Between 1925 and 1945, the German SS grew from a mere eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. The following list of SS personnel gives the names of persons who are counted among the organization's most famous, influential, and notorious members.
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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. 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 #1, Emil Maurice (considered the founder the SS) was Member #2, while Himmler was SS Member #168. Based on the seniority system of SS membership number, this made Hitler senior in the SS to all other members even if not by rank.
After the Night of the Long Knives, when the SS became independent from the SA, Hitler was listed on SS officer rolls as Member #1 and considered supreme commander of the entire SS by virtue of his position as the Führer of Germany. There is no photographic record of Hitler ever wearing an actual SS uniform nor was there a special SS insignia for Hitler above that worn by Himmler
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Reichsführer |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julius Schreck | 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 |
5 | 1925 | 53 |
| Joseph Berchtold | Second Reichsführer of the SS 1926-1927 |
August 1923 | 750 | |
| Erhard Heiden | Third Reichsführer SS 1927-1929 |
1925 | ||
| Heinrich Himmler | Reichsführer SS 1929-1945 Chief of German Police Minister of the Interior Chief of the replacement Army |
168 | February 1925 | 14303 |
| Karl Hanke | Final Reichsführer SS 1945 |
203013 | 25 February 1934 | 102606 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Oberstgruppenführer | |
| (April 1942-forward) |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kurt Daluege | Commander of the Ordnungspolizei | 1119 | 1928 | 31981 |
| Sepp Dietrich | Original commander of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) and later commander of the 6th SS Panzer Army | 1177 | 5 May 1928 | 89015 |
| Paul Hausser | Commander of the II SS Panzer Corps | 239795 | February 1934 | 4158779 |
| Franz Xaver Schwarz | NSDAP Treasurer | 38500 | 16 September 1931 | 6 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Obergruppenführer | |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friedrich Alpers | 6427 | March 1931 | 132812 | |
| Max Amann | Honorary SS Member. Party leader for the Reich of the Department Press | 53143 | 3 | |
| Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski | Higher SS and Police Leader of Central Russia | 9831 | 489101 | |
| Herbert Backe | Minister of Agriculture 1944-1945 | 22766 | 1 October 1933 | 87882 |
| Gottlob Berger | Commander of the SS-Hauptamt | 275991 | 426875 | |
| Werner Best | Reich Plenipotentiary of Denmark | 23377 | 341338 | |
| Wilhelm Bittrich | Waffen SS combat commander, II SS Panzerkorps | 39177 | 1934 | 829700 |
| Ernst Wilhelm Bohle | Leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party Foreign Organization | 276915 | 13 Sept 1933 | 999185 |
| Martin Bormann | Secretary of Hitler
Party leader for the Reich in charge of the NSDAP Chancellery |
555 | September 1929 | 60508 |
| Philipp Bouhler | Head of the Action T4
Party Leader for the Reich in charge of the Führer Chancellery |
54932 | 12 | |
| Franz Breithaupt | Commanding general of the SS and Police Courts | 39719 | 1 December 1932 | 602663 |
| Walter Buch | Party Leader for the Reich as Chairman of the Inquiry and Mediation Board | 81353 | 1 July 1933 | 7733 |
| Richard Walther Darré | First Director of the Race and Settlement Office ('Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt' or RuSHA), and Minister of the Reich for Food and Agriculture | 6882 | 248156 | |
| Karl-Maria Demelhuber | Commanded the SS-Standarte Germania, 6. SS-Gebirgs-Division Nord, XII. SS-Armeekorps and XVI. SS-Armeekorps. | 252392 | 15 March 1935 | 4439 |
| Otto Dietrich | Party Leader for the Reich as NSDAP Press Chief Honorary rank |
101349 | 126727 | |
| Karl von Eberstein | early member of the Nazi party, the SA, the SS, Reichstag delegate, an HSSPF and SS-Oberabschnitt Führer, head of the Munich Police in World War II, | 1386 | 15067 | |
| Joachim Albrecht Eggeling | Gauleiter of Saxony and Anhalt High President of Merseburg |
186155 | 1935 | 11579 |
| Theodor Eicke | Commander of the SS Totenkopf Division | 2921 | August 1930 | 114901 |
| Karl Fiehler | Lord mayor of Munich/Party Leader of the Reich in charge of the communal policy | 91724 | 31 July 1933 | 37 |
| Albert Forster | Gauleiter of Danzig | |||
| Karl Hermann Frank | Higher SS and Police Leader of Bohemia and Moravia | 310460 | 6600002 | |
| August Frank | 5669 | 1471185 | ||
| Herbert Otto Gille | Waffen SS commander | 39854 | 537337 | |
| Curt von Gottberg | Also General der Waffen-SS | 45.923 | September 1932 | 948.753 |
| Ernst-Robert Grawitz | Also General of Waffen SS; Reichsarzt SS and Polizei; Head of German red Cross; son in law of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Siegfried Taubert | November 1931 | ||
| Ulrich Greifelt | 72909 | 1667407 | ||
| Arthur Greiser | Gauleiter of Reichsgau Wartheland | 10795 | 1929 | 166635 |
| Karl Gutenberger | 372303 | 25249 | ||
| August Heissmeyer | Commander of the SS Education Department | 4370 | 21573 | |
| Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf | Not member of SS, but wore the uniform of an SS Obergruppenführer uniform in his capacity as Polizeipresident Berlin
SA Obergruppenführer |
None | ||
| Rudolf Hess | Also Deputy-Führer of the NSDAP until 1941 | 50 | 1 November 1925 | 16 |
| Konrad Henlein | Gauleiter of the Sudetenland | 310307 | 6600001 | |
| Maximilian von Herff | Commander of the SS Personnel Department | 405 894 | 1 April 1942 | 8858661 |
| Reinhard Heydrich | Chief of the RSHA; President of Interpol; chaired the 1942 Wannsee Conference; Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia | 10120 | 14 July 1931 | 544916 |
| Richard Hildebrandt | Led the SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt | 7088 | 89221 | |
| Karl Höfer | Oldest member of SS-born 29 December 1862 | 276 338. | ||
| Hermann Höfle | Higher SS and Police Leader in Slovakia | 463903 | 3924970 | |
| Ulrich Greifelt | Reich commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism | 72909 | 1667407 | |
| Friedrich Jeckeln | Higher SS and Police Leader of Eastern Russia | 4367 | 12 January 1930 | 163348 |
| Hans Jüttner | Commander of the SS-Führungshauptamt | 264497 | 541163 | |
