List of major perpetrators of the Holocaust

This is a list of major perpetrators of The Holocaust.

See also: Responsibility for the Holocaust

Name	Photograph	Date of birth	Date of death	Age at death	Role	Fate
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler		October 7, 1900	May 23, 1945	44 years, 228 days	Reichsführer-SS Chief of German Police	Arrested; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich		March 7, 1904	June 4, 1942	38 years, 89 days	SS-Obergruppenführer (Lieutenant General) and General of Police. Chief of the Reich Main Security Office Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia President of Interpol	Assassinated in Operation Anthropoid
Otto Adolf Eichmann		March 19, 1906	May 31, 1962	56 years, 73 days	SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) who was charged by Heydrich with facilitating and managing the mass deportations of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Eastern Europe.	Executed by hanging (kidnapped on May 11, 1960)
Odilo Lotario Globocnik		April 21, 1904	May 31, 1945	41 years, 40 days	SS-Obergruppenführer (Lieutenant General). SS and Police Leader in the General Government of Poland. Head of Operation Reinhard.	Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Theodor Eicke	File:SSEicke.jpg	October 17, 1892	February 26, 1943	50 years, 132 days	SS-Obergruppenführer (Lieutenant General). A major figure in the creation of the concentration camps. He led SS Division Totenkopf, which became notorious for its war crimes.	Killed in action
Richard Glücks	File:Glucks.jpg	April 22, 1889	May 10, 1945	56 years, 18 days	SS-Gruppenführer (Major General). Head of SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt	Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Ernst Kaltenbrunner	File:ErnstKaltenbrunner1944.jpg	October 4, 1903	October 16, 1946	43 years, 12 days	SS-Obergruppenführer (Lieutenant General), General of Police and Waffen-SS. Chief of the Reich Main Security Office and Interpol after Heydrich was assassinated	Executed by hanging
Hermann Wilhelm Göring		January 12, 1893	October 15, 1946	53 years, 276 days	Reichsmarschall (Grand Marshal). High-ranking Nazi Party member and military leader, as such responsible for war crimes. Charged Reinhard Heydrich with the task of developing a Final Solution	Sentenced to death by hanging; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels		October 29, 1897	May 1, 1945	47 years, 184 days	Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda High-ranking Nazi Party member	Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Hans Michael Frank		May 23, 1900	October 16, 1946	46 years, 146 days	Governor of occupied Poland	Executed by hanging
Arthur Seyss-Inquart		July 22, 1892	October 16, 1946	54 years, 86 days	Ruler of the Netherlands after its conquest, and effectively deputy to Hans Frank in occupied Poland	Executed by hanging
Alfred Ernst Rosenberg		January 12, 1893	October 16, 1946	53 years, 277 days	Nazi theoretician and head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories	Executed by hanging
Martin Ludwig Bormann		June 17, 1900	May 2, 1945?	44 years, 319 days?	Head of the Nazi Party Chancellery Private Secretary to Adolf Hitler	Sentenced to death by hanging in absentia; believed to have committed suicide to avoid capture
Rudolf Hermann Brandt		June 2, 1909	June 2, 1948	39 years, 0 days	Deputy to Heinrich Himmler	Executed by hanging
Oswald Ludwig Pohl		June 30, 1892	June 8, 1951	58 years, 343 days	High-ranking concentration camps administrator	Executed by hanging
Heinrich Müller		April 28, 1900			Chief of the Gestapo	Disappeared; believed to have died in May 1945
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel		September 22, 1882	October 16, 1946	64 years, 24 days	Supreme Command of the Armed Forces	Executed by hanging
Hermann Julius "Hans" Höfle	File:Hermann Julius Hoefle.jpg	June 19, 1911	August 20, 1962	51 years, 62 days	Coordinator of Operation Reinhard	Arrested; committed suicide by hanging
Richard Wolfgang Thomalla		October 23, 1903	May 12, 1945	41 years, 201 days	Head of extermination camp construction during Operation Reinhard	Assassinated
Erwin Hermann Lambert		December 7, 1909	October 15, 1976	66 years, 313 days	Head of gas chamber construction during Operation Reinhard	Arrested; acquitted
Karl Steubl					Commander of transportation units during Operation Reinhard
Christian Wirth		November 24, 1885	May 26, 1944	58 years, 184 days	Inspector of Action T4 and Operation Reinhard; Commandant of Chełmno, September 1941—March 1943 (1/1); Commandant of Bełżec, March 17, 1942—end of August 1942 (1/2)	Assassinated
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss		November 25, 1900	April 16, 1947	46 years, 142 days	Commandant of Auschwitz, May 4, 1940—December 1, 1943, May 8, 1944—January 18, 1945 (1/2)	Executed by hanging
Arthur Liebehenschel		November 25, 1901	January 28, 1948	46 years, 64 days	Commandant of Auschwitz, December 1, 1943—May 8, 1944 (2/2); Commandant of Majdanek, May 19, 1944—July 22, 1944 (5/5)	Executed by hanging
