List of former Nazi Party members

This article is about former members of the Nazi Party. For active present-day Nazi groups, see Neo-Nazism.
National Socialist German Workers' Party
Leader 1919–1920 Karl Harrer
1920–1921 Anton Drexler
1921–1945 Adolf Hitler
1945 Martin Bormann
Founded 1919
Dissolved 1945
Preceded by German Workers' Party (DAP)
Succeeded by none; banned
Ideologies continued as Neo-nazism
Newspaper Völkischer Beobachter
Youth wing Hitler Youth
Membership 1920  fewer than 60
1945  8.5 million
Ideology National Socialism
Fascism
Anti-communism
Anti-capitalism
Political position Far right
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]

List

Name Year Joined Resigned/ expelled (when) Membership no. Local Division Year of Birth Year of Death Convicted (when)[note 1] Party related information
Batz, Rudolf 1934 No2955905?19031961NoSS member from 1932
Bad, Alex N/A (participator)No??18831941NoParticipating member
Feder, Gottfried N/A (Founder)No??18831941NoFounding member
Hitler, Adolf align="center |1920No555 (55 in actuality)[2]Munich18891945NoParty leader
Dietl, Eduard1919 (DAP)No[note 2]?Munich18901944No
Bormann, Martin1925No60,598Thuringia19001945Yes (1945)Chief of the Parteikanzlei since 1941
Dönitz, Karl1944 (honorary)[3] N/A??18911980Yes (1946)President of the German Reich
Frank, Hans1919 (DAP)No??19001946Yes (1946)Served as the party's lawyer
Fritzsche, Hans1933No??19001953NoMinisterialdirektor Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda
Frick, Wilhelm1925No??18771946Yes (1946)Minister of the Interior
Funk, Walther1931No??18901960Yes (1946)Minister of Economics
Göring, Hermann1922No??18931946Yes (1946)Minister of Aviation; Minister of Forestry
Hess, Rudolf1920No?Munich18941987Yes (1946)Deputy party leader
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst1930No?Austria19031946Yes (1946)Director of the Reich Main Security Office; SS general
Keitel, Wilhelm1944 (honorary)No?N/A18821946Yes (1946)Supreme commander of armed forces
Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Gustav1940 (honorary)N/A??18701950NoParty financier
Ley, Robert1924No?Rheinland-Süd18901945NoHead of German Labour Front
Neurath, Konstantin von1937No??18731956Yes (1946)Minister of Foreign Affairs
Papen, Franz von1938 (honorary)N/A??18791969 NoVice-Chancellor of Germany
Ribbentrop, Joachim von1938 (honorary)No1,199,927?18931946 Yes (1946)Minister of Foreign Affairs
Rosenberg, Alfred1919 (DAP)No??18931946 Yes (1946)Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories
Sauckel, Fritz1923No1,395Schweinfurt18941946 Yes (1946)Gauleiter of Thuringia; Reichsstatthalter of Thuringia
Schacht, Hjalmar1938 (honorary)N/A3,805,230N/A18771970 NoMinister of Economics
Schirach, Baldur von1925No??19071974Yes (1946)Reichsjugendführer; Gauleiter of Vienna
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur1938No??18921946Yes (1946)Foreign Minister of Germany; Reichskommissar of the Netherlands
Speer, Albert1931No474,481?19051981Yes (1946)Minister of Armaments and War Production
Streicher, Julius1919No?Nuremberg18851946Yes (1946)Gauleiter of Franconia
Blome, Kurt1922No??18941969NoDeputy Leader of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Ärztebund
Fischer, Fritz1937No??19122003Yes (1947)SS member; Waffen SS officer
Beiglböck, Wilhelm1932No??19051963Yes (1947)SA member; SS officer
Genzken, Karl1926No39,913?18851957Yes (1947)Waffen SS general
Oberheuser, Herta1937No??19111987Yes (1947)
Poppendick, Helmut1932No998,607?19021994NoSenior SS officer; Head of Office for genealogy at RuSHA
Rose, Gerhard1930No[note 3]346,161?18961992Yes (1947)