| Ernst Kaltenbrunner | Second Chief of the RSHA after Heydrich's assassination | 13039 | 300179 | |
| Hans Kammler | Head of V-2 program | 113619 | 20 May 1933 | 1011855 |
| Jürgen von Kamptz | 292714 | 1258905 | ||
| Georg Keppler | 273799 | 10 October 1935 | 338211 | |
| Wilhelm Karl Keppler | Secretary of state in Foreign Office | 50816 | 62424 | |
| Matthias Kleinheisterkamp | Waffen SS Divisional and Corps Commander | 132399 | 8 January 1934 | 4158838 |
| Kurt Knoblauch | 266653 | 2750158 | ||
| Wilhelm Koppe | Höhere SS und Polizei Führer, HSSP | 25955 | 2 January 1932 | 305584 |
| Paul ("Pilli") Körner | Staatssekretär | 714 328 | 1931 | 714328 |
| Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger | Higher SS and Police Leader of Poland | 6123 | 16 March 1931 | 3995130 |
| Walter Krüger | Commander of : 4th SS Polizei Panzer Division 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich IV SS Panzer Corps VI SS Panzer Corps |
266184 | 3991530 | |
| Hans Lammers | Minister of the Reich/Head of the Reich Chancellery Honorary rank |
118404 | 1010355 | |
| Werner Lorenz | Commander of the Office of Ethnic Germanization (SS-Hauptamt Volkdeutsche Mittelstelle) | 6636 | 1931 | 337994 |
| Benno Martin | 187117 | 10 April 1934 | 2714474 | |
| Dr Heinrich von Maur | Born 19 July 1863. Char. General der Artillerie Regional leader of the NS-Reichskriegerbund (Veterans World War I NS association) in Wurttemberg |
276907 | 5890310 | |
| Emil Mazuw | 2556 | 7 June 1930 | 85231 | |
| Konstantin von Neurath | German Foreign Minister 1932-1938 | 1937 | ||
| Carl Oberg | Higher SS and Police Leader of France | 36075 | 7 April 1932 | 575205 |
| Günther Pancke | Higher SS and Police Leader of Denmark Waffen-SS General |
10110 | 1931 | 282737 |
| Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch | 292713 | 1364387 | ||
| Artur Phleps | Commander of the 7.SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division Prinz Eugen | 401214 | 30 June 1941 | |
| Oswald Pohl | Chief of the SS Economics and Administration Office (WVHA) | 147614 | 1933 | 30842 |
| Hans-Adolf Prützmann | Also held rank as General der Polizei und Waffen-SS; Commander of Kampfgruppe Prützmann, HöSSPF (Ukraine, Rußland-Süd, Ostland und Rußland-Nord, Nordost, Nordwest), SS-Oberabschnitt Südwest; Generalinspekteur für Spezialabwehr (General Inspector of Special Defense) Werwolf | 3002 | 12 August 1930 | 142290 |
| Rudolf Querner | 308240 | 22 May 1938 | 2385386 | |
| Hanns Albin Rauter | SS and Police Leader in the Netherlands | 262958 | Joined Austrian Nazi Party | |
| Wilhelm Rediess | SS and Police Leader in Norway | 2839 | 22 July 1930 | 25574 |
| Wilhelm Reinhard | 274104 | 63074 | ||
| Joachim von Ribbentrop | Foreign minister 1938 - 1945 | 63083 | February 1938 | 1199927 |
| Erwin Rösener | Higher SS and Police Leader SS-Oberabschnitt 'Alpenland' (Wehrkreis XVIII; HQ: Salzburg) 24 Nov 1941-8 May 1945 |
3575 | 1930 | 46771 |
| Ernst Sachs | Inspector of the SS Signals | 278781 | 4167008 | |
| Fritz Sauckel | Honorary rank Gauleiter of NSDAP Gau of Thuringia |
254890 | 1395 | |
| Paul Scharfe | Commander of the SS Legal Office | |||
| Julius Schaub | Co-founder of the SS, personal assistant to Hitler | 7 | February 1925 | 81 |
| Fritz Schleßmann | 2480 | 25248 | ||
| Heinrich Schmauser | 3359 | 215704 | ||
| Walter Schmitt | 28737 | 592784 | ||
| Oskar Schwerk | Regional leader of the NS-Reichskriegerbund (NS Association for Veterans) for Silesia | 276825 | 5420196 | |
| Fritz von Scholz | Commander of 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland | 135638 | 1937 | 1304071 |
| Arthur Seyss-Inquart | Leader of NS opposition in Austria prior Anschluss, Deputy governor-general of Poland then Commissaire for the Reich in Netherlands | 292771 | 6270392 | |
| Felix Steiner | Commander of III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps | 253351 | 4264295 | |
| Siegfried Taubert | Also General der Waffen-SS | 23128 | 525246 | |
| Prince Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont | SS-Obergruppenführer and Higher SS and Police Leader of the SS-Oberabschnitt Fulda-Werra | 2139 | 2 March 1930 | 160025 |
| Fritz Weitzel | 408 | 1927 | 18833 | |
| Otto Winkelmann | 308238 | 1373131 | ||
| Karl Wolff | Chief of staff to Heinrich Himmler and Supreme SS and Police Leader of Italy | 14235 | 7 October 1931 | 695131 |
| Udo von Woyrsch | Higher SS and Police Leader in the SS-Oberabschnitt Sudost | 3689 | 162349 | |
| Alfred Wünnenberg | 405898 | 2222600 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Gruppenführer | |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludolf von Alvensleben | Held ranks of NSDAP-Reichstagsabgeordneter, SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; commander of the Selbstschutz of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia and Major General of the police (1943). Higher SS and Police leader in Silesia | 177002 | 149345 | |
| Hans Baur | Generalleutenant der Polizei Hitler's Pilot |
808258 | None, but received Golden Party Badge | |
| Albert Ritter Von Beck | Regional leader of the NS association for Veterans in Bavaria (NS-Reichskriegerbund) | 153322 | 1937 | 5354436 |
| Karl Brandt | Hitler's physician | 260.353 | 29 July 1934 | 1.009.617 |
| Carl Clauberg | Involved in human experiments | 23876 | 21635 | |
| Hermann Fegelein | SS-Cavalry General, Eva Braun's brother-in-law/Commander of the 8th SS Cavalry Division | 66.680 | 1931 | 1,200,158 |
| Bruno Erich Alfred Freyberg | Oberburgermiester of Leipzig | |||
| Josef Fitzthum | SS Gruppenführer, Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei, politician, and Beauftragter des Reichsführer-SS Albanien (special representative of the Reichsführer SS in Albania) | 41,936 | 1932 | 363 169 |
| Karl Gebhardt | "Reichsarzt-SS"; also a Major General (Generalmajor) in the Waffen SS | 265894 | 1935 | 1723317 |
| Odilo Globocnik | Higher SS and Police Leader of the Adriatic Region/Head of Operation Reinhard | |||
| Richard Glücks | Inspector of Concentration Camps/Amt D WVHA | 58706 | 1932 | 214805 |
| Wilhelm Harster | GeneralLeutnant of Police; although unable to join post war BND recommended SS contacts to BND as potential agents | 225932 | 9 Nov 1933 | 3226594 |
| Hans Hinkel | Journalist and commissioner at the Reich Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda | |||
| Otto Hofmann | Head of RuSHA 1943 SS and Police Leader Southwest Germany |
