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List of Nazi Party leaders and officials

January 07, 2023

This is a list of Nazi Party (NSDAP) leaders and officials. It is not meant to be an all inclusive list.

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(from left) Philip Bouhler, Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling, Robert Ley with his wife Inge; Munich, July 1939

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  • Siegfried Uiberreither – An Austrian Nazi, he was Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Styria and Landeshauptmann of Styria. He was also Chief of Civil Administration in Lower Styria and an SA-Obergruppenführer.
  • Curt von Ulrich [de] – An SA-Obergruppenführer and Inspector General of the SA, he was Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Saxony from 1933 to 1944.

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  • Fritz Wächtler – Gauleiter of the eastern Bavarian administrative region of Gau Bayreuth. He was an Obergruppenführer in both the SA and the SS.
  • Otto Wächter – Austrian lawyer and high-ranking member of the SS. He was appointed to government positions in Poland and Italy. In 1940 68,000 Jews were expelled from Krakow, Poland and in 1941 the Kraków Ghetto was created for the remaining 15,000 Jews by his decrees.
  • Otto Wagener – Soldier and economist. Was successively Stabschef of the SA, head of the Party Economic Policy Section, and briefly, Reich Commissar for the Economy. Subsequently he resumed his army career, reaching the rank of Generalmajor.
  • Adolf Wagner – A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, he was Gauleiter of Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria as well as Deputy Minister President and Interior Minister of Bavaria. He was an SA-Obergruppenführer.
  • Gerhard Wagner – Reich Health Leader (Reichsärzteführer) from 1934 to 1939.
  • Josef Wagner – Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-South from 1931 and also of Gau Silesia from 1934. Oberpräsident of the Prussian provinces of both Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia from 1934 and, after their union, the Province of Silesia (1938–1941). He was also an Obergruppenführer of both the SA and NSKK. Relieved of his posts in November 1941 and expelled from the Nazi Party in October 1942, he was executed by the Gestapo in 1945.
  • Robert Heinrich Wagner – A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, he was Gauleiter of Gau Baden from 1925 and Reichsstatthalter of Baden. He was also Chief of Civil Administration for occupied Alsace from 1940 to 1944 and an NSKK-Obergruppenführer.
  • Karl Wahl – An early Party member, he was Gauleiter of Gau Swabia and an SS-Obergruppenführer.
  • Paul Wegener – A regional administrator in occupied Norway from 1940 to 1942, he succeeded Karl Röver as Gauleiter of Gau Weser-Ems and Reichsstatthalter of both Oldenburg and Bremen from 1942 to 1945. He was an SS-Obergruppenführer. President Karl Dönitz named him a State Secretary as staff chief of the civilian cabinet in May 1945.
  • Karl Weinrich – He was Gauleiter of Gau Electoral Hesse from 1928 to 1943 and an Obergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corp (NSKK).
  • Ernst von Weizsäcker – A career diplomat, he was State Secretary in the Foreign Office from 1938 to 1943 and Ambassador to the Holy See from 1943 to 1945. An SS-Brigadeführer, he was convicted of war crimes in the Ministries Trial.
  • Wilhelm Weiß – Editor-in-Chief of the Nazi Party's official newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, from 1938 to 1945, President of the Reich Press Association and an SA-Obergruppenführer.
  • Horst Wessel – Sturmführer in the Berlin SA and author of the Horst-Wessel-Lied ("Die Fahne Hoch"), the Party anthem. Elevated to martyr status by Nazi propaganda after his 1930 murder– by Communists or by a rival pimp, according to their opponents.
  • Max Winkler – Reich Commissioner for the German Film Industry.
  • Christian Wirth – SS-Obersturmführer. He was a senior German police and SS officer during the program to exterminate the Jewish people of occupied Poland during World War II, known as "Operation Reinhard". Wirth was a top aide of Odilo Globocnik, the overall director of "Operation Reinhard" (Aktion Reinhard or Einsatz Reinhard).
  • Hermann Wirth – Dutch-German historian and scholar of ancient religions and symbols. He co-founded the SS-organization Ahnenerbe, but was later pushed out by Heinrich Himmler.
  • Eduard Wirths – Chief camp physician at Auschwitz concentration camp from 1942 to 1945.
  • Karl Wolff – SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS. He became Chief of Personal Staff to the Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and SS Liaison Officer to Hitler until his replacement in 1943. From 1943 to 1945, Wolff was the Supreme SS and Police Leader of the 'Italien' area. By 1945 Wolff was acting military commander of Italy, and in that capacity negotiated the surrender of all the forces in the Southwest Front.
  • Alfred Wünnenberg – SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei. Commander of the SS-Polizei-Division, 1941–1943; Chief of the Ordnungspolizei (Orpo), 1943–1945 after Kurt Daluege suffered a massive heart attack.

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This is a list of Nazi Party NSDAP leaders and officials It is not meant to be an all inclusive list Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Hermann Goring and Heinrich Himmler A EditGunter d Alquen Chief Editor of the SS official newspaper Das Schwarze Korps The Black Corps and commander of the SS Standarte Kurt Eggers Ludolf von Alvensleben commander of the SS and police in Crimea and commander of the Selbstschutz self defense of the Reichsgau Danzig West Prussia Max Amann Reichsleiter for the Press President of the Reich Press Chamber and head of the Nazi publishing house Eher Verlag He was also an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Benno von Arent Responsible for art theaters and movies in Nazi Germany Heinz Auerswald Commissioner for the Jewish residential district in Warsaw from April 1941 to November 1942 Artur Axmann Chief of the Social Office of the Reich Youth Leadership Leader of the Hitler Youth from 1940 to 1945 B EditErich von dem Bach Zelewski An SS Obergruppenfuhrer und General der Polizei he was the commander of the Bandenkampfverbande SS units responsible for the mass murder of 35 000 civilians in Riga and more than 200 000 in Belarus and eastern Poland Herbert Backe State Secretary 1933 1944 in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture and later Reich Minister 1944 1945 he was also an SS Obergruppenfuhrer An architect of the infamous Hunger Plan Richard Baer Commander of the Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945 Alfred Baeumler Philosopher who interpreted the works of Friedrich Nietzsche in order to legitimize Nazism Klaus Barbie An SS Hauptsturmfuhrer he was head of the Gestapo in Lyon Nicknamed the Butcher of Lyon for his use of torture on prisoners Josef Berchtold Very early Party member and a member of Stosstrupp Hitler Became the second Reichsfuhrer SS from 1926 to 1927 Gottlob Berger Chief of Staff for the Waffen SS and head of the SS Main Office He was an SS Obergruppenfuhrer and General of the Waffen SS Werner Best SS Obergruppenfuhrer and Reich Plenipotentiary for Nazi occupied Denmark Hans Biebow Chief of Administration of the Lodz Ghetto Helmut Bischoff SS Obersturmbannfuhrer and commander of mobile death squad unit Einsatzkommando 1 IV Also a Gestapo officer and head of security for Nazi Germany s V weapons program Paul Blobel SS commander primarily responsible for the Babi Yar massacre at Kiev Werner von Blomberg Generalfeldmarschall Defense Minister 1933 1935 Minister of War and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces 1935 1938 Forced out in the Blomberg Fritsch Affair Hans Friedrich Blunck Propagandist and head of the Reich Literature Chamber between 1933 and 1935 Ernst Boepple State Secretary of the General Government in Poland serving as deputy to Deputy Governor Josef Buhler Deeply implicated in the Final Solution Ernst Wilhelm Bohle Gauleiter of the Nazi Party Foreign Organization from 1933 until 1945 he was also an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Otto von Bolschwing Member of the SD foreign branch and deputy to Adolf Eichmann played a major role in organizing the 1941 Bucharest pogrom Albert Bormann Adjutant in Chancellery of the Fuhrer from 1931 in 1938 he became Chief of Main Office I dealing with the personal affairs of the Fuhrer He was also a Gruppenfuhrer in the National Socialist Motor Corps NSKK Martin Bormann Reichsleiter head of the Party Chancellery Parteikanzlei and Secretary to the Fuhrer Adolf Hitler Also an SS Obergruppenfuhrer he committed suicide in May 1945 Convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death in absentia by the Nuremberg Tribunal from left Philip Bouhler Karl Freiherr Michel von Tussling Robert Ley with his wife Inge Munich July 1939 Philipp Bouhler Reichsleiter Chief of the Chancellery of the Fuhrer of the NSDAP and leader of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program Also an SS Obergruppenfuhrer he committed suicide in May 1945 Fritz Bracht Gauleiter of Gau Upper Silesia and Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Upper Silesia 1941 1945 and an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Viktor Brack Organizer of the Euthanasia program Operation T4 and one of the men responsible for the gassing of Jews in the extermination camps In 1936 he was also appointed chief of Hauptamt II main office II in the Chancellery of the Fuhrer Otto Bradfisch Commander of the Security Police in Lodz and Potsdam Karl Brandt Personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and co headed the administration of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program from 1939 He was an SS Gruppenfuhrer Walther von Brauchitsch Generalfeldmarschall Commander in Chief of the German Army 1938 1941 Franz Breithaupt An SS Obergruppenfuhrer und General der Waffen SS he was Chief of the SS Court Main Office from 1942 to 1945 with exclusive jurisdiction for conducting investigations and trials of SS personnel Helmuth Bruckner A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch he was Gauleiter of Gau Silesia from 1925 and Oberprasident of the Prussian provinces of both Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia from 1933 An SA Gruppenfuhrer he was removed from office and expelled from the Party in December 1934 in the aftermath of the Rohm Putsch Alois Brunner Commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944 Walter Buch Jurist Reichsleiter Chairman of the Uschla 1927 1933 and Supreme Party Judge 1934 1945 He was an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Friedrich Buchardt Member of the Einsatzgruppen death squads who started off grading people on their Germanness and then progressed to outright genocide Attributed to having been responsible for sending tens of thousands to their deaths avoided justice by working for the Allied powers as an Intelligence Source on the Soviets Josef Buhler State secretary for the Nazi controlled General Government in Krakow during World War II Josef Burckel A Gauleiter from 1926 in the Rhinepfalz and the Saarland later Gau Westmark from 1935 An SS Obergruppenfuhrer he was Chief of Civil Administration in occupied Lorraine He was also Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter Reich Governor in Vienna 1938 1940 He died in 1944 Wilhelm Burgdorf General of the Wehrmacht and Chief of its personnel office Anton Burger Commandant of concentration camp Theresienstadt between 1943 and 1944 C EditWerner Catel Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Leipzig considered an expert on the program of euthanasia for children and participated in the Aktion T4 program Leonardo Conti Head of the Reich Physicians Chamber Reichsarztekammer and leader of the National Socialist German Doctors League 1939 1944 He was an SS Obergruppenfuhrer and participated in the Aktion T4 euthenasia program D EditKurt Daluege SS Oberstgruppenfuhrer und Generaloberst der Polizei as chief of the Ordnungspolizei uniformed police from 1942 he ruled the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia as Acting Protector after Reinhard Heydrich s assassination Richard Walther Darre Reichsleiter Reich Peasant Leader and Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture from 1933 to 1942 He was an SS Obergruppenfuhrer and head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office Rudolf Diels Protege of Hermann Goring First Chief of the Gestapo from 26 April 1933 to 20 April 1934 An SS Oberfuhrer he was the Regierungsprasident District President of the Cologne district 1934 1936 and the Hanover district 1936 1942 Josef Sepp Dietrich SS Oberstgruppenfuhrer in the Waffen SS original commander of Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler LSSAH later commander of the 6th SS Panzer Army Otto Dietrich Reichsleiter Reich Press Chief Vice President of the Reich Press Chamber State Secretary in the Ministry of Propaganda and an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Oskar Dirlewanger A SS Oberfuhrer and war criminal he commanded the SS Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger consisting of amnestied Germans convicted of major crimes Karl Donitz Grossadmiral Fuhrer der Unterseeboote Commander of Submarines 1936 1943 Commander in Chief of the Kriegsmarine 1943 1945 and the last head of state of Nazi Germany following Hitler s suicide Franz Xaver Dorsch A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch he was Fritz Todt s deputy as Chief Engineer in the Organization Todt OT Dorsch played a leading role in the construction of the Siegfried Line and the Atlantic Wall After Todt s death he remained OT deputy under Albert Speer and succeeded him as head of the OT in April 1944 Richard Drauz Kreisleiter of Heilbronn Otto Heinrich Drechsler Burgermeister of Lubeck 1933 1945 he was an SS Brigadefuhrer and Generalkommissar of occupied Latvia from 1941 to 1945 Anton Drexler A founder and Chairman of the German Workers Party the precursor to the Nazi Party He was a co author of the National Socialist Program and Chairman of the Nazi Party from February 1920 to July 1921 when he was succeeded by Adolf Hitler E EditIrmfried Eberl Commandant of Treblinka extermination camp July to September 1942 Dietrich Eckart A founder of the German Workers Party a precursor to the Nazi Party he was the first editor of Volkischer Beobachter and a participant in the Beer Hall Putsch Joachim Albrecht Eggeling Gauleiter of Gau Magdeburg Anhalt 1935 1937 and Gau Halle Merseburg 1937 1945 Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Halle Merseburg from 1944 and an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Adolf Eichmann SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Official in charge of RSHA Referat IV B4 Juden RSHA Sub Department IV B4 Jews responsible for facilitation and transportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps Fled to Argentina captured there by Mossad operatives in 1960 tried in Israel and executed on 1 June 1962 Theodor Eicke An SS Obergruppenfuhrer and one of the executioners of Ernst Rohm A leading figure in the establishment of the concentration camps system he was Commandant of Dachau Concentration Camps Inspector from 1934 to 1939 and then commander of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf August Eigruber Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Upper Danube Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria Obergruppenfuhrer in both the SA and the SS Franz Ritter von Epp Reichsleiter Reichsstatthalter of Bavaria head of the NSDAP Office of Colonial Policy and General of Infantry Hermann Esser Early member of the Nazi Party propagandist editor of Nazi newspaper Volkischer Beobachter Second Vice President of the Reichstag State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Propaganda 1938 1945 Richard Euringer Writer who selected 18 000 unsuitable books which did not conform to Nazi ideology and were publicly burned F EditGottfried Feder An economic theorist he was a founder of the German Workers Party a precursor to the Nazi Party He was Hitler s mentor on economic issues was co author of the National Socialist Program and a participant in the Beer Hall Putsch Hermann Fegelein An SS Gruppenfuhrer und Generalleutnant der Waffen SS he was married to Eva Braun s sister Gretl The SS Liaison Officer to Hitler s headquarters he was shot for desertion in April 1945 Karl Fiehler Reichsleiter for Municipal Politics and Oberburgomeister of Munich from 1933 to 1945 He was also an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Friedrich Karl Florian Gauleiter of Gau Dusseldorf and an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Albert Forster Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of Reichsgau Danzig West Prussia from 1939 to 1945 he was an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Hans Frank A lawyer he was Hitler s legal advisor an Uschla judge Reichsleiter for Legal Issues Bavarian Minister of Justice President of the Academy for German Law 1933 1942 Reich Minister without portfolio and Governor General of occupied Poland He was also an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Involved in perpetration of the Holocaust he was convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal Karl Hermann Frank Prominent Sudeten German Nazi official and SS Obergruppenfuhrer who served as Minister of State and Higher SS and Police Leader in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Roland Freisler State Secretary of Adolf Hitler s Reich Ministry of Justice President of the Volksgerichtshof People s Court from 1942 to 1945 sentenced hundreds of people to death including Sophie Scholl Hans Scholl and various members of the July 20 Plot killed while returning to the courthouse to collect some files during an air raid on Berlin Wilhelm Frick Reichsleiter Reich Minister of Interior 1933 1943 Protector of Bohemia and Moravia 1943 1945 Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal Hans Georg von Friedeburg General Admiral in the Kriegsmarine he succeeded Karl Donitz as Commander of U boats in 1943 and as Navy Commander in Chief in 1945 Werner von Fritsch Generaloberst Commander in Chief of the Army from 1935 to 1938 Forced out in the Blomberg Fritsch Affair Hans Fritzsche Head of the Press Division and then the Radio Division at the Reich Ministry for Propaganda Walther Funk State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Propaganda 1933 1937 Reich Minister for Economics 1938 1945 and President of the Reichsbank 1939 1945 G EditKarl Gebhardt Personal physician of Heinrich Himmler one of the main perpetrators of surgical experiments performed on concentration camp inmates at Ravensbruck and Auschwitz Achim Gercke Expert on racial matters at the Ministry of the Interior Devised the system of racial prophylaxis forbidding intermarriage between Jews and Aryans Karl Gerland Gauleiter of Gau Electoral Hesse from 1943 and Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Kurhessen from 1944 he was an SS Gruppenfuhrer Paul Giesler Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia South 1941 1943 and Gau Munich Upper Bavaria 1942 1945 He was also Minister President of Bavaria from 1942 an SA Obergruppenfuhrer and was named Minister of the Interior in Hitler s will Herbert Otto Gille SS Obergruppenfuhrer Waffen SS General Awarded the Knight s Cross with Oakleaves Swords and Diamonds and the German Cross in Gold became the most highly decorated Waffen SS member during World War II Odilo Globocnik A prominent Austrian Nazi as an SS Obergruppenfuhrer he was an SS and Police Leader in the General Government and in the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral As head of Operation Reinhard he was one of those responsible for the murder of millions of people during the Holocaust Richard Glucks SS Gruppenfuhrer and Generalleutnant of the Waffen SS he was Concentration Camps Inspector CCI after Eicke from 1939 to 1945 and committed suicide in May 1945 Paul Joseph Goebbels One of Adolf Hitler s closest associates and most devout followers known for zealous oratory and antisemitism Reichsleiter Gauleiter of Gau Berlin and Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda throughout Nazi Germany he became Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War and Stadtprasident of Berlin in 1944 Named Reich Chancellor in Hitler s will he held this position for only one day before his own suicide Hermann Goring Hitler s designated successor until expelled from office by Hitler in late April 1945 President of the Reichstag Minister President and Interior Minister of Prussia Reich Aviation Minister Luftwaffe Commander in Chief Delegate for the Four Year Plan and Chairman of the Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich As Reichsmarschall the highest ranking military officer in the Third Reich sole holder of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross sentenced to death by the Nuremberg Tribunal but committed suicide hours before his scheduled hanging World War I veteran as ace fighter pilot participated in the Beer Hall Putsch founder of the Gestapo Amon Goeth SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Nazi concentration camp commandant at Plaszow General Government German occupied Poland Ulrich Graf Member of the Stosstrupp Hitler he was wounded in the Beer Hall Putsch He was an Uschla judge Munich City Councillor and SS Brigadefuhrer Robert Ritter von Greim Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall and last Luftwaffe Commander in Chief succeeding the deposed Hermann Goring in the last days of World War II Arthur Greiser Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of Reichsgau Wartheland from 1939 to 1945 he was an Obergruppenfuhrer in both the SS and the National Socialist Motor Corps NSKK Wilhelm Grimm Reichsleiter Chairman of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Party Court 1932 1939 and an SS Gruppenfuhrer Died in a car accident in 1944 Josef Grohe Gauleiter of Gau Cologne Aachen and Reichskommissar for Reichskommissariat of Belgium and Northern France he was an Obergruppenfuhrer in the National Socialist Motor Corps NSKK Walter Gross Chief of the Nazi Party NSDAP s Racial Policy Office Implicated in the Final Solution Kurt Gruber First chairman of the Hitler Youth 1926 1931 Hans Friedrich Karl Gunther Academic teaching racial theory and eugenics Franz Gurtner Minister of Justice in Bavaria 1922 1932 he became Reich Minister of Justice from 1932 to his death in 1941 H EditEugen Hadamovsky National programming director for German radio chief of staff in the Nazi Party s Central Propaganda Office Reichspropagandaleitung in Berlin from 1942 to 1944 Heinrich Hager SA Oberfuhrer Elected at Reichstag 1932 to his death in 1941 Leader of SA Brigade 77 Karl Hanke A State Secretary in the Ministry of Propaganda 1937 1941 Gauleiter of Gau Lower Silesia and Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945 the last Reichsfuhrer SS after Himmler was expelled from office by Hitler from late April to early May 1945 Fritz Hartjenstein SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Concentration camp commandant at Auschwitz Birkenau Natzweiler and Flossenburg Paul Hausser SS Oberstgruppenfuhrer Generaloberst der Waffen SS First commander of the military SS Verfugungstruppe SS VT that grew into the Waffen SS in which he was a prominent field commander Franz Hayler State Secretary and Deputy to the Reich Economics Minister during the latter part of World War II Martin Heidegger Eminent philosopher NSDAP member who supported Hitler after he became Chancellor in 1933 Erhard Heiden Founding member of the Schutzstaffel SS its third Reichsfuhrer from 1927 to 1929 Edmund Heines An early Party member he participated in the Beer Hall Putsch Deputy Gauleiter of Gau Silesia Police President of Breslau and an SA Obergruppenfuhrer he was the Deputy to Stabschef Ernst Rohm from 1931 and was executed during the Night of the Long Knives August Heissmeyer An SS Obergruppenfuhrer he led the SS Main Office 1935 1939 and was the Higher SS and Police Leader for Berlin and Brandenburg 1939 1945 Wolf Heinrich Graf von Helldorff An SA Obergruppenfuhrer and General der Polizei he was Police President of Potsdam 1933 1935 and Berlin 1935 1944 where he led anti Jewish riots Involved in the 20 July Plot he was executed in 1944 Otto Hellmuth Gauleiter of Gau Mainfranken and an Obergruppenfuhrer in the National Socialist Motor Corps NSKK Konrad Henlein A Sudeten German he founded the Sudeten German Party and was the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Sudetenland and an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Rudolf Hess not to be confused with Rudolf Hoss Reichsleiter SS Obergruppenfuhrer and Deputy Fuhrer to Hitler until his flight to Scotland on the eve of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 Walther Hewel An early Party member and a participant in the Beer Hall Putsch He was a protege of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop a Special Ambassador and the Foreign Office liaison to Hitler He was a personal friend of Hitler and an SS Brigadefuhrer Werner Heyde Psychiatrist one of the main organizers of the T 4 Euthanasia Program Reinhard Heydrich SS Obergruppenfuhrer General der Polizei Chief of the RSHA or Reichssicherheitshauptamt Reich Security Main Office including the Gestapo SD and Kripo police agencies Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia He was Himmler s right hand man and considered a principal architect of the Night of the Long Knives and the Final Solution Assassinated in Prague in 1942 by British trained Czech commandos Konstantin Hierl Reichsleiter and head of the Reichsarbeitsdienst associate of Adolf Hitler before he came to power Friedrich Hildebrandt Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Gau Mecklenburg He was also an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Erich Hilgenfeldt Head of the National Socialist People s Welfare and an SS Gruppenfuhrer Heinrich Himmler Reichsfuhrer SS As head of the SS Chief of the German Police and later Reich Minister of the Interior one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich Reichsleiter Commander in Chief of the Replacement Army and Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood Expelled from offices by Hitler in late April 1945 Hans Hinkel Journalist Commissioner at the Reich Ministry for the People s Enlightenment and Propaganda August Hirt Chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg instigated a plan to build a study collection of specialized human anatomical specimens from over 100 murdered Jews Allied discovery of corpses paperwork and statements of laboratory assistants led to war crimes trial preparation which he avoided through suicide Adolf Hitler Politician leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party German Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei abbreviated NSDAP commonly known as the Nazi Party Absolute dictator of Germany from 1934 to 1945 with titles of Chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and head of state Fuhrer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945 Franz Hofer Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Tirol Vorarlberg Landeshauptmann of Tyrol Supreme Commissioner of the Operation Zone of the Alpine Foothills He was an advocate for creating an Alpine Fortress as a last stand redoubt for Nazi forces He was an NSKK Obergruppenfuhrer Albert Hoffmann The Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia South from 1943 to 1945 at the same time he was Deputy to Goebbels in his capacity as Reich Inspector for Civil Air Warfare Measures and an SS Gruppenfuhrer Hermann Hofle Deputy to Odilo Globocnik in the Aktion Reinhard program Played a key role in the Harvest Festival massacre of Jewish inmates of various labor camps in the Lublin district of Nazi occupied Poland in early November 1943 Peter Hogl A policeman in the Kriminalpolizei he became an SS Obersturmbannfuhrer and Deputy to Johann Rattenhuber in the Reichssicherheitsdienst Reich Security Service that provided personal protection for Hitler and other Nazi leaders Rudolf Hoss not to be confused with Rudolf Hess SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp Adolf Huhnlein Reichsleiter Korpsfuhrer Corps Leader of the National Socialist Motor Corps NSKK from 1934 until his death in 1942 Karl Holz protege of rabid antisemitic journalist Julius Streicher he was editor in chief at Der Sturmer and Deputy Gauleiter of Gau Franconia for many years becoming Gauleiter in 1942 He was also an SA Gruppenfuhrer Franz Josef Huber former Munich political police department inspector with Heinrich Muller in 1938 appointed chief of the Security Police SiPo and Gestapo for Vienna and the Lower Danube and Upper Danube regions of Austria J EditKarl Jager SS officer Einsatzkommando leader author of the Jager Report giving details of mass murders in Lithuania between July and December 1941 Friedrich Jeckeln An SS Obergruppenfuhrer and General der Polizei und Waffen SS he was the Higher SS and Police Leader in Ukraine and later in Ostland He was in charge of one of the largest collection of Einsatzgruppen and personally responsible for ordering the deaths of over 100 000 Jews Slavs and Roma Alfred Jodl Generaloberst Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command Oberkommando der Wehrmacht or OKW during World War II acting as deputy to Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal Hanns Johst Playwright and Nazi Party poet laureate Rudolf Jordan Gauleiter of Gau Halle Merseburg 1931 1937 and Gau Magdeburg Anhalt 1937 1945 Reichsstatthalter of Brunswick and Anhalt Minister President of Anhalt Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Magdeburg from 1944 and an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Hugo Jury Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Lower Danube Landeshauptmann of Lower Austria SS Obergruppenfuhrer Hans Juttner SS Obergruppenfuhrer head of the SS Fuhrungshauptamt SS Leadership Main Office or SS FHA Rudolf Jung An instrumental force and agitator of German Czech National Socialism and later on a member of the German Nazi Party K EditErnst Kaltenbrunner SS Obergruppenfuhrer General der Polizei und Waffen SS Chief of the RSHA Reich Security Main Office a main office of the SS from January 1943 to Germany s surrender in May 1945 Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal Hans Kammler SS Obergruppenfuhrer und General der Waffen SS he was the SS Construction Projects and V 2 program director Siegfried Kasche German Plenipotentiary Minister to the allied Independent State of Croatia Emil Kaschub Physician who conducted experiments on Nazi concentration camp prisoners Karl Kaufmann Nazi Party founding member Gauleiter of Gau Hamburg Reichsstatthalter of Hamburg Reichskommissar for Overseas Shipping and anObergruppenfuhrerin both the SS and the National Socialist Motor Corps NSKK Wilhelm Keitel Generalfeldmarschall and head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht High Command of the Armed Forces during World War II Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal Hanns Kerrl Reich Minister of Church Affairs and First Deputy President of the Reichstag until his death in 1941 Dietrich Klagges Minister President of the Free State of Brunswick between 1933 and 1945 Matthias Kleinheisterkamp SS Obergruppenfuhrer divisional leader of SS divisions Das Reich and Nord Hans Ulrich Klintzsch Second head of the SA from 1921 to 1923 Helmut Knochen Senior commander of the Sicherheitspolizei Security Police in Paris in Nazi occupied France Erich Koch Gauleiter of Gau East Prussia from 1928 to 1945 Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of East Prussia from 1933 and Reichskomissar in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine from 1941 to 1944 he was an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Karl Otto Koch Concentration camp commandant at Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941 and later at Lublin Majdanek Max Koegel SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Concentration camp commandant at Majdanek and Flossenburg Karl Koller General and Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff from November 1944 to May 1945 Paul Korner State Secretary to the Prussian State Ministry and to the Four Year Plan Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Reichswerke Hermann Goring a member of the Central Planning Board and an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Gunther Korten General and Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff from August 1943 until killed in the 20 July 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler Posthumously promoted to Generaloberst Josef Kramer Concentration camp commandant at Bergen Belsen Hans Krebs General of the Wehrmacht last OKH Chief of Staff from April to 2 May 1945 when he committed suicide in the Fuhrerbunker Bernhard Kruger Leader of the VI F 4a Unit in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt responsible for among other things falsifying passports and documents Friedrich Wilhelm Kruger Obergruppenfuhrer in the SA and SS The Higher SS and Police Leader in the General Government from 1939 1943 he was responsible for multiple acts of genocide Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Ran the Friedrich Krupp AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 until 1941 Nazi party financier Succeeded by his son Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach member of Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft Colonel NSDAP Flying Corps ran the Friedrich Kiesow AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1943 to 1945 and subsequently from 1951 to 1967 Wilhelm Kube Gauleiter of Gau Ostmark 1928 1933 and Kurmark 1933 1936 he was also Oberprasident of the Prussian provinces of Brandenburg and Posen West Prussia from 1933 to 1936 He was the Generalkommissar for Weissruthenien White Ruthenia in the Reichskommissariat Ostland from 1941 until assassinated by partisans in 1943 He was an SS Gruppenfuhrer Franz Kutschera Gauleiter of Reichsgau Carinthia 1939 1941 an SS Brigadefuhrer und Generalmajor der Polizei he was an SS and police leader in the General Government until he was assassinated in 1944 L EditHans Lammers Head of the Reich Chancellery and Reich Minister without portfolio He was also an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Herbert Lange SS Sturmbannfuhrer Chelmno extermination camp commandant implicated in thousands of gassings there supervised the execution of 1 558 mental patients at Soldau concentration camp Hartmann Lauterbacher As Stabsfuhrer of the Hitler Youth from 1934 to 1940 he was deputy to Baldur von Schirach Gauleiter of Gau Southern Hanover Brunswick 1940 1945 and Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Hannover from 1941 he was also an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Robert Ley Reichsleiter and Head of the German Labor Front from 1933 to 1945 Arthur Liebehenschel Commandant of Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps during World War II Julius Lippert Nazi activist and propaganda official who supervised the 1936 Summer Olympics in Germany Karl Siegmund Litzmann Head of the National Socialist Equestrian Corps and an SA Obergruppenfuhrer he was the Generalkommissar of occupied Estonia from 1941 to 1944 Wilhelm Loeper Gauleiter in Gau Magdeburg Anhalt Reichsstatthalter of Brunswick and Anhalt until his death in 1935 He was an SS Gruppenfuhrer Hinrich Lohse Gauleiter of Gau Schleswig Holstein and Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Schleswig Holstein Reichskommissar for the Ostland He was an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Werner Lorenz Waffen SS general leader of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the Reich from other parts of Europe Hanns Ludin Diplomat ambassador to Slovakia Martin Luther advisor to Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop participant in the Wannsee Conference Viktor Lutze SA officer participant in the Night of the Long Knives succeeded Ernst Rohm as Stabschef of the SA and Reichsleiter He was Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Hannover from 1933 to 1941 and died in a car crash in 1943 M EditWilly Marschler One of the first two Nazis to hold ministerial office in a German State 1930 31 Minister President of Thuringia 1933 1945 He was also an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Emil Maurice Personal friend of Hitler first head of the SA and one of the founding members of the SS But referred to in 1960 paperback Eichmann the Man and His Crimes as Hitler s chauffeur speculating whether Hitler knew he was a French Jew Otto Meissner Minister of State Head of the Presidential Chancellery under Hitler and Friedrich Ebert and Paul von Hindenburg the last Reich Presidents of the Weimar Republic Josef Mengele SS Hauptsturmfuhrer physician at Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp who conducted medical experiments on inmates especially children Christian Mergenthaler Minister President and Minister of Culture of Wurttemberg 1933 1945 He was also an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Willy Messerschmitt Aeronautical engineer head of the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke BFW later Messerschmitt AG designer of several famous aircraft including the Bf 109 Alfred Meyer Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia North Reichsstatthalter of Lippe and Schaumburg Lippe Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Westphalia from 1938 Deputy Reich Minister in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories 1941 1945 he represented the Ministry at the Wannsee Conference He was also an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Kurt Meyer SS Brigadefuhrer Generalmajor der Waffen SS commanded 1st SS Reconnaissance Battalion LSSAH later commanded 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend Karl Freiherr Michel von Tussling SS Sturmbannfuhrer in Hitler s Chancellery adjutant of Philipp Bouhler staff officer Reichsfuhrer SS and SS Main Office Erhard Milch A Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe he was State Secretary of the Reich Aviation Ministry from its inception in 1933 Inspector General of the Luftwaffe from 1939 and its Chief of Procurement Armaments amp Supply from 1941 Leopold von Mildenstein Pro Zionism expert in the headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst SD under Reinhard Heydrich until 1936 when the planned mass immigration of Jews to Palestine fell out of favor convinced Adolf Eichmann to transfer to his SS department which handled Jewish Affairs Walter Model Generalfeldmarschall and one of Hitler s favorite commanders he held Army Group commands on the Eastern Front and briefly as Commander in Chief in the West He committed suicide in the Ruhr pocket in April 1945 Wilhelm Mohnke SS Brigadefuhrer und Generalmajor der Waffen SS one of original 120 members of SS Staff Guard Stabswache Berlin formed in March 1933 later commanded 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler LSSAH appointed by Hitler in April 1945 as commander of the Berlin government district nicknamed Die Zitadelle The Citadel including the Reich Chancellery Fuhrerbunker and Reichstag Robert Mohr Gestapo interrogation specialist headed special commission responsible for search and arrest of White Rose part of the anti Nazi German Resistance Hermann Muhs State Secretary in the Ministry of Church Affairs Heinrich Muller SS Gruppenfuhrer Generalleutnant der Polizei headed Gestapo Secret State Police under Reinhard Heydrich the SiPo and later RSHA chief Ludwig Muller Appointed Reich Bishop he was the leader of the German Christians and sought to unify all 28 Protestant regional churches into a unified Reich Church under authoritarian and anti Semitic Nazi principles Eugen Munder Early party organizer in Stuttgart Gauleiter of Gau Wurttemberg Hohenzollern from 1925 to 1928 Wilhelm Murr Gauleiter of Gau Wurttemberg Hohenzollern and Reichsstatthalter of Wurttemberg he was also an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Martin Mutschmann He was Gauleiter Reichsstatthalter and Minister President of Gau Saxony Also an SA Obergruppenfuhrer he was executed in the Soviet Union in 1947 N EditAlfred Naujocks An SS Sturmbannfuhrer he led the attack on Gleiwitz radio station starting World War II on 1 September 1939 Werner Naumann Private Secretary to Joseph Goebbels he was made State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Propaganda and was named Goebbels successor as Reich Minister of Propaganda in Hitler s will Arthur Nebe SS Gruppenfuhrer und Generalleutnant der Polizei Berlin Police Commissioner in the 1920s early member of both Sturmabteilung SA and Schutzstaffel SS Interpol President from June 1942 to 1943 appointed head of Kriminalpolizei Criminal Police or Kripo under Heydrich Executed in 1945 for alleged involvement in the 20 July Plot Konstantin von Neurath Foreign Minister of Germany 1932 1938 and Reichsprotektor Governor of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1939 1943 He was also President of the Secret Cabinet Council and an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Hans Nieland First Leader of the Nazi Party Foreign Organization Police President 1933 Treasurer and Senator 1933 1938 in Hamburg Oberburgermeister of Dresden 1940 1945 and an SS Brigadefuhrer O EditHerta Oberheuser Ravensbruck concentration camp physician from 1940 to 1943 the only female defendant in the Nuremberg Medical Trial Otto Ohlendorf An SS Gruppenfuhrer he headed SD domestic branch the RSHA department responsible for intelligence and security within Nazi Germany He also led Einsatzgruppe D and was executed for war crimes Wilhelm Ohnesorge State Secretary from 1933 and Reich Minister 1937 1945 in the Reich Postal Ministry He was an Obergruppenfuhrer in the National Socialist Motor Korps NSKK P EditFranz von Papen A prominent politician and intriguer in the Weimar Republic he engineered Hitler s appointment as Chancellor with himself as Vice Chancellor Outmaneuvered by Hitler he was ousted in 1934 but continued to serve the Third Reich as Ambassador to Austria 1934 1938 and Turkey 1939 1944 He was acquitted of war crimes by the Nuremberg Tribunal Joachim Peiper SS Obersturmbannfuhrer He served as Heinrich Himmler s adjutant and as a member of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler in combat commands on both the Eastern and Western fronts He was convicted of war crimes committed in the Malmedy massacre Phillip of Hesse A grandson of German Emperor Frederick III he joined the Nazi Party was an SA Obergruppenfuhrer and Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Hesse Nassau from 1933 to 1944 Married to the daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy he was suspected of complicity in the overthrow of Benito Mussolini removed from office arrested and put in a concentration camp Artur Phleps SS Obergruppenfuhrer saw action with 5 SS Panzergrenadier Division Wiking later commanded 7 SS Freiwilligen Gebirgs Division Prinz Eugen and the V SS Mountain Corps killed in September 1944 Paul Pleiger State adviser corporate general director Oswald Pohl An SS Obergruppenfuhrer and Head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office that organized and administered the concentration camps he was tried by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal and hanged for crimes against humanity Franz Pfeffer von Salomon Supreme SA Leader from its re founding in 1925 until removed in 1930 when Hitler personally assumed the title Erich Priebke An SS Hauptsturmfuhrer in the Security Police he participated in the Ardeatine massacre in Rome on 24 March 1944 Hans Adolf Prutzmann An SS Obergruppenfuhrer he was the Higher SS and Police Leader in Northern Russia and later Supreme SS and Police Leader in Ukraine R EditErich Raeder Grossadmiral Commander in Chief of the Reichsmarine 1928 1935 and the Kriegsmarine 1935 1943 Rudolf Rahn A diplomat he was the General Plenipotentiary to the Italian puppet state from September 1943 to April 1945 Considered for prosecution in the Ministries Trial he was eventually exonerated Friedrich Rainer Austrian Nazi politician Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Salzburg and later Reichsgau Carinthia He was an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Sigmund Rascher SS doctor who carried out experiments on inmates at Dachau concentration camp Johann Rattenhuber A policeman and SS Gruppenfuhrer he headed the Reichssicherheitsdienst Reich Security Service that provided personal protection for Hitler and other Nazi leaders Walter Rauff SS Standartenfuhrer and aide to Reinhard Heydrich He escaped captivity at the end of the war subsequently working for the Syrian Intelligence Hermann Rauschning A Nazi leader in the Free City of Danzig Walter Reder SS Sturmbannfuhrer convicted of war crimes in Italy Wilhelm Rediess Commanding General of SS forces in occupied Norway from 1940 to 1945 Walter von Reichenau Generalfeldmarschall and committed Nazi he joined the Party in 1932 in violation of regulations and was one of the few ardent National Socialists among the Army s senior officers Hans Joachim Riecke Minister of State of the State of Lippe 1933 1936 He was a department head and from 1942 State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture and was an architect of the Hunger Plan He was also an SS Gruppenfuhrer Fritz Reinhardt Head of the Nazi Party training School for Orators An economics and tax specialist he became State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Finance 1933 to 1945 and was an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Adrian von Renteln An early leader of the Hitler Youth and the National Socialist Schoolchildren s League he became Generalkommissar of occupied Lithuania from 1941 to 1944 and was hanged by the Soviets for war crimes Joachim von Ribbentrop Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945 and an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal Leni Riefenstahl German photographer actress and film director who in close collaboration with the Nazi Party produced major films of Nazi propaganda including Triumph of the Will and Olympia Ernst Rohm A co founder of the Sturmabteilung Storm Battalion or SA the Nazi Party militia Later the SA Stabschef a Reichleiter and Reich Minister without portfolio In 1934 as part of the Night of the Long Knives he was executed on Hitler s orders as a potential rival Alfred Rosenberg An early Party member and Nazi philosopher he was Editor in Chief of the Volkischer Beobachter from 1923 to 1938 head of the NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs Reichsleiter head of Amt Rosenberg and Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal Erwin Rosener SS Obergruppenfuhrer Higher SS and Police Leader Commander SS Upper Division Alpenland 1941 1945 Karl Rover He was Gauleiter of Gau Weser Ems and Reichsstatthalter of both Oldenburg and Bremen until his death in 1942 He was also an Obergruppenfuhrer in both the SA and the NSKK Ernst Rudin Psychiatrist and eugenicist His work directly influenced the racial policy of Nazi Germany Bernhard Rust Reich Minister of Science Education and National Culture from 1934 to 1945 and Gauleiter of Gau Southern Hanover Brunswick 1928 1940 He was an SA Obergruppenfuhrer S EditFritz Sauckel Gauleiter of Gau Thuringia Reichsstatthalter of Thuringia General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment 1942 45 and an Obergruppenfuhrer in both the SA and the SS Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal Karl Otto Saur Head of the Technical Department in the Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production he was Chief of Staff to both the Fighter Staff and the Armaments Staff from 1944 He was named Reichsminister of Munitions in Hitler s will in place of Albert Speer Hjalmar Schacht An economist banker and politician who served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic A fierce critic of post World War I reparation obligations he became a supporter of Hitler and served as President of the Reichsbank and Reich Minister of Economics He played a key role in restoring the German economy but since he opposed the policy of German re armament Schacht was first sidelined and then forced out beginning in December 1937 Schacht became a fringe member of the German Resistance and was imprisoned after the 20 July plot in 1944 He was tried at Nuremberg and acquitted Paul Schafer Hitler Youth member and Wehrmacht corporal subsequently convicted for multiple charges of child sex abuse in Chile Gustav Adolf Scheel Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of Reichsgau Salzburg 1941 1945 and a Nazi multifunctionary As the Reichsstudentenfuhrer he headed the National Socialist German Students League and the German Student Union He was also a Higher SS and Police Leader and an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Walther Schellenberg SS Brigadefuhrer who rose through the SS as Heydrich s deputy In March 1942 he became Chief of Department VI SD foreign branch which by then was a department of the RSHA Later following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944 he became head of all foreign intelligence Hans Schemm A Gauleiter in Bavaria from 1928 and Head of the National Socialist Teachers League Died in a plane crash in 1935 Wilhelm Schepmann SA Obergruppenfuhrer and SA Stabschef from 1943 to 1945 Max Scheubner Richter most senior Nazi killed during the Beer Hall Putsch ideologue and mentor to Alfred Rosenberg Baldur von Schirach Reichsleiter for Youth Education leader of the Hitler Youth 1931 40 and Gauleiter amp Reichsstatthalter of Vienna 1940 45 He was an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Franz Schlegelberger Jurist and State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice 1931 1941 he became Acting Reich Minister of Justice 1941 1942 Fritz Schlessmann Police President Deputy Gauleiter and Acting Gauleiter of Gau Essen He was also an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Carl Schmitt Philosopher jurist and political theorist Kurt Schmitt Economic leader and Reich Economomics Minister 1933 1934 Paul Schmitthenner Architect and city planner Gertrud Scholtz Klink Leader of the National Socialist Women s League 1934 1945 Wilhelm Freiherr von Schorlemer SA Obergruppenfuhrer Member of the constituency of the National Socialist Reichstag Leader of SA Group Danube 1938 1945 Ferdinand Schorner A Generalfeldmarschall he was a committed Nazi loyalist known for brutality and harsh discipline A holder of the Golden Party Badge he was appointed the last Commander in Chief of the German Army in Hitler s will Julius Schreck Co founder of the SA and Stosstrupp Hitler The first commander of the SS from April 1925 to April 1926 Later Hitler s personal chauffeur Franz Xaver Schwarz Reichsleiter National Treasurer of the NSDAP 1925 1945 and head of the Reichszeugmeisterei or National Material Control Office Promoted to SS Oberstgruppenfuhrer in 1944 Heinrich Schwarz Commandant of Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945 Franz Schwede The first Nazi elected as Burgermeister of a German City Coburg he was later Gauleiter of Gau Pomerania Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Pomerania and an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk Reich Minister of Finance 1932 1945 and Leading Minister of the last cabinet of the Third Reich under Reich President Grossadmiral Karl Donitz Siegfried Seidl Commandant of the Theresienstadt 1941 1943 and Bergen Belsen 1943 1944 concentration camps Franz Seldte Leader of Der Stahlhelm under the Weimar Republic he was Reich Minister for Labour from 1933 to 1945 Arthur Seyss Inquart Austrian Nazi upon being appointed Chancellor in 1938 he invited in German troops resulting in Austria s annexation Later Deputy to Hans Frank in the General Government of occupied Poland 1939 40 and Reichskommissar of the Netherlands 1940 44 He was also an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal Ludwig Siebert Minister President and Minister of Finance in Bavaria until his death in 1942 he was also an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Gustav Simon Gauleiter of Gau Moselland from 1931 and Chief of Civil Administration in Luxembourg from 1940 to 1944 He was an NSKK Obergruppenfuhrer Franz Six Chief of Amt VII Written Records of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt RSHA which dealt with ideological tasks These included the creation of anti semitic anti masonic propaganda the sounding of public opinion and monitoring of Nazi indoctrination by the public Otto Skorzeny An SS Obersturmbannfuhrer he headed many commando operations including the rescue from captivity of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini Albert Speer Architect for Nazis offices and residences Party rallies and State buildings 1932 42 In 1942 he succeeded Fritz Todt as Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production Head of the Organisation Todt Inspector General for German Roadways and Inspector General for Water and Energy Jakob Sprenger The Gauleiter of Gau Hesse Nassau as well as Reichsstatthalter and Minister President of Hesse and Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Nassau from 1944 he was also an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Franz Stangl Commandant of the Sobibor 1942 and Treblinka 1942 1943 extermination camps Johannes Stark German physicist and Physics Nobel Prize laureate who was closely involved with the Deutsche Physik movement under the Nazi regime Otto Steinbrinck Industrialist and bureaucrat Felix Steiner SS Obergruppenfuhrer und General der Waffen SS He was chosen by Himmler to oversee the creation of and command the volunteer Waffen SS Division 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking Walter Stennes the Berlin commandant of theSturmabteilung SA who in the summer of 1930 and again in the spring of 1931 led a revolt against the NSDAP in Berlin as these SA members saw their organization as a revolutionary group the vanguard of a socialist order that would overthrow the hated Republic Both revolts were put down and Stennes was expelled from the Nazi Party He left Germany in 1933 and worked as a military adviser to Chiang Kai shek Willi Stohr From late 1944 he was Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Gau Westmark In addition he was the Chief of Civil Administration in occupied Lorraine Gregor Strasser early prominent German Nazi official and politician Murdered during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934 Otto Strasser early prominent German Nazi official and politician Otto Strasser together with his brother Gregor Strasser was a leading member of the party s left wing faction and broke from the party due to disputes with the dominant Hitlerite faction Julius Streicher founder and publisher of anti semitic Nazi newspaper Der Sturmer 1923 1945 Gauleiter of Franconia 1929 40 Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal Karl Strolin Lord Mayor of Stuttgart 1933 1945 and Chairman of the Deutsches Ausland Institut DAI Jurgen Stroop SS Gruppenfuhrer und Generalleutnant der Waffen SS und Polizei Stroop s most prominent role was the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising an action which cost the lives of over 50 000 people Wilhelm Stuckart Jurist State Secretary in the Interior Ministry and attendee at the Wannsee Conference He was also an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Otto von Stulpnagel General and Military Commander of occupied France from 1940 to 1942 Emil Sturtz He was Gauleiter of Gau March of Brandenburg and Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg 1936 1945 He was also Oberprasident of Posen West Prussia from 1936 to its dissolution in 1938 and was an Obergruppenfuhrer in the National Socialist Motor Corps Friedrich Syrup Jurist and politician who served as Reich Minister for Labour from 1932 to 1933 T EditOtto Telschow An administrative police official he was Gauleiter of Gau Eastern Hanover from 1925 to 1945 Josef Terboven Gauleiter of Gau Essen from 1928 Oberprasident of the Prussian Rhine Province from 1935 and Reichskommissar of occupied Norway from 1940 he was an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Otto Georg Thierack Jurist Minister of Justice in Saxony President of the National Socialist Association of Legal Professionals President of the People s Court 1936 1942 President of the Academy for German Law 1942 1945 and Reich Minister of Justice from 1942 to 1945 He was also an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Fritz Todt civil engineer Director of the Head Office for Engineering Inspector General for German Roadways General Commissioner for the Regulation of the Construction Industry Inspector General for Water and Energy and founder and head of Organisation Todt Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions from 1940 he died in a plane crash in February 1942 He was also a Luftwaffe Generalmajor an SA Obergruppenfuhrer and posthumously the first recipient of the German Order Hans von Tschammer und Osten Commissioner for Gym and Sports of the Reich from 1933 to 1943 U EditSiegfried Uiberreither An Austrian Nazi he was Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Styria and Landeshauptmann of Styria He was also Chief of Civil Administration in Lower Styria and an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Curt von Ulrich de An SA Obergruppenfuhrer and Inspector General of the SA he was Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Saxony from 1933 to 1944 V EditKarl Leopold von Moller AOL O Author and Gauleiter of the Banat W EditFritz Wachtler Gauleiter of the eastern Bavarian administrative region of Gau Bayreuth He was an Obergruppenfuhrer in both the SA and the SS Otto Wachter Austrian lawyer and high ranking member of the SS He was appointed to government positions in Poland and Italy In 1940 68 000 Jews were expelled from Krakow Poland and in 1941 the Krakow Ghetto was created for the remaining 15 000 Jews by his decrees Otto Wagener Soldier and economist Was successively Stabschef of the SA head of the Party Economic Policy Section and briefly Reich Commissar for the Economy Subsequently he resumed his army career reaching the rank of Generalmajor Adolf Wagner A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch he was Gauleiter of Gau Munich Upper Bavaria as well as Deputy Minister President and Interior Minister of Bavaria He was an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Gerhard Wagner Reich Health Leader Reichsarztefuhrer from 1934 to 1939 Josef Wagner Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia South from 1931 and also of Gau Silesia from 1934 Oberprasident of the Prussian provinces of both Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia from 1934 and after their union the Province of Silesia 1938 1941 He was also an Obergruppenfuhrer of both the SA and NSKK Relieved of his posts in November 1941 and expelled from the Nazi Party in October 1942 he was executed by the Gestapo in 1945 Robert Heinrich Wagner A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch he was Gauleiter of Gau Baden from 1925 and Reichsstatthalter of Baden He was also Chief of Civil Administration for occupied Alsace from 1940 to 1944 and an NSKK Obergruppenfuhrer Karl Wahl An early Party member he was Gauleiter of Gau Swabia and an SS Obergruppenfuhrer Paul Wegener A regional administrator in occupied Norway from 1940 to 1942 he succeeded Karl Rover as Gauleiter of Gau Weser Ems and Reichsstatthalter of both Oldenburg and Bremen from 1942 to 1945 He was an SS Obergruppenfuhrer President Karl Donitz named him a State Secretary as staff chief of the civilian cabinet in May 1945 Karl Weinrich He was Gauleiter of Gau Electoral Hesse from 1928 to 1943 and an Obergruppenfuhrer in the National Socialist Motor Corp NSKK Ernst von Weizsacker A career diplomat he was State Secretary in the Foreign Office from 1938 to 1943 and Ambassador to the Holy See from 1943 to 1945 An SS Brigadefuhrer he was convicted of war crimes in the Ministries Trial Wilhelm Weiss Editor in Chief of the Nazi Party s official newspaper the Volkischer Beobachter from 1938 to 1945 President of the Reich Press Association and an SA Obergruppenfuhrer Horst Wessel Sturmfuhrer in the Berlin SA and author of the Horst Wessel Lied Die Fahne Hoch the Party anthem Elevated to martyr status by Nazi propaganda after his 1930 murder by Communists or by a rival pimp according to their opponents Max Winkler Reich Commissioner for the German Film Industry Christian Wirth SS Obersturmfuhrer He was a senior German police and SS officer during the program to exterminate the Jewish people of occupied Poland during World War II known as Operation Reinhard Wirth was a top aide of Odilo Globocnik the overall director of Operation Reinhard Aktion Reinhard or Einsatz Reinhard Hermann Wirth Dutch German historian and scholar of ancient religions and symbols He co founded the SS organization Ahnenerbe but was later pushed out by Heinrich Himmler Eduard Wirths Chief camp physician at Auschwitz concentration camp from 1942 to 1945 Karl Wolff SS Obergruppenfuhrer und General der Waffen SS He became Chief of Personal Staff to the Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler and SS Liaison Officer to Hitler until his replacement in 1943 From 1943 to 1945 Wolff was the Supreme SS and Police Leader of the Italien area By 1945 Wolff was acting military commander of Italy and in that capacity negotiated the surrender of all the forces in the Southwest Front Alfred Wunnenberg SS Obergruppenfuhrer und General der Waffen SS und der Polizei Commander of the SS Polizei Division 1941 1943 Chief of the Ordnungspolizei Orpo 1943 1945 after Kurt Daluege suffered a massive heart attack Z EditAdolf Ziegler Hitler s favorite painter tasked with the destruction of Entartete Kunst Degenerate Art Franz Ziereis Commandant of Mauthausen concentration camp Hans Zimmermann Succeeded Julius Streicher as Acting Gauleiter of Gau Franken from 1940 to 1942 He was an SA Oberfuhrer See also EditGlossary of Nazi Germany List of SS personnel Political decorations of the Nazi Party Ambassadors of Nazi GermanySources EditHoffkes Karl 1986 Hitlers Politische Generale Die Gauleiter des Dritten Reiches ein biographisches Nachschlagewerk Tubingen Grabert Verlag ISBN 3 87847 163 7 Brett Smith Richard 1976 Hitler s Generals San Rafael CA Presidio Press ISBN 0 89141 044 9 Miller Michael D Schulz Andreas 2012 Gauleiter The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies 1925 1945 Vol 1 Herbert Albrecht H Wilhelm Huttmann R James Bender Publishing ISBN 1 932970 21 5 Miller Michael D Schulz Andreas 2017 Gauleiter The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies 1925 1945 Vol 2 Georg Joel Dr Bernhard Rust R James Bender Publishing ISBN 1 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