Between 1925 and 1945, the German ''

Schutzstaffel The ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS; also stylized as ''ᛋᛋ'' with Armanen runes; ; "Protection Squadron") was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe ...

'' (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million ''

Waffen-SS The (, "Armed SS") was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts, volunteers and conscripts from both occup ...

'' 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 camp Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (german: Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (), or killing centers (), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust. The v ...

s. 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 ralli ...

'' and so it could be said that both

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and the ...

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 is e ...

'' outranked the most senior SS position of ''

Reichsführer-SS (, ) was a special title and rank that existed between the years of 1925 and 1945 for the commander of the (SS). ''Reichsführer-SS'' was a title from 1925 to 1933, and from 1934 to 1945 it was the highest rank of the SS. The longest-servi ...

''. Following the

Night of the Long Knives The Night of the Long Knives (German: ), or the Röhm purge (German: ''Röhm-Putsch''), also called Operation Hummingbird (German: ''Unternehmen Kolibri''), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934. Chancellor Ad ...

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 Julius Schreck (13 July 1898 – 16 May 1936) was an early senior Nazi official and close confidant of Adolf Hitler. Born in Munich, Schreck served in World War I and shortly afterwards joined right-wing paramilitary units. He joined the Nazi ...

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

, 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 ''

'' (SS) since the earliest inception of the armed SS units in

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

. 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 , , 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 Nazi concentration camps, concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, occupied Poland (in a portion annexed int ...

. 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 Eduard Strauch (17 August 1906 – 15 September 1955) was a German Nazi SS functionary, commander of Einsatzkommando 2, commander of two Nazi organizations, the Security Police (German: Sicherheitspolizei), or Sipo, and the Security Service (Ge ...

, 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 ' (, ''Security Service''), full title ' (Security Service of the '' Reichsführer-SS''), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Established in 1931, the SD was the first Nazi intelligence organization ...

, or SD, first in

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...

(then called White Russia or White Ruthenia) and later in Belgium. In October 1944, he was transferred to the

. 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 lat ...

, 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 ...

with Dr.

Fritz Fischer Fritz Fischer (5 March 1908 – 1 December 1999) was a German historian best known for his analysis of the causes of World War I. In the early 1960s Fischer advanced the controversial thesis at the time that responsibility for the outbreak of the ...

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 Johanna Maria Magdalena "Magda" Goebbels (née Ritschel; 11 November 1901 – 1 May 1945) was the wife of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. A prominent member of the Nazi Party, she was a close ally, companion, and politic ...

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 Friedrich Suhr (6 May 1907 – 31 May 1946) was a German lawyer and SS-''Obersturmbannführer''. He worked in the Reich Security Main Office under Adolf Eichmann. During the Second World War, he led Einsatzkommando death squads in Ukraine. He a ...

, Department Head in Adolf Eichmann's Referat IV B4; 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 intellect ...

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" , 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 , Born 2 April 1910. ''Gebietskommissar'', "

Navahrudak Novogrudok ( be, Навагрудак, Navahrudak; lt, Naugardukas; pl, Nowogródek; russian: Новогрудок, Novogrudok; yi, נאַוואַראַדאָק, Novhardok, Navaradok) is a town in the Grodno Region, Belarus. In the Middle A ...

;" SS and Police Leader, " Quarnero." Died in captivity in Yugoslavia on 18 February 1946. , 290239 , , 4355116 , - ,

Martin Gottfried Weiss Martin Gottfried Weiss, alternatively spelled Weiß ( – 29 May 1946), was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 at the time of his arrest. He also served from April 1940 until September 1942 as the commandant of Neuengamme ...

, Born 3 June 1905 Weiden in der Oberpfalz. Commandant at

Neuengamme concentration camp Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in Northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and more than 85 satellite camps. Established in 1938 near the village of Neuengamme in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, th ...

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 Dachau () was the first concentration camp built by Nazi Germany, opening on 22 March 1933. The camp was initially intended to intern Hitler's political opponents which consisted of: communists, social democrats, and other dissidents. It is lo ...

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)

Oradour-sur-Glane massacre On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company. A ne ...

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 Płaszów () or Kraków-Płaszów was a Nazi concentration camp operated by the SS in Płaszów, a southern suburb of Kraków, in the General Governorate of German-occupied Poland. Most of the prisoners were Polish Jews who were targeted for de ...

, succeeding

Amon Göth Amon Leopold Göth (; alternative spelling ''Goeth''; 11 December 1908 – 13 September 1946) was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal. He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in Germa ...

, from September 1944 until about January 1945. Executed 2 August 1949 , 11382 , 1931 , 556.757 , - , Rolf Czurda , SD officer in Poland; portrayed in the film ''

Schindler's List ''Schindler's List'' is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the 1982 novel ''Schindler's Ark'' by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film f ...

'' , 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 Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

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 Irmfried Eberl (8 September 1910 – 16 February 1948) was an Austrian psychiatrist and medical director of the euthanasia institutes in Brandenburg and Bernburg, who helped set up and was the first commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp ...

, 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 Treblinka () was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship. The cam ...

. Suicide 16 February 1948 , , , 687095 , - , Paul Egger , Luftwaffe pilot and 102nd SS Heavy Panzer Battalion , , , , - , Friedrich August Enkelstroth , Born 18.11.1906 in Twistringen. Sipo Arnhem, SS-Obersturmführer. sentenced to 12 years imprisonment 12.04.1949 in 's-Hertogenbosch (released 28.08.1951). died 27.10.1955 in Hamburg , , , , - , Willy Lucas Falkenberg , Member of SD-section III , , , , - ,

Heinz Felfe 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 , 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 p ...

. 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 , 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 , Born 1890. Gross-Rosen 1941,

Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 Nazi concentration camps, concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, occupied Poland (in a portion annexed int ...

1942 and Flossenburg 1943 , 222498 , 10 September 1939 , 3988326 , - , Walter Heinrich , Born 1910. Largerfuhrer KZ Amersfoort. Disappeared February 1945-fate unknown. , , , , - , Karl-Friedrich Höcker , Born 11 December 1911. Adjutant at

. 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

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 , Born 26 December 1883. SS doctor at

; involved in Human experiments; tried 1947

Auschwitz trial The Auschwitz trial began on November 24, 1947, in Kraków, when Poland's Supreme National Tribunal tried forty former staff of the Auschwitz concentration camps. The trials ended on December 22, 1947. The best-known defendants were Arthur Lie ...

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 cam ...

, 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 ...

, Born 17 September 1911. Goering's

Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce The Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (german: Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg or ''ERR'') was a Nazi Party organization dedicated to appropriating cultural property during the Second World War. It was led by the chief ideologue of the Nazi Par ...

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 Opfe ...

, 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 Klagenfurt am WörtherseeLandesgesetzblatt 2008 vom 16. Jänner 2008, Stück 1, Nr. 1: ''Gesetz vom 25. Oktober 2007, mit dem die Kärntner Landesverfassung und das Klagenfurter Stadtrecht 1998 geändert werden.'/ref> (; ; sl, Celovec), usually ...

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 guil ...

, 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. Biogra ...

, Born 21.12.1912. Usf 12.3.38 with SDHA 1938; 1941, promotion to KK of KK z.Pr. Neugebauer, Stapo Darmstadt. BBL 14/41; head of the Vilnius Gestapo 2–42 till 10–43; shot and killed Jacob Gens 14 September 1943;1945, SS-Hstuf KK Rolf Neugebauer, Stapo Darmstadt, "abgeordnet zum Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) Ungarn", awarded KVK I m.S. BBL 4/45 , 266047 , , 1086615 , - ,

Josef Oberhauser 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 The Minsk Ghetto was created soon after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. It was one of the largest in Belorussian SSR, and the largest in the German-occupied territory of the Soviet Union.Donald L. Niewyk, Francis R. Nicosia, ''The Co ...

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 The Latvian Legion ( lv, Latviešu leģions) was a formation of the German Waffen-SS during World War II. Created in 1943, it consisted primarily of ethnic Latvian personnel.Gerhard P. Bassler, ''Alfred Valdmanis and the politics of survival'', 20 ...

. Died 2001 in Australia , , , , - , Friedrich Peter , Member of an Einstatzgruppe. Leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) , , 1938 , , - , Richard Reinhard Ferdinand Pruchtnow , Born 8 April 1892. Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III. Died 22 June 1943 , 27.487 , November 1931 , 531.273 , - , Franz Rademacher , Born 20 February 1906. German Foreign Office official involved in the Shoah. Died 17 March 1973 , , , , - , 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 , 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 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 maintaining state autho ...

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 and SS Brigade Westfalen , , , , - ,

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 murderi ...

, 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'' ...

Natzweiler Natzwiller () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France. History Built in spring 1941 on the territory of the commune, Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp opened for prisoners in May 1941. It was the only N ...

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 ...

, 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 ...

, 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)

Roderick Stephen Hall 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 behind enemy lines during a self- ...

and murders of six other Allied soldiers , , , , - , Bernhard Anhalt, , Defendant in 1957 trial of March 1945 Amsberger Massacre (Acquitted) , , , , - , Johann Appler , , , , 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

; 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 Ap ...

;died of Lukemina in 1950 , , , , - , Dr. Heinz Brücher , Born 14 January 1915. member of SS

Ahnenerbe The Ahnenerbe (, ''ancestral heritage'') operated as a think tank in Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1945. Heinrich Himmler, the ''Reichsführer-SS'' from 1929 onwards, established it in July 1935 as an SS appendage devoted to the task of promot ...

; Botanist. Died 17 December 1991 , , , 3498152 , - ,

Prince Christoph of Hesse Prince Christoph Ernst August of Hesse (14 May 1901 – 7 October 1943) was a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was an SS-Oberführer in the Allgemeine SS and an officer in the Luftwaffe Reserve, killed on active duty in a plane crash during World ...

, Reserve captain at RFSS staff. Luftwaffe major , 35903 , , 1498608
or 696176 , - ,

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 The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO; french: link=no, Organisation internationale de police criminelle), commonly known as Interpol ( , ), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and cr ...

. 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 , Born 2 October 1905. Gestapo agent and head of the Political Department at

-infamous leader of Block 11; later executed for

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 , SS-Oberscharführer , , , , - , Johann Klier , Guard

Sobibor extermination camp Sobibor (, Polish: ) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland. As an ...

. 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 , 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 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 morally unacceptable, especially when per ...

of about 2,700 Jews, mostly women and children, on the beach at Liepāja, Latvia. , , , , - ,

Walter Kutschmann Walter Kutschmann (24 July 1914 – 30 August 1986) was a German SS-''Untersturmführer'' and Gestapo officer, a member of an ''Einsatzkommando'', based first in Lwów, Poland (today Lviv, Ukraine), and later in Drohobycz. He was responsible f ...

, Born 24 July 1914. Kriminalkommisar/

Gestapo The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one orga ...

Chief in Drobohycz. After being identified as living in Argentina by

Simon Wiesenthal Simon Wiesenthal (31 December 190820 September 2005) was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janowska concentration ...

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 ...

, Born 1908. Leader of the

Bezen Perrot The Bezen Perrot ( Breton; ), officially the Breton SS Armed Formation (german: Bretonische Waffenverband der SS) was a small collaborationist unit established by Breton nationalists in German-occupied France during World War II. It was ...

. Fled from a post war sentence of death. Died 1983 Dublin Ireland , , , , - , Walter Wilhelm Lehne , Born 19.03.1891 in Magdeburg. Police and Gestapo Reichsführerschule SS in Prag. Gestapo-Leitstelle in Hamburg-Altona.1936 Grenzpolizeikommissariat Flensburg.1938 politische Überwachung der Arbeiter am Westwall. Sommer 1939-1945 stellvertretender Dienststellenleiter Gestapo Pardubice.death sentence in Waldheim 1950. not executed because extradited to Czechoslovakia Extradited 15.11.1950 to Czechoslovakia , , , , - , Hermann Maringgele , SS-Hauptscharführer and Zugführer , , , , - ,

Martin James Monti 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 sentence ...

, 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 , 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

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 collaborator, Nazi journalist and a member of the ''Waffen-SS''. He became known around 1960 as "the interviewer of Adolf Eichmann". Biography Willem Sassen was born in ...

, 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 d ...

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 oral cavity and other aspects of the craniofacial c ...

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. I ...

, , , , - , Heinz Schildt , Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III , , , , - , Hanns-Martin Schleyer , Born 1 May 1915. Leader of board of Zentralverband der Industrie in Prague. 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 , 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 , 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 retu ...

, Born 10 July 1916. SS Cavalry Regiment member who was convicted for the killing of 5,200 Jews at the

Pinsk Marshes __NOTOC__ The Pinsk Marshes ( be, Пінскія балоты, ''Pinskiya baloty''), also known as the Pripet Marshes ( be, Прыпяцкія балоты, ''Prypiackija baloty''), the Polesie Marshes, and the Rokitno Marshes, are a vast natural ...

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)

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 ''Stur ...

, 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)

against the French Resistance. Killed 8 January 1946 , , , , - , Lorenz Hackenholt , Born 26 June 1914. SS-NCO in charge of gassing at

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 tota ...

; vanished May 1945; declared legally dead December 1945-fate unknown , , 1933 , 1727962 , - , Erich von der Heyde , Born 1 May 1900. During 1936, von der Heyde became the advisor for nitrogen and agriculture in the Political-Economic Policy Department (WIPO, Wirtschaftspolitische Abteilung) of the I.G. in Berlin. From mid-1938 he was also the counterintelligence operative of I.G. Farben's "NW 7" (intelligence) office, where his duties included counterintelligence and taking action against breaches of secrecy. In addition, he passed on reports from abroad that appeared to be of general interest, distributing them internally at the I.G. and sending them to the Wehrmacht. In this capacity, he was borrowed by the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA, Reichssicherheitshauptamt) and by 1940 had been promoted to Hauptscharführer. In September 1940, he was called up for service in the Wehrmacht, and until the war's end he served in the military-economic branch of the War Economy and Armament Office (Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamt; and later the War Economy Staff, or Wehrwirtschaftsstab). Acquitted in 1948 I.G. Farben trial. Died 5 August 1984 , , 1934 , , - , Otto Kempin , Sipo Amsterdam (IV B 4), SS-Hauptscharführer. sentenced to 10 years imprisonment 08.04.1950 in Amsterdam (released 27.04.1951) , , , , - , Heinz Linke , Waffen-SS officer , , , , - , Pieter Menten , Born 26 May 1899. Involved in 1941

Massacre of Lviv professors 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 morally unacceptable, especially when per ...

. 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 , Born 20 June 1912. KZ Auschwitz personnel. Sentenced to life by

Supreme National Tribunal The Supreme National Tribunal ( pl, Najwyższy Trybunał Narodowy TN}) was a war-crime tribunal active in communist-era Poland from 1946 to 1948. Its aims and purpose were defined by the State National Council in decrees of 22 January and 17 Oc ...

. Released by amnesty in the mid-1950s , , 1933 , , - , Richard Heinrich Nitsch , Born 01.11.1908 Todtgüslingen. Sipo Maastricht, SS-Hauptscharführer. sentenced to life imprisonment 29.11.1948 in 's-Hertogenbosch. commuted 18.04.1959 to 22 years and 9-month imprisonment; released 05.04.1960. died 1990 , , , , - , Auke Bert Pattist. , Born 1920, Died 2001. SS sergeant , , , , - , Georg Schallermair , Born 29 December 1894. At subcamp Muehldorf August 1944 until 1945. In the Dachau Camp Trial (part of the Dachau Trials) he was sentenced to death by hanging. He was executed at Landsberg prison 7 June 1951. , , , , - , Walter Gerhard Martin Sommer , Born 08. February 1915. Hangman of KZ Buchenwald. Reduced in rank and sentenced to a penal Battlion. Taken POW by Red Army 1945. Status changed to war Criminal 1950. Released and exchanged 1955. Indiacted 1957 and found guilty of war Crimes 1958. Died 7 June 1988 in prison , 110035 , 15 May 1934 , 294863 , - , Gustav Sorge , Born 24 April 1911. KZ

Esterwegen concentration camp 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 Sachsenhausen () or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoner ...

died in Prison 1978 , , 1931 , , - , Gustav Franz Wagner , Born 18 July 1911 in Vienna Austria. Deputy commander of the

Sobibór extermination camp Sobibor (, Polish: ) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland. As a ...

. 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)

. 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 (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 ...

;

; killed in revolt 14 October 1943 , , , , - , Kurt Bolender , Born 21 May 1912. In charge of gas chambers at

;

died 10 October 1966 , , , , - , Derk-Elsko Bruins , Born 20 March 1923. Dutch Collaborator who joined the Waffen SS. Awarded the Knight's Cross Medal. Died 5 February 1986 Germany. Brother of Siert Bruins , , , , - ,

Franz Bürkl 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 o ...

Prison,

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officiall ...

, Poland. Executed by Polish Underground 7 September 1943 , , , , - , Wilhelm Emmerich , Born 7 February 1916. Assigned KZ Auschwitz. Shot and wounded by Franciszka Mann 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 Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel
(20 August 1911 – 2 September 1996) was an 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 __NOTOC__ ''Obersturmbannführer'' (Senior Assault-unit Leader; ; short: ''Ostubaf'') was a paramilitary rank in the German Nazi Party (NSDAP) which was used by the SA ('' Sturmabteilung'') and the SS (''Schutzstaffel''). The rank of ''Oberstu ...

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

. 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 Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa people, ...

. 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). 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 The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; pl, powstanie w getcie warszawskim; german: link=no, Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany' ...

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 h ...

; died 21 April 1976 , , , , - , Hermann Michel , 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 , 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 ...

, 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 vi ...

. Involved in Operation Harvest Festival. Hanged 28 January 1948 , , , , - ,

, Born 21 January 1915. Involved Action T-4 and

In Belzec Trial sentenced to 4.5 years. died 22 November 1979 , 288.121 , November 1935 , , - , Johann Pauls , Born 9 February 1908; Executed 4 July 1946 for War Crimes , , 1 April 1931 , , - , Walter Quakernack , Born 9 July 1907; Executed 11 October 1946 for War Crimes , 125266 , 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 23 October 1943. , , , - , Karl Silberbauer , Born 21 June 1911. Vienna

; SD at

the Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...

; Arrested

Anne Frank Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – )Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new light on Anne Fra ...

;postwar recruited by the Federal Intelligence Service (Germany) to infiltrate neo-Nazi ''and'' pro-soviet groups. Died 2 Sept 1972 , , 1943 , , - , Martin Weiss , Born 21 February 1903

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

. 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 (

or SD and Security Police (

or Sipo) in

Vilnius Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urba ...

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 initi ...

. Was also ''de facto'' commander of the Vilna Ghetto. 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 , location = Paneriai (Ponary), Vilnius (Wilno), Reichskommissariat Ostland , coordinates = , date = July 1941 – August 1944 , incident_type = Shootings by automatic and semi-automatic weapons, genocide , perpetrators ...

where up to 100,000

Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

were shot to death. In February 1950, a court in

Würzburg Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main River. 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)

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 The ''Ordnungspolizei'' (), abbreviated ''Orpo'', meaning "Order Police", were the uniformed police force in Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1945. The Orpo organisation was absorbed into the Nazi monopoly on power after regional police jurisdiction ...

held the rank of Oberwachtmeister – equivalent to Scharfuehrer. He was "Kommissar für den jüdischen Wohnbezirk" ("Commissioner for the Jewish Residential District") in

Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto (german: Warschauer Ghetto, officially , "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; pl, getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the G ...

, 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, fo ...

, Born 9 April 1902. Involved T-4 and KZ Sobibor. Fuchs was put on trial at the Bełżec Trial in Munich 1963–64, for which he was acquitted. Fuchs was rearrested and tried at the Sobibor Trial in Hagen. He was charged with participation in the mass murder of approximately 3,600 Jews. On 20 December 1966, Fuchs was found guilty of being an accessory to the mass murder of at least 79,000 Jews and sentenced to four years imprisonment. Fuchs was married for the sixth time during the trial. Fuchs died on 25 July 1980 , , 1934 , , - , Josef Hirtreiter , Born 1 February 1909. KZ Treblina. Sentenced to life 1951. Released 1977. Died 27 November 1978 , , , , - , Samuel Kunz , b.1922.

Volksdeutsche In Nazi German terminology, ''Volksdeutsche'' () were "people whose language and culture had German origins but who did not hold German citizenship". The term is the nominalised plural of ''volksdeutsch'', with ''Volksdeutsche'' denoting a sing ...

who served in USSR army; captured and trained as a SS Guard at Trawniki SS training camp. Posted to KZ Belzec death camp. Arrested in Berlin Germany July 2010 charged with being involved aiding deaths of 430,000 Jews and personally killing 10; Died 18 November 2010 age 89 before trial could start. , , , , - ,

Erich Lachmann 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 Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg (October 31, 1905 – October 12, 1946) was a Nazi economist who contributed to game theory and industrial organization and is known for the Stackelberg leadership model. Stackelberg became a member of the Naz ...

, 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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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 charg ...

, Born 10 June 1921. Joined the SS in 1940. In

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

. 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

, , , , - , George Kettmann , Born 2 December 1898 in Amsterdam – died 10 February 1970 in Roosendaal , , , , - , Jozef Kindel , born 23.11.1912 in Köln. Sipo Groningen, died 05.08.1948 in prison Almelo (before his trial) , , , , - , Mathias Kirmaier , Born 1920. SS-Karstwehr Battalion KIA 19.02.1944 , , , , - , 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 Euthanasia Centre, Grafeneck and Hadamar Euthanasia Centres, and then at Treblinka extermination camp. Miete was arrest ...

, Born 01.11.1908. KZ Treblina. Tried 1965. Died in detention 25 July 1978 , , , , - , Gustav Münzberger , Born 17.08.1903. KZ Treblina. Tried 1965, released 1971. Died 23 March 1977 , 321.758 , 1938 , , - ,

Harald Nugiseks 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 ...

, 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 Franz Xaver Schönhuber (10 January 1923 – 27 November 2005) was a German right-wing extremist journalist, politician, and author. He gained fame as a founder and eventual chairman of the right-wing German party The Republicans. He was a membe ...

, 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

. 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.

, Tried 1965 and sentenced to 4 years in prison;
died 18 December 1979 , , , , - , Eugène Vaulot , born 1923 Paris. Served in 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French). Awarded

. Killed in action on 2 May 1945 , , , , - , Ernst Zierke , Born 6 May 1905. involved in Action T4 Bełżec; Dorohucza; Sobibor Camp III. Acquitted in 1964 Belzec trial and released in 1965 Sobibor trial on health grounds. Died in 1972 , , ,

SS-Stabsscharführer

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

SS-Kapellmeister

Notes

Former SS Ranks changed after 1934: * SS rank Sturmhauptführer renamed

Hauptsturmführer __NOTOC__ (, ; short: ''Hstuf'') was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organizations such as the SS, NSKK and the NSFK. The rank of ''Hauptsturmführer'' was a mid-level commander and had equivalent seniority to a ...

* SS rank

Sturmführer ''Sturmführer'' (, "storm leader") was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party which began as a title used by the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA) in 1925 and became an actual SA rank in 1928. Translated as "storm leader or assault leader", the origins o ...

renamed

Untersturmführer (, ; short: ''Ustuf'') was a paramilitary rank of the German ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) 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. ...

* SS rank Obertruppführer renamed

Hauptscharführer __NOTOC__ ''Hauptscharführer'' ( ) was a Nazi paramilitary rank which was used by the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) 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 ran ...

* SS rank Truppführer renamed

Oberscharführer __NOTOC__ ''Oberscharführer'' (, ) was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that existed between 1932 and 1945. ''Oberscharführer'' was first used as a rank of the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA) and was created due to an expansion of the enlisted positions ...

* 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 ''Unterscharführer'' (, ) was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party used by the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) between 1934 and 1945. The SS rank was created after the Night of the Long Knives. That event caused an SS reorganisation and the creation of ...

* 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 '' Schutzstaff ...

renamed

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:List of Ss Personnel SS personnel SS ranks

Führer (Adolf Hitler)

Oberster Führer der Schutzstaffel

SS Generals

Reichsführer

Oberst-Gruppenführer (colonel general)

Obergruppenführer (general)

Gruppenführer (lieutenant general)

Brigadeführer (major general)

SS Officers

Oberführer (senior colonel)

Standartenführer (colonel)

Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel)

Sturmbannführer (major)

Hauptsturmführer (captain)

Obersturmführer (first lieutenant)

Untersturmführer (second lieutenant)

SS Non-Commissioned Officers

Sturmscharführer (Regimental sergeant major)

Hauptscharführer (sergeant major)

Oberscharführer (staff sergeant)

Scharführer (sergeant)

Unterscharführer (corporal)

SS-Stabsscharführer

SS biologist

SS-Kapellmeister

See also

Notes

References