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Between 1925 and 1945, the German SS grew from a mere eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and well 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 sometimes notorious members.
Adolf Hitler
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
SS generals
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Reichsführer | 
|
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julius Schreck | First Reichsführer SS 1925-1926. Hitler's chauffer 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 | 
|
| 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 | 
|
| (pre-1942:) |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Philipp Bouhler | Head of the Action T4
Party Leader for the Reich in charge of the Führer Chancellery |
54932 | 12 | |
| Martin Bormann | Secretary of Hitler
Party leader for the Reich in charge of the NSDAP Chancellery |
555 | September 1929 | 60508 |
| Franz Breithaupt | Commanding general of the SS and Police Courts | 39719 | 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 | |
| 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 | |||
| Hans Frank | Governor-General of Poland | |||
| Karl Hermann Frank | Higher SS and Police Leader of Bohemia and Moravia | 310460 | 6600002 | |
| 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 | ||
| Arthur Greiser | Gauleiter of Reichsgau Wartheland | 10795 | 1929 | 166635 |
| 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 | ||
| August Heissmeyer | Commander of the SS Education Department | 4370 | 21573 | |
| 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 and Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia | 10120 | 14 July 1931 | 544916 |
| Richard Hildebrandt | Led the SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt | 7088 | 89221 | |
| Karl Hoefer | Oldest member of SS-born 29 December 1862 | 276 338. | ||
| Hermann Hoefle | Higher SS and Police Leader in Slovakia | 463903 | 3924970 | |
| Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald | Former East Prussia SS–Oberabschnittsreiterführer (regional SS Cavalry leader); murdered by order of Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski 1934 | |||
| 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 Juttner | 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 |
| Wilhelm Karl Keppler | Secretary of state in Foreign Office | 50816 | 62424 | |
| Matthias Kleinheisterkamp | Waffen SS Divisional and Corps Commander | 132399 | 8 January 1934 | 4158838 |
| Paul ("Pilli") Körner | Staatssekretär | 714 328 | 1931 | 714328 |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Kruger | Higher SS and Police Leader of Poland | 6123 | February 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 |
| 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 | |
| Konstantin von Neurath | German Foreign Minister 1932-1938 | 1937 | ||
| Günther Pancke | Higher SS and Police Leader of Denmark Waffen-SS General |
10110 | 1931 | 282737 |
| Artur Phleps | Commander of the 7.SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division Prinz Eugen | 401214 | ||
| Oswald Pohl | Commander of the SS Economics and Administration Office (WVHA) | 147614 | 1933 | 30842 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |||
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Gruppenführer | 
|
| (pre-1942:) |
| 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 Glucks | 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 | |||
| 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 |
| Johann Rattenhuber | Commander of the Reichssicherheitsdienst (RSD); (Hitler bodyguard unit) | 52877 | 1 May 1933 | 3212449 |
| Heinz Reinefarth | Waffen-SS and Police General/Senior SS and Police Leader in Wartheland (former polish Posnania) | |||
| 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 (lieutenant General) und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | 83086 | May 1933 | 1350576 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||
| 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 | |
| Karl Genzken | Chief of Medical Office of the Waffen-SS | 207954 | 5 November 1933 | 39913 |
| Heinz Jost | An SD section commander & Commander of Einsatzkommando A | |||
| 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 | |
| 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 | Commander 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 | |||
| 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[citation needed] |
250198 | June 1935 | 1744848 |
| Wilhelm Trabandt | Colonel of 1 SS Infantry Brigade Commander of 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Horst Wessel |
218.852 | ||
| 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 [2] ; 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 | 