7646 | 1931 | 145729 |
| Fritz Katzmann | Higher SS and Police Leader in Lemberg (Lwów); Galicia; and Danzig-West Prussia | 3065 | 1 July 1930 | 98528 |
| Wilhelm Kube | General-Kommissar for Weissruthenien (now known as Belarus) | 1934 | ||
| Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper | Honorary rank; Gauleiter of the NS Gau Magdeburg Anhalt | |||
| Paul Moder | Senator of Altona, Hamburg; Strummbanfuhrer in Waffen-SS; SS-und Polizeiführer {Warsaw} | 11716 | 1 September 1931 | 9425 |
| Heinrich Müller | Commander of the Gestapo (Secret State Police), Amt IV (Department IV) of the RSHA | 107043 | 20 April 1934 | 533199 |
| Artur Nebe | Commander of the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police), Amt V (Department V) of the RSHA | 280152 | ||
| Otto Ohlendorf | Commander of the Inland-SD, Amt III (Department III) of the RSHA | 880 | 28 MAy 1925 | 6531 |
| Werner Ostendorff | Duel rank as SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; Commander of 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen and 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich | 257146 | 1 October 1935 | 1691488 |
| Johann Rattenhuber | Commander of the Reichssicherheitsdienst (RSD); (Hitler bodyguard unit) | 52877 | 1 May 1933 | 3212449 |
| Dr. Carl Retzlaff | Generalmajor der Polizei; Kommandeur Schupo Hamburg 1935 | 337770 | ||
| Heinz Reinefarth | Waffen-SS and Police General/Senior SS and Police Leader in Wartheland (former polish Posnania) | 56.634 | December 1932 | 1,268,933 |
| Alfred Rodenbucher | Higher SS and Police Leader in Wurttemberg Stuttgart | 8229 | 413 447 | |
| Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig | 2nd Commander of 13th Waffen SS Division | |||
| Walter Schimana | SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei SSPF for Central Russia; and HSSPF for Greece; and Danube Sector |
1934 | 49402 | |
| Max Simon | SS-Gruppenführer (Major General) und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | 83086 | May 1933 | 1350576 |
| Jakob Sporrenberg | SS Gruppenführer (Major General) und Generalleutnant der Polizei in Minsk Russia and Lubin Poland | 3.809 | 1 October 1930 | 25.585 |
| Walter Staudinger | SS-Gruppenführer (Major General) und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; Artillery commander of LSSAH | 252 652 | 3 201 960 | |
| Jürgen Stroop | SS and Police Leader of Warsaw; later senior SS and Police leader in Greece | 1932 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Brigadeführer |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otto Abetz | German ambassador to Vichy France | 253.314 | 1 August 1935 | 7.011.453 |
| Franz Augsberger | Also Generalmajor der Waffen-SS-20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) | 139 528 | 20 April 1932 | 360 700 |
| Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen | Member of the Reichstag; chairman of the regional council (Regierungspräsident) for Stettin, and later also for Potsdam. | |||
| Hugo Blaschke | Hitler's dentist. Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen SS | 256882 | 2 May 1935 | 452082 |
| Léon Degrelle | Promoted by Himmler to this rank on 2 May 1945 (unofficial)/Commander of the Waffen SS division "Wallonie" | None | 1 June 1943 | |
| Anton Dunckern | Commander of the Security Police and SD in Occupied Lorraine (Metz)/Also Generalmajor der Polizei | 3526 | 315601 | |
| Johannes Engel | Reichsamtsleiter | |||
| Karl Genzken | Chief of Medical Office of the Waffen-SS | 207954 | 5 November 1933 | 39913 |
| Ulrich Graf (Nazi) | Hitler's Bodyguard | 26 | 8 | |
| Heinz Jost | SD officer and original Chief of the Ausland-SD, Amt VI (Department VI) of the RSHA
& Commander of Einsatzkommando A |
36243 | 25 July 1934 | 75946 |
| Franz Josef Huber | Also served as a Generalmajor der Polizei | 107099 | 4583151 | |
| Bronislaw Kaminski | Commander of Kaminski Brigade | |||
| Fritz Kranefuss | Head of Financial Department under Himmler | 53092 | 964992 | |
| Christian Peder Kryssing | Commander of Frikorps Danmark and SS-Kampfgruppe Kueste | |||
| Franz Kutschera | SS General and Gauleiter of Carinthia. SS and Police Leader of the Poland's Warsaw district, and a Major-General of the police | 19659 | 1 November 1931 | 363031 |
| Gustav Lombard | SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | 185.023 | May 1933 | 2.649.630 |
| Kurt "Panzermeyer" Meyer | Noted for his command of 1st SS Reconnaissance Battalion (LSSAH) and later the Waffen SS division commander of 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. | 17 559 | 15 October 1931 | 316 714 |
| Wilhelm Mohnke | Waffen SS divisional commander 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 | 15541 | 1 September 1931 | 649984 |
| Hans Nieland | Lord Mayor of Dresden | 61702 | 33333 | |
| Walter Schellenberg | SD officer and second Chief of the Ausland-SD, Amt VI (Department VI) of the RSHA | 10 January 1934 | ||
| Gustav Adolf Scheel | Police Major General; (SA and SS member, Leader of the National Socialist Students' Federation, Organizer of the SD in the southwest, Superior SS and Police Leader in Salzburg, Gauleiter in Salzburg from November 1941). Leader of the Heidelberg Student Body; Honorary Senator of the University of Heidelberg;Leader of the Berlin SD School; Inspector of the Security Police and the SD in Stuttgart; Leader of the Nazi Old Gentlemen's Federation;Chairman of the Reich Student Works;President of the German Study Works for Foreigners; Member of the Reich Labour Chamber; Commander of the Security Police and the SD under Chief of the civil administration in Alsace;Member of the Reichstag; Leader of the SD Upper Division South (Munich); Inspector of the Security Police and the SD under the higher SS and Police leaders South and Main; Higher SS and Police leader; Leader of the SS Upper Division Alpenland (Salzburg); Volkstrum Leader | |||
| Karl Eberhard Schöngarth | Commander of Einsatzgruppen; perpetrated the Massacre of Lviv professors, among other atrocities | |||
| Hinrich Schuldt | Awarded Knight's Cross with oak Leaves and Swords | |||
| Franz Six | Commander of Amt VII (Department VII) of the RSHA; Charged with creation of Chief of Einsatzgruppen for England Vorkommando of Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B |
107480 | 1935 | 245679 |
| Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz | Heer panzer general | 82857 | 1405562 | |
