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-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[citation needed] but were allowed into the SS-Gefolge and many served within the concentration camps.
Prior to 1934 the SS were nominally under the command of the Sturmabteilung[1] and so it could be said that both Adolf Hitler as Oberster SA-Führer and Ernst Röhm as Stabschef SA 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".[2] 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
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Position
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Year
Party number
Remarks
Oberster Führer der SchutzstaffelNo Insignia (1934–1945)
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.
First Reichsführer-SS 1925–1926 Hitler's chauffeur Later held the ranks of SS-Standartenführer and SS-Oberführer Posthumously awarded the ranks SS-Brigadeführer and SS-Ehrenführer of the SS Regiment Munich
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Leader of the Stoßtrupp-Hitler, forerunner of the SS (1923); officially joined SS (1925)
born 7 January 1883. Involved in War Crimes in Poland; captured 2 May 1945-released October 1947; 1945 request for extradition for war crimes in Poland was refused by the British government in 1950. Died 13 June 1955
Born 5 April 1898. Frank became SS Administrative Officer of the Special Purpose Troops (SS-Verfügungstruppe) and of the concentration camp guards, the SS Death's Head units (SS-Totenkopfverbände or SS-TV), although somewhat limited in his authority in the second capacity. In February 1940, Frank became chief supply officer of the Waffen-SS and SS-TV units under Pohl. In Pohl Trial sentenced to life in prison; 1951 commuted to 15 years. Died March 1984
Held the rank of major general by 1941, and then being appointed as "Chief of SS German Nationhood Staff", a position he held from November 1941 through his arrest by the Allied forces in May 1945.
Police President in Duisburg and in Essen. Higher SS and Police Leader "West." Oversaw "Operation Karnival" in which Werwolf operatives murdered Aachen Lord Mayor Franz Oppenhoff
Born 19 September 1898, Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin) Served in World War I and Postwar in Freikorps, and a Gauleiter; tried, convicted and executed 5 November 1948 in Landsberg am Lech for war crimes committed during the Nazi era.
Born 12 September 1898 in Augsburg; Served in World War I and postwar in the Freikorps; Higher SS and Police Leader in Slovakia; tried and executed 9 December 1947 in Bratislava
Born 13 July 1887. Gauleiter of the Gau of "Reichsgau Niederdonau" (Lower Austria). As of 1940 he was also Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) and, as of 1942, also Reich Defense Commissioner for this region. Died 8 May 1945
Keppler commanded the 2. SS-Division Das Reich, 3. SS-Division Totenkopf, I. SS-Panzerkorps, III.(germanische) SS-Panzerkorps and the XVIII.SS-Armee-Korps.
Landeshauptmann (nominal governor) of the province of Pomerania from 1940 to 1945. A member of the SS since 1933, he held the ranks of SS-Obergruppenführer, General of the Waffen-SS (1944), General of Police (1942) and Ostsee Higher SS and Police leader (1939–1945). He was engaged in euthanasia during the Second World War. Convicted after the war of crimes associated with abuses of political prisoners and Jews; sentenced to 16 years imprisonment.
Born 16. Dezember 1888 in Esslingen am Neckar;Gauleiter of Württemberg-Hohenzollern, and from early 1933 held the offices of State President and Reichsstatthalter ("Reich Governor") of Württemberg. Died 14 May 1945 in Egg.
From 1 May 1941 to the end of January 1943 Querner was SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Nordsee in Military district X, based in Hamburg. He worked closely with Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann Querners had responsibility over all police matters and was involved in the deportation of the Hamburg Jews, which began at the end of October 1941.
Born 24 December 1880. Chief of Telecommunications at the Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS and a consultant for intelligence. In July 1948 he was sentenced to 30 months in a labour camp, five years of professional restriction, and 30% confiscation of assets. Died 23 August 1956.
Director of Hermsdorf-Schönburg GMBH. Had Honorary SS Rank. In August 1944 presided over a secret meeting with German industrialists to using assets to rebuild Germany in the postwar period.[4][5] Listed in 1944 reference[6] and 1946 reference[7]
Born 16 November 1902. Reich Interior State Secretary; author of Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935; participant in Wannsee Conference in 1942. In 1949, sentenced to 4 years but released for time already served. Died in a car accident in 1953.
He became a member of Nazi Party in 1925 and of SS in 1926. In 1930 he was promoted to leader of SS in Rheinland and Ruhr. He became Polizeipräsident in Düsseldorf in 1933, and Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer West in 1938.
Born 17 March 1901. Held ranks of NSDAP-Reichstagsabgeordneter, SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; commander of the Selbstschutz of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia and Major General of the police (1943). Higher SS and Police leader in Silesia. Escaped to Argentina. Died 1 April 1970
SS-Gruppenführer, Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei, politician, and Beauftragter des Reichsführer-SS Albanien (special representative of the Reichsführer SS in Albania)
A lieutenant general in the SS and Commander of the Security Police and SD first in the Netherlands and then in Italy, Harster was directly connected with the Holocaust in two countries.[8]
Born 29 August 1900. State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Economics and deputy to the Reich Economics Minister Walter Funk;was also a member of the Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft (Circle of Friends of the Economy), a group of German industrialists whose aim was to strengthen the ties between the Nazi Party and business and industry. He also held the post of Wehrwirtschaftsführer (Military Economic Leader).– Died 11 September 1972)
Born 18 February 1899. Deputy Chief under Oswald Pohl of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, SS WVHA); chief of Amtsgruppe B, (Division B) of the WVHA, and deputy chief of Amtsgruppe W (Division W) of the WVHA. Condemned to death in 1946-commuted to 15 years-released March 1954-died 21 April 1959. Brother of SS Colonel Hans Loerner.
Commander of 3rd SS Division Totenkopf following the death of Theodor Eicke in February 1943. Commanding officer of the 1st SS-Panzerkorps "Leibstandarte" during the Battle of the Bulge. Hermann Prieß was convicted of war crimes because of his involvement in the Malmedy massacre and was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. He was released in 1954.
SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS. Captured by Soviets and in 1952 was sentenced to 25 years in prison, but released 10 October 1955. The West German government brought Streckenbach to trial in 1973, but the case was dismissed due "to the defendant's poor health". Died on 28 October 1977
Gorn 22 January 1898. Gouverneur von Lublin 15.2.42 – 27.2.41; MWGB Gouverneur Krakau to 25.5.43; Gouverneur Lublin 26.5.43 – 22.7.44; involved with the Czestochowa Ghetto. Died 28 August 1972. His sister was married to Gebhard Himmler, brother of Heinrich Himmler.
Born 8 September 1898. Joined the NSDAP and SS in 1932 and began working for the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the intelligence service of the SS. In autumn 1933, as an SS-Sturmführer, Albert was entrusted with the direction of the SD-Oberabschnitt West section of the SD, located in Düsseldorf, and later the Oberabschnitt Rhein section, located in Frankfurt. In 1935, he succeeded Werner Best as the chief of staff and the organization of the central administration of the SD. After the reorganization of the SD in January 1936, Albert took over the management of one of its three bureaus, the newly created Amt I (Administration). This promotion made him one of the five leaders highest in the hierarchy, along with Reinhard Heydrich, Werner Best, Heinz Jost and Franz Six. After the founding of the SS-(RSHA), Albert took over the Central Section I (staff, administration, organization). In April 1939, Albert was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer. In 1939, he was appointed along with Werner Best, Walter Schellenberg and Kurt Pomme as director of the Stiftung Nordhav. During World War II, Albert was chief of police in Litzmannstadt (Łódź). After his replacement in 1944, he became the successor to the district president Hans Burkhardt in the district Hohensalza in Reichsgau Wartheland. Interned until 1947. Died 21 April 1960
Born 17 December 1901 in Hamburg; also a Generalmajor der polizei; Commander of SiPo and SD: Düsseldorf, Belgium & northern France, General Government, Südwest; Commander of Einsatzgruppe D; Acting Higher SS and Police Leader, Südost; suicide 15 May 1945.
SS and Police Leader "Radom;" Police Director, Memel; Police President, Kassel; also Generalmajor der Polizei. Hanged as a war criminal in Radom, 12 June 1950.
