend and local firefighters) of the northern German town of Gardelegen, with minor direction from the SS, near the end of World War II. On April ...
;died of Lukemina in 1950 , , , , - , Dr.
Heinz Brücher Heinz Brücher (14 January 1915, Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse – 17 December 1991, Mendoza Province, Argentina) was a botanist and plant breeder who served as a member of the special science unit in the SS Ahnenerbe in Nazi Germany. He was ...
, Born 14 January 1915. member of SS Ahnenerbe; Botanist. Died 17 December 1991 , , , 3498152 , - , Prince Christoph of Hesse , Reserve captain at RFSS staff. Luftwaffe major , 35903 , , 1498608
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Paul Dickopf Paul (Paulinus) Dickopf (June 9, 1910 – September 19, 1973) was a member of the NSDAP and SS in the Security Service (SD) and a secret agent in Switzerland, who became a member of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). Between 1965 and ...
, Born 9 June 1910. Wartime member of SD. Postwar president of Interpol. Died 19 September 1973 , 337259 , 1937 , , - , Kurt Hermann August Döring , Sipo Amsterdam (IV A and IV B), Kriminalobersekretär, SS-Untersturmführer. sentenced to 3 years imprisonment 01.07.1949 in Amsterdam (released 23.08.1950) , , , , - , Benson Railton Metcalf Freeman , Born 6 October 1903. Lt RAF captured 22 May 1940; 1942-1944 worked for Germans in propaganda. In October 1944 joined Waffen SS. Captured 9 May 1945 and sentenced to ten years in prison. Subsequent life unknown.Spartacus International
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Hermann Gauch Hermann Gauch (6 May 1899 – 7 November 1978) was a Nazi race theorist noted for his dedication to Nordic theory to an extent that embarrassed the Nazi leadership when he claimed that Italians were "half ape". Briefly adjutant to Heinrich Himmler, ...
, Born 6 May 1899. Nazi Race theorist Died 7 November 1978 , 222.175 , 1934 , 9.538 (1922)
3.474.227 (1934) , - ,
Kurt Gildisch Kurt Gildisch (2 March 1904 – 3 March 1956) became the third commander of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard (''SS-Begleitkommando des Führers'') on 11 April 1933. He was a trained teacher, who had failed to find a classroom job and thereaf ...
, Born 2 March 1904. 3rd commander of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers 1933–1934. Died 3 March 1956 , 13.138 , 29 September 1931 , 690.762 , - ,
Maximilian Grabner Maximilian Grabner (2 October 1905 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian Gestapo chief in Auschwitz. At Auschwitz, the infamous torture chamber Block 11 was Grabner's own empire. He was executed for crimes against humanity. Early life Born ...
, Born 2 October 1905. Gestapo agent and head of the Political Department at
Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
-infamous leader of Block 11; later executed for
crimes against humanity Crimes against humanity are widespread or systemic acts committed by or on behalf of a ''de facto'' authority, usually a state, that grossly violate human rights. Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity do not have to take place within the ...
on 28 January 1948 , , September 1938 , 1214137 , - , Kurt Graaf , Member of the SD-Section III , , , , - , Richard Gutkaes , Member of SD-section III , , , , - , Rudolf Hassel , head Sipo Amsterdam (department IV-B4);Kriminalsekretär. Reported arrested in the Netherlands , , , , - , Ludwig Heinemann , Born 03/01/1911. Promoted to SS-Untersturmführer on 12-09-1937 , 44.482 , , 67.453 , - ,
Fritz Henke Fritz originated as a German nickname for Friedrich (given name), Friedrich, or Frederick (given name), Frederick (''Der Alte Fritz'', and ''Stary Fryc'' were common nicknames for King Frederick II of Prussia and Frederick III, German Emperor) as ...
, SS-Oberscharführer , , , , - , Johann Klier , Guard Sobibor extermination camp. Testified 1950 trial of Hermann Erich Bauer , , , , - , Karl Wilhelm Franz Klünner , Born 08.03.1904 in Elmschenhagen. Sipo Assen, Kriminalsekretär; SS-Untersturmführer. sentenced to 16 years imprisonment 20.04.1949 in Den Haag (released 23.05.1955) , , , , - , Ernst Knorr , Born 13.10.1899 in Heiligenbeil. Sipo Groningen, SS-Untersturmführer. suicide 07.07.1945 in Scheveningen (prison , , , , - , Georg Kruger , Born 05 XI 1898 Karlowitz/Karłowice. SS-Untersturmführer und Kriminalobersekretär; head of Unter Referat IV B4 (Judenangelegenheiten). arsaw Died 16 II 1945 Poznań] , , , , - ,
Wolfgang Kügler Wolfgang Kügler was an SS-Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) and a Teilkommandoführer (detachment leader) for Einsatzkommando 2, a subdivision of Einsatzgruppe A. Following World War II, he was tried and found guilty of war crimes before a co ...
, Was an SS-Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) and a Teilkommandoführer (detachment leader) for Einsatzkommando 2, a subdivision of Einsatzgruppe A. Following World War II, he was tried and found guilty of war crimes in West Germany. His sentence was reported to have been 8 months in prison and a fine. The most serious charge against him was that he had organized and been a commandter at the massacre of about 2,700 Jews, mostly women and children, on the beach at Liepāja, Latvia. , , , , - , Walter Kutschmann , Born 24 July 1914. Kriminalkommisar/ Gestapo Chief in Drobohycz. After being identified as living in Argentina by
Simon Wiesenthal Simon Wiesenthal (31 December 190820 September 2005) was a history of the Jews in Austria, Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He surviv ...
arrested on 28 June 1975; he was later released on 29 June 1975. Rearrested in 1985; Kutschmann died in prison hospital 30 August 1986 , 404651 , 1940 , 7475729 , - ,
Célestin Lainé Célestin Lainé (1908–1983) was a Breton nationalist and collaborator during the Second World War who led the SS affiliated Bezen Perrot militia. His Breton language name is Neven Hénaff. He was a chemical engineer by training. After th ...
, Born 1908. Leader of the Bezen Perrot. Fled from a post war sentence of death. Died 1983 Dublin Ireland , , , , - , Walter Wilhelm Lehne , Born 19.03.1891 in Magdeburg. Police and Gestapo Reichsführerschule SS in Prag. Gestapo-Leitstelle in Hamburg-Altona.1936 Grenzpolizeikommissariat Flensburg.1938 politische Überwachung der Arbeiter am Westwall. Sommer 1939-1945 stellvertretender Dienststellenleiter Gestapo Pardubice.death sentence in Waldheim 1950. not executed because extradited to Czechoslovakia Extradited 15.11.1950 to Czechoslovakia , , , , - ,
Hermann Maringgele The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (german: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) and its variants were the highest awards in the military of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded for a wide range of re ...
, SS-Hauptscharführer and Zugführer , , , , - ,
Martin James Monti Martin James Monti (October 24, 1921 – September 11, 2000) was a United States Army Air Forces pilot who defected to Nazi Germany in October 1944 and worked as a propagandist and writer. After the end of World War II, he was tried and sentenced ...
, Born 24 October 1921. US Army Air Corps deserter/airplane thief and SS propaganda officer; member of
SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers The SS-Standarte "Kurt Eggers" was an SS propaganda formation ( SS-Standarte) of Nazi Germany during World War II. It publicised the actions of Waffen-SS combat units. The "Berichter" (literally: reporters) of the Standarte were fully trained and ...