| Bruno Streckenbach | Awarded 30 January 1939 Golden Party Badge; Commander of Amt I (Department I), Administration and Personal of the RSHA; and Einsatzgruppen; Commander, 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer | 14713 | 1 September 1931 | 489972 |
| Otto Steinbrinck | Freundeskreis der Reichsführer SS | 63084 | 30 May 1933 | 2638206 |
| Theobald Thier | Also a Generalmajor der Polizei Executed Kraków Poland 12 July 1949 |
250198 | June 1935 | 1744848 |
| Wilhelm Trabandt | Colonel of 1 SS Infantry Brigade Commander of 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Horst Wessel |
218.852 | ||
| Friedrich Uebelhoer | Łódź Ghetto 1939 Gauinspekteur Gau Wartheland 1940 - 10.43 MWGB Regierungspräsident Merseberg 10.43 - 45 Died 31 12 1950 See [3] |
209059 | 11707 | |
| Jürgen Wagner | Commander of 23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland 4th SS Polizei Division |
23 692 | 15 June 1931 | 707279 |
| Friedrich Weber | Commander of the NSDAP Old Guard | 265902 | July 1934 | 15 |
| Wilhelm Werner | World War I war criminal. See [4] ; Member of Himmler's personal staff |
9916 | 15 July 1931 | 332139 |
| Karl Maria Wiligut | Section VIII (Archives) RUSHA Himmler's Personal Staff |
September 1933 | ||
| Fritz Witt | Commander of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend | 21518 | 1 December 1931 | 816769 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Oberführer | |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josef Altstötter | Member of Reich Ministry for Justice-Ministerialdirektor und Leiter der Abteilung für bürgerliches Recht im Reichsjustizministerium (RMJ); member of SA # 31; tried 1947 in Judges' Trial-released 1950 | 289.254 | 15 May 1937 | 5.823.836 |
| Adolf Ax | Waffen SS commander | 3848 | 1 December 1930 | 378043 |
| Horst Bender | SS judge | 122746 | 1 April 1933 | 1261871 |
| Kurt Benson | Oberleutnant der Reserve | 1642 | August 1929 | 19227 |
| Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock | Commander of 9.SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, 4.SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division, 19.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS |
405821 | 2223186 | |
| Karl-Heinz Bürger | Also und Oberst der Polizei | 156 309 | 30 January 1933 | 68 902 |
| Karl Diebitsch | 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. | 141990 | 1 May 1920 November 1933. |
1,436 {membership lapsed}, 4,690,956 reinstated. |
| Karl-Heinz Bertling | Commander of the Indian Legion of the SS World War I veteran. Served in the Freikorps Ehrhardt Brigade 1919. Holder of the Golden Nazi Party Badge. |
60258 | 1 November 1930 | 370275 |
| Prince Christoph of Hesse | Also Hauptmann d.R.; b. Stab RFSS; Luftwaffe Major |
35903 | 1 498 608 or 696 176 |
|
| Rudolf Diels | First commander of the Gestapo until April 1934; later Chief of the Regional Gouvernement (Regierungsprasident) of Köln | 187116 | April 1934 | 3955308 |
| Dr Eduard Deisenhofer | Waffen SS combat commander | |||
| Dr Oskar Dirlewanger | Leader of Dirlewanger Brigade | 357267 | 1,098,716 | |
| Wilhelm Fuchs | SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei, Leader of Einsatzgruppe "Serbien" and Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) {Serbia}, Kommandeur of Sicherheitspolizei and des SD in Litauen, BdS Ostland in Riga and Leader of Einsatzkommandos 3 {USSR}. | 62.760 | 1 December 1932 | 1.038.061 |
| Karl Höfer | ||||
| Hubert Klausner | Gauleiter of Carinthia | |||
| Erhard Kroeger | Commander of Einsatzkommando 6/Einsatzgruppe C | 357243 | 23 October 1938 | 7 675 747 |
| Georg Martin | Waffen SS commander | 87679 | 5649799 | |
| Emil Maurice | SS Member #2, credited with founding the SS | 2 | February 1925 | 39 |
| Thomas Müller | Waffen-SS combat commander | |||
| Friedrich Panzinger | Chief of Amt IV Section A, of the RSHA; Einsatzgruppe A Member of Gehlen Organization |
322118 | 5017341 | |
| Ferdinand Porsche | None | 5643287 | ||
| Emanuel Schafer | Einsatzkommando/SD/Himmler's personal staff | 280018 | 4659879 | |
| Julian Scherner | SS and Police Leader of Kraków | |||
| Julius Schreck | First Reichsführer SS | 5 | February 1925 | 53 |
| Emil Sembach | SS headquarters in Silesia | 6.640 | 1 April 1932 | 3.575 |
| Otto Steinhäusl | Police President of Vienna and Leader of Interpol. See [5] | 292773 | 1938 | |
| Gustav Adolf Wiemann | Waffen-SS Officer and Son-In-Law of Oberstgruppenführer Paul Hausser | 1938 | ||
| Johannes Zingler | 10 196 | March 1931 | 544378 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Standartenführer |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gunter d'Alquen | Chief of Propaganda OKW; Editor of Das Schwarze Korps;Connected with SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers | 8452 | 1931 | 66.689 |
| Albert Brummenbaum | 274 111 | 232 194 | ||
| Max de Crinis | psychiatric director of the Clinic "La charité" of Berlin. Also worked with RuSHA/Action T-4 | 276 171 | 1936 | 688 247 |
| Waldemar Fegelein | Commander of 2nd SS Cavalry Regiment; 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer; 37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow. Brother of Hermann Fegelein. |
232 194 | ||
| Hermann Florstedt | Commandant of Majdanek Concentration Camp | 8660 | 1931 | 488 573 |
| Karl Gesele | 37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow | 10596 | August 1931 | |
| Jakob Grimminger | Leader of Standarten 1 and bearer of the Blutfahne | 135 | 25 February 1926 | 759 |
| Peter Högl | Member of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers | 249998 | 3289992 | |
| Karl Jäger | Commander of Einsatzkommando 3/Einsatzgruppe A. Author of the infamous Jäger Report. | 62823 | 1932 | 359269 |
| Rudolf Lange | SD Commander of Latvia, Commander Einsatzkommando A-2. Wannsee Conference participant | 93501 | 1 March 1933 | 1159583 |
| Sebastian Leveque | Waffen-SS officer | 251321 | 4321123 | |
| Michael Lippert | Killed SA leader Ernest Rohm July 1934 | 2 968 | 10 March 1931 | 246 989 |
| Hans Lovell | Commander of Second Panzer Division [LSSAH] | 8876 | 1934 | 86.775 |
| Professor Dr. Wilhelm Pfannenstiel[3] | SS physician at Bełżec and Auschwitz | 273083 | 2828629 | |
| Jochen Peiper | Commander of LSSAH Kampfgruppe Peiper (the unit involved in the Malmedy massacre) | 132496 | 16 Oct 1933 | |
| Heinrich Petersen (SS officer) | Commander of 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Horst Wessel | 134.299 | 964.574 | |
| Julius Ritter | Assistant to Fritz Sauckel | 34 491 | 1 December 1931 | 680 323 |
| Wolfram Sievers | Himmler's personnel Staff General Secretary of the Ahnenerbe Deputy of Managing Board of Directors of Reich Research Council |
275325 | 1935 | 144983 |
| Herbert Scholz | Staff from the RF SS | 70.360 | 505.786 | |
| Dr. Wilhelm Staudinger | Received the Blood Order; head of the Abteilung Presse und Propaganda within the Reichsamt für Agrapolitik; worked with the RSHA | 269.365 | 108.007 | |
| Eugen Steimle | Commander of Sonderkommando 7A of Einsatgruppe B and Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatgruppe C; Department VIb of RSHA | April 1936 | 272.575 | |
| Ludolf-Jacob von Alvensleben | SS- und Polizeiführer Udine (Friuli). | 52 195 | 1 313 391 | |
| Hilmar Wäckerle | first commandant of Dachau concentration camp. | 9.729 | 1 March 1931 | 530.715 |
| Dr Josef Witiska | Chief of SIPO and SD in Slovakia and Chef, Einsatzgruppe H, Slowakei | 422296 | 1 March 1938 | 6289103 |
| Wilhelm Zander | Assistant to Martin Bormann | 27789 | 552659 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Obersturmbannführer |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friedrich Wilhelm Altena | Member of VOMI. Murdered an Allied POW pilot on 9 August 1944. Details here. | 354102 | 316030 | |
| Johann Beck | Waffen SS as a SS Ostuf and Allgemeine SS as a SS Obhur | 179 | 6.911 | |
| Hans Bludau | SS doctor-SS Führungshauptamt | 310384 | 1 November 1938 | 2765344 |
| Hans Bissinger | Commander of Field-Ersatz-Brigade 102 II SS Panzer Corps |
53698 | 1 April 1932 | 1200004 |
| Werner Braune | Commanded Einsatzkommando 11b/Einsatzgruppe Special Purpose Unit D. | 107,364 | November 1934 | 581,277 |
| Dr. Friedrich Buchardt | Commanded Einsatzkommando 9/Einsatzgruppe B Jan 1943-OCt 1944 | |||
| Leon Degrelle | Belgian Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander | None | 1 June 1943 | None |
| Fritz Dietrich (Nazi official) | SS police chief (SS und PolizeiStandortführer ) in Liepāja (German:Libau), Latvia. | |||
| Adolf Doldi | RFSS RSD (Hitler's pilot) | 276881 | 1722844 | |
| Hans Dorr | Waffen-SS officer | May 1933 | ||
| Adolf Eichmann | Head of the Gestapo's Sub-Office of Resettlement and later head of the Office of Jewish Affairs under RSHA Amt IV Gestapo and officially known as sub-department Referat IV B4. | 45326 | 1 April 1932 | 889895 |
| Hans Fleischhacker | SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt | 307399 | 1940 | 7501920 |
| Bruno Gesche | 4th Commander of the SS-Begleitkommando des Führers 1934-1945 | 1093 | 1927 | 8592 |
| Walter Hänsch | RSHA I D-2; RSHA I D; Sonderkommando 4-B Einsatzkommando Convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials, sentenced to death, commuted to 15 years imprisonment. | 252573 | 1 August 1935 | 537256 |
| Fritz Hartjenstein | Commandant at Birkenau; Natzweiler concentration camp; Flossenbürg | |||
| Fritz Hippler | Film producer of The Eternal Jew | 284122 | 10 April 1937 | 62133 |
| Wilhelm Höttl | RSHA Head of Counter Intelligence for Central and Southeastern Europe 2nd in command to Himmler's representative in Hungary |
309510 | 1938 | 6309616 |
| Rudolf Höß | Commander of Auschwitz concentration camp | 193616 | 20 September 1933 | 3240 |
| Josef Jahn | 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen | 2431 | ||
| Frederik Jensen | Waffen-SS | 456 051 | 4 April 1941 | None |
| Herbert Kappler | Commander of SS and Police Forces in Rome, Italy | 55211 | 8 May 1933 | 594899 |
| Sepp Krafft | Commander of S.S. Panzergrenadier Bataillon 16 during Operation Market Garden | 424 020 | ||
| Bodo Lafferentz | 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". | 347155 | 17 February 1939 | 2594441 |
| Arthur Liebehenschel | Commandant of the Majdanek and Auschwitz death camps, succeeding Rudolf Höß. Served as an adjutant in the Columbia Haus and Lichtenburg camps, Inspectorate of Concentration Camps and as a senior director in the SS Economics Department. Prosecuted in the Auschwitz Trial in Kraków and executed by hanging on January 28, 1948. | 1934 | ||
| Kurt Lischka | Tried 1979 with Herbert Hagen and Erich Heinrichsohn | |||
| Knud Børge Martinsen | Commander of Frikorps Danmark | |||
| Georg Konrad Morgen | SS judge | |||
| Max Rostock | SS and SD official in Lidice Sentenced to death but pardoned in 1960; Postwar Spy for Czechoslovika State Security in West Germany. See [6] |
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| Harald Riipalu | Estonian member of the SS | |||
| Hermann Schaper | Commander in kommando SS Zichenau-Schroettersburg and Einsatzgruppe B | 3484 | 105606 | |
| Heinz Schubert | Defendant in Einsatzgruppen Trial sentenced to death-commuted to 10 years | 107326 | 10 October 1934 | 3474350 |
| Richard Schulze A.k.a. Richard Schulze-Kossens |
Commander of SS Officers School Bad Tolz, Bavaria | |||
| Hans Seigling | Also held rank as an Oberstleutnant in the Schutzpolizei Commander of German Police Battalion 57 and Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling Last commander of the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian) |
450.683 | 1940 | 3.279.337 |
| Conrad Schellong | 135553 | 28 December 1932 | 1428412 | |
| Hans Sommer | SD during the war Post war member in CIA-sponsored West German Gehlen Organization and later in East German Stasi |
1932 | ||
| Dr Karl Sommer | Amt DII | 272426 | 220064 | |
| Eduard Strauch | 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 military branch of the SS (Waffen-SS). | 19.312 | December 1931 | 623.392 |
| Edmund Trinkl | Oberregierungsrat RSHA Berlin Dept I A 6 Former member of Van Epp & Roehm's Reichsflagge Freikorps brigade |
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| Christian Frederik von Schalburg | Commander of Frikorps Danmark | |||
| Walter Vollmer | SD during the war KGB double agent in CIA-sponsored West German Gehlen Organization |
21889 | 241213 | |
| Wilhelm Wiebens | Commanded Einsatzkommando 9/Einsatzgruppe B Feb 1942-Jan 1943 | 16617 | 546524 | |
| Max Wielen | Oberregierungs- und Kriminalrat (ORuKR); Hauptmann d.R. a.D. Position: Chief, Stapoleitstelle Breslau. Involved in Killing of POWS from The Great Escape; Sentenced to prison 1947 but released after serving a few years | 128841 | 1759395 | |
| Erich Zacharias | Chief, Grenzpolizeikommissariat (GPK) Zlin; Executed 1948 after being tried for Involvement in Killing of POWS from The Great Escape |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Sturmbannführer |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franz Abromeid | IV B 4 of the Serbian Higher SS Division. | |||