Born 26 July 1900. A German lawyer; head of the Einsatzkommando 4/I during the invasion of Poland; SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of the police and the SS and police leader in Salzburg Austria and Bolzano Italy. Postwar part of the Gehlen Org. Not prosecuted for war Crimes. Died 7 December 1980.
Born 30 October 1882, Strassburg {France} Involved with the Einsatzgruppen in killing Jews and Poles; also involved in KZ Chelmo killings as well.-died July 1945 Helle.
Born 1 March 1892. SS and Police Leader "Shitomir," "Lemberg" & "Kattowitz." Commander of S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A.; also Generalmajor der Polizei. Died 11 February 1960
Born 29 June 1905. Commander of the Security Police (SiPo) and SD in Occupied Lorraine (Metz); also a Generalmajor der Polizei. From 31 May to 1 July 1953, Dunckern was tried as a war criminal before the Military Court of the 6th Region in Metz; sentenced to 20 years at hard labor. In June 1954, he was granted an early release from a prison; died 9 December 1985.
Born 6 June 1909. In January 1934 he became an auditor in the SS Central Administration Office at Munich. On 1 March 1938, he became a member of the SS Special [Purpose] units, which later came to be known as the Waffen SS. Deputy chief of the WVHA, Brigadier General of the Waffen SS; "Evidence was introduced that while defendant Fanslau was in command of the supply battalion of the Viking division, which was engaged in the campaign against Russia in the Ukraine, a number of atrocities were perpetrated against the Jews in the vicinity of Tarnopol by the troops under Fanslau's command. The character of this proof has made the Tribunal reluctant to accept it as true beyond a reasonable doubt..."[IMT] in Pohl Trial sentenced to 25 years; reduced to 20 years; commuted to 15 years. died 10 March 1987
Born 29 August 1900 in Schwarzenfeld. He was a German self-employed salesman who rose during the Third Reich to State Secretary and acting Reich Economics Minister as a member of the NSDAP and the SS. He died 11 September 1972 in Aschau im Chiemgau.
Born 20 March 1887. SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Polizei. Executed 30 January 1946 War crimes. Cousin of SS Obergruppenführer Maximilian von Herff
born 9 July 1904. SD officer and original Chief of the Ausland-SD, Amt VI (Department VI) of the RSHA & Commander of Einsatzkommando A (29 March – 2 September 1942). Tried in Einsatzgruppen Trial of 1947–1948. In 1951, Jost was released from Landsberg prison. He then worked in Düsseldorf as a real estate agent. He died on 12 November 1964 at Bensheim.
Born 08.09.1900 Brandenburg, Amtschef (Rohstoff- und Planungsamt) im Reichsministerium für Rüstung und Kriegsproduktion. Died 26 April 1984 in Grafenau-Döffingen
Born 11 December 1898. July 1934 involved in the Röhm affair.In July 1943 was appointed inspector for intelligence in the SS Main Command Office. From August 1944 to 1945 he was chief of telecommunications for Reich Minister Himmler.Died 11 January 1977
Born 25 January 1911 He served in the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and was the last commander of the SS Division Hitlerjugend. Kraas was investigated for the murder of several dozens of Italian Jews in Italy; he was tried in absentia in Italy in 1955 and was found guilty. The investigation also took place in West Germany in 1965 but stalled for "lack of evidence". Died 20 February 1980
SS and Police Leader (SSPF) "Charkow;" Commander of Ordnungspolizei in Krakau; also: Generalmajor der Polizei; convicted of war crimes and executed by firing squad in the Soviet Union.
Waffen-SS divisional commander of the LSSAH and (Kommandant) Battle Commander for the defence of the central government district (Zitadelle sector) that included the Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker during the Battle of Berlin
Born 9 August 1894. Served in World War I and postwar in Freikorps Leib-Kurassier-Regiment "Großer Kurfürst" until 25 July 1919 and then became a member of the Schutzpolizei. In December 1939 he was appointed commander of a battalion of the Security Police (Sipo) in Bydgoszcz. He was also deployed in Białystok. He became First General Staff Officer (Ia) to the Commander of the Order Police (BdO) in Norway. At the end of August 1940 he was appointed deputy commander of the Moravian Police Regiment in Brno. From 6 February 1941 to 22 May 1941 he commanded the Police Battalion 315, leading the battalion from April to May 1941 in newly occupied Yugoslavia.From 16 May 1941 he was employed as a Fourth General Staff Officer (Id; responsible for training and organization) and deputy of the First General Staff Officer (Ia) at the Kommandostab Reichsführer SS in the Hauptamt zur Partisanenbekämpfung. In August 1943 he was temporarily given command of the Latvian SS Volunteer Brigade. In September 1943 he was appointed liaison officer to the command posts of the Wehrmacht on the staff of the Chief of the Gang Fighting Units (BKV), which led the fight against the partisans. He was promoted to SS Brigadeführer and Major General of the Waffen-SS with effect from 21 June 1944. The promotion to Major General of the Schutzpolizei was also set for this date. He was appointed Chief of Staff of Bach-Zelewski as successor to SS-Standartenführer Heinz Lammerding in the summer of 1944, retaining his command as Chief of the Command Staff Reichsführer SS. Involved in suppression of Warsaw Uprising 1944. Witness in Nuremberg Trials. Died 12 September 1955 Göttingen.
Police Major General; Leader of the National Socialist Students' Federation, Superior SS and Police Leader in Salzburg, Gauleiter in Salzburg. Leader of the Berlin SD School; Inspector of the Security Police (SiPo) and the SD in Stuttgart; Leader of the Nazi Old Gentlemen's Federation; Chairman of the Reich Student Works; President of the German Study Works for Foreigners; Member of the Reich Labour Chamber and the Reichstag; commander of the SiPo and the SD under Chief of the civil administration in Alsace; Leader of the SD Upper Division South (Munich); Inspector of the SiPo and the SD under the higher SS and Police leaders South and Main; Higher SS and Police leader; Leader of the SS Upper Division Alpenland (Salzburg); Volkssturm Leader
Born 13 September 1896. head of the Armaments Supply Office under Albert Speer. After 1947 employed by the US for ten years in chemical warfare research in West Germany. Died 29 June 1960
b.22 April 1903. Commander of Einsatzgruppen b.z.V.; perpetrated the Massacre of Lviv professors, among other atrocities, including the murder of over 10,000 Jews; Wannsee Conference participant; SiPo and SD Commander in the General Government and the Netherlands; executed 16 May 1946 after being found guilty of killing an Allied POW, 21 November 1944
Born 26 November 1902. Polizeipräsident in Lübeck (1933–1945); SS and Police Leader (SSPF) "Lettland;" "Estland"; involved in killing of Jews in Reichskommissariat Ostland. Died 31 October 1973.
Born 27 November 1900, Berlin. Chief of Einsatzkommando 5 In May 1941. Sentenced to 20 years in Einsatzgruppen Trial; commuted to 15 years January 1951-released 9 January 1954. Died 11 November 1981.
Born 30 December 1910. Commander of the SS Division Das Reich, SS Division Hohenstaufen and a recipient of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves. Died 23 August 1995
First commander of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. Awarded the Knight's Cross on 4 September 1940. He was killed by an allied naval barrage in 1944.
Born 26 February 1882 Breslau. Held the rank of Generalarzt der Polizei. Surrendered at the Battle of Berlin 2 May 1945. Died 2 October 1949 Shuya, Ivanovo oblast.