; in 1946 courtmartialed for stealing a plane and deseration-sentenced to 15 years entence suspendedserved in Army Air Force 1947–1948; rearrested 1948 and charged with treason; sentenced to 25 years;paroled 1960. Died 11 September 2000 , , 1945 , , - , Dr.
Hans Münch Hans Wilhelm Münch (14 May 1911 – 6 December 2001), also known as The Good Man of Auschwitz, was a German Nazi Party member who worked as an SS doctor during World War II at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945 in German occup ...
, Born 14 May 1911-d.about 2001. Assigned to KZ Auschwitz. , , , , - , Kārlis Mūsiņš , Waffen-SS Untersturmführer , , , , - , Johann Niemann , Born 4 August 1913. Deputy commandant of Sobibor extermination camp Executed in revolt 14 October 1943 , 270.600 , 1934 , 753.836 , - , Rudolf August Oetker , born 20 September 1916 Bielefeld, Germany. Became a Ustuf:21.6.44. Died 16 January 2007 Hamburg Germany. , , , , - , Alfred Otto , Born 02.03.1900 Lodz. Gestapo Warsaw Referat IV A 3 c. Hiding in Paczków after the war. Trial at Warsaw in 1955. Sentenced to life imprisonment, later commuted to 25 years. Died 1968 in Warsaw prison , , , , - , Josef Pospichil , Born December 1899. Member of SD-section III/Gestapo. Involved KZ Majdanek; KZ Natzweiler-Struthof. Executed 14 February 1948 , 53.675 , 16 August 1932 , 1.096.992 , - , Josef Rademacher , Born 26 Aug. 1912 Völkingen/Saar. Sipo/SD. Promoted SS-Ustuf. on 9 November 1941. Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) Hungary. Vermisst Dec. 1944 Budapest , 29003 , , 887628 , - , Wilhelm Karl Johannes Rosenbaum , Born 27 April 1915. Involved in killings at Bad Rabka. Arrested 1961; tried 1968 and sentenced to life; released 1982. Died 1984 , , 1 July 1936 , , - ,
Willem Sassen Wilhelmus Antonius Sassen (born 16 April 1918 – died 2002) was a Dutch Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II, collaborator, Nazism, Nazi journalism, journalist and a member of the ''Waffen-SS''. He became known around 1960 as " ...
, born 16 April 1918. Netherlands PK ("Propaganda Kompanie"). Died 2002 , , , , - ,
Willi Schatz Willi Schatz (1 February 1905 – 17 February 1985) was a Nazi ''SS-Obersturmführer'' (Lieutenant) as a ''SS-KZ Zahnarzt'' (Concentration Camp Dentist) who served in Auschwitz and Neuengamme. Early life Schatz was born in 1905, the son of a ...
,
Dentist A dentist, also known as a dental surgeon, is a health care professional who specializes in dentistry (the diagnosis, prevention, management, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the mouth, oral cavity and other aspects of the craniofaci ...
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Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
, , , , - , Heinz Schildt , Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III , , , , - ,
Hanns-Martin Schleyer Hans "Hanns" Martin Schleyer (; 1 May 1915 – 18 October 1977) was a German business executive, and employer and industry representative, who served as President of two powerful commercial organizations, the Confederation of German Employers' A ...
, Born 1 May 1915. Leader of board of Zentralverband der Industrie in Prague. Kidnapped and killed 18 October 1977 , 221714 , 30 June 1933 , , - , Fritz Scherwitz alias Elias Sirewitz , Born August 21, 1903 Schaulen, Lithuania. Member of German Freikorps 1919. In 1939, he came to Riga as a police officer. In 1942 he ran a workshop of the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga until September 1944. in 1945 he pretended to be a persecuted Jew. On behalf of the Americans, he now began to search for interned former SS men.At the beginning of 1946, Scherwitz succeeded in becoming trustee for several trading companies in the district of Wertingen (Bavaria). In January 1947, he was given the trusteeship of all Jews who had lived in the district until 1942. It was now his task to secure former property of Jews for possibly survivors or their heirs. On 19 December 1947 he became deputy counsellor for persecuted persons in the Swabian part of Bavaria. On April 26, 1948, he was arrested.On March 3, 1949, Scherwitz was sentenced to six years in prison in Munich for shooting three Jewish prisoners. The verdict was upheld by jury on appeals on 14 December 1949 and 1 August 1950.He was released from prison in 1954. Died in Munich Germany December 4, 1962 , , 1 November 1933 , , - ,
Tscherim Soobzokov Tscherim Soobzokov (; ) (24 August 1924 – 9 September 1985) was a Circassian spy, politician, soldier, and an anti-Soviet pro-independence activist. He rose to prominence in the New Jersey Democratic Party and the Circassian community in Paters ...
, Born in 1924. Member of North Circassian Legion. Postwar was an agent for the CIA. Died 6 September 1985 from injuries sustained by a pipe bomb. , , , , - , Hans Stark , Born 14 June 1921 in Darmstadt. KZ Sachsenhausen; Buchenwald; Dachau; Auschwitz. Arrested April 1959; tried 1963–1964; released from prison 1968. Died 29 March 1991 , 319918 , December 1937 , , - , Johann Friedrich Stöver , Born 8 August 1899. Largerfuhrer KZ Amersfoort. On 7 June 1949, Stöver was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Special Court in Amsterdam. He was detained in Breda. In 1950 he was sentenced to death by the Special Council of Cassation, but a year later this sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. In May 1959, the life sentence was changed to 23 years and four months. Stöver was released in November 1960 and returned to Germany. Subsequent fate unknown. , , , , - ,
Reimond Tollenaere Reimond Tollenaere (June 29, 1909 – January 22, 1942) was a member of the Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond (VNV), a right-wing Flemish nationalist party in Belgium. He was an active collaborator with Nazi Germany during World War II. Tollenaere becam ...
, Waffen SS Belgian Foreign Legion officer , , , , - , Lauri Törni , Finnish officer who joined the SS after the temporary peace treaty between Finland and the USSR, switching armies multiple times to continue combating communists. Ultimately ended his career as a Green Beret Major (posthumous) and US citizen in 1965 in Vietnam. Then named Larry Thorne, Törni is the only Waffen-SS member to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. , , , , - , Friedrich Carl Ferdinand Viermann , Sipo Amsterdam, Kriminalsekretär, SS-Untersturmführer; sentenced to 7 years imprisonment 27.09.1949 in Amsterdam (released 31.03.1956) , , , , - , Herbert Walther , born 23 April 1922. Served in both the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and 12th SS Panzer Division Hitler Youth. Wounded and captured in the Ardennes Battles December 1944. Postwar book editor and historian. Died 25 February 2003. , , , , - , Herbert Wenzel , Part of the "Werewolf" "Operation Karnival" in March 1945 which resulted in deaths of border guard Jozef Saive and Aachan Mayor Franz Oppenhoff. Wenzle changed his name to "Fritz Brandt" and died in Nambia in 1981. , , , , - , Paul Werner , SS Dutch legion member , 280216 , , 1293714 , - ,
Hans Walter Zech-Nenntwich Hans Walter Zech‐Nenntwich (10 July 1916 – after 1964) was a member of the SS who defected to the United Kingdom after being imprisoned in 1943. After World War II he was convicted of war crimes and temporarily fled Germany before retur ...
, Born 10 July 1916. SS Cavalry Regiment member who was convicted for the killing of 5,200 Jews at the Pinsk Marshes and sentenced to four years in prison in 1964. , , , , - , Heinz Zeuner , Defendant in 1957 trial of March 1945 Amsberger Massacre {Acquitted} , , ,