| Hans Aumeier | Deputy Commandant KZ Auschwitz | 2.700 | August 1929 | 164.755 |
| Kurt Bartsch | SS Kavallerie-Ausbidldungs und Ersatz-Abteilung 8 | 460 816 (V) | 1942 | None |
| Ernst Biberstein | Commander of SS action command 6/action group C [EK 6/Egr. C]. After 1958 prison release reported to have been "co_Worker" Gehlen Org |
272962 | 13 Sept 1936 | 40718 |
| Karl Bömelburg | Gestapo leader in France | 35898 | 1931 | 892239 |
| Wernher von Braun | Allgemeine-SS battalion officer (also SS Horseriding Club) | 185068 | 1933 | |
| Anton Burger | Commandant of Theresienstadt concentration camp | |||
| Joseph Darnand | French Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander | |||
| Walter Drexler | Awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross | 239247 | March 1938 | |
| Emmeran Dummler | Hauptman d.R | 11769 | 298748 | |
| Günther Farohs | 62 935 | 2 331 191 | ||
| Walter Gerth | Awarded Knights Cross. Member of 1st SS Panzer Division LSSAH | 372351 | ||
| Hans Günther[4] | Adolf Eichmann deputy;Brother of Rolf Günther | 290.129 | 1937 | 119.925 |
| Rolf Günther | Adolf Eichmann deputy; Brother of Hans Günther | 290.130 | 1937 | 472.421 |
| Herbert Hagen | Tried 1979 with Kurt Lischka and Ernest Heinrichson for war crimes | 124 273 | 4 583 139 | |
| Wilhelm Höttl | RSHA Officer | 309510 | 6309616 | |
| Hermann Höfle | Deputy head of the Aktion Reinhard programme. Postwar member of Gehlen Organization | 307469 | ||
| Professor Herbert Jankuhn | member of Ahnenerbe | |||
| Hans Josef Kieffer | Deputy Gestapo leader in France | 280104 | 2632427 | |
| Ludwig Kepplinger | ||||
| Wilhelm Kment | Commander, 1st Company, 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich Decorated personally by Himmler |
167103 | Prior to 1935 | 4262124 |
| Werner Knab | Gestapo chief in Norway Commander of the Security Police in Lyon, France |
191584 | 1935 | 3269940 |
| Horst Kopkow | Counterintelligence; Postwar employee of MI6 | 46034 | 1931 | 607161 |
| Gerald Krause | SS foreign legion commander | 565 781 | 1940 | 67 324 |
| Bernhard Krüger | Leader of VI F4A (RSHA) aka Operation Bernhard | 15429 | 528729 | |
| Dr Helmut Kunz | Waffen SS medical Office | 284787 | 1936 | 5104323 |
| Hans Latza | HSSP Norway | 129260 | 2180945 | |
| Ernst Lerch | Operation Reinhard | 309,700 | 1 March 1934 | 1,327,396 |
| Heinz Linge | Hitler's valet | 35795 | 1932 | 1.260.490 |
| Ricard Edwin Mattel | Gynecology, Kaisern Elisabethspital, Vienna, 1940 | 4 Nov 1938 | 6212863 | |
| Hubert-Erwin Meierdress | Panzer ace with 1st and 2nd SS Divisions | 265243 | 1 August 1934 | 3601911 |
| Alfred Naujocks | An SD commander, leader of the Gleiwitz incident | 624279 | 1930 or 1931 | 26246 |
| Johannes Post | Kriminalkommissar; Executed 1948 after being tried for involvement in killing of POWs in The Great Escape | 313999 | 465273 | |
| Paul Otto Radomski | Commandant of the Syrets concentration camp and Haidari concentration camp | 2.235 | 96.942 | |
| Karl Rahm | Commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp | |||
| Albert Sauer | Kommandant of KZ Mauthausen; KZ Riga/Kaiserwald and KZ Ravensbruck | 19180 | 862698 | |
| Dr. Alfred Schimmel | Chief, Stapoleitstelle Straßburg; Executed 1948 after being tried for involvement in killing of POWs in The Great Escape | 280336 | 400086 | |
| Herbert Scholz | Also Major der Schutzpolizei(Schupo); SS- und Polizeigebietsführer in Norway and in The Netherlands; also Polizeidirektor in Augsburg. | 308.265 | 2.840.674 | |
| Adolf Schulz-Lenhardt | Detective (Kriminalrat), cities of Hamm and Magdeburg | 290716 | 5641530 | |
| Otto Skorzeny | Waffen SS/RSHA commando leader | 295979 | ||
| Kurt Stawitzki/Stawizki | Section 4 {Gestapo} Lviv; died Sept 20, 1959 in Bad Godesberg aka "Kurt Stein"[5] | 44889 | 1932 | 1114037 |
| Hans Ulrich von Ortel | ||||
| Christian Wirth | Commandant of Bełżec extermination camp | 345.464 | April 1939 | 420.383 |
| Eduard Wirths | Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarztat) at the Auschwitz extermination camp | 311.594 | 1934 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Hauptsturmführer |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Klaus Barbie | Head of the Gestapo in Lyon, France | 272 284 | 26 Sept 1935 | 4.583.085. |
| Bruno Beger | Racial anthropologist who worked for the Ahnenerbe. | |||
| Alois Brunner | Commandant of Drancy internment camp. Adolf Eichmann's assistant | 342767 | ||
| Douglas Berneville-Claye | British imposter/forger; member of Staff of III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps | |||
| Siegfried Wolfgang Fehmer | SD/Gestapo/Kriminalrat, a police investigator, and headed the infamous Abteilung IV headquartered in Victoria Terrasse,Norway | 290166 | 181345 | |
| Karl Fritzsch | Member of Staff of KZ Dachau; KZ Auschwitz; KZ Flossenbürg. Introduced Zyclon B gas into Auschwitz; Involved in death of Saint Maximilian Kolbe | 7287 | 1930 | 261135 |
| Horst Alberto Carlos Fuldner | Argentina born SS Officer-alleged to have been part of "ODessa" Escape network | 31.170 | 999.254 | |
| Amon Göth | Commander of the Plaszow Labor Camp | 43673 | 1930 | 510764 |
| Heinrich Gottschling | Also a Kriminalkommissar der Polizei. Was in Gestapo Cracow; Headed Gestapo in Olomouc; Brno; Prague Kladno and Tabor | 18259 | 641758 | |
| Viktor Eberhard Gräbner | 9th SS Reconnaissance Battalion, 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen; awarded the Knight's Cross. KIA Operation Market Garden 1944 | 247812 | ||
| Kurt Hans | Einsatzkommando 4A. | 335652 | ||
| Oskar Hans | SD-Hauptamt | 101662 | ||
| Karl Hass | SD; participant in the Ardeatine Caves massacre | 1934 | ||
| Gottlieb Hering | In Action T4 and later as the second and last Commandant of Bełżec extermination camp during Operation Reinhard | |||
| Willy Herzberger | 2nd Commander of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers | |||
| Dr August Hirt | Had Jews gassed for their skeletons | 100.414 | 1 April 1933 | |
| Kurt Heissmeyer | doctor involved in "experiments" on Jewish children at Bullenhuser Damm | |||
| Franz Hoessler | K-Z Auschwitz; KZ Bergen Belsen | 41.940 | 1931 | 1.374.713 |
| Waldemar Hoven | K-Z Buchenwald physician | 244.594 | 1934 | |
| Josef Kramer | Commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp | 1932 | ||