Born 11 June 1899. Police President in Aachen; SS and Police Leader "Weissruthenien;" also Generalmajor der Polizei; convicted war criminal. Died 16 June 1969
Born 21 November 1900 in Teplitz-Schönau, Married Maria Hauser in 1929, Joined NSDAP on 10 November 1931, SS-Oberführer and Oberst der Polizei, Einsatzgruppe A Commander (10 September 1942 – 4 September 1943), head of the Gestapo in Darmstadt in 1940, Inspector of the SiPo and SD in Wiesbaden July 1942, Inspector of the SiPo and SD in Berlin September 1943. Died 25 April 1945 in Linz
Born 19 July 1898 in Görlitz, Prussia. His uncle was Benno von Arent (Generalleutnant). Member of the Freikorps. Joined the Nazi Party in 1932 he was one of the founders of the "Bund nationalsozialistischer Bühnen- und Filmkünstler" ("Union of national-socialist stage and movie artists"), which was renamed "Kameradschaft deutscher Künstler" ("fellowship of German artists") after Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Arent was appointed "Reichsbühnenbildner" ("Reich stage designer") in 1936 and "Reichsbeauftragter für die Mode" ("Reich agent for fashion") in 1939. He designed the diplomatic uniform of the Nazi diplomatic service. In 1944, he was given the rank of SS-Oberführer. Died 14 October 1956
born 19 June 1905 in Caputh. Involved in Nazism "Euthanasia"-program Action T4, the annihilation of the Polish Jews in the "Aktion Reinhard", and the experiments with castration by X-Rays in KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau. Officially declared dead 31 December 1945 in 1956 ironically he actually died under alias Werner Bieleke 28 November 1957
He was born 6 May 1897. His military service; 2 August 1914 to 1 February 1919 F.A.R 31.; Alleged to have been member of Freikorps. 10 July 1924....Leutnant {police}; 1 April 1928...Oberleutnant {police}; 1 January 1934...Hauptmann {police}; 1 April 1936...Major {police}; 1 November 1941...Sturmbannführer (Joined SS at this rank); 5 January 1942...Obersturmbannführer; Einsatzgruppe B, Sonderkommando 7c Commander (June 1942); 9 November 1943...Standartenführer; 1 August 1944...Oberführer. Commander of 9.SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, 4.SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division, 19.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS. Died 11 March 1978 Hanover, Germany.
Born 29.10.1903 Dresden. Participated in executions of Poles and Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto ruins. Sentenced to death by a Polish court after the war and executed on 12 June 1950
b.1893 at Züllichow. Lt deR Flieger-Abteilung 301 1917–18. World War II: Vice Inspector of the NPEA Inspection state offices and SS Oberführer as vice-inspector post war Deutscher Gymnasiallehrer und Napola-Leiter. Died 20 March 1976
Artist and soldier responsible for much of the Third Reich SS regalia. Prof. Diebitsch worked with graphic designer Walter Heck to design the all-black SS uniform. Also with his business partner Industrialist Franz Nagy, Diebitsch began the production of art porcelain at the porcelain factory Porzellan Manufaktur Allach.
born 1 November 1906 in Wulften am Harz. Was a member of the Einsatzgruppen during Operation Weserübung; commanded the Sicherheitspolizei and Sicherheitsdienst in Norway; died 11 May 1945 in Porsgrunn
Killed in an RAF air raid on Berlin during the night of 17 January 1943. On the recommendation of his Superior Paul Otto Geibel he was admitted into the SS posthumously during Feb. 43 with effect 21.12.1942
born 1 September 1898 in Mannheim. SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei, Leader of Einsatzgruppe "Serbien" from April 1941 to January 1942 and Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) {Serbia}, Kommandeur of Sicherheitspolizei and des SD in Litauen, Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) Ostland in Riga and from 15 September 1943 to 27 May 1944 Leader of Einsatzkommandos 3 {USSR}. Died 24 January 1947 Belgrade.
Born 8 January 1905. With 34th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Landstorm Nederland; commander in the Waffen SS during World War II who was awarded the German Cross in Gold. died 14 November 1967
Born 31 May 1892. State Secretary in the Four Year Plan; Wannsee Conference participant. Arrested after World War II but released because of poor health. Died 23 March 1951
Born 1 February 1903. Served as the head of Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) Amt IV A, from September 1943 to May 1944 and the commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe A in the Baltic States and Belarus. From 15 August 1944 forward, he was chief of RSHA Amt V, the Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei, Kripo), also known as the Reichskriminalpolizeiamt (RKPA). Responsible for the murder of prisoner of war French general Gustave Marie Maurice Mesny on 19 January 1945 near the village of Nossen. Arrested in 1946. Twice sentenced to 25 years of forced labor in Moscow 22 March 1952. Released as a so-called Nichtamnestierter ("non-amnestied") in September 1955 and repatriated to Germany. Member of the German Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) under Reinhard Gehlen. Committed suicide after being arrested for war crimes 8 August 1959
He made contributions to advanced German tank designs: Tiger I, Tiger II, and the Elefant, as well as the super-heavy Panzer VIII Maus tank, which was never put into production. He also made contributions in aircraft design, including the Junkers Ju 88, and the Focke-Wulf Ta 152. Additionally, he helped develop and manufacture retaliatory weapons (Vergeltungswaffen), such as the V-1 flying bombs (Fi 103 flying bombs).
Reichstag deputy; Führer of 20th SS-Standarte, then SS-Abschnitt XV; Stabschef of SS-Oberabschnitt Alpenland; Obersturmführer in the Waffen-SS; killed in action.
SS headquarters in Silesia killed during the Long knives night in 1934.
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Otto Soman
Born 24 October 1899. A member of the SD holding positions such as 1943 inspector of the security police and the SD (IdS) in Wiesbaden and in 1944 he was appointed inspector of the Customs Border Protection for the entire Reich territory and the occupied lands to the deputy chief of Office IV(Gestapo)and inspector general Wilhelm Krichbaum. Postwar served a Jail sentence for War Crimes. In 1951 recruited as an Agent of the Gehlen organization; he is also suspected of having been a member of the Ministry of State Security [Russian Secret Service]. Died.7 December 1956
Police President of Vienna and Leader of Interpol.
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Paul Gebhard Gustav Werner
Born 4.11.1900. Served in World War I 1918. Also served in SS Security service; also a deputy to Arthur Nebe and Friedrich Panzinger. Involved in the Shoah; SS Oberführer and Oberst Der Polizei. Died 15. Feb 1970 Leinfelden
SS and Police leader (SS-und Polizeiführer (SSPF)) in Warsaw from 4 August 1941 until 23 April 1943. Aide to Erich von dem Bach Zelewski. In 1981, Wigand was found guilty in Hamburg for war crimes and was sentenced to 12.5 years.
Born 21 November 1900 Bohemia. Served in Austrian Army in World War I. In 1935 chief of Gestapo in Darmstadt. By July 1942, he was Chief of Security Police and SD in Wiesbaden. In September 1942 he became commander of Einsatzgruppen A, which was responsible for the mass murder of civilians (mostly Jewish). In addition, he was commander of the Security Police (SiPo) in Riga. On 31 August 1943, awarded with the Iron Cross 2nd Class award. In 1944 he returned to the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin and took over as Chief of Security Police in the field units of the Unit IV B. Killed in air raid 21 April 1945
Born 9 August 1899. A senior staff member of the Operation Reinhard group assigned by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler to systematically murder the Jews of Europe. He ended the war as SS and Police Leader (SSPF) of Adria-West, Northern Italy. He escaped investigation after the war and is reported to have died when his car overturned on a road outside Dortmund. Died 23 August 1953
In 1939–40 and again in the summer and fall of 1941 he joined the Security Police to carry out what were called "special duties" (spezielle Aufgaben), a euphemism for executions of Jews and others the Nazis considered undesirable. Augsburg was used by CIC from 1947 to 1948 as an expert on Soviet affairs.[8] Reported died 1981
Born 17 November 1903. An Austrian aerospace designer and was responsible for the most powerful turboprop engine ever built, the Kuznetsov NK-12, while interned in the Soviet Union under Operation Osoaviakhim following World War II. Died 20 December 1986
Born 14 October 1910. Einsatzkommando commander. After the end of the war, Ehrlinger went into hiding in Schleswig-Holstein under the alias of Erich Fröscher. In 1950, he moved with his family to Konstanz and worked under a false name as a host in the local casino. In 1952, he married for the second time and started using his real name, and by 1954 worked as a foreman in Volkswagen in Karlsruhe. In December 1958, he was arrested. Two years later Ehrlinger was sentenced by the State Court of Karlsruhe (Landsgericht Karlsruhe) to twelve years imprisonment. The case was appealed and his sentence was officially remitted in 1969, four years after he was released from prison.[citation needed] Died 31 July 2004
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May 1935
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Franz Viktor Eirenschmalz
Born 20 October 1901. At Pohl Trial sentenced to hang-commuted to 9 years
Born 17 January 1912. 22.11.1943-15.09.1944: SS-Stubaf, Kdr, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 37, 17. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Götz von Berlichingen".In June 1944 ordered the executions of some 35 to 40 101st Abn Div POWs during the Normandy invasion [This same unit after the Battle of Graignes massacred 44 civilians and a number of prisoners of war taken in the capture of an American aid station, and set fire to the town.]2-4-1945 SS-Staff, Kdr, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 38, 17. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Götz von Berlichingen". Apparently not tried after the war. In 1950: changed his name to Jacob Briehl Fick. Died 22 April 2004
Born 21 October 1904 in Syrau, Vogtland – died 24 December 1943 in Dresden. He was a Nazi politician and from 1926 to 1931 the first chairman of the Hitler Youth (Hitler-Jugend or HJ).