SS Non-Commissioned Officers


Sturmscharführer (Regimental sergeant major)

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Sturmscharführer __NOTOC__ (, ) 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 regimental sergeant major, in other military organizations. Rank usage ''Sturm ...
, Kriminalsekretär; sentenced to death 11.04.1949. commuted 13.07.1950. released 21.11.1960 , , , , - , Martin Johann Kohlen , Born 14.08.1910. Sipo Rotterdam, SS-Sturmscharführer/Kriminalsekretär. sentenced to life 11.03.1949. commuted 23.03.1950 to 21 years and 11-month imprisonment. released 10.12.1959 , , , , - , Karl Lamm , Born 18.11.1907 in Berlin. Sipo Assen, SS-Sturmscharführer. sentenced to 20 years imprisonment 20.04.1949 in Den Haag (in absence) , , , , - , Adolf Maurer , SS security administrator of Sachsenhausen concentration camp , , , , -


Hauptscharführer (sergeant major)

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Bełżec extermination camp Belzec (English: or , Polish: ) was a Nazi German extermination camp built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder all Polish Jews, a major part of the "Final Solution" which in total ...
; vanished May 1945; declared legally dead December 1945-fate unknown , , 1933 , 1727962 , - ,
Erich von der Heyde Erich von der Heyde (1 May 1900 – 5 August 1984)''Industrie-Anzeiger'' Nr. 75 vom 19. 9. 1984/106, p. 63. was a German agronomist at IG Farben, an SS-''Hauptscharführer'' and a defendant at the IG Farben Trial in Nuremberg. Life Erich von der ...
, Born 1 May 1900. During 1936, von der Heyde became the advisor for nitrogen and agriculture in the Political-Economic Policy Department (WIPO, Wirtschaftspolitische Abteilung) of the I.G. in Berlin. From mid-1938 he was also the counterintelligence operative of I.G. Farben's "NW 7" (intelligence) office, where his duties included counterintelligence and taking action against breaches of secrecy. In addition, he passed on reports from abroad that appeared to be of general interest, distributing them internally at the I.G. and sending them to the Wehrmacht. In this capacity, he was borrowed by the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA, Reichssicherheitshauptamt) and by 1940 had been promoted to Hauptscharführer. In September 1940, he was called up for service in the Wehrmacht, and until the war's end he served in the military-economic branch of the War Economy and Armament Office (Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamt; and later the War Economy Staff, or Wehrwirtschaftsstab). Acquitted in 1948 I.G. Farben trial. Died 5 August 1984 , , 1934 , , - , Otto Kempin , Sipo Amsterdam (IV B 4), SS-Hauptscharführer. sentenced to 10 years imprisonment 08.04.1950 in Amsterdam (released 27.04.1951) , , , , - , Heinz Linke , Waffen-SS officer , , , , - ,
Pieter Menten Pieter Nicolaas Menten (26 May 1899 – 14 November 1987) was a Dutch war criminal, businessman, and art collector. Menten was a Nazi collaborator who committed numerous crimes, including murder, on behalf of the regime. After World War II, h ...
, Born 26 May 1899. Involved in 1941
Massacre of Lviv professors A massacre is the killing of a large number of people or animals, especially those who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves. A massacre is generally considered to be moral judgement, morally unacceptable, esp ...
. Also involved in the killing of Jews. In 1949 sentenced to 8 months for working in a uniform as a Nazi Interpreter. In 1951 Dutch Govt refused his extradition to Poland. In 1980 he was sentenced to 10 years for war crimes. Died 14 November 1987 , , , , - , Friedrich Meyerhoff , Born 05.03.1916 Völlenerfehn). KZ Vught.sentenced to 13 years imprisonment 25.10.1949 in 's-Hertogenbosch. released 01.03.1956 , , , , - ,
Otto Moll Otto Hermann Wilhelm Moll (4 March 1915 – 28 May 1946) was an SS non-commissioned officer who committed numerous atrocities at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War. The ''SS-Hauptscharführer'', who held the rank of Qua ...
, Born 24 March 1915. KZ Auschwitz. Director and chief head of all crematoria. Commandant of Furstengrube and Gleiwitz I concentration camps. Executed 28 May 1946. , 267670 , 1 May 1935 , , - ,
Detlef Nebbe Detlef Nebbe (also Detleff; 20 June 1912 – 17 April 1972) was an SS-''Hauptscharführer'' and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial. Born in Husum, German Empire in June 1912, Nebbe completed ...
, Born 20 June 1912. KZ Auschwitz personnel. Sentenced to life by Supreme National Tribunal. Released by amnesty in the mid-1950s , , 1933 , , - , Richard Heinrich Nitsch , Born 01.11.1908 Todtgüslingen. Sipo Maastricht, SS-Hauptscharführer. sentenced to life imprisonment 29.11.1948 in 's-Hertogenbosch. commuted 18.04.1959 to 22 years and 9-month imprisonment; released 05.04.1960. died 1990 , , , , - , Auke Bert Pattist. , Born 1920, Died 2001. SS sergeant , , , , - , Georg Schallermair , Born 29 December 1894. At subcamp Muehldorf August 1944 until 1945. In the Dachau Camp Trial (part of the Dachau Trials) he was sentenced to death by hanging. He was executed at Landsberg prison 7 June 1951. , , , , - , Walter Gerhard Martin Sommer , Born 08. February 1915. Hangman of KZ Buchenwald. Reduced in rank and sentenced to a penal Battlion. Taken POW by Red Army 1945. Status changed to war Criminal 1950. Released and exchanged 1955. Indiacted 1957 and found guilty of war Crimes 1958. Died 7 June 1988 in prison , 110035 , 15 May 1934 , 294863 , - ,
Gustav Sorge Gustav Hermann Sorge (24 April 1911 – 3 October 1978), nicknamed "''Der eiserne Gustav''" ("Iron Gustav") for his brutality, was an SS senior NCO (''Hauptscharführer''). He was initially a guard at Esterwegen concentration camp in the Emslan ...
, Born 24 April 1911. KZ
Esterwegen concentration camp The Esterwegen concentration camp near Esterwegen was an early Nazi concentration camp within a series of camps first established in the Emsland district of Germany. It was established in the summer of 1933 as a concentration camp for 2000 so-c ...
Sachsenhausen concentration camp died in Prison 1978 , , 1931 , , - , Gustav Franz Wagner , Born 18 July 1911 in Vienna Austria. Deputy commander of the Sobibór extermination camp. Died 3 October 1980 in Brazil. Wagner also served in Italy with other SS-Men from Operation Reinhard in Anti-Partisan activity. Wagner was awarded the War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords for his service. , , 1931 , 443217


Oberscharführer (staff sergeant)