Rostock, Paul1937No5,917,621?18921956NoCommissioner for Health and Sanitation
Brack, Viktor1929No173,388?19041948Yes (1947)Senior SS officer; Senior Waffen SS officer; Chief Administrative Officer in the Chancellery of the Führer
Brandt, Karl1928No1,009,617?19041948Yes (1947)SA officer; SS general; Waffen SS general; Commissioner for Health and Sanitation
Brandt, Rudolf1932No 1,331,536?19091948Yes (1947)Senior SS officer; Ministerial Counsellor Ministry of Interior; Chief of Ministerial Office Ministry of Interior
Gebhardt, Karl1933No ??18971948Yes (1947)SS general; Waffen SS general
Hoven, Waldemar1937No ??19031948Yes (1947)SS officer; Waffen SS officer;
Mrugowsky, Joachim1937No210,049?19051948Yes (1947)SA member; Senior SS officer; Senior Waffen SS officer;
Sievers, Wolfram1937No??19051948Yes (1947)Senior SS officer
Milch, Erhard1937 (honorary)N/A??18921972 Yes (1947)Secretary of State Ministry of Aviation
Altstötter, Josef1937[4]No[note 4]5,823,836?18921979 NoSA member; Senior SS officer; Chief of civil law and procedure division at Ministry of Justice; Golden Party Badge
Schlegelberger, Franz1938 (honorary)N/A??18761970 Yes (1947)Minister of Justice
Pohl, Oswald1922/26No30,842?18921956 Yes (1947)Leader of local division Swinemünde; head of WVHA; SA member; Waffen SS general
Frank, August1932No1,471,185?18981984Yes (1947)Deputy head of WVHA; SS general ; Waffen SS general
Lörner, Georg1931No676,772?18991959Yes (1947)Deputy head of WVHA; SS general ; Waffen SS general
Six, Franz ????19091965?Waffen SS general; SD member
Flick, Friedrich????18831972?
Wilhelm, Adam1923Yes (1929)??18991959?
Rauschning, Hermann1933Yes (1934)??18871982?
Strasser, Otto1925Yes (1930) ??18971974?
Ewald, Manfred?? ??19262002?
Wagner, Gustav ?? ??19111980?
Steinbrinck, Otto?? ??18881949NoSS general
Rendulic, Lothar1944 (honorary)N/A ??18871971Yes (1948)
Werner, Lorenz1929 ? ??18911974Yes (1948)SS general; Golden Nazi Party Badge
Hofmann, Otto1923? 145 729?18961982Yes (1948)SS general
Weizsäcker, Ernst von1938? ??18821951?SS general; Secretary of State at the Foreign Office; Ambassador to the Holy See
Abb, Gustav[5]????18861945??
Abel, Wolfgang[6]????19051997??
Abetz, Otto[7]????19031958??
Abicht, Albert[8]????18931973??
Abromeit, Franz[9]????19071964??
Abt, Karl Ferdinand[10]????19031945??
Achamer-Pifrader, Humbert[11]????19001945??
Achenbach, E????19091991??
Achterberg, Eberhard[12]????19101983??
Ackermann, Eberhard[13]????19051997??
Adam, Karl[14]????18761966??
Adam, Wilhelm[15]????18931978??
Ahl, Ernst[16]????18981945??
Albach-Retty, Wolf[17]????19061967??
Albrecht, Herbert[18]????19001945??
Alquen, Gunter d'[19]1927No??19101998?SA member; senior SS officer; Party Youth Leader
Altenburg, Günther[20]????18941984??
Altfuldisch, Johann????19111947??
Altner, Georg[21]????19011945??
Alvensleben, Ludolf-Hermann von[22]????19011970??
Aly, Wolfgang[23]????18811962?Philogist
Amann, Max[24]1921No3?18911957?SS general
Ambros, Otto[25]????19011990?German chemist
Appler, Johann[26]????18921978?Reichstag
Arent, Benno von[27]1932No??18981956?SS officer; Waffen SS general;
Astel, Karl[28]????18981945??
Auerswald, Heinz[29]????19081970??
Augsberger, Franz[30]????19051945??
Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia[31]????18871949??
Aumeier, Hans[32]????19061948??
Aust, Hans Walter[33]????19001983??
Axmann, Artur[34]1931No??19131996?Reichsjugendführer; Reichsleiter; member of Reichstag; leader of Reichsberufswettkampf
von Braun, Wernher align="center |May 1, 1937No5,738,692[2]?19121977NoDeveloped weapons for Hitler's war machine