Born 5 February 1906. An Einsatzkommando leader; Held posts within the Gestapo and SS in Cologne, Munich, Stuttgart and Strasbourg. Executed 23 February 1948
Born 18 April 1910. SiPo and SD Commander, Latvia; Commander, Einsatzkommando A-2; Wannsee Conference participant; SiPo and SD Commander, Wartheland. Died 23 February 1945
Born 24 April 1897. Killed SA leader Ernst Röhm July 1934. SS-Totenkopf Officer then Commander of the NCO School of the Waffen-SS in Arnhem (the Netherlands). In 1957, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison by a West German court for his part in Röhm's murder. Died 1 September 1969
Born 19 July 1888. Concentration Camps Inspectorate; Physician with Amt D III of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt for Medical Services and Camp Hygiene, with headquarters at Oranienburg. Died 27 May 1945
b.7 July 1902. The chief of the Gestapo at Katowice and was the head of the political department at Auschwitz, conducting "third degree" methods of interrogation from March 1941 until September 1943. As such, he frequently sent prisoners to Auschwitz for incarceration or execution. He visited Auschwitz on several occasions. In December 1944, he was appointed chief of the SiPo, Gestapo and SD in Vienna. After the war, Mildner testified at the Nuremberg Trials and remained in custody until released in 1949. Post War fate unknown; According to CIA report was allowed to escape to South America.
Born 30 January 1915. Waffen-SS Commander of LSSAH Kampfgruppe Peiper (the unit involved in the Malmedy massacre) (branch: Panzertruppe) Sentenced to execution in 1946; sentence commuted and released in 1956. Killed by person or persons unknown 14 July 1976.
Chief of Staff to SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei Karl Gutenberger. Involved in "Operation Karnival" March 1945 which resulted in death of Dutch Border Guard Jozef Saive and Aachen Mayor Franz Oppenhoff. 22.10.1949 is also accused by the jury court of the Aachen Regional Court for aiding and abetting manslaughter in combination with crimes against humanity sentenced to 4 years in prison and 3 years of loss of honour. On 22.09.1952 sentence commuted to 18 months
Commanded Sonderkommando 1a. Commander of Sicherheitspolizei and Sicherheitsdienst in Estonia. Arrested and sentenced to death in 1947. Sentence commuted by West German courts in 1958 and Sandberger released.
1936
Rudolf Scheide
Born 24 December 1908. Acquitted at Pohl Trial
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1930
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Max Schimmelpfennig
Born 25 February 1896. Commander of SS-Unterführerschule Posen-Treskau 1 May 1943 – fall 1943. Commander of SS- und Waffen-Unterführerschule Laibach fall 1943 – 17 February 1945. Died 12 September 1982
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3.683.016
Otto Schnebel
Born 20.11.1886; Iron Cross World War I; 01.10.42 - 15.03.43: SS-Führer in Stab SS-OA "Ost" (Krakau.);17.11.42 (mit 1.11.42) SS-Fachführer in Stabskompanie b.HSSPF "Ost";22.07.42 - 19.9.1943 Leiter Personalbüro Arbeitsstab Warschau der Allgemeine-SS und stabsführer SS und Polizeiführer Warschau; KVK 2.Kl. engineering officer who servefd in this capacity in Warsaw;15.03.43 - 1945: SS-Führer b. SS-OA "Spree"(Berlin).1946 in CIE Ludwigburg
Born 10 July 1905. Himmler's personnel Staff General Secretary of the Ahnenerbe Deputy of Managing Board of Directors of Reich Research Council. Executed 2 June 1948
Born 30 March 1888. On 11 April 1949 Woermann was sentenced to 7 years in prison. On 12 December, it was lowered to 5 years. However, he was released early in 1950 or 1951. Died 5 July 1979.
Born 15 June 1906. Belgian Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander. Died 31 March 1994
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1 June 1943
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Joachim Karl Paul Nikolaus Deumling
Born 25 January 1910. Head of Unit IV D 2(General Government Affairs in the Reich) in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and Headed Einsatzkommando 10b as SS-Obersturmbannführer und Oberregierungsrat [March 1943-January 1945] in Croatia; postwar worked for the British Army of the Rhine after the war, but the British blacklisted him for security reasons in 1951; became Intelligence Adviser for Egypt President Gamal Abdel Nasser[12] Arrested on 26 June 1967 in RSHA Trial; released in December 1968. Investigated in 1969 for aiding and abetting the murder of at least 3,823 people { investigations did not lead to an indictment and trial] Died 2 April 2007
Born 19 March 1906. Head of the Gestapo's Sub-Office of Resettlement and later head of the Office of Jewish Affairs under RSHA Amt IV Gestapo and officially known as sub-department, Referat IV B4. Tried and found guilty of war crimes and hanged 1 June 1962
45326
1 April 1932
889895
Alfred Karl Wilhelm Filbert
Born 8 September 1905. Leader of Einsatzkommando 9 (EK 9) in Einsatzgruppe B (EGr B) in June 1941, Arrested August 1959. Sentenced to life; request for revision rejected April 1963; fired for liability April 1975. Died 1 August 1990.
Born 30 November 1906 in Berlin. Executed 18 August 1952 in Moscow.
1935
Dr. Otto Furrer
Born 7 August 1910. Psychology researcher with the NSDStB. He went on to join the SS in October 1935. He became a research leader in human experiments involving information extraction.
born 5 October 1912. Joined SD 1934. Involved in deportation of 1,000 Jews to KZ Auschwitz; placed Princess Mafalda of Savoy in German custody. Involved in Ardeatine massacre. Postwar used by US to Spy on USSR; sentenced to life in prison in 1988; died under house arrest 21 April 2004
Born 1 October 1882, The Hague, Netherlands. Highest ranking Dutch Waffen-SS member. Served in 5. SS-Pz.Div. 'Wiking', 'Landwacht Nederland', 4. SS-Freiw.Pz.Gren.Brig. 'Nederland', Indische legion. Died 25 April 1945 (probably).
393343
13 June 1941
Georg Albert Wilhelm Heuser
Born 27 February 1913; Chief of the KDS [Gestapo] Minsk. Died 30 January 1989
Born 19 March 1915. RSHA Head of Counter Intelligence for Central and Southeastern Europe; second in command to Himmler's representative in Hungary. "Höttl was released from confinement in December 1947 and the US Army refused his extradition to the Austrian People's Courts, which at the time took action against Nazi perpetrators. In March 1948 he got in contact with the CIC and became subsequently control chief of two espionage operations, namely "MOUNT VERNON" and "MONTGOMERY". His task was to conduct espionage against the Communist Party of Austria and Soviet activities in the Soviet-occupied part of Austria. Höttl was described by the CIC as "an excellent source for ideas, both concrete and theoretical, on the expansion of American Intelligence in Austria." He Died 27 June 1999
On staff of the SS "Race and Settlement Central Agency". Later involved in researching oil shale sites and wind power also V-2 Rocket development. Organised the Bayreuth opera "War Festival".
Croat. Commander and overseer of Livac-Zapolje, Usora-Soli and Posavje provinces. Tasked with defense of food supply lines against Yugoslav Partisan paramilitary and suppressing communist rebellion, former spy. Suspected to have migrated to Argentina by the end of the war in 1945 or defecting to Bleiburg, Austria.
802001
1 August 1937
Gerhard Kurt Maywald
Born 16 April 1913; involved with Maly Trostenets extermination camp. Settled after the war in West Germany. In 1970, the public prosecutor's office in Koblenz ended an investigation against him "because of the absence of sufficient evidence of guilt". On 4 August 1977 Maywald was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for murder and complicity involving 8,000 Jews in Latvia. Date of death unknown
Head of Aachen Gestapo in 1935 and head of Frankfort Gestapo 1936–1941. Head of Einsatzkommando 12 from 1941 to 1942. In April 1942 Nosske joined the RSHA office in Berlin concerning the Occupied Eastern Territories. In 1943 he was appointed head of the "Foreigners and Enemies of the State" division of the Gestapo. From August 1943 to September 1944 he was head of the state police in Düsseldorf. On 10 April 1948 Nosske was sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes. In 1951 his sentence was commuted to ten years in prison.