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Ernst Barkmann Ernst Barkmann (25 August 1919 – 27 June 2009) was a German tank commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. He is known for the actions undertaken at “Barkmann’s Corner", in which it is claimed he halted a major U.S. Ar ...
, Born 25 August 1919. Waffen-SS tank commander. Died 27 June 2009 , , , , - , Hermann Erich Bauer , Born 26 March 1900. In charge of gas chambers at Sobibor extermination camp. In prison 1950–1980. Died 4 February 1980 , , , , - ,
Rudolf Beckmann Rudolf Beckmann (20 February 1910Ernst Klee: ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, , p. 37. – 14 October 1943) was a German '' SS-Oberscharführer'' in the Sobibor exterm ...
, Born 20 February 1910. Action T4; Sobibor extermination camp; killed in revolt 14 October 1943 , , , , - , Kurt Bolender , Born 21 May 1912. In charge of gas chambers at Sobibor extermination camp; Action T4 died 10 October 1966 , , , , - , Derk-Elsko Bruins , Born 20 March 1923. Dutch Collaborator who joined the Waffen SS. Awarded the Knight's Cross Medal. Died 5 February 1986 Germany. Brother of
Siert Bruins Siert Bruins (2 March 1921 – 28 September 2015), also known as Siegfried Bruns and nicknamed the Beast of Appingedam, was a Dutch member of the SS and SD during World War II. Biography Bruins was born in March 1921 in Weite, Netherlands. H ...
, , , , - ,
Franz Bürkl Franz may refer to: People * Franz (given name) * Franz (surname) Places * Franz (crater), a lunar crater * Franz, Ontario, a railway junction and unorganized town in Canada * Franz Lake, in the state of Washington, United States – see Fran ...
, Deputy commander and infamous executioner at
Pawiak Pawiak () was a prison built in 1835 in Warsaw, Congress Poland. During the January 1863 Uprising, it served as a transfer camp for Poles sentenced by Imperial Russia to deportation to Siberia. During the World War II German occupation of ...
Prison, Warsaw, Poland. Executed by Polish Underground 7 September 1943 , , , , - , Wilhelm Emmerich , Born 7 February 1916. Assigned KZ Auschwitz. Shot and wounded by
Franciszka Mann Franceska Manheimer-Rosenberg (4 February 1917 – 23 October 1943), better known as Franceska Mann, was a Polish ballerina who, according to some accounts, killed a Nazi guard, , while a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp and wounded ...
23 October 1943. Died 22 May 1945 of typhus , , , , - , Paul Felsko , Assigned east Poland governorship. Died in soviet prison camp 15 April 1952. , , , - , Karl Frenzel , Born 20 August 1911. T-4 program and KZ Sobibor in prison 1966–1982 Died 2 September 1996 , , , 334948 , - ,
Bruno Gesche Bruno Gesche (5 November 1905 – 7 August 1982)Registry Office Hannover: Death Certificate 5188/1982. The published literature erroneously ofen states his year of death to be 1980 (see e.g. Rochus Misch: ''Der letzte Zeuge. Ich war Hitlers Telef ...
, Born 5 November 1905. A commander of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers; demoted from Obersturmbannführer 20 December 1944 for drunkenness; member of
Dirlewanger Brigade , image = File:Dirlewanger Crossed Grenades symbol.svg , image_size = 180 , caption = Symbol of the Division , dates = 1940–45 , country ...
Died 1980 , 1093 , , 8592 , - , Hubert Gomerski , Guard at Sobibor extermination camp. Testified 1950 trial of Hermann Erich Bauer , , , , - ,
Siegfried Graetschus Siegfried Graetschus (9 June 1916 – 14 October 1943) was a German SS functionary at the Sobibor extermination camp during Operation Reinhard, the deadliest phase of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. He was assassinated by a prisoner during the ...
, Born 9 June 1916. KZ Sobibor-commanded Ukrainian guard, killed in revolt 14 October 1943 , , 20 Dec 1935 , , - , Heinrich Harrer , Born 6 July 1912. Austrian mountaineer and explorer in Tibet. Died 7 January 2006 , 73.896 , 1 April 1938 , 6.307.081 , - , Heinrich Heering , Born 29 July 1902 Reelkirchen. SS-Hscha. 12./LSSAH 01.41; SS-Ostuf. Nachsch.1 07.43;Ost IV.SS-Pz.Korps 11.44 , 50355 , , , - , Georg Heidorn , Kriminalassistent (from Grenzpolizei Eupen-Malmedy). Involved in "Operation Karnival" March 1945 which resulted in death of Dutch Border Guard Jozef Saive and Aachen Mayor Franz Oppenhoff. In 1949 Sentenced to 1 year in prison; on 22.09.1952 LG Aachen reduced to 8 months. , , , , - , Karl Heinz Hennemann , Kriminalassistent (from Grenzpolizei Eupen-Malmedy). Involved in "Operation Karnival" March 1945 which resulted in death of Dutch Border Guard Jozef Saive and Aachen Mayor Franz Oppenhoff. In 1949 Sentenced to 1 year in prison; on 22.09.1952 LG Aachen reduced to 8 months. , , , , - , Heinrich Heering , Born 29 July 1902 Reelkirchen. SS-Hscha. 12./LSSAH 01.41; SS-Ostuf. Nachsch.1 07.43;Ost IV.SS-Pz.Korps 11.44 , 50355 , , , - , Frank Hermes , Born 29 August 1919. Anglo-German ethnic. Served in 8th Company, Totenkopf Infantry Regiment; and the Panzer and Grenadier Training Battalion of the LSSAH; (Also alleged to have been involved in the
Shoah The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ar ...
). In January 1946 sentenced to hang for high treason. Sentence commuted and served 7 years in prison until January 1953. Died 1987 , , , , - , Georg Huber , Born 1914 Weigendorf. KZ Vught. sentenced to 15 years imprisonment 09.11.1948 in 's-Hertogenbosch released 04.09.1951 , , , , - , Karl Heinrich Klaustermeyer , Born 22 February 1914. Involved in suppression of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. 1965 sentenced to Life in prison. Pardoned 8 April 1976 because of
terminal cancer Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer, dementia or advanced ...
; died 21 April 1976 , , , , - ,
Hermann Michel Hermann Michel (; 20 February 1909 – 8 August 1984?), sometimes referred to as "Preacher", was a Nazi and '' SS-Oberscharführer'' (Staff Sergeant). During World War II, he participated in the extermination of Jews at the Sobibór extermination ...
