National Socialist German Workers' Party Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei |
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Leader | Anton Drexler 1920–1921 Adolf Hitler 1921–1945 |
Founded | 1919 |
Dissolved | 1945 |
Preceded by | German Workers' Party (DAP) |
Succeeded by | None; Banned Ideologies continued with Neo-nazism |
Newspaper | Völkischer Beobachter |
Youth wing | Hitler Youth |
Membership | Less than 60 (in 1920) 8.5 million (by 1945) |
Ideology | National Socialism, Fascism, Anti-communism, Anti-capitalism |
Political position | Far right |
Official colors | Black, White, Red, Brown |
Politics of Germany Political parties Elections |
The list of notable people who were at some point members of the Nazi Party, before it was declared illegal and disbanded upon the victory of the Allies. After 1945 many former party members had to go through a process of denazification and some were indicted and convicted at the Nuremberg Trials, or other trials, notably for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Many others evaded capture or managed to escape, in particular with the help of the ODESSA organization. In the mid-1950s, most people convicted during these trials were given amnesty and subsequently released.
Some former party members managed to obtain very important positions in West Germany after the war (e.g. Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of West Germany from 1966 to 1969), others were recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency after the war as part of the Gehlen Organization, predecessor of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). In East Germany, the Stasi, the GDR's intelligence service, was alleged to have employed several chief informers and agents who were former SS and Gestapo operatives.[1]
Contents |
Name | Year Joined | Resigned/ expelled (when) | Membership no. | Local Division | Year of Birth | Year of Death | Convicted (when)[note 1] | Party related information |
Feder, Gottfried | N/A (Founder) | No | ? | ? | 1883 | 1941 | No | Founding member |
Hitler, Adolf | 1920 | No | 555 (55 in actuality)[2] | Munich | 1889 | 1945 | No | Party leader |
Dietl, Eduard | 1919 (DAP) | No[note 2] | ? | Munich | 1890 | 1944 | No | |
Borman, Martin | 1925 | No | ? | Thuringia | 1900 | 1945 | Yes (1945) | Chief of the Parteikanzlei since 1941 |
Dönitz, Karl | 1944 (honorary)[3] | N/A | ? | ? | 1891 | 1980 | Yes (1946) | President of the German Reich |
Frank, Hans | 1919 (DAP) | No | ? | ? | 1900 | 1946 | Yes (1946) | Served as the party's lawyer |
Fritzsche, Hans | 1933 | No | ? | ? | 1900 | 1953 | No | Ministerialdirektor Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda |
Frick, Wilhelm | 1925 | No | ? | ? | 1877 | 1946 | Yes (1946) | Minister of the Interior |
Funk, Walther | 1931 | No | ? | ? | 1890 | 1960 | Yes (1946) | Minister of Economics |
Göring, Hermann | 1922 | No | ? | ? | 1893 | 1946 | Yes (1946) | Minister of Aviation; Minister of Forestry |
Hess, Rudolf | 1920 | No | ? | Munich | 1894 | 1987 | Yes (1946) | Deputy party leader |
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst | 1930 | No | ? | Austria | 1903 | 1946 | Yes (1946) | Director of the Reich Main Security Office; SS general |
Keitel, Wilhelm | 1944 (honorary) | No | ? | N/A | 1882 | 1946 | Yes (1946) | Supreme commander of armed forces |
Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Gustav | 1940 (honorary) | N/A | ? | ? | 1870 | 1950 | No | Party financier |
Ley, Robert | 1924 | No | ? | Rheinland-Süd | 1890 | 1945 | No | Head of German Labour Front |
Neurath, Konstantin von | 1937 | No | ? | ? | 1873 | 1956 | Yes (1946) | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Papen, Franz von | 1938 (honorary) | N/A | ? | ? | 1879 | 1969 | No | Vice-Chancellor of Germany |