|
| (pre-1942:) |
| 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 |
| Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock | Commander of 9.SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, 4.SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division, 19.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS | |||
| 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 Holder of the Golden Nazi Party Badge. World War I veteran. Served in the Freikorps Ehrhardt Brigade 1919. |
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 |
| 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 | |||
| Freidrich 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 [3] | 292773 | 1938 |
SS Officers
| 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 |
| Ludolf von Alvensleben | SS- und Polizeiführer Udine (Friuli). | 52 195 | 1 313 391 | |
| Albert Brummenbaum | 274 111 | 232 194 | ||
| 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 Hoegl | 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 |
| Michael Lippert | Killed SA leader Ernest Rohm July 1934 | 2 968 | 10 March 1931 | 246 989 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Wilhelm Zander | Assistant to Martin Bormann |
| 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 | |
| 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 then its Office of Jewish Affairs or Amt IV Referat (Section) IV B4 | 45326 | 1 April 1932 | 889895 | |
| Bruno Gesche | 4th Commander of the SS-Begleitkommando des Führers 1934-1945 | 1093 | 1927 | 8592 | |
| Herbert Hagen | Tried 1979 with Kurt Lischka and Ernest Heinrichson for war crimes | ||||
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||||
| Georg Konrad Morgen | SS-Richter | ||||
| Karl Rahm | Commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp | ||||
| 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 [4] |
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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 | ||||
| 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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| Walter Vollmer | SD during the war KGB double agent in CIA-sponsored West German Gehlen Organization |
21889 | 241213 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Sturmbannführer | 
|
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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" Ghelen Org |
272962 | 13 Sept 1936 | 40718 |
| Karl Bömelburg | Gestapo leader in France | 35898 | 892239 | |
| Wernher von Braun | Allgemeine-SS battalion officer (also SS Horseriding Club) | 185068 | 1933 | |
| Joseph Darnand | French Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander | |||
| 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 |
| Hermann Hofle | Deputy head of the Aktion Reinhard programme Postwar member of Gehlen Organization |
307469 | ||
| Hans Keiffer | Deputy Gestapo leader in France | 280104 | 2632427 | |
| 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 Krueger | Leader of VI F4A (RSHA) 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 |
| 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 Shulz-Lenhardt | Detective (Kriminalrat), cities of Hamm and Magdeburg | 290716 | 5641530 | |
| Otto Skorzeny | Waffen SS/RSHA commando leader | 295979 | ||
| 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 | 1935 | ||
| Bruno Beger | Racial anthropologist who worked for the Ahnenerbe. | |||
| Alois Brunner | Commandant of Drancy internment camp Adolf Eichmann's assistant |
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| 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 | |
| Amon Göth | Commander of the Plaszow Labor Camp | 43673 | 1930 | 510764 |
| Kurt Hans | Einsatzkommando 4A. | 335652 | ||
| Oskar Hans | SD-Hauptamt | 101662 | ||
| Karl Hass | SD; participant in the Ardeatine Caves massacre | 1934 | ||
| Willy Herzberger | 2nd Commander of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers | |||
| Dr August Hirt | Had Jews gassed for their skeletons | 100.414 | 1 April 1933 | |
| 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 | ||
| Erich Priebke | SD and Sicherheitspolizei commander in Rome, Italy | |||
| 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 | |
| Günther Schwägermann | Adjutant to Dr. Joseph Goebbels. | 312.231 | ||
| Rudolf von Ribbentrop | Waffen-SS Officer | |||
| Willy Whitteler | Dachau concentration camp | 310314 | ||
| Michael Wittmann | Waffen-SS Panzer ace with the LSSAH | |||
| Fritz Woehrn | RSHA IVb4 | 280238 | Sept 11, 1938 | 2863618 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Obersturmführer | 
|
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 | ||