, Born 23 April 1912. T-4; KZ Sobibor;
Operation Reinhard or ''Einsatz Reinhard'' , location = Occupied Poland , date = October 1941 – November 1943 , incident_type = Mass deportations to extermination camps , perpetrators = Odilo Globočnik, Hermann Höfle, Richard Thomalla, Erwin L ...
-fate unknown-fled to Middle East? died 1984? nconfirmed, , , , - , Rochus Misch , Born 29 July 1917. Hitler's telephone operator who in the last weeks of the war handled all of the direct communication in the Führerbunker. Died 5 September 2013 , , 1937 , , - ,
Johannes Mittag Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as " John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, '' Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Y ...
, Born 5 March 1919. Joined Waffen SS, Verfuegungstruppe then Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) 1939. Deployed mainly alongside Div. Nord in Karelia and Scandinavia. Prior part of Battles of Dunkirk, EKI, EKII, Sturmabzeichen Silber, Verwundenenabzeichen Schwarz. Died 6 August 2005. , - ,
Eric Muhsfeldt Erich Mußfeldt also spelled Erich Muhsfeldt (18 February 1913 – 24 January 1948) was a German war criminal. He served as an SS NCO in three extermination camps during World War II in occupied Poland and Germany: Auschwitz, Majdanek and F ...
, Born 18 February 1913. Senior NCO of the Auschwitz
Sonderkommando ''Sonderkommandos'' (, ''special unit'') were work units made up of German Nazi death camp prisoners. They were composed of prisoners, usually Jews, who were forced, on threat of their own deaths, to aid with the disposal of gas chamber vict ...
. Involved in Operation Harvest Festival. Hanged 28 January 1948 , , , , - ,
Josef Oberhauser Josef Oberhauser (21 January 1915 – 22 November 1979) was a low-ranking German SS commander during the Nazi era. He participated in Action T4 and Operation Reinhard. Oberhauser was the only person to be successfully convicted of crimes committ ...
, Born 21 January 1915. Involved Action T-4 and
Bełżec extermination camp Belzec (English: or , Polish: ) was a Nazi German extermination camp built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder all Polish Jews, a major part of the "Final Solution" which in total ...
In Belzec Trial sentenced to 4.5 years. died 22 November 1979 , 288.121 , November 1935 , , - ,
Johann Pauls Johann Pauls (9 February 1908 – 4 July 1946) was a German SS-''Oberscharführer'' in Stutthof concentration camp. He was executed for war crimes. Career Pauls was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), the third child of Johann August Pauls and Minna ...
, Born 9 February 1908; Executed 4 July 1946 for War Crimes , , 1 April 1931 , , - ,
Walter Quakernack Walter Konrad Quakernack (9 July 1907 – 11 October 1946) was a German Oberscharführer in the SS during the Nazi era. His SS membership number was 125266. He was tried for war crimes at the second Belsen Trial and executed. Quakernack is menti ...
, Born 9 July 1907; Executed 11 October 1946 for War Crimes , 125266 , 1933 , , - , Herbert Scherpe , Born 20 May 1907. Stationed at KZ Auschwitz. Arrested August 1961 and sentenced to four and a half years in prison for "joint aid to the common murder" and to the loss of civil honour rights to four years. He was released on 19 August 1965. He died 23 December 1997 , , 1931 , , - , Josef Schillinger , Assigned KZ Auschwitz. Shot and killed by
Franciszka Mann Franceska Manheimer-Rosenberg (4 February 1917 – 23 October 1943), better known as Franceska Mann, was a Polish ballerina who, according to some accounts, killed a Nazi guard, , while a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp and wounded ...
23 October 1943. , , , - , Karl Silberbauer , Born 21 June 1911. Vienna Gestapo; SD at the Hague; Arrested Anne Frank;postwar recruited by the
Federal Intelligence Service (Germany) The Federal Intelligence Service (German: ; , BND) is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinate to the Chancellor's Office. The BND headquarters is located in central Berlin and is the world's largest intelligence head ...
to infiltrate neo-Nazi ''and'' pro-soviet groups. Died 2 Sept 1972 , , 1943 , , - , Martin Weiss , Born 21 February 1903 Karlsruhe. He was assigned to Einsatzkommando 3, part of Einsatzgruppe stationed in Bad Düben. In October 1941 he was assigned to work in the Office of the Commander of Security Police ( Sicherheitsdienst or SD and Security Police (
Sicherheitspolizei The ''Sicherheitspolizei'' ( en, Security Police), often abbreviated as SiPo, was a term used in Germany for security police. In the Nazi era, it referred to the state political and criminal investigation security agencies. It was made up by the ...
or Sipo) in Vilnius,
Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...
, then part of the
Reichskommissariat Ostland The Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO) was established by Nazi Germany in 1941 during World War II. It became the civilian occupation regime in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the western part of Byelorussian SSR. German planning documents initia ...
. Was also ''de facto'' commander of the
Vilna Ghetto The Vilna Ghetto was a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the modern country of Lithuania, at the time part of the Nazi-administered Reichskommissariat Ostland. During the approximatel ...
. He was also the commander of the notorious Nazi-sponsored
Ypatingasis būrys ''Ypatingasis būrys'' (''Special Squad'') or Special SD and German Security Police Squad ( lt, Vokiečių Saugumo policijos ir SD ypatingasis būrys, pl, Specjalny Oddział SD i Niemieckiej Policji Bezpieczeństwa, also colloquially ''strzelcy ...
(Lithuanian special SD and German Security Police Squad), which was largely responsible for the Ponary massacre where up to 100,000 Jews were shot to death. In February 1950, a court in Würzburg found him guilty of war crimes and sentenced him to life imprisonment. In 1970, his sentence was suspended and revoked in 1977; died 1984 , , 1934 , , -


Scharführer (sergeant)

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Heinz Auerswald Heinz Auerswald (26 July 1908 – 5 December 1970) was a German lawyer and member of the SS in Nazi Germany, which he joined in 1933. In 1937 he became member of the NSDAP. Early years Heinz Auerswald was born on 26 July 1908 in Berlin He spent ...
, b.26 July 1908. In Ordnungspolizei held the rank of Oberwachtmeister – equivalent to Scharfuehrer. He was "Kommissar für den jüdischen Wohnbezirk" ("Commissioner for the Jewish Residential District") in Warsaw Ghetto, Poland from April 1941 to November 1942. Postwar investigation stopped after he died 5 December 1970 , 216.399 , 7 June 1933 , 4.830.479 , - , Heinrich Eicke , Camp administrator Maly Trostenets extermination camp. Fled to Argentina-all trace of him lost , , , , - ,
Erich Fuchs Erich Fuchs (9 April 1902 – 25 July 1980) was an SS functionary who worked for the Action T4 mass-murder program, and for the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust. Fuchs was charged with war crimes at the Bełżec Trial in 1963–64, for ...
, Born 9 April 1902. Involved T-4 and KZ Sobibor. Fuchs was put on trial at the Bełżec Trial in Munich 1963–64, for which he was acquitted. Fuchs was rearrested and tried at the Sobibor Trial in Hagen. He was charged with participation in the mass murder of approximately 3,600 Jews. On 20 December 1966, Fuchs was found guilty of being an accessory to the mass murder of at least 79,000 Jews and sentenced to four years imprisonment. Fuchs was married for the sixth time during the trial. Fuchs died on 25 July 1980 , , 1934 , , - ,
Josef Hirtreiter Josef Hirtreiter (1 February 1909 – 27 November 1978) was an SS functionary of Nazi Germany and a Holocaust perpetrator who worked at Treblinka extermination camp during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust in Poland. Hirtreiter was a ...
, Born 1 February 1909. KZ Treblina. Sentenced to life 1951. Released 1977. Died 27 November 1978 , , , , - ,
Samuel Kunz Samuel Kunz (born August 1921 in Russia, † November 18, 2010, in Wachtberg near Bonn, Germany) was a Russian-German guard in the extermination camp Belzec and alleged Nazi war criminal. Life Samuel Kunz was born on August 21, 1921, in Russia. ...
, b.1922. Volksdeutsche who served in USSR army; captured and trained as a SS Guard at Trawniki SS training camp. Posted to KZ
Belzec Belzec (English: or , Polish: ) was a Nazi German extermination camp built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder all Polish Jews, a major part of the "Final Solution" which in total ...
death camp. Arrested in Berlin Germany July 2010 charged with being involved aiding deaths of 430,000 Jews and personally killing 10; Died 18 November 2010 age 89 before trial could start. , , , , - ,
Erich Lachmann Erich Gustav Willie Lachmann (6 November 1909 – 23 January 1972) was an SS functionary who participated in Operation Reinhard in Sobibor extermination camp. Lachmann was born on 6 November 1909 in Legnica. His first job was that of a journeyman ...
, Born 6 November 1909. Assigned KZ Sobibor. Tried for war Crimes 1965–1966 but acquitted on grounds of mental incompence. Died 23 January 1972 , , , , - , Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg , Born 31 October 1905. Economics Professor. Died 12 October 1946 , , 1933 , , - , - , {?] Zummach , On 2 July 1934 killed SS-Oberabschnittsreiterführer Anton von Hohberg and Buchwald , , ,


Unterscharführer (corporal)

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Perry Broad Pery Broad, also Perry Broad (25 April 1921 – 28 November 1993) was a Brazilian non-commissioned officer in the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) active at Auschwitz concentration camp from April 1942 to 1945. He reached the rank of ''SS-Unterscharführe ...
, Born 25 April 1921. KZ Auschwitz personnel. Released in 1947, he again was arrested 12 years later, freed in December 1960 after the payment of DM 50,000 as surety and again arrested in November 1964 as a defendant in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials. He was found guilty of supervising selections at Birkenau, as well as of participating in interrogations, tortures and executions, and was sentenced to four years in prison in 1965. In 1979 in Wuppertal, Broad was among those interviewed and secretly filmed by Claude Lanzmann for Shoah, his Holocaust documentary released in 1985. Died 28 November 1993. , , 1941 , , - ,
Siert Bruins Siert Bruins (2 March 1921 – 28 September 2015), also known as Siegfried Bruns and nicknamed the Beast of Appingedam, was a Dutch member of the SS and SD during World War II. Biography Bruins was born in March 1921 in Weite, Netherlands. H ...
, Born 2 March 1921 in the Netherlands. 1943 became a German citizen. Killed a Dutchman Aldert Klaas Dijkema in September 1944. Member of Sipo in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, from 1944 to 1945. Lived in Germany which refused to extradite him to Netherlands. In 1980 sentenced to seven years for killing two Jewish brothers in April 1945. In 2013 age 92 tried in German Court for Dijkema killing. Died 28 September 2015. , , , , - , Rudolph Erler , Born 31 August 1904. 5 Company/SS Totenkopfsturmbann. KZ Auschwitz I. Killed in Auschwitz revolt 7 October 1944 , , , , - , Willi Freese , Born 30 September 1921. 2 Company/SS Totenkopfsturmbann.KZ Auschwitz I. Killed in Auschwitz revolt 7 October 1944 , , , , - ,
Oskar Gröning Oskar Gröning (10 June 1921 – 9 March 2018) was a German SS ''Unterscharführer'' who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken from prisoners, and he was in charge ...
, Born 10 June 1921. Joined the SS in 1940. In
Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
from 1942 to 1944. Captured 1945 released 1947/1948. Tried at age 93 on 20 April 2015 charged with aiding in killing of 300,000 of 425,000 Hungarian Jews. Found guilty and sentenced to four years in prison. Died 9 March 2018. , , , , - , Reinhold Hanning , Born 28 December 1921. Joined the Waffen-SS at age 18. Served two years in
Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
. Tried at age 94 in June 2016 charged with being an accessory to killing of 170,000. Found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. Died 30 May 2017 , , 1940 , , - , Gerhard Hirsch , Born 13.07.1922. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944 , , , , - , Albert Hujar/Huyar , Directed executions at Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp , , , , - ,
George Kettmann George Wilhelm Kettmann or George Kettmann Jr. (12 December 1898 in Amsterdam – 10 February 1970 in Roosendaal) was a Dutch poet, writer, journalist and publisher who promoted Nazism in the Netherlands. With his wife, he founded the best known ...
, Born 2 December 1898 in Amsterdam – died 10 February 1970 in Roosendaal , , , , - , Jozef Kindel , born 23.11.1912 in Köln. Sipo Groningen, died 05.08.1948 in prison Almelo (before his trial) , , , , - , Mathias Kirmaier , Born 1920. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944 , , , , - , Josef Leitgeb, , Part of the "Werewolf" "Operation Karnival" in March 1945 which resulted in deaths of border guard Jozef Saive and Aachan Mayor Franz Oppenhoff. Killed by a landmine 27 March 1945. , , , , - , Franz Maierhofer , SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 18.02.1944 , , , , - ,
August Miete August Wilhelm Miete (born 1 November 1908 – 9 August 1987) was an SS functionary of Nazi Germany. He worked at the Grafeneck and Hadamar Euthanasia Centres, and then at Treblinka extermination camp. Miete was arrested in 1960 and tried in West ...
, Born 01.11.1908. KZ Treblina. Tried 1965. Died in detention 25 July 1978 , , , , - ,
Gustav Münzberger '' SS-Unterscharführer'' Gustav Münzberger (17 August 1903 – 23 March 1977), born in Weißkirchlitz (''Sudetenland''), was a carpenter and factory worker before his involvement in the Holocaust. Following the Nazi German invasion of Poland at ...
, Born 17.08.1903. KZ Treblina. Tried 1965, released 1971. Died 23 March 1977 , 321.758 , 1938 , , - ,
Harald Nugiseks Harald Nugiseks (22 October 1921 – 2 January 2014) was an Waffen-Oberscharführer (Sergeant) in World War II, who served in the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) of the ''Waffen-SS''. Nugiseks is also one of the four E ...
, born 22 October 1921. Member of Estonian Legion awarded
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (german: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes), or simply the Knight's Cross (), and its variants, were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Knight' ...
. Died 2 January 2014 , , , , - , Pierre Paoli , b.31 December 1921; executed 15 June 1946 , , , , - , Josef Purke , Born 28.02.1903. 1 Company/SS Totenkopfsturmbann.KZ Auschwitz I. Killed in Auschwitz revolt 7 October 1944 , , , , - , Josef Riegler , b.5 July 1922; Guard KZ Mauthausen; executed 27 May 1947 Landsberg Prison , , , , - , Franz Schönhuber , Born 10 January 1923. Age 19 Waffen-SS member; later chairman of The Republicans political party.< Died 27 November 2005 , , , , - , Herbert Schmidt , Born 04.04.1920. SS- ''Fallschirmjäger. Awards: Awarded
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (german: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes), or simply the Knight's Cross (), and its variants, were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Knight' ...
. Shot and killed'' by a French
sniper A sniper is a military/paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities. Snipers generally have specialized training and are equipped with high-precision r ...
while sitting beside his cousin and division commander, though thought to be a Runway from lack of belongings and the disappearance of his wife. KIA < June 16 1944 , , , , - ,
Franz Suchomel Franz Suchomel (3 December 1907 – 18 December 1979)Samuel Willenberg: ''Treblinka Lager. Revolte. Flucht. Warschauer Aufstand.'' Anm. 9, p. 217. Unrast-Verlag, Münster 2009, was a Sudeten German Nazi war criminal. He participated in the Actio ...
, Born 3 December 1907. Treblinka, Tried 1965 and sentenced to 4 years in prison;
died 18 December 1979 , , , , - ,
Eugène Vaulot Eugène Vaulot (1 June 1923 – 2 May 1945) was a Frenchman with the rank of ''Unterscharführer'' in the Waffen-SS during World War II, who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Life Eugene Vaulot was born in Paris in 1923. He traine ...
, born 1923 Paris. Served in
33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) The Waffen Grenadier Brigade of the SS Charlemagne (german: Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS "Charlemagne") was a Waffen-SS unit formed in September 1944 from French collaborationists, many of whom were already serving in various other German un ...
. Awarded
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (german: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes), or simply the Knight's Cross (), and its variants, were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Knight' ...
. Killed in action on 2 May 1945 , , , , - ,
Ernst Zierke Ernst Zierke (6 May 1905 – 23 May 1972) was a low-ranking member in the SS who took part in the Action T4 forced euthanasia program in Nazi Germany, and after the invasion of Poland worked at Bełżec and Sobibór extermination camps during O ...
, Born 6 May 1905. involved in Action T4
Bełżec Belzec (English: or , Polish: ) was a Nazi German extermination camp built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder all History of Jews in Poland, Polish Jews, a major part of the "Fina ...
;
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 populatio ...
; Sobibor Camp III. Acquitted in 1964 Belzec trial and released in 1965 Sobibor trial on health grounds. Died in 1972 , , ,


SS-Stabsscharführer

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Georg Konrad Morgen Georg Konrad Morgen (8 June 1909 – 4 February 1982) was an SS judge and lawyer who investigated crimes committed in Nazi concentration camps. He rose to the rank of SS-''Sturmbannführer'' (major). After the war, Morgen served as witness at s ...
. "Disappeared" while investigating corruption in the SS , , , ,


SS biologist

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Wolfgang Abel Wolfgang Abel (13 May 1905 – 1 November 1997) was an Austrian anthropologist and one of Nazi Germany's top racial biologists. He was the son of the Austrian paleontologist Othenio Abel. Early life and career From 1931 Wolfgang Abel was en ...
, Born 13 May 1905; Austrian anthropologist and one of Nazi Germany's racial biologists. Vienna native. Died 1 November 1997 , Austrian (Austria-Hungary) , 1933 , 1935 , 1933–1945


SS-Kapellmeister

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See also

* Glossary of Nazi Germany * List of Nazi Party leaders and officials * Nuremberg Trials *
Orpo rank The ranks and insignia of the ''Ordnungspolizei'' were developed in 1936 after the nationalization of Germany's regular police forces. ''Ordnungspolizei'' ''Ordnungspolizei'' (Orpo) ranks were based on local police titles and were considered ...
* RuSHA Trial * Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel


Notes

Former SS Ranks changed after 1934: * SS rank Sturmhauptführer renamed Hauptsturmführer * SS rank Sturmführer renamed Untersturmführer * SS rank
Obertruppführer Obertruppführer (, "senior troop leader") was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party that was used between the years of 1932 and 1945. The rank is most closely associated with the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA), but also was an early rank of the ''Schu ...
renamed Hauptscharführer * SS rank Truppführer renamed Oberscharführer * SS rank
Scharführer ''Scharführer'' (, ) was a title or rank used in early 20th Century German military terminology. In German, ''Schar'' was one term for the smallest sub-unit, equivalent to (for example) a "troop" , " squad", or "section". The word ''führer'' ...
renamed Unterscharführer * SS rank
Haupttruppführer Haupttruppführer (, "chief troop leader") was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that existed between the years of 1930 and 1945. ''Haupttruppführer'' was mainly used as a rank of the '' Sturmabteilung'' (SA), but was also used by the ''Schutzstaffel ...
renamed
Sturmscharführer __NOTOC__ (, ) 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 regimental sergeant major, in other military organizations. Rank usage ''Sturm ...


References

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