Ribbentrop, Joachim von | 1938 (honorary) | No | 1,199,927 | ? | 1893 | 1946 | Yes (1946) | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Rosenberg, Alfred | 1919 (DAP) | No | ? | ? | 1893 | 1946 | Yes (1946) | Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories |
Sauckel, Fritz | 1923 | No | 1,395 | Schweinfurt | 1894 | 1946 | Yes (1946) | Gauleiter of Thuringia; Reichsstatthalter of Thuringia |
Schacht, Hjalmar | 1938 (honorary) | N/A | 3,805,230 | N/A | 1877 | 1970 | No | Minister of Economics |
Schirach, Baldur von | 1925 | No | ? | ? | 1907 | 1970 | Yes (1946) | Reichsjugendführer; Gauleiter of Vienna |
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur | 1938 | No | ? | ? | 1892 | 1946 | Yes (1946) | Foreign Minister of Germany; Reichskommissar of the Netherlands |
Speer, Albert | 1931 | No | 474,481 | ? | 1905 | 1981 | Yes (1946) | Minister of Armaments and War Production |
Streicher, Julius | 1919 | No | ? | Nuremberg | 1885 | 1946 | Yes (1946) | Gauleiter of Franconia |
Blome, Kurt | 1922 | No | ? | ? | 1894 | 1969 | No | Deputy Leader of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Ärztebund |
Fischer, Fritz | 1937 | No | ? | ? | 1912 | 2003 | Yes (1947) | SS member; Waffen SS officer |
Beiglböck, Wilhelm | 1932 | No | ? | ? | 1905 | 1963 | Yes (1947) | SA member; SS officer |
Genzken, Karl | 1926 | No | 39,913 | ? | 1885 | 1957 | Yes (1947) | Waffen SS general |
Oberheuser, Herta | 1937 | No | ? | ? | 1911 | 1987 | Yes (1947) | |
Poppendick, Helmut | 1932 | No | 998,607 | ? | 1902 | 1994 | No | Senior SS officer; Head of Office for genealogy at RuSHA |
Rose, Gerhard | 1930 | No[note 3] | 346,161 | ? | 1896 | 1992 | Yes (1947) | |
Rostock, Paul | 1937 | No | 5,917,621 | ? | 1892 | 1956 | No | Commissioner for Health and Sanitation |
Brack, Viktor | 1929 | No | 173,388 | ? | 1904 | 1948 | Yes (1947) | Senior SS officer; Senior Waffen SS officer; Chief Administrative Officer in the Chancellery of the Führer |
Brandt, Karl | 1928 | No | 1,009,617 | ? | 1904 | 1948 | Yes (1947) | SA officer; SS general; Waffen SS general; Commissioner for Health and Sanitation |
Brandt, Rudolf | 1932 | No | 1,331,536 | ? | 1909 | 1948 | Yes (1947) | Senior SS officer; Ministerial Counsellor Ministry of Interior; Chief of Ministerial Office Ministry of Interior |
Gebhardt, Karl | 1933 | No | ? | ? | 1897 | 1948 | Yes (1947) | SS general; Waffen SS general |
Hoven, Waldemar | 1937 | No | ? | ? | 1903 | 1948 | Yes (1947) | SS officer; Waffen SS officer; |
Mrugowsky, Joachim | 1937 | No | 210,049 | ? | 1905 | 1948 | Yes (1947) | SA member; Senior SS officer; Senior Waffen SS officer; |
Sievers, Wolfram | 1937 | No | ? | ? | 1905 | 1948 | Yes (1947) | Senior SS officer |
Milch, Erhard | 1937 (honorary) | N/A | ? | ? | 1892 | 1972 | Yes (1947) | Secretary of State Ministry of Aviation |
Altstötter, Josef | 1937[4] | No[note 4] | 5,823,836 | ? | 1892 | 1979 | No | SA member; Senior SS officer; Chief of civil law and procedure division at Ministry of Justice; Golden Party Badge |
Schlegelberger, Franz | 1938 (honorary) | N/A | ? | ? | 1876 | 1970 | Yes (1947) | Minister of Justice |
Pohl, Oswald | 1922/26 | No | 30,842 | ? | 1892 | 1956 | Yes (1947) | Leader of local division Swinemünde; head of WVHA; SA member; Waffen SS general |
Frank, August | 1932 | No | 1,471,185 | ? | 1898 | 1984 | Yes (1947) | Deputy head of WVHA; SS general ; Waffen SS general |
Lörner, Georg | 1931 | No | 676,772 | ? | 1899 | 1959 | Yes (1947) | Deputy head of WVHA; SS general ; Waffen SS general |
Six, Franz | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1909 | 1965 | ? | Waffen SS general; SD member |
Flick, Friedrich | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1883 | 1972 | ? | |
Wilhelm, Adam | 1923 | Yes (1929) | ? | ? | 1899 | 1959 | ? | |