| Maximilian List | Commandant of Lager Sylt and Lager Norderney labour camps on Alderney | |||
| Heinz Macher | Leader of the SS group ordered to blow up the castle Wewelsburg | |||
| Josef Mengele | Medical officer at Auschwitz-Birkenau | 3177885 | May 1938 | 5574974 |
| Peter Neumann | Captain of the 5th Viking Division; wrote The Black March | 1939 | ||
| Hans-Gösta Pehrsson | Swedish member of the 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland | |||
| Erich Priebke | SD and Sicherheitspolizei commander in Rome, Italy | |||
| Franz Karl Reichleitner | Second and last Commandant of Sobibor extermination camp | 357065 | 6369213 | |
| Hans Werner Roepke | Commandant of British Free Corps | |||
| Eduard Roschmann | Commandant of the Riga Ghetto; Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und SD IV = Department 4 (Gestapo) | 152681 | 1938 | |
| Bernd Rosemeyer | Stab des SS-Hauptamt; Racing car driver killed 1 January 1938 | 214952 | 1.January.1936 | |
| Günther Schwägermann | Adjutant to Dr. Joseph Goebbels. | 312.231 | ||
| Rudolf von Ribbentrop | Waffen-SS Officer | |||
| Theodor Emil Saevecke | 396.401 | 1938 | 112.407 | |
| Siegfried Seidl | Commandant of Theresienstadt concentration camp | 46.106 | 1932 | 300.378 |
| Otto Albrecht Alfred Von Bolschwing | ||||
| Willy Whitteler | Dachau concentration camp | 310314 | ||
| Michael Wittmann | Waffen-SS Panzer ace with the LSSAH | |||
| Fritz Woehrn | RSHA IVb4 | 280238 | 11 Sept, 1938 | 2863618 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Obersturmführer |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julius Dettmann | SD Officer and member of Section IV B4 of the Gestapo in Amsterdam Netherlands | 414,783 | 722,240 | |
| Heinz Felfe | SD Switzerland and Netherlands; postwar KGB spy in British Intelligence and the CIA-sponsored Gehlen Organization | 286288 | 1936 | 3710348 |
| Kurt Gerstein | Member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS and author of the Gerstein Report | 10 March 1941 | ||
| Willy Hack | {SS-Oberscharführer} in SS-Panzer-Pionier-Battalion 3: Feb. 1942;SS-Obersturmführer in SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt: Jan. 1945; in charge of construction site Schwalde V. {Jewish-American POWS were held here}. Hanged 1952, Dresden. | 70329 | ||
| Karl-Friedrich Höcker | Adjutant at KZ Auschwitz | 182.961 | October 1933 | 4.444.757 |
| Willy Hund | Waffen SS Knight's Cross holder |
391949 | 3 April 1939 | None |
| Dr. Irmfried Eberl | Involved in T-4 Euthanasia Program and K-Z Treblinka | 687095 | ||
| Johann Paul Kremer | SS doctor at Auschwitz | 262703 | 1934 | 1265405 |
| Friedrich Peter | Member of an Einstatzgruppe Leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) |
1938 | ||
| Friedrich-Karl (Fritz) Reuß | 267 657 | |||
| Albert Sauer | Kommandant at KZ Mauthausen, KZ Riga–Kaiserwald, KZ Ravensbrück | 19180 | 862698 | |
| Walter Scharpwinkel | Gestapo commander, participant in the Stalag Luft III murders) | 290803 | 1053578 | |
| Kurt Schey | Berlin Lawyer-stationed at KZ Buchenwald | |||
| Dr Carl {karl} Sommer | SD-Hauptamt | 272 426 | 220 064 | |
| Franz Stangl | Commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps | |||
| Arnold Strippel | KZ Auschwitz; Sachsenburg; Buchenwald; Majanek; Natzweiler; Lubin; Ravensbruck; Neuengamme. Involved in Bullenhuser Damm killings in 1945 | 236290 | 4334442 | |
| Dr. Johannes Thummler | Gestapo Chief of Chemnitz [1.3.1941-43], Gestapochef Kattowitz [1943-44]; president Gestapo – Court in KL Auschwitz) | 323711 | ||
| Karl-Wilhelm Voelkner (Völkner) | KZ Buchenwald and KZ Flossenbuerg | 160325 | 1932 | 1324620 |
| Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald | Former SS-Oberabschnittsreiterführer {reginal SS Cavalry leader; reported killed by SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski during Night of the Long Knives in 1934 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Untersturmführer |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erhart Brauny | Sentenced to prison 1947 for role in Gardelegen Massacre {died 1950} | |||
| Dr. Heinz Brücher | member of SS Ahnenerbe; Botanist | 3498152 | ||
| Paul Dickopf | SD; postwar president of Interpol | 337259 | 1937 | |
| Benson Freeman | British defector and SS propaganda officer; member of SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers | |||
| Fritz Henke | Awarded Knights Cross of the Iron Cross | |||
| Kurt Gildisch | 3rd commander of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers 1933-1934 | |||
| Johan Klier | Guard at Sobibor | |||
| Karl-Wilhelm Krause | Hitler's Orderly 1934-1939;LSSAH in Apr 1938;Flak-Zug,II./Pz.Rgt.12 in Nov 44 | 236 858 | ||
| Hermann Krumey | Sonderstab d.RFSS Budapest | 310 441 | ||
| Walter Kutschmann | Kriminalkommisar/Gestapo 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; Kutschmann died 30 August 1986} |
404651 | 1940 | 7475729 |
| Karl Lang | Shot and killed his superior Franz Breithaupt 28 April 1945 | |||
| Markus Lienhart | Killed 3 US POW airmen March 4, 1945; executed Nov 26, 1946 | |||
| Leopold von Mildenstein | Head of SD's Jewish Affairs Section (II/112), August 1934 to June 1936; promoter of co-operation between Nazi Party and Zionism | 1932 | 106,678 | |
| Martin James Monti | US deserter/thief and SS propaganda officer; member of SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers | 1945 | ||
| Johann Niemann | Deputy commandant of Sobibor extermination camp | 270.600 | 1934 | 753.836 |
| Willem Sassen | Netherlands PK ("Propaganda Kompanie") | |||
| Hanns-Martin Schleyer | Leader of board of Zentralverband der Industrie in Prague | 221714 | 30 June 1933 | |
| Franz Schädle | Commander of the SS-Begleitkommando des Führers 1945 | 2.605 | member in 1932 | 73023 |
| Tscherim Soobzokov | Member of North Circassian Legion | |||
| Hans Sommer | Worked with Police in France GDR agent after the war, as a Stasi agent planted into the post-war Gehlen Organisation. |
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| Max Taubner | Court-martialed in 1943 for "unauthorized" killings of Jews | 112659 | ||
| Reimond Tollenaere | Waffen SS Belgian Foreign Legion officer | |||
| Herbert Wenzel | Involved in killing of Aachen Mayor Franz Oppenhoff March 1945 | |||
| Heinz Zeuner | Aide to SS General Heinz Kammler | 490 097 | ||
| Johannes Zingler | 10196 | March 1931 | 544378 |
| Rank | Collar Insignia |
|---|---|