| Albert Sauer | Kommandant at KZ Mauthausen, KZ Riga–Kaiserwald, KZ Ravensbrück | 19180 | 862698 | |
| Walter Scharpwinkel | Gestapo commander, participant in the killing of Allied POWs (namely as depicted in The Great Escape) | 290803 | 1053578 | |
| Kurt Schey | Berlin Lawyer-stationed at KZ Buchenwald | |||
| Karl-Wilhelm Voelkner (Völkner) | KZ Buchenwald and KZ Flossenbuerg | 160325 | 1932 | 1324620 |
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Untersturmführer | 
|
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Dickopf | SD; postwar president of Interpol | 337259 | 1937 | |
| Heinz Felfe | SD Switzerland and Netherlands; postwar KGB spy in British Intelligence and the CIA-sponsored Gehlen Organization | 1936 | ||
| Kurt Gildisch | 3rd commander of SS-Begleitkommando des Führers 1933-1934 | |||
| 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 |
| Benson Freeman | British defector and SS propaganda officer SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers |
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| Martin James Monti | US deserter and SS propaganda officer SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers |
1945 | ||
| Willem Sassen | ||||
| 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 | |||
| Johannes Zingler | 10196 | March 1931 | 544378 |
SS Non-Commissioned Officers
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Sturmscharführer | 
|
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lorenz Hackenholt | SS-NCO in charge of gassing at Bełżec Concentration Camp; believed to have survived the war-fate unknown | 1933 | 1727962 | |
| Gustav Wagner | Head SS-NCO of Sobibor Concentration Camp | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 |
| 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 | |||
| Franz Bürkl | Deputy commander and infamous executioner at Pawiak Prison, Warsaw, Poland | |||
| Karl Frenzel | T-4 program and KZ Sobibor | 334948 | ||
| 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 | |
| Karl Wilhelm Krause | Hitler Chief Valet 1933-1939 {dismissed}; In 1944 with Flakzug of SS Panzer Regiment 12 in 1944 | 236858 | ||
| 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 | |||
| Karl Silberbauer | Vienna Gestapo;SD at the Hague; Arrested Anne Frank | 1943 | ||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heinrich Giese | KZ Mauthausen | |||
| Josef Gorfer | Guard at Fort VII Pozen Poland 1940-1941 with SS-Wachkommando Posen, Abteilung III. Died on 17 May 1944 Italy | |||
| Siegfried Greischutz | KZ Sobibor-killed in revolt | |||
| Heinz-Hans Schütt | T-4 at Grafeneck and Hadamar; KZ Sobibor | |||
| Josef Vallaster | T-4 at Hartheim; KZ Sobibor-killed in Sobidor revolt |
| 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 | |||
| Josef Leitgeb | Involved in killed of Aachen Mayor Franz Oppenhoff March 1945 | |||
| Franz Schönhuber | Waffen SS member; later chairman of The Republicans (Germany) political party |
SS Soldiers
| Rank | Collar insignia |
|---|---|
| Rottenführer | 
|
| Sturmmann | 
|
| Grenadier |
|
| Anwärter | (No Insignia) |
| Bewerber | (No Uniform) |
| Name | Position | SS number | Joined SS | Party number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heinrich Barbl | Rottenführer;participated in the T-4 Euthanasia Program{Hartheim; Grafeneck Castle} and later Operation Reinhardt{Bełżec;Sobibór}. | |||
| 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 | |||
| Alfried Krupp[citation needed] | 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 |
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| Albert Speer [citation needed] | Reichminister for Armaments and War Production | 46 104 | 20 July 1942 | 474 481 |
| Erich Topp [citation needed] | Briefly member of Allgemeine-SS; dropped active NSDAP/SS membership after becoming member of armed Forces[5] | 1934 | 2,621,078 | |
| Berend Johan Westerveld | Dutch SS Guard at Amersfoort concentration camp |
Notes
Former SS Ranks changed after 1934:
- SS rank Sturmhauptführer renamed Hauptsturmführer
- SS rank Sturmführer renamed Untersturmführer
- SS rank Truppführer renamed Oberscharführer
- SS rank Scharführer renamed Unterscharführer
- SS rank Haupttruppführer reanmed Sturmscharführer
See also
- Ex-Nazis, List of living Nazis and List of former Nazis influential after 1945
- Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel
- Orpo rank
- Glossary of Nazi Germany
- List of Nazi Party leaders and officials
- Nuremberg Trials
- RuSHA Trial
References
- ^ Snyder, Dr. Louis L.: "Encyclopedia of the Third Reich", page 147. Blandford, 1989.
- ^ Bullock, Alan: "Hitler and Stalin", page 374. Fontana, 1998.
- ^ de:Wilhelm Pfannenstiel
- ^ de:Hans Günther (SS-Offizier)
- ^ [1]
SS Officer Service Records, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland
