List of SS personnel

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

Oberster SA-Führer and SS Member # 1 Adolf Hitler at SA Parade Nuremberg September 1935; SA at the left; SS man Jakob Grimminger behind car

Prior to 1934 the SS were nominally under the command of the Sturmabteilung 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". 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
Wilhelm Koppe	Höhere SS und Polizei Führer, HSSP	25955	1932	305584
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
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
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	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
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	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	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	405821		2223186
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
Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock	As a Stumbanfuhrer Dec 1941-June 1942 Commanded Sonderkommando 7c aka Vorkommando Moskau of Einsatzgruppe B. Commanded the 9.SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, the 4.SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division and the Latvian 19.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS.	405 821		2 223 186
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
Hans Lovell	Commander of Second Panzer Division [LSSAH]	8876	1934	86.775
Professor Dr. Wilhelm Pfannenstiel	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
Ludolf von Alvensleben	SS- und Polizeiführer Udine (Friuli).	52 195		1 313 391
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
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
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
Georg Konrad Morgen	SS-Richter
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]
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	264 059
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
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 Drexler	Awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross	239247	March 1938
Emmeran Dummler	Hauptman d.R	11769		298748
Walter Gerth	Awarded Knights Cross. Member of 1st SS Panzer Division LSSAH	372351
Hans Günther ]	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
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
Karl Rahm	Commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp
Albert Sauer	Kommandant of KZ Mauthausen; KZ Riga/Kaiserwald and KZ Ravensbruck	19180		862698
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	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
Amon Göth	Commander of the Plaszow Labor Camp	43673	1930	510764
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
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 a SS propaganda officer; member of SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers
Martin James Monti	US deserter/thief and SS propaganda officer; member of SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers		1945
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.
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 Oberschütze Schütze Obermann Mann
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	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		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

SS Officer Service Records, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland

External links

• SA & SS Officer bio references