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Convicted by a court of law or international tribunal for crimes against humanity, war crimes or atrocities.
  2. ↑ Eduard Dietl's party membership became legally dormant in 1920, when he became a member of the armed forces.
  3. ↑ Gerhard Rose's party membership became legally dormant in 1939, when he became a member of the armed forces.
  4. ↑ Josef's party membership became legally dormant between 1939 and 1942, when he was a member of the armed forces.

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Helped into Power". [The Nazis: A Warning From History]. Season 1. Episode 1. 1997.
  3. ↑ "On 30 January 1944, Dönitz received from the Führer, as a decoration, the Golden Party Badge; Dönitz would later assume that he "thereby became an honorary member of the Party." The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
  4. ↑ http://www.justiz.bayern.de/imperia/md/content/stmj_internet/gerichte/oberlandesgerichte/nuernberg/kastner_jp.pdf
  5. ↑ Klee (2007), p. 9
  6. ↑ Lusane, Clarence (2002). Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experience of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans and African Americans in the Nazi Era (Cross Currents in African American History) Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-93295-0
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  10. ↑ Hans-Georg Ruppel and Birgit Groß, Hessische Abgeordnete 1820–1933, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X, Seite 53
  11. ↑ Klee (2005), p. 10.
  12. ↑ Christine Koch: Das Bibliothekswesen im Nationalsozialismus: eine Forschungsstandanalyse. Tectum Verlag 2003, S. 14.
  13. ↑ Śegev, Tom. The Commanders of Nazi Concentration Camp, Volume 1977, Part 1. p. 19.
  14. ↑ "Karl Adam, National Socialism and Christian Tradition" Robert A. Krieg, Theological Studies, Vol. 60, 1999
  15. ↑ Wistrich, p.3
  16. ↑ Kraig Adler, Contributions to the History of Herpetology, Volume 2, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2007, p. 156
  17. ↑ Harry Waldman, Nazi Films in America, McFarland, 2008, p. 45
  18. ↑ Herbert Arthur Strauss, Hostages of Modernization: Studies on Modern Antisemitism, 1870-1933/39, Walter de Gruyter, 1993, p. 194
  19. ↑ Gerald D. Feldman, Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933–1945, Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 171
  20. ↑ Reinhard R. Doerries, Hitler's Last Chief of Foreign Intelligence: Allied Interrogations of Walter Schellenberg, Routledge, 2003, p. 370
  21. ↑ www.balsi.de
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  25. ↑ Wollheim Memorial
  26. ↑ Provinz zwischen Reich und Republik
  27. ↑ matthew Wilson Smith, The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace, Taylor & Francis, 2007, p. 101
  28. ↑ Anne Harrington, Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler, Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 195
  29. ↑ Emanuel Ringelblum, Joseph Kermish, Shmuel Krakowski, Polish-Jewish Relations During the Second World War, Northwestern University Press, 1992, p. 60
  30. ↑ Chris Bishop, SS: Hitler's Foreign Divisions: Foreign Volunteers in the Waffen SS, 1940–1945, Spellmount, 2005, p. 131
  31. ↑ Roderick Stackelberg, The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany, Taylor & Francis, 2007, p. 277
  32. ↑ Jeremy Dixon, Commanders of Auschwitz: The SS Officers who ran the Largest Nazi Concentration Camp 1940–1945, Schiffer Military History: Atglen, PA , 2005
  33. ↑ Ehemalige Nationalsozialisten in Pankows Diensten, S. 6
  34. ↑ Wistrich, p.5