Dr. Irmfried Eberl		September 8, 1910	February 16, 1948	37 years, 161 days	Commandant of Treblinka, July 11, 1942—August 26, 1942 (1/3)	Arrested; committed suicide by hanging
Franz Paul Stangl		March 26, 1908	June 28, 1971	63 years, 94 days	Commandant of Sobibor, April 28, 1942—August 30, 1942 (1/2); Commandant of Treblinka, September 1, 1942—August 1943 (2/3)	Arrested on February 28, 1967; sentenced to life imprisonment on October 22, 1970; died in prison
Kurt Hubert Franz	File:Kurt Hubert Franz.jpg	January 17, 1914	July 4, 1998	84 years, 168 days	Commandant of Treblinka, August 1943—October 19, 1943 (3/3)	Arrested on December 2, 1959; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1965; released on health grounds in 1993
Franz Karl Reichleitner		December 2, 1906	January 3, 1944	37 years, 32 days	Commandant of Sobibor, September 1, 1942—October 17, 1943 (2/2)	Assassinated
Gottlieb Hering	File:Hering, Gottlieb.jpg	June 2, 1887	October 9, 1945	58 years, 129 days	Commandant of Bełżec, end of August 1942—June 1943 (2/2)	Died of mysterious health complications
Dr. Josef Rudolf Mengele	File:Josef Mengele.jpg	March 16, 1911	February 7, 1979	67 years, 328 days	Human medical experimentation, particularly children, and selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz	Escaped to Brazil; evaded arrest for 34 years until death
Dr. Eduard Wirths		September 4, 1909	September 20, 1945	36 years, 16 days	Human medical experimentation, and formal responsibility of medical staff at Auschwitz	Arrested; committed suicide by hanging
Dr. Horst Schumann		May 1, 1906	May 5, 1983	77 years, 4 days	Human medical experimentation at Auschwitz	Arrested in 1966; released on health grounds on July 29, 1972
Dr. Carl Clauberg	File:Carl Clauberg.jpg	September 28, 1898	August 9, 1957	58 years, 315 days	Human medical experimentation at Auschwitz	Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in 1948; released in 1955; re-arrested in West Germany; died of heart attack
Viktor Hermann Brack		November 9, 1904	June 2, 1948	43 years, 206 days	Action T4; Human medical experimentation	Executed by hanging
Dr. Karl Franz Gebhardt		November 23, 1897	June 2, 1948	50 years, 192 days	Human medical experimentation	Executed by hanging
Dr. Fritz Klein		November 24, 1888	December 13, 1945	57 years, 19 days	Selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz	Executed by hanging
Dr. Karl Brandt		January 8, 1904	June 2, 1948	44 years, 146 days	Co-director of Action T4; Human medical experimentation	Executed by hanging
Philipp Bouhler		September 11, 1899	May 19, 1945	45 years, 250 days	Director of Action T4	Arrested; committed suicide
Josef Kramer		November 10, 1906	December 13, 1945	39 years, 33 days	Deputy commandant of Auschwitz Commandant of Bergen-Belsen	Executed by hanging
Hans Aumeier		August 20, 1906	January 28, 1948	41 years, 161 days	Deputy commandant of Auschwitz	Executed by hanging
Franz Hössler		February 4, 1906	December 13, 1945	39 years, 312 days	Deputy commandant of Auschwitz	Executed by hanging
Maximilian Grabner		October 2, 1905	January 28, 1948	42 years, 118 days	Gestapo command (torture of prisoners) at Auschwitz	Executed by hanging
Heinrich Arthur Matthes		January 11, 1902	Deceased		Deputy commandant of Treblinka	Arrested in 1964; sentenced to life imprisonment on September 3, 1965
Josef Kaspar Oberhauser		January 21, 1915	November 22, 1979	64 years, 305 days	Deputy commandant of Bełżec	Sentenced to 15 years in prison; released early on 28 April 1956
Lorenz Marie Hackenholt		June 25, 1914	December 31, 1945	31 years, 189 days	Gas chamber construction and executioner of Bełżec and other camps during Operation Reinhard	Declared legally dead
Johann Niemann		August 4, 1913	October 14, 1943	30 years, 71 days	Deputy commandant of Bełżec and Sobibor	Assassinated during Sobibor revolt
Gustav Franz Wagner		July 18, 1911	October 3, 1980	69 years, 77 days	Deputy commandant of Sobibor	Sentenced to death by hanging in absentia; evaded arrest for 35 years until found dead, believed to have committed suicide by stabbing
Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel		August 28, 1911	September 2, 1996	85 years, 5 days	Commandant of Camp I (forced labor camp) at Sobibor	Arrested on March 22, 1962; sentenced to life imprisonment on December 20, 1966; released on health grounds in 1982
Hermann Michel		April 23, 1912		112 years, 158 days	Deputy commandant of Sobibor	Evaded arrest; whereabouts unknown
Hermann Erich Bauer		March 26, 1900	February 4, 1980	79 years, 315 days	Gas chamber executioner of Sobibor	Sentenced to death by hanging; commuted to life imprisonment; died in prison
Heinz Kurt Bolender		May 21, 1912	October 10, 1966	54 years, 142 days	Gas chamber executioner of Sobibor	Arrested in May 1961; committed suicide by hanging
Jürgen Stroop		September 26, 1895	March 6, 1952	56 years, 162 days	Suppression and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	Executed by hanging
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger		February 27, 1894	May 9, 1945	51 years, 71 days	SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland	Committed suicide
Bruno Heinrich Streckenbach		February 7, 1902	October 28, 1977	75 years, 263 days	Trained and commanded the Einsatzgruppen	Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in 1952; released on October 10, 1955
Friedrich August Jeckeln	File:Jeckelnfr.jpg	February 2, 1895	February 3, 1946	51 years, 1 day	Rumbula, Babi Yar, Kamianets-Podilskyi	Executed by hanging
Dr. Franz Walter Stahlecker	File:Franz Walter Stahlecker.jpg	October 10, 1900	March 23, 1942	41 years, 164 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, June 22, 1941–March 23, 1942 (1/5)	Killed in action
Heinz Jost		July 9, 1904	November 12, 1964	60 years, 126 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, March 29, 1942–September 2, 1942 (2/5)	Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1945; commuted to 10 years; released in 1951
Dr. Humbert Achamer-Pifrader		November 21, 1900	April 25, 1945	44 years, 155 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, September 10, 1942–September 4, 1943 (3/5)	Killed in action
Friedrich Panzinger		February 1, 1903	August 8, 1959	56 years, 188 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, September 5, 1943–May 6, 1944 (4/5)
Dr. Wilhelm Fuchs		September 1, 1898	January 24, 1947	48 years, 145 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, May 6, 1944–October 10, 1944 (5/5); Commander of Einsatzkommando 3, September 15, 1943–May 27, 1944	Executed
Dr. Eduard Strauch		August 17, 1906	September 15, 1955	49 years, 29 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 2, Latvia (Rumbula), November 4, 1941–December 2, 1941; Commander of Sonderkommando 1b, March 1942–August 1942	Sentenced to death by hanging in 1948; died in prison
Dr. Martin Franz Erwin Rudolf Lange		April 18, 1910	February 23, 1945	34 years, 311 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 2, Latvia, December 3, 1941–1944	Believed to have been killed in action
Karl Jäger		September 20, 1888	June 22, 1959	70 years, 275 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 3, Lithuania, June 1941–August 1, 1943	Arrested in 1959; committed suicide
Hermann Schaper		August 12, 1911	deceased after 2002	over 90 years	Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Poland	Arrested in 1964; released due to insufficient evidence
Arthur Nebe		November 13, 1894	March 21, 1945	50 years, 128 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, June 1941–November 1941 (1/5)	Executed by Nazi Germany for involvement in the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler
Erich Naumann		April 29, 1905	June 8, 1951	46 years, 40 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, November 1941–March 1943 (2/5)	Executed by hanging
Horst-Alwin Böhme					Lidice Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, March 12, 1943–August 28, 1943, August 12, 1944 (3/5); Commander of Einsatzgruppe C, north and central Ukraine, September 6, 1943–March 1944 (3/3)
Erich Ehrlinger		October 14, 1910	July 31, 2004	93 years, 291 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, August 28, 1943–April 1944 (4/5); Commander of Sonderkommando 1b, June 1941–November 1941	Arrested in December 1958; sentenced to 12 years imprisonment
Heinrich Seetzen		June 22, 1906	September 28, 1945	39 years, 98 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, April 28, 1944–August 1944 (5/5); Commander of Einsatzkommando 10a, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, June 1941–July 1942
Dr. Otto Bradfisch		May 10, 1903	June 22, 1994	91 years, 43 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 8, Belarus, June 1941–April 1, 1942	Arrested on April 21, 1958; sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in 1963
Dr. Emil Otto Rasch		December 7, 1891	November 1, 1948	56 years, 330 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe C, north and central Ukraine, June 1941–October 1941 (1/3)	Arrested; removed from trial on health grounds; died in prison
Max Thomas		August 4, 1891	December 6, 1945	54 years, 124 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe C, north and central Ukraine, October 1941–April 29, 1943 (2/3)
Paul Blobel		August 13, 1894	June 8, 1951	56 years, 299 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 4a, Ukraine (Babi Yar), June 1941–January 13, 1942; Director of Sonderaktion 1005	Executed by hanging
Dr. Otto Ohlendorf		February 4, 1907	June 8, 1951	44 years, 124 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe D, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, June 1941–July 1942 (1/2)	Executed by hanging
Walther Bierkamp					Commander of Einsatzgruppe D, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, July 1942–March 1943 (2/2)
Karl Rudolf Werner Braune		April 11, 1909	June 8, 1951	42 years, 58 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 11b, south Ukraine and the Crimea, October 1941–September 1942	Executed by hanging
Maria Mandel		January 10, 1912	January 24, 1948	36 years, 14 days	Commandant of female camp at Auschwitz	Executed by hanging
Irma Ida Ilse Grese		October 7, 1924	December 13, 1945	21 years, 67 days	Warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen, and later Auschwitz	Executed by hanging