Nazism

Flag of the NSDAP 1920-1945 and of Nazi Germany 1933-1945

Outside Germany
Canadian National Socialist Unity Party
German American Bund
Hungarian National Socialist Party
Nasjonal Samling
Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging
National Socialist Bloc
National Socialist League
National Socialist Workers’ Party of Denmark
Ossewabrandwag
Arrow Cross Party of Hungary
Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Movement

Living Nazis

This is a list of NSDAP members that are still alive and presumed/considered war criminals. Due to the fact that there have been many Nazis living as fugitives since that time, the fate of many remains unknown, see below:

Known to be alive

• Søren Kam, (born 1921) Member of the DNSAP, the Danish Nazi Party, who fled from Denmark to Germany after the war, and is now a German citizen. On September 21, 2006, Kam was detained in the German town of Kempten im Allgäu. He is wanted in Denmark for the assassination of Danish newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen in Copenhagen in August 1943.
• Herta Bothe, (born 1921) Aufseherin who served at both Stutthof and Bergen Belsen during the war.
• Luise Danz, (born 1917) Aufseherin at various camps, including Plaszów, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Malchow. Was tried and convicted as part of 1946 Auschwitz trial in Poland. She was released in 1956. Was brought to trial in 1996 for her activities at Malchow, but was dismissed due to her age.
• Erich Priebke, (born 1913) Hauptsturmführer of the SS, he participated in the Ardeatine massacre in Rome, on March 24, 1944, where he had a hand in the deaths of 335 Italian civilians.
• Karl Frenzel, (born 1911) Oberscharführer who served at Sobibór extermination camp. Frenzel aided in the implementation of the Final Solution, taking part in the industrial-scale extermination of thousands of inmates as part of Operation Reinhard. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1966 but released in 1982 due to ill health.
• Paul Henss, (born 1922) served as a prison guard and attack dog handler at Dachau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps. Henss served in the Waffen SS in 1941 and became an SS dog handler in 1942. Recently (September 2007) located in Lawrenceville, Georgia, USA by the Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations, part of the U.S. Justice Department and deported to Germany.[2]
• Paul Schäfer, (born 1921) founder of the Colonia Dignidad cult in Chile after the war, charged of child-abuse and of the 1976 disappearance of Juan Maino and possible involvement in Boris Weisfeiler's disappearance. Currently serving a 20 year prison sentence for the sexual abuse of 25 children.
• John Demjanjuk, (born 1920) SS guard at Treblinka extermination camp.

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]

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 and Chief of German Police
Minister of the Interior
Chief of the replacement Army 168 February 1925 14303 Karl Hanke Final Reichsführer SS 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 Commander of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) and later 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




Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number

Max Amann Honorary SS Member 53143
3 Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski Higher SS and Police Leader of Central Russia 9831
489101 Herbert Backe Minister of Agriculture 1944-1945


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 54932
12 Martin Bormann Secretary of the Nazi Party 555 September 1929 60508 Franz Breithaupt Commanding general of the SS and Police Courts 39719
602663 Walter Buch Chairman of the Inquiry and Mediation Board 81353
7733 Richard Walther Darré First Commander of the SS Race Office 6882
248156 Otto Dietrich 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 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 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 None

August Heissmeyer Commander of the SS Education Department 4370
21573 Rudolf Hess Also Deputy-Führer of the NSDAP 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 10120 14 July 1931 544916 Hermann Hoefel
463903
3924970 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 Commander of the RSHA 13039
300179 Hans Kammler Head of V-2 program 113619 20 May 1933 1011855 Wilhelm Karl Keppler
50816
62424 Matthias Kleinheisterkamp Waffen SS Divisional and Corps Commander 132399 8 January 1934 4158838 Friedrich Wilhelm Kruger Higher SS and Police Leader of Poland 6123 February 1931 3995130 Walter Krüger Commander of :
4th SS Panzer Grenadier Polizei
2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich
IV SS Panzer Corps
VI SS Panzer Corps 266184
3991530 Hans Lammers Head of the Reich Chancellery
Honorary rank 118404
1010355 Werner Lorenz Commander of the Office of Ethnic Germanization 6636 1931 337994 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 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
278781
4167008 Fritz Sauckel Honorary rank 254890
1395 Paul Scharfe Commander of the SS Legal Office


Julius Schaub Cofounder of the SS, personal assistant to Hitler 7 February 1925 81 Oskar Schwerk
276825
5420196 Fritz von Scholz Commander of 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland


Arthur Seyss-Inquart Commander of the Austrian SS, Deputy governor-general of Poland 292771
6270392 Felix Steiner Commander of III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps 253351
4264295 Heinrich von Maur


5890310 Prince Josias zu Waldeck und Pyrmont
2139
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
3689
162349

Rank Collar insignia Gruppenführer





Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number Amin al-Husayni Reported SS Honorary Rank (unconfirmed)


Hans Baur Generalleutenant der Polizei
Hitler’s Pilot 808258
None, but received Golden Party Badge Albert Ritter Von Beck
153322 1937 5354436 Karl Brandt Hitler’s physician


Carl Clauberg Involved in human experiments 23876
21635 Hermann Fegelein SS-Cavalry General, Eva Braun’s brother-in-law


Bruno Erich Alfred Freyberg Oberburgermiester of Leipzig

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 GeneralLieutnant of Police; althougth unable to join post war BND recommended SS contacts to BND as potential agents 225932 9 Nov 1933 3226594 Otto Hofmann Head of RuSHA 1943
SS and Police Leader Southwest Germany 7646 1931 145729 Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper Honorary rank


Heinrich Müller Commander of the Gestapo 107043 20 April 1934 533199 Artur Nebe Commander of the Kriminalpolizei 280152

Otto Ohlendorf Commander of the Inland-SD 880 28 MAy 1925 6531 Heinz Reinefarth Waffen-SS General


Alfred Rodenbucher
8229
413 447 Karl Gustav Sauberzweig 2nd Commander of 13th Waffen SS Division


Jürgen Stroop SS and Police Leader of Warsaw
1932


Rank Collar insignia Brigadeführer




Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number 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) None 1 June 1943 None Anton Dunckern Also Generalmajor der Polizei 3526
315601 Karl Genzken Chief of Medical Office of the Waffen-SS 207954 5 November 1933 39913 Heinz Jost SD Commander & Commander of Einsatzkommando A


Bronislaw Kaminski Commander of Kaminski Brigade


Fritz Kranefuss Head of Financial Department under Himmler 53092
964992 Kurt “Panzermeyer” Meyer Waffen SS divisional commander


Wilhelm Mohnke Commander of the Reichs Chancellery defence during the Battle of Berlin
1 September 1931
Hans Nieland Lord Mayor of Dresden 61702
33333 Johann Rattenhuber Commander of LSSAH (Hitler’s bodyguard unit) 52877 1 May 1933 3212449 Walter Schellenberg Commander of the Auslands-SD
10 January 1934
Franz Six SD;
Head of RSHA AMT VII
Charged with creation of Chief of Einsatzgruppen for England
Vorkommando of Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B.
1935
Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz Heer panzer general 82857
1405562 Bruno Streckenbach Involved with Gestapo and Einsatzgruppen
Commander, SS Cavalry Division


Otto Steinbrinck Freundeskreis der Reichsführer SS 63084
2638206 Theobald Thier Also a Generalmajor der Polizei
Executed Krakow Poland 12 July 1949[citation needed] 250198 June 1935 1744848 Friedrich Weber Commander of the NSDAP Old Guard 265902 July 1934 15 Wilhelm Werner World War I war criminal. See [[1]];
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




Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number Adolf Ax Waffen SS commander 3848 1 December 1930 378043 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-Cassel Also Hauptmann d.R.;
b. Stab RFSS;
Luftwaffe Major 35903
1 498 608
or 696 176 Rudolf Diels First commander of the Gestapo 187116 April 1934 3955308 Dr Eduard Deisenhofer Waffen SS combat commander


Dr Oskar Dirlewanger Leader of Dirlewanger Brigade


Ferdinand Porsche
None
5643287 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 Amt IV A RSHA;
Einsatzgruppe A
Deputy Gestapo chief
Chief, Amt V RSHA
Member of Gehlen Organization 322118
5017341 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 Otto Steinhäusl Police President of Vienna and Leader of Interpol. See [[2]] 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 Albert Brummenbaum
274 111
232 194 Jakob Grimminger Leader of Standarten 1 and bearer of the Blutfahne 135 25 February 1926 759 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 Professor Dr. Wilhelm Pfannenstiel SS physician at Belzec and Auschwitz 273083
2828629 Jochen Peiper Commander of LSSAH Kampfgruppe Peiper (the unit involved in the Malmedy massacre) 132496 16 Oct 1933
Wolfram Sievers Himmler's personnel Staff
General Secretary of the Ahnenerbe
Deputy of Managing Board of Directors of Reich Research Council 275325 1935 144983 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 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 Adolf Doldi RFSS RSD (Hitler’s pilot) 276881
1722844 Hans Dorr Waffen-SS officer
May 1933
Adolf Eichmann Head of the Gestapo’s Office for Jewish Questions 45326 1 April 1932 889895 Walter Hänsch RSHA I D-2
RSHA I D
Sonderkommando 4-B 252573 1 August 1935 537256 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 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 [[3]]


Harald Riipalu Estonian member of the SS


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
Commander of Schuma 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 Dr Karl Sommer Amt DII 272426
220064 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 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 Karl Boemelburg 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


Hans Günther Adolf Eichmann deputy;
Brother of Rolf Günther 290.129
119.925 Rolf Günther Adolf Eichmann deputy;
Brother of Hans Günther 290.130
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 Hans Latza HSSP Norway 129260
2180945 Heinz Linge Hitler's valet 35795

Ricard Edwin Mattel Gynecology, Kaisern Elisabethspital, Vienna, 1940
4 Nov 1938 6212863 Alfred Naujocks SD commander, leader of the Gleiwitz incident 624279 1930 or 1931 26246 Adolf Shulz-Lenhardt Detective (Kriminalrat), cities of Hamm and Magdeburg 290716
5641530 Otto Skorzeny RSHA commando leader


Christian Wirth Commandant of Bełżec extermination camp


Eduard Wirths Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarztat) at the Auschwitz extermination camp




Rank Collar insignia Hauptsturmführer
Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number Klaus Barbie Head of the Gestapo in Lyon, France
1935
Alois Brunner Commandant of Drancy internment camp
Adolf Eichmann's assistant


Amon Göth Commander of the Plaszow Labor Camp 43673 1930 510764 Oskar Hans SD-Hauptamt 101662

Karl Hass SD; participant in the Ardeatine Caves massacre
1934
Josef Kramer Commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
1932
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


Eduard Roschmann Commandant of the Riga Ghetto 152681 1938
Rudolf von Ribbentrop Waffen-SS Officer


Willy Whitteler Dachau concentration camp 310314

Fritz Woehrn RSHA IVb4 280238 Sept 11, 1938 2863618

Rank Collar insignia Obersturmführer
Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number Kurt Gerstein Author of the Gerstein Report
10 March 1941
Willy Hack {SS-Oberscharführer} in SS-Panzer-Pionier-Batallion 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

Willy Hund Waffen SS
Knight’s Cross holder 391949 3 April 1939 None Leo John Deputy Commander of the