| Sturmscharführer |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rudolf Heinrich Bennewitz | Was also a Kriminaloberassistent in the GESTAPO, commander SIPO und SD Aussendienststelle Prömsel (Przemyśl, Poland) from VIII 1941 to 24 VII 1944. | 373 651 | 5 881 722 | |
| Gerhard Hiersemann | Killed in Warsaw 14 August 1943 | |||
| Otto Welke | KZ Stutthof |
| Rank | Collar Insignia |
|---|---|
| Hauptscharführer |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eduard Brauning | KZ Auschwitz | |||
| Friedrich Bremer | 4./SS-Pz.Gren.Rgt. 2 | |||
| Erich Frommhagen | KZ Auschwitz | |||
| Lorenz Hackenholt | SS-NCO in charge of gassing at Bełżec extermination camp; declared legally dead-fate unknown | 1933 | 1727962 | |
| Otto Moll | KZ Auschwitz. Director and Chief Head of all crematoria. Commandant of Furstengrube and Gleiwitz I concentration camps. | 267670 | 1 May 1935 | |
| Gerhard Palitszch | At Lichtenburg, Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald & Auschwitz II (Birkenau) KZ camps. Commandant of Brunn Concentration Camp. | 79466 | 15 March 1933 | |
| Gerhard Putsch | Assistant to Georg Konrad Morgen | |||
| Georg Schallermair | At KZ Dachau subcamp Muehldorf August 1944-1945. Executed June 7, 1951 | |||
| Friedrich Weis | Sonderkommando 10b; Kripo Linz; Kripo Frankfort/Main | 367196 | 13 Sept 1938 | 126777 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Oberscharführer |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilhelm Ardnt | Hitler valet killed 21 April 1945 in plane crash | |||
| Ernst Barkmann | Waffen-SS Panzer ace | |||
| Erich Bauer | In charge of gas chambers at Sobibor extermination camp; Action T4 | |||
| Kurt Bolender | In charge of gas chambers at Sobibor extermination camp; Action T4 | |||
| Franz Bürkl | Deputy commander and infamous executioner at Pawiak Prison, Warsaw, Poland | |||
| Karl Frenzel | T-4 program and KZ Sobibor | 334948 | ||
| Heinrich Gley | KZ Belzac | 1934 | ||
| Wilhelm Glissman | Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp; 1947 sentenced to three years in prison | |||
| Hubert Gomerski | Guard at Sobibor | |||
| Siegfried Graetschus | KZ Sobibor-commanded Ukrainian guard, killed in revolt | |||
| Heinrich Harrer | Austrian mountaineer and explorer in Tibet | 1938 | ||
| Ernst Krause | SS-Propaganda-Company. Designed the Eastern Front Medal aka "Gefrierfleischorden" (Frozen Meat Medal) | 293212 | None | |
| Hermann Michel | T-4; KZ Sobibor; Operation Reinhard-fate unknown-fled to Middle East? | |||
| Rochus Misch | Hitler's telephone operator who in the last weeks of the war handled all of the direct communication in the Führerbunker | 1937 | ||
| Eric Muhsfeldt | Senior NCO of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando | |||
| Josef Oberhauser | Bełżec extermination camp | |||
| Karl Silberbauer | Vienna Gestapo;SD at the Hague; Arrested Anne Frank | 1943 | ||
| Ottmar Toifl | SS Truppführer and Poleizi kommissar. Killed during Night of the Long Knives | |||
| Gustav Franz Wagner | Head SS-NCO of Sobibor extermination camp | |||
| Bernard Wallerang | KZ Belzac | 417966 | ||
| Dr. Karl Wienert | 1938 part of the Schäfer-expedition in Tibet. {b.1912-d.1992} | 288240 | 1143244 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Scharführer |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erich Fuchs | Sobibor | 1934 | ||
| Heinrich Giese | KZ Mauthausen | |||
| August Grollius | Foreman over Russian slave Labors Night shift-Armored Vehicle shop {Krupp} Essen March 1942[6] | |||
| Josef Gorfer | Guard at Fort VII Pozen Poland 1940-1941 with SS-Wachkommando Posen, Abteilung III. Died on 17 May 1944 Italy | |||
| Erich Lachmann | Sobibor | |||
| Bruno Langer | KZ Dachau KZ Mauthausen | 360008 | ||
| Heinz-Hans Schütt | T-4 at Grafeneck and Hadamar; KZ Sobibor | |||
| Josef Vallaster | T-4 at Hartheim; KZ Sobibor-killed in Sobidor revolt | |||
| Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg | Economics Professor | 1933 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Unterscharführer |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Hujar | Staff NCO at the Plaszow Labor Camp | |||
| Hans Hillig | Involved in the Malmedy massacre, tried at the Dachau Trials US011 Case No. 6-24 (US vs Valentin Bersin et al.): 16 July 1946; 10-year sentence | |||
| Robert Jührs | T-4 and at Belzac; Dorohusza and Sobibor | |||
| Erwin Lambert | Supervised construction of gas chambers for Action T4; modified gas chambers at Treblinka and Sobibor | |||
| Josef Leitgeb | Involved in the killing of Aachen Mayor Franz Oppenhoff March 1945 | |||
| Franz Schönhuber | Waffen SS member; later chairman of The Republicans (Germany) political party | |||
| Franz Suchomel | Treblinka | |||
| Ernst Zierke | Bełżec; Dorohucza; Sobibor Camp III |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Rottenführer | |
| Sturmmann | |
| Grenadier |
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| Anwärter | (No Insignia) |
| Bewerber | (No Uniform) |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heinrich Barbl | Rottenführer; participated in the T-4 Euthanasia Program and later Operation Reinhardt. | |||
| Josef Blösche | Rottenführer; member of SD; involved in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | 314655 | 6547348 | |
| Hugo Hubener | Rottenfuhrer; stepfather of Third Reich opponent Helmuth Hubener | |||
| Ragnar Johansson | Swedish member of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking and 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland]. Killed 1 May 1945 in Battle of Berlin while driver for Hauptsturmführer Hans-Gösta Pehrsson | |||
| Alfried Krupp | Freundeskreis der Reichsführer SS Arms/Steel industrialist/Colonel in National Socialist Flyers Corps (NSFK) |
None | 1934 | 6989627 |
| Josef Oberle | Dutch SS guard at Amersfoort concentration camp | |||
| Eric Pleasants | British defector and member of the SS British Free Corps | None | 1940 | None |
| Sebastian Schmid | Driver at Dachau concentration camp. War Crimes Defendant | |||
| Albert Speer | Reichminister for Armaments and War Production | 46 104 | 20 July 1942 | 474 481 |
| Erich Topp | Briefly member of Allgemeine-SS; dropped active NSDAP/SS membership after becoming member of armed Forces[7] | 1934 | 2,621,078 | |
| Berend Johan Westerveld | Dutch SS Guard at Amersfoort concentration camp |
Former SS Ranks changed after 1934:
SS Officer Service Records, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland