list of ss personnel

Between 1925 and 1945, the German SS grew from a mere 8 members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS members and well over a million members of the Allgemeine-SS. The following list of SS personnel indicates a few of the SS members who were the most famous, influential, and sometimes notorious members of the organization.

Notable SS Officers

Reichsfhrer

Heinrich Himmler (Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of German Police)
Karl Hanke (Last Reich Leader of the SS)

Oberstgruppenfhrer

Kurt Daluege (Commander of the Ordnungspolizei)
Sepp Dietrich (Commander of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler)
Paul Hausser (Commander of the Das Reich Division)
Franz Xaver Schwarz (Honorary Rank)

Obergruppenfhrer

Gottlob Berger (Commander of the SS-Hauptamt)
Martin Bormann (Honorary Rank)
Franz Breithaupt (Commanding General of the SS and Police Courts)
Theodor Eicke (Commander of the Totenkopf Division)
Richard Walter Darre (First Commander of the SS Race Office)
August Heissmeyer (Commander of the SS Education Department)
Maximilin von Herff (Commander of the SS Personnel Department)
Reinhard Heydrich (Chief of the RSHA)
Rudolf Hess (Honorary Rank)
Ulrich Greifelt (Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism)
Friedrich Jecklen (Higher SS and Police Leader of Eastern Russia)
Han Jttner (Commander of the SS-Fhrungshauptamt)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (Second Commander of the RSHA)
Friedrich Wilhelm Krger (Higher SS and Police Leader of Poland)
Werner Lorenz: Commander of the Office of Ethnic Germanization
Artur Phleps: Romanian born SS General, Commander of the Prinz Eugene Waffen-SS Division
Oswald Pohl (Commander of the SS Economics and Administration Office)
Joachim von Ribbentrop (Honorary Rank)
Paul Scharfe (First Commander of the SS Legal Office)
Arthur Seyss-Inquart (Commander of the Austrian SS, Deputy Governor General of Poland)
Karl Wolff (Chief of Staff to Heinrich Himmler and Supreme SS and Police Leader of Italy)

Gruppenfhrer

Odilo Globocnik (Higher SS and Police Leader of the Adriatic Region)
Richard Glcks (Inspector of Concentration Camps)
Heinrich Muller (Commander of the Gestapo)
Artur Nebe (Commander of the Kriminalpolizei)
Otto Ohlendorf (Commander of the Inland-SD)
Jrgen Stroop (SS and Police Leader of Warsaw)

Brigadefhrer

Heinz Jost (SD Commander and Commander of Einsatzkommando A)
Walter Schellenberg (Commander of the Ausland-SD)

Oberfhrer

Rudolf Diels (First Commander of the Gestapo)
Emil Maurice (SS Member #2, credited with founding the SS)
Julian Scherner (SS and Police Leader of Krakow)

Standartenfhrer

Jakob Grimminger (Leader of Standarten 1 and Bearer of the Blutfahne)
Rudolf Lange (SD Commander of Latvia, Commander Einsatzkommando A-2, Participant of Wannsee Conference)

Obersturmbannfhrer

Adolf Eichmann (Head of the Jewish Department of the Gestapo)
Rudolf Hoss (Commander of Auschwitz Concentration Camp)
Herbert Kappler (Commander of SS and Police Forces in Rome, Italy)
Joachim Peiper (Leibstandarte Regimental Commander)
Richard Schulze AKA Richard Schulze-Kossens (Commander of SS Officer School Bad Tlz)

Sturmbannfhrer

Wernher von Braun (Allgemeine-SS Battalion Officer)
Alfred Naujocks (SD Commando, Gleiwitz Strike Leader)
Hermann Hfle, (Deputy head of the Aktion Reinhard programme)
Otto Skorzeny (RSHA Commando Leader)

Hauptsturmfhrer

Klaus Barbie (Head of the Gestapo in Lyons)
Amon Gth (Commander of the Plaszow Labor Camp)
Josef Mengele (Chief Medical Officer of Auschwitz)

Untersturmfhrer

Benson Freeman (British Defector and SS Propagana Officer)

Notable SS Enlisted

Sturmscharfhrer

Gustav Wagner (Head SS-NCO of Sobibor Concentration Camp)

Oberscharfhrer

Eric Muhsfeldt (Senior NCO of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando)

Schtze

Eric Pleasants (British Defector and member of the SS British Freikorps)

List Of Ss Personnel

Notable SS Officers

Notable SS Enlisted

See also