Rauschning, Hermann | 1933 | Yes (1934) | ? | ? | 1887 | 1982 | ? | |
Strasser, Otto | 1925 | Yes (1930) | ? | ? | 1897 | 1974 | ? | |
Ewald, Manfred | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1926 | 2002 | ? | |
Wagner, Gustav | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1911 | 1980 | ? | |
Steinbrinck, Otto | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1888 | 1949 | No | SS general |
Rendulic, Lothar | 1944 (honorary) | N/A | ? | ? | 1887 | 1971 | Yes (1948) | |
Werner, Lorenz | 1929 | ? | ? | ? | 1891 | 1974 | Yes (1948) | SS general; Golden Nazi Party Badge |
Hofmann, Otto | 1923 | ? | 145 729 | ? | 1896 | 1982 | Yes (1948) | SS general |
Weizsäcker, Ernst von | 1938 | ? | ? | ? | 1882 | 1951 | ? | SS general; Secretary of State at the Foreign Office; Ambassador to the Holy See |
Abb, Gustav[5] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1886 | 1945 | ? | ? |
Abel, Wolfgang[6] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1905 | 1997 | ? | ? |
Abetz, Otto[7] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1903 | 1958 | ? | ? |
Abicht, Albert[8] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1893 | 1973 | ? | ? |
Abromeit, Franz[9] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1907 | 1964 | ? | ? |
Abt, Karl Ferdinand[10] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1903 | 1945 | ? | ? |
Achamer-Pifrader, Humbert[11] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1900 | 1945 | ? | ? |
Achenbach, E | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1909 | 1991 | ? | ? |
Achterberg, Eberhard[12] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1910 | 1983 | ? | ? |
Ackermann, Eberhard[13] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1905 | 1997 | ? | ? |
Adam , Karl[14] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1876 | 1966 | ? | ? |
Adam, Wilhelm[15] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1893 | 1978 | ? | ? |
Ahl, Ernst[16] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1898 | 1945 | ? | ? |
Albach-Retty, Wolf[17] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1906 | 1967 | ? | ? |
Albrecht, Herbert[18] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1900 | 1945 | ? | ? |
Alquen, Gunter d'[19] | 1927 | No | ? | ? | 1910 | 1998 | ? | SA member; senior SS officer; Party Youth Leader |
Altenburg, Günther[20] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1894 | 1984 | ? | ? |
Altfuldisch, Johann | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1911 | 1947 | ? | ? |
Altner, Georg[21] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1901 | 1945 | ? | ? |
Alvensleben, Ludolf-Hermann von[22] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1901 | 1970 | ? | ? |
Aly, Wolfgang[23] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1881 | 1962 | Philogist | |
Amann, Max[24] | 1921 | No | 3 | ? | 1891 | 1957 | SS general | |
Ambros, Otto[25] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1901 | 1990 | German chemist | |
Appler, Johann[26] | ? | ? | ? | 1892 | 1978 | Reichstag | ||
Arent, Benno von[27] | 1932 | No | ? | ? | 1898 | 1956 | ? | SS officer; Waffen SS general; |
Astel, Karl[28] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1898 | 1945 | ? | ? |
Auerswald, Heinz[29] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1908 | 1970 | ? | ? |
Augsberger, Franz[30] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1905 | 1945 | ? | ? |
Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia[31] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1887 | 1949 | ? | ? |
Aumeier, Hans[32] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1906 | 1948 | ? | ? |
Aust, Hans Walter[33] | ? | ? | ? | ? | 1900 | ? | ? | ? |
Axmann, Artur[34] | 1931 | No | ? | ? | 1913 | 1996 | ? | Reichsjugendführer; Reichsleiter; member of Reichstag; leader of Reichsberufswettkampf |