1933
Rudolf Oebsger-Röder
Born March 1912. SD-Leader at Einsatzkommando 16 Bromberg, 1940 Head of The Office Group II A (Basic Research) in Office II (SD-Inland) of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), leader of the Einsatzkommando Cluj in Hungary 1944; arrested 1946 and sentenced to 18 months in prison in November 1948 (Not carried out because he had already served time in an internment camp). Recruited 1948 as employee of the Gehlen organization/Federal Intelligence Service [Relieved from duties summer 1964]; investigated but not charged for war crimes. Was a correspondent in D.K. Died 21 June 1992
267.393
April 1935
475.061
Hermann Pook
Born 1 May 1901 Obersturmbannführer of the Waffen SS, chief dentist of the WVHA. At Pohl Trial-sentenced to 10 years. Reported to have died 1983
155.870
1 June 1933
2.045.1140
Karl Rabe
Born 11.06.1905; Muehlhausen. Became member of NSDAP 1 June 1930
Born 12 August 1911. Commander of Kommando SS Zichenau-Schroettersburg and Einsatzgruppe B. In 1976 sentenced to six years in prison but released for medical reasons.
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105606
Konrad Schellong
Born 7 February 1910. Joined SA 1932; service (in SS Special Command "Saxony" [SS-Sonderkommando "Sachsen"], later SS Guard Unit "Saxony" [SS-Wachverbande "Sachsen"] and SS Death's Head Unit "Saxony" [SS-Totenkopfverbaende "Sachsen"]), concentration camp (Konzentrationslager – KL) Sachsenberg 1934–1936; service, SS Death's Head Regiment "Upper Bavaria" (SS-TV Standarte "Oberbayern") at KL Dachau (on 1 Dec 1937 and on 1 Mar 1938) until late 1939; service, SS-Division "Wiking" to Jul 1942; commander, SS Volunteer Legion "Flanders" (Kdr. SS-Freiwilligen-Legion "Flandern") 11 or 14 Jul 1942-May 1943; commander, SS Volunteer Assault Brigade "Langemarck" (Kdr. SS-Freiwilligen-Sturmbrigade "Langemarck") 31 May-19 Oct 1944; commander, 27th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Langemarck" (Kdr. 27.SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division "Langemarck") (on 19 Oct 1944) [Knights Cross 1945] Served "..as a guard and later commander at the Sachsenburg and Dachau Nazi death camps from 1934 to 1939." Moved to Chicago IL after the war; became US citizen 1962; complaint filed against him by US Justice Department Office of Special Investigations (OSI) 17 Mar 1981; put on trial 25 May-4 Jun 1982; US Citizenship revoked 9 Sept 1982 (NYT 10 Sept 1982:14:6); appeal filed 1 May 1983; decided in favor of U.S. Govt. 24 Aug 1983; deportation charges filed by OSI 8 Dec 1983; decision on appeal pending as of Sept 1984; verdict upheld by Seventh Circuit court Oct 1986; Supreme Court refused to review Apr 1987 (NYT 7 Apr 1987:II:2:1; NYT 24 Apr 1987:6:4); deportation to West Germany announced 23 Sept 1988 (NYT 8 Oct 1982:10:1; NYT 24 Sept 1988:6:6; ABR-SS; Schellong v. INS, 547 F. Supp. 569; Schellong v. INS, 717 F.2d 329; Schellong v. INS, 805 F.2d 655; cert. denied Schellong v. INS, 465 U.S. 1007; Dienstaltersliste der Waffen-SS [1 Jul 1944]).} Deported to West Germany in 1988, where he died 7 February 1992
Born 27 August 1914. Defendant in Einsatzgruppen Trial sentenced to death-commuted to 10 years. Died 17 August 1987
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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 Kurt Amend [de]), 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
Born 17 August 1906 Commander of Einsatzkommando 2, anschliessend commander of two Nazi organizations, the Security Police (German:Sicherheitspolizei), 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.
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December 1931
623.392
Dr. Harold Strohschneider
Born 1 June 1907 Graz, Austria. Physician. Wounded in Rommel Campaign. SS Oberstrumfuhrer 20 April 1944. Postwar moved to Arusha, Tanzania where he lived in the 1960s. Died Natural causes [Cancer] His widow Otti returned to Austria where she also died.
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Dr Walter Strohschneider
Born 6 October 1908. Drahowitz, Suddenland. Member of the SD. SS Oberstrumfuher 20 April 1942. Between July 1942 and March 1943, SS-Ostuf Walter Strohschneider was initially assigned to EK 12 (EGr D) as commander of Teilkommando "Budennowsk", and then Leiter SIPO/SD Aussenstelle "Wladimir Wolynsk". In April 1944 he was assigned to Einsatzgruppe "F" in Hungary, and between May 25 and June 6 he led the liquidation of the Cluj (Kolozsvar) ghetto. In May 1945 during Battle of Berlin he was "missing" fate unknown.
Born 11 July 1910. Worked under Dr. Karl Gebhardt with Dr. Fritz Fischer and Dr. Herta Oberheuser 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
Born: 18 July 1889 in Eschwege near Kassel in Germany. Served in World War I. Commandant of Dachau 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
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
Born 18 August 1911. In August 1930 joined the SA and in September 1930 the NSDAP. Officer with Einsatzkommando Egypt. Also in 1944 Commander of the Security Police and SD in Trieste. Postwar was an arms dealer and trade agent in Arab countries. Recruited for German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in October 1957. On 16 October 1960 injured in car explosion in which he lost his leg. Lived in Tunis from 1961 and remained there – at least until the 1980s – as a discussion scout for the BND. Died sometime after 1980.
Commander of SS action command 6/action group C [EK 6/Egr. C]. Tried 1947/1948 and sentenced to death. Sentence commuted to Life imprisonment in 1951. After 1958 prison release, reported to have been part of the Gehlen Org. Died 8 December 1986.
Born 23 March 1912. Allgemeine-SS battalion officer (also SS Horseriding Club). Involved with slave labor in V-2 Program. Died 16 June 1977
185068
1940
5,738,692
Hermann Otto Bundtke
Born Zduny (Krs. Krotochin/Prov. Posen) 05.09.1897. SS-Sturmbannführer und Major der Schutzpolizei. As Commander of the Third Battalion of the 23rd SS Regiment and the Police (Battalion III/SS-Polizei Regiment 23) participated in executions of Poles and Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto ruins. Was the commander of the Schutzpolizei Bataillon z.b.V. der BdO Rhein-Westmark between XI 1944 and 28 III 1945. Awarded War Cross of Merit I. Class with Swords. Residing in Solingen after the war
Born 19 March 1897. French Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander, executed 10 October 1945
Erich Deppner
Born 8 August 1910; Ustuf 9 Nov 38; Hstuf 20 Apr 39. Connected with KZ Westerbork; Amersfoot; Vught. Postwar employed by the Gehlen Org. 1964 tried for war Crimes [Acquitted]. Died 13 December 2005
Born 8 January 1913. Adolf Eichmann deputy. Brother of Hans Gunther. Died August 1945
290.130
1937
472.421
Bernard Harald Haase
Born 14 October 1910 Altleis. Commandant SD-Aussenstelle Groningen. Death sentence 20 March 1950. Commuted 21 January 1950. Released 1 September 1959. Died 9 September 1968 at Bensberg
Born 18, May 1913. Served in Einsatzkommando 3 and 4b 22 June 1941 – 2 October 1941. Commanded the Rollkommando Hamann. Worked at Amt IV of RSHA (Gestapo). Aide to Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Died 13 July 1945
Served as political advisor to Edmund Veesenmayer, German plenipotentiary in Hungary during 1944. Hoettl testified for the defense at the Nuremberg trials.[8]
Born 11 August 1891 Vallby Sweden. Immigrated to Germany and became member of SS Reiter Troop; attached to SS Oberabschnitt Nord; became a Sturmbannführer on 23 June 1934. Killed in a riding accident 26 January 1935
Born 29 November 1910 Ortelsburg East Prussia. Counterintelligence against Spy rings such as Red Orchestra and MI6 and SOE agents-of which he was authorized executions of said agents; Postwar employee of MI6. Died 13 October 1996. Glenskirchen Germany.
Born 26 November 1904. Leader of VI F4A (RSHA) aka Operation Bernhard. Detained by the British after the War and turned over to the French; released; acquitted at Denazilization hearing. Died 1989.
Born 5 October 1901 Braunschweig, Germany.Was head of the Aussenstelle (regional office) der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienstes for North Holland and Utrecht. He had an office in Amsterdam. Lages became partly responsible for the deportation of Jews from the Netherlands to concentration and extermination camps in Germany and occupied Poland and was involved in the arrest of the resistance fighter Johannes Post and was present at his execution and that of other resistance fighters, on 16 July 1944. He was also responsible for the Silbertanne murder of the writer A.M. de Jong and for the execution of Hannie Schaft. Tried in 1949 and sentenced to death [sentence commuted]. Released in 1966 for medical treatment in Germany. Because he could not be extradited according to the German constitution, it came down to the fact that, as long as he would refrain from traveling outside Germany, he was a free man. Died Braunlage,Germany 2 April 1971.
Born 29 September 1909. Commander of SS-Sonderkommando Lange; Commandant of Chełmno extermination camp; involved in Aktion T4; Died in the Battle of Berlin, 20 April 1945.
A leading organizer of Aktion Reinhard, involved in liquidation of Polish ghettos; SS and Polizeigebietkommandeur of Trieste
29337
10 January 1932
103613
Johann Miesel
Born 1914. Postwar a government official and Mayor's representative of Grömitz. Defendant in 1957 trial of March 1945 Amsberger Massacre. in 1958 found guilty only of aiding and abetting manslaughter. Miesel was only slightly involved in the crime and also disapproved of Kammler's order. Since the expected sentence would be less than three years, the court decided to apply Paragraph 4 of the Impunity Act 1954. Sentenced to four years in prison on 5 May 1961;sat in Neumünster for six months
born 4 Feb 1915 Czechoslovakia. May have been involved in suppression of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and was definitely involved in Marzabotto massacre of 1944. Sentenced to life in prison in 1951 and released in 1985. Died 26 April 1991
Born 15 March 1907. The Nazi Gauleiter of Bayreuth. Arrested 1947-sentenced to 8 years; 1949 sentence changed to 13 years. Released 1952. Died 8 November 1986
234.190
20 Oct 1934
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von Salish
member of SD; aka Captain von Seidlitz involved in Venlo incident
August Schiffer
Tried and executed 26 July 1946 in killing U.S. Soldier Roderick Stephen Hall and murders of six other Allied soldiers
Born 15 August 1904. With German Intelligence Officer Hermann Giskes he ran the Englandspiel operation in which over 50 Dutch Agents were captured due to SOE refusal to follow its own Security checks. Postwar worked for the Ghelen Org.
Born 1 May 1906. Physician involved in human Experiments. Tried 1970–1971; released from prison 1972. Died 5 May 1983
190.002
Christian Shnug
Born 28 January 1891. Member of Lebensborn e.V.Commander of I. Sturmbann of SS-Standarte 27 (as per SS-DAL of 1 July 1935 and of 1 Dec. 1936);Attached to the Staff of Abschnitt XII (as per SS-DAL of 1 Dec. 38); Commander of II. Sturmbann of 118th SS-Standarte (as per SS-DAL of 1 Oct. 42);Commander of II. Sturmbann of 116th SS-Standarte (as per SS-DAL of 1 Oct. 43 and of 1 Oct. 44). Living 1972 reported died several years later.
Specialist Officer attached to Staff Oberabschnitt Ost as referent zbz in Arbeitsstab der Allgemeine SS Lublin; duty as leiter der Ausbildungslager Trawinki in stab SSPF Lublin
Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarztat) at the KZ Auschwitz
311.594
1934
3139549
Herbert Klaus Wölk
Born 21 June 1905. Kriminalrat der Polizei. Served in the staff of the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) in the Netherlands; head of a Sipo-Sonderkommando; chief Aussenstelle der Sipo and SD in Rotterdam. Sentenced to 20 years imprisonment 24.07.1949 in Den Haag; released 02.08.1957
Born 13 March 1893. Was the desk officer for Jewish affair (Judenreferent) at the German embassy in Paris, France. Alleged to have been killed 21 April 1945; in 1954 sentenced in absentia for his crimes to lifelong forced labor.
Born 28 March 1906 Plauen. Kommandant of Natzweiler-Struthof and Flossenbürg concentration camps. In 1955 sentenced to life imprisonment, later reduced to 15 years. Died 23 October 1974 Dachau, Germany
Born 06.08.1905. Sipo Amsterdam, sentenced to 12 years imprisonment 08.11.1949 in Amsterdam (released 22.12.1952)
Siegfried Assmuss
Date of birth 20.8.1912. SS-Hstuf.20.4.1939; SD-Hauptamt; SD in Lutsk. Killed 22.7.1944; Leader of the Ukrainian Self_Defense Legion. In retaliation for his death, 44 villagers of Chłaniów and Władysławin Poland were killed by the Ukrainian Self_Defense Legion.
born 15 October 1909, Schoenbruch. Promoted Hstuf: 30.01.1941, (SD). SS captain and adjutant to Adolf Eichmann. After the war worked for the CIA; lost US citizenship 1981. Died 7 March 1982 in San Francisco, California
Born 08.04.1912, Rohrbrunn, Austria. Commandant of Drancy internment camp. Adolf Eichmann's assistant. Postwar alias Dr. Georg Fischer-resident in Syria. Alleged to have been member of West German BND. In 1989 the Syrian Government declined to extradite him to Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Alleged to have been alive as of 2001. Unknown if still alive.
born 27.03.1913 in Tübingen;, SD Belgium, Sonderkommando Eichmann in Sofia and Hungary. Also worked in Department of Jewish affairs as a "jewish specialist" with Adolf Eichmann.;-suicide 10.12.1945 in Bad Tölz
Heinz Drescher
Kriminalrat der Polizei, Head of Central fingerprint collection with RKPA within RSHA
Born 13 March 1913. Assigned to KZ Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Natzweiler-Struthof, Dachau. Arrested April 1945. Tried 13 December 1945. Condemned to death-sentence commuted to life in prison. Released 26 February 1952. Died 3 May 1967 Cairo, Egypt
237,421
1933
3,125,695
Rolf Engel
Born 10 August 1912. As a member of the SD, he was stationed in Strasbourg, Member of Peenemünde Army Experimental Institute. ENGEL headed the SS DTS Research Center for Jet Drive in Großendorf near Gdansk. He was a member of the Imperial Research Council. In 1945, he was hired from a prisoner of war camp by the French occupying authority for the Laboratoire de recherches balistiques et aéro-dynamiques, a ballistic missile development center near Paris, where, according to Gerhard Bauch (1962) Cairo) was involved in the development of the Gabriel missile. He was recruited to lead an Egyptian missile program in the 1950s, which failed due to missing components. Died 23 November 1993
Born 11 July 1919. A French collaborator during World War II who was awarded both the Croix de Guerre by France, and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross by Nazi Germany. Battle of Berlin, 28 April, one-hundred eight Soviet tanks had been destroyed in the southeast of Berlin within the S-Bahn. The French squads under the command of Fenet accounted for "about half" of the tanks.[5]For the success of the battalion during the Battle of Berlin Fenet was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 29 April 1945 by Wilhelm Mohnke. Died 14 September 2002
Born 18 February 1895; World War I veteran. Served at KZ Sachsenhausen concentration camp and was Commandant of Majdanek. Charged with embezzlement and killing prisoner witness. Shot by SS 15 April 1945
Born 10 July 1903. Member of staffs of KZ Dachau, KZ Auschwitz, and KZ Flossenbürg. Introduced Zyklon B gas into Auschwitz. Involved in death of Saint Maximilian Kolbe. Reported missing 2 May 1945 – unknown if he was killed or survived the war
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1930
261135
Paul Fuchs
Chief of departments IV A and IV N of Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (KdS) in Radom. Liaison officer at Polish NSZ staff. After war Fuchs operated with Hubert Jura for the US intelligence network created to work in the newly established countries controlled by the Soviet Union[19]
Hans Gaier
Born 19 February 1902 Mannheim Germany. (SA-Obersturmbannführer); was also Police Hauptmann (Polizeidirektor) der Schutzpolizei Kielce Poland. Declared Legally dead in May 1954; ironically according to German Wikipedia while hiding under a false name in Graz, Austria Gaier was executed May/June 1945.
Born 1 September 1908 in Bordesholm. Untersturmführer: 30 January 1937. Ostuf: 12 March 1938. Chief of Grenzpolizeikommisariat Neu Sandez: December 1939 – 12 August 1943. Promoted to Kriminalkommissar in January 1940. Chief of GPK in Jaslo: 12 August 1943 – 1 November 1943. Chief of department IV A of KdS Krakau – 11.1943–01.1945.[Promoted SS-Hstuf:20.04.1944] Sentenced by court in Bochum in 1966 to life imprisonment. Died 16.04.1993
Employee of SD-Hauptamt since 1934. Sent to Norway – Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) Oslo / Leiter I – on 25 April 1940, where he served until May 1945. Arrested 25 May 1945 Kristiansand. Stood trial but was released by the Supreme Court of Norway in August 1947. Tried July–August 1948 by British Military Court in Hamburg ("Trandum Case No. 2"). Sentenced to 15 years for killing of six British citizens.
Born 4 June 1918. Served in German Police. Also served in the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. Involved in the Ascq massacre on 1 April 1944 and a massacre at Leskovice in May 1945. Judged 1949 and sentenced to death; After requests by some widows of the Ascq massacre, his sentence was converted to life imprisonment. Released in July 1957. In 1969 and 1977, Czechoslovakia asked Germany to extradite him for punishment for the second massacre, but these requests were rejected by a Stuttgart court. In 2005, the Czech Republic again asked for his extradition. Died 6 November 2006 in Germany.
Born 07 I 1907 Remscheid. SS-Hauptsturmführer und Kriminal; was replaced as head Referat IV 1 (former IV A) KdS Warschau in May 1944 by SS-Hauptsturmführer und Kriminalrat Harald Wiesman; Hohmann died in 1961 of suicide.
Born 05/03/1911 Michelau, Prussia. Reichsmarine 1931–34; Hitler's Valet/Orderly 1934–to mid-September 1939; LSSAH 1934-to mid-September 1939; Kriegsmarine in late 1939–1943 and Flak-Zug, II./Pz.Rgt. 12 from Dec. 1943 to 1945. Interred until June 1946; fined and released. Died 6 May 2001
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Hans Kruger
Born 1909. Arrested 1959 war crimes; tried 1965–1967; sentenced 1968 to life in prison. Released 1986; died 1988.
born 2 September 1908. Served in 1st SS Division LSSAH. Placed in charge of disposing of Hitler's remains on 30 April 1945 by Otto Günsche. KIA 2 May 1945
Born 1911. A Higher Regional Court Councillor from Neustadt an der Weinstraße, In 1957 during the trial of March 1945 Arnsberg Massacre, he denied his own complicity and testified as a witness for the prosecusion.
Georg Simon Michaelson
born.13.9.1906. Promoted 30 January 1942. Involved in suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April–May 1943; sentenced to 12 years in prison Hamburg Germany 25 July 1974; reported to have died early 1990s.
Dob 11 January 1894. Served in World War I. Since the spring of 1940 to 30 January 1941 he held an unspecified role in the Division IV camp Flossenbürg KL, where then was transferred to the post of commander of one of the camp guard companies. The camp moved to the headquarters staff of KZ Hinzert, where he was adjutant to the commandant of the camp, Paul Sporrenberga. On 18 June 1943 he moved to KZ Lublin. In the spring of 1944 he was moved to KZ Gross-Rosen where since May 1944 to 13 February 1945 he was company commander and the head of sub Parschnitz in Pozici and AL Trautenau in Trutnov in the Czech Republic. He was arrested by Soviet forces on 1 January 1946. On 25 March 1946 he was sentenced to death by a Soviet Military Tribunal, a special form of a court-martial. On 14 May 1946 Ritterbusch was executed at an unknown place.
Born 25 November 1908. Commandant of the RigaGhetto; Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und SD IV = Department 4 (Gestapo). Lived in Argentina; Died 8 August 1977 Paraguay
Born 27 March 1912. SS Physician involved with six KZ Camps. Twice tried for warcCrimes-and acquitted. Died 28 November 2000
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1937
555,294
Lothar Schmidt
Head of the personnel division of the Ministry of Economics and Labor in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Briefly worked as an interpreter for the U.S. army in Bavaria before being arrested in Altötting in August 1945.[13]: 213 Not to be confused with SS-Obersturmführer Lothar de:Henry Schmidt (1912–1996).
Born 15 November 1914. Commander of 3rd Battalion/Police Regiment 22 during Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; member of German Police Battalion 101 during Aktion Erntefest{harvest Festival massacre}Died 25 July 2010
Born 2 May 1909. Adjutant for Oswald Pohl. Died 1973
219.415
November 1933
2.639.413
Walter Oscar Wache
Born 17.01.1908. He attended the Humanistische Gymnasium where he studied German and History. In 1928 he was a member of the Freikorps. In 1929 he became leader of the Deutschen Mittelschülerbund Österreichs which later became known as NS-Schülerbund hervorging. In 1932 he joined the NSDAP and the SS. In 1933 he became a teacher. In Austria at that time he was given a criminal record for his political activities and therefore was unable to take a job with the state as a Librarian. In 1934 he obtained a scholarship in Prague to study German Human Sciences, but was arrested for spying and deported to Germany. Granted German citizenship and worked in the RuSHA as a Historical researcher. In October 1936 he became an Assistant at the University of Köln where he became a lecturer and Professor in Middle and Modern History. He worked in a political capacity for the SS. He created film for the university promoting the National Socialist doctrine writing articles in "SS-Leithefte" at the same time wrote the book/pamphlet 'Judenfibel' as a reference to the Jews. Became a SS Untersturmführer 24.04.1937. In 1938 his work extended with the 'Ahnenerbes'. He was awarded the Iron Cross in 1941. In 1944, served in the SS Division Das Reich. Postwar reported to have settled in Republic of South Africa
Born 15 December 1909. Led sub-department BI a2 Department V aka Reichskriminalpolizeiamt {Reich Criminal Police Department} of the RSHA under Arthur Nebe. Postwar journalist for Der Spiegel; 1954 head of Düsseldorf Criminal Police Department. Died 31 December 1995
Waffen-SS captain and recipient of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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Paul Werner
Born 05 IX 1890 Dragass/Dragacz]SS-Hauptsturmführer und Kriminalrat; headed briefly the Referat IV B in 1942. Participated in executions of Poles and Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto ruins.
Harald Franz Wiesmann
Born 22 IV 1909 Krefeld. SS-Hauptsturmführer und Kriminalrat. Became head Referat IV 1 (former IV A) KdS Warschau in May 1944(seriously wounded on 20 VII 1944 during a riot in the Gefängnis der SIPO und des SD "Pawiak"; died 24 IV 1947 Praha]
Oskar Winkler
Born December 17, 1910, in Jscherei, District of Lüben, Silesia. Joined the SS in 1933, the SD in 1936 and the NSDAP in 1937. Promoted to SS-Untersturmführer on April 20, 1939 (Hitler's Birthday). Served as SS-Obersturmführer (promoted September, 9th, 1940) in Einsatzgruppe B, EK 8 under the command of Dr. Otto Bradfisch from June to October 1941 in Belarus. He also lead a small squad of SS-men of EK 8 for separate executions. He participated in mass executions in Białystok, Novogrodek, Baranovičy, Minsk ("Prototype-Shootings" for Heinrich Himmler), Mogilev, and Gomel, as confirmed by witnesses during his trial and his own confession. Promoted to Hauptsturmführer on April 20, 1942 (Hitler's Birthday) to serve as Commander of the SiPo (Sicherheitspolizei) and head of division III of the SD (Sicherheitsdienst), as Second in Command of the RSHA (Reich Security Main Office) office in Bergen, Norway until the end of the war. Indicted in the Munich Einsatzgruppen-Trial together with Dr. Otto Bradfisch, Wilhelm Schulz, Carl Ruhrberg and Günther Ströh, as part of the NSG Trials [de] (Nationalsozialistische Gewaltverbrechen - national socialist violent felonies) and sentenced to 3+1⁄2 years of imprisonment on July 21, 1961, for the collaborated murder of 650 victims. Died in Georgsmarienhütte, District of Osnabrück, Lower-Saxony, on September 9, 1980.
