List of SS and police leaders
List of SS and police leaders
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Ludolf-Hermann von Alvensleben (1901–1970; submerged): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police (1943)
- SSPF Crimea in Simferopol (November 1941)
- HSSPF with Army Group A in southern Russia and SSPF Nikolayev (October 1943)
- HSSPF Elbe (1944)
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Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben (1899–1953): SS-Standartenführer (1938)
- SSPF Adria-West (April / May 1945)
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Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899–1972; in custody): SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Police (1941)
- HSSPF for the SS Upper Section Southeast in Breslau / Silesia (June 1938)
- HSSPF for Russia - center in Mogilew (June 1941), as plenipotentiary for combating gangs responsible for mass killings in the rear front area (partisans and Jews extermination)
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Georg-Henning Graf von Bassewitz-Behr (1900–1949; in custody): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police (1943)
- SSPF Dnepropetrovsk - Kryvyi Rih (1941/42),
- Deputy HSSPF Central Russia (November 22, 1942 to March 24, 1943)
- HSSPF North Sea in Hamburg (February 16, 1943 to May 8, 1945)
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Hermann Behrends (1907–1948; executed): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police (1944), executed in Yugoslavia
- HSSPF Serbia and Montenegro (April 1, 1944 to October 1944)
- HSSPF "East Country and Russia North" (January 30, 1945 to May 1945)
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Gottlob Berger (1896–1975) (1945–1951 in custody): SS-Obergruppenführer
- HSSPF Slovakia (August 31, 1944 to September 20, 1944)
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Theodor Berkelmann (1894–1943): SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Police (1942)
- HSSPF West Düsseldorf (April 20, 1940 to July 9, 1940)
- HSSPF at the Reich Commissioner for the Saar Palatinate (1940)
- HSSPF Rhine (December 10, 1941 to May 21, 1943)
- HSSPF Rhein-Westmark (May 21, 1943 to September 1943)
- HSSPF Wartheland (September 11, 1943 to December 27, 1943)
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Walter Bierkamp (1901–1945; suicide): SS brigade leader and major general of the police
- HSSPF Southeast (February 20, 1945 to March 17, 1945)
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Herbert Böttcher (1907–1950; executed): SS-Brigadführer and Major General of the Police (1944), responsible for the deportation of Jews to Treblinka, executed in Poland in 1950
- SSPF District Radom / Poland (1942)
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Willi Brandner (1909–1944; fallen): SS brigade leader and major general of the police
- Police Area Leader Agram (July 1943 to December 1944)
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Karl Brunner (1900–1980) (interned 1945/48): SS brigade leader and major general of the police (1942)
- SSPF Bozen / South Tyrol (1943)
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Karl-Heinz Bürger (1904–1988) (prisoner of war): SS brigade leader and major general of the police (1945)
- SSPF North Caucasus (1942)
- SSPF Central Italy in Perugia
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Paul Dahm (1904–1974) (prisoner of war): SS-Standartenführer and colonel in the police
- Police Area Leader Banja-Luka and Essegg (August 1943 to April 1945)
- Christoph Diehm (1892–1960) (prisoner of war): SS-Brigadführer (1934) and Major General of the Police (1944)
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Hans Döring (1901–1970): SS brigade leader and major general of the police
- SSPF Stalino-Donets Region (November 1941 to May 1943)
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Anton Dunckern (1905–1985) (imprisoned until 1954): SS brigade leader and major general of the police (November 1942)
- SSPF Metz
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Friedrich Karl von Eberstein (1894–1979) (interned until 1948): SS-Obergruppenführer (1936) and Police General (1941)
- HSSPF Süd (April 12, 1938 to May 1945)
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George Ebrecht (1895–1977): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police
- Deputy HSSPF Northeast (June 21, 1941 to December 1944)
- Erich Ehrlinger (1910–2004; imprisoned 1958–1965): SS-Oberführer
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Theodor Eicke (1892–1943; fallen): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS
- HSSPF Ost (September 10, 1939 to October 1, 1939)
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Richard Fiedler (1908–1974): SS Brigade Leader (1939) and Major General of the Police (1944)
- SSPF Montenegro (October 1943 to October 1944)
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Josef Fitzthum (1896–1945, accident): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police (1944)
- HSSPF Albania (November 3, 1943 to September 1944)
- Karl Hermann Frank (1898–1946; executed): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police (1943)
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Hermann Franz (1891–1960) (prisoner of war): SS brigade leader and major general of the police
- HSSPF Greece (September 24, 1944 to November 18, 1944)
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Werner Fromm (1905–1981): SS-Oberführer and colonel in the police
- SSPF Białystok (February 1942 to March 1943)
- Sarajevo Police Area Leader (January 1943 to April 1944)
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Wilhelm Fuchs (1898–1947; executed): SS-Oberführer
- HSSPF Mitte (July 8, 1943 to September 15, 1943)
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Paul Otto Geibel (1898–1966; suicide): SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police (1944)
- SSPF Warsaw (March 1944 to February 1945)
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Odilo Globocnik (1904–1945; suicide): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police (1942)
- SSPF Lublin (from November 9, 1939)
- HSSPF Adriatic Coastal Operation Zone (September 13, 1943 to May 1945)
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Curt von Gottberg (1896–1945, suicide): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police (1944)
- Deputy SSPF Belarus (November 1942)
- HSSPF Central Russia (July 5, 1943 to August 7, 1944)
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Walter Grieb : SS Brigade Leader
- Deputy HSSPF Alpenland (May 1, 1944 to May 28, 1944)
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Jakob Grobben : SS-Sturmbannführer and Major in the Schutzpolizei
- Police Area Leader Copenhagen (from