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
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10 February 1943
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August Blei
Born 26 August 1893. KZ Mauthaushen. Tried Dachau Trials. Executed 28 May 1947.
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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.
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
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
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
born 10.03.1912 Töttleben. Erfurt. Involved with SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt. 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
Born 11.08.1905. Munster, Westphalia. Germany. Member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS and author of the Gerstein Report. Died 25.07.1945 while a POW
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.
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Walter Heinrich
Born 1910. Largerfuhrer KZ Amersfoort. Disappeared February 1945-fate unknown.
Born 26 December 1883. SS doctor at Auschwitz; involved in Human experiments; tried 1947 Auschwitz trial death sentence cummuted to life in prison; released 1958; died 1965
Born 15 September 1911, in Osnabrück, Germany. Assigned to KZ Auschwitz. died 7 December 1994, in Elmshorn, Germany.
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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.[citation needed] He was however convicted in absentia by a military court in Turin in 1955 and sentenced for life but never extradited.[citation needed]
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.
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
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.
Born 1912. Commanded a Latvian/SD murder commando in Minsk Ghetto and Ghettos of Slutzk 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
born on 13 July 1921. During the Second World War, he was deployed on the Western and Eastern Fronts, most recently as SS-Obersturmführer with the 10th Infantry Regiment of the 1st SS Infantry Brigade. Parts of this unit were assigned to Einsatzgruppe C in the summer of 1941. Peter's unit killed at least 17,000 Jews and around 25,000 Soviet prisoners of war in 1941.Also in 1941, Peter received the Iron Cross Second Class. Leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) Died on September 25, 2005
466,738
1938
Richard Reinhard Ferdinand Pruchtnow
Born 8 April 1892. Member of SD-section OST and SD-section III. Died 22 June 1943
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
Born 26 June 1914. Worked with Police in France. GDR agent after the war, as a Stasi agent planted into the post-war Gehlen Organization. Died 31 October 1987.
Entered Nazi service in 1942 in the Schutzmannschaft in the North Caucasus, participating in the murder of civilians. Starting in 1943 served as military recruiter, most likely for the Ostlegionen. Escaped via Vatican and CIA ratlines to the US after the war.[23][24][25]
Born 6 February 1911 Unhausen. b. III Wachtruppe Sachsen: 1 June 1934 – 1938. b. 3 SS-TSta Thuringen: 1938–1941. 1941–1942 Stabsscharführer at Natzweiler 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 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
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
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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
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Paul Werner
born 12.10.1895. Usf 20.4.35 Osf 11.9.38 attached to Stammabteilung bezirk 16
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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.[He 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.
Born 11.11.1914 Kopjoni, Russia. Served in Latvian Army 1933–1934. Assignments: EG A, RSHA III B; Leiter Hauptaussenstelle der SIPO und des SD in Baranowitschi, VI 1942 – 11 X 1943. {Possibly participated in reprisals after Unternehmen "Hermann" (August 1943) and especially in the execution of 11 nuns?] SS-Ostuf. 9.11.1944, (SD). 1944–1945, worked in RSHA III B – Wlassow Dienststelle. Died on 19 XII 1954 in Paderborn.
Born 30 July 1908. Tried and executed 26 July 1946 in killing US Soldier Roderick Stephen Hall and murders of six other Allied soldiers
Rudolf Roy
Born 15 August 1920. 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler & 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II. Destroyed 36 enemy tanks with his gunner, Unterscharführer Fritz Eckstein. Roy was killed during the Battle of the Bulge. He is buried in the War cemetery in Bonn - Bad Godesberg Germany, grave number 756.
Bernhard Anhalt,
Defendant in 1957 trial of March 1945 Amsberger Massacre (Acquitted)
Born 19 December 1906 Zuffenhausen. Police commissioner and member of the Political Department at Auschwitz; arrested 1959; tried 1965 later convicted of crimes against humanity; died in prison 3 April 1977 Bietigheim-Bissingen
Born 9 June 1910. Wartime member of SD. Postwar president of Interpol. Died 19 September 1973
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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.[27]
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). [Warsaw]. Died 16 II 1945 Poznań]
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.
Born 24 July 1914. Kriminalkommisar/Gestapo Chief in Drobohycz. After being identified as living in Argentina by Simon Wiesenthal arrested on 28 June 1975; he was later released on 29 June 1975. Rearrested in 1985; Kutschmann died in prison hospital 30 August 1986
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
Born 24 October 1921. US Army Air Corps deserter/airplane thief and SS propaganda officer; member of SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers; in 1946 courtmartialed for stealing a plane and deseration-sentenced to 15 years [sentence suspended] served in Army Air Force 1947–1948; rearrested 1948 and charged with treason; sentenced to 25 years;paroled 1960. Died 11 September 2000
born 20 September 1916 Bielefeld, Germany. Became a Ustuf:21.6.44. Died 16 January 2007 Hamburg Germany.
Hans Öllinger
born 7 September 1914 in Mühlbach am Hochkönig. From June 1933 to autumn 1937, also during the "prohibition period" after the failed July Putsch, he was a member of the SA and finally Sturmführer. He took part in terrorist acts against the Austrofascist government; and member of the SS Death's Head Associations. After the "Anschluss" in 1938, Öllinger joined the Landesbauernschaft Südmark (Styria, Carinthia, including East Tyrol and southern Burgenland) and became a member of the NSDAP in May 1938.As an alpinist, he was a member of two mountain divisions and, according to Simon Wiesenthal, took part in flamethrower commandos, "fire brigades" that killed survivors after storming villages.(Minister of Agriculture)in Bruno Kreisky government. died 15 June 1990 in Klagenfurt
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1937
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
In Poland and Ukraine, Horst participated in hunting down partisans, massacring local Jewish population in a town next to his estate, and participated in the mass deportations
1934
Josef Pospichil
Born December 1899. Member of SD-section III/Gestapo. Involved KZ Majdanek; KZ Natzweiler-Struthof. Executed 14 February 1948
Born 1 May 1915. Leader of board of Zentralverband der Industrie in Prague. Kidnapped and killed 18 October 1977
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30 June 1933
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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
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
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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.
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 Namibia in 1981.
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.
Born 22.05.1904. Sipo Rotterdam, SS-Sturmscharführer, 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
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
Born 26 May 1899. Involved in 1941 Massacre of Lviv professors. 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
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.
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.
Born 08. February 1915. Hangman of KZ Buchenwald. Reduced in rank and sentenced to a penal Battalion. Taken POW by Red Army 1945. Status changed to war Criminal 1950. Released and exchanged 1955. Indicted 1957 and found guilty of war Crimes 1958. Died 7 June 1988 in prison
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
Born 6 July 1912. Austrian mountaineer and explorer in Tibet. Died 7 January 2006
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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
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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
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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 of 1943. 1965 sentenced to Life in prison. Pardoned 8 April 1976 because of terminal cancer; died 21 April 1976
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.
Born 9 July 1907; Executed 11 October 1946 for War Crimes
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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.
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 or Sipo) in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part of the Reichskommissariat Ostland. Was also de facto commander of the Vilna Ghetto. He was also the commander of the notorious Nazi-sponsored Ypatingasis būrys (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
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
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
b.1922. Volksdeutsche 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.
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.
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
Born 10 June 1921. Joined the SS in 1940. In Auschwitz 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.
Born 28 December 1921. Joined the Waffen-SS at age 18. Served two years in Auschwitz. 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
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.
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. Shot and killed by a French sniper 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
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
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Gerhard Putsch
Investigator for SS Judge Georg Konrad Morgen. "Disappeared" while investigating corruption in the SS
Born (7 February 1907 SS member and one of 5 lawyers in the economics branch of the Ministry of Economy and Labour in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.[13][page needed] West German diplomat to Greece (1956–1960) and Turkey, ambassador to Sweden from 1964 to 1968. Outed as a Nazi in 1967.[28] Died 11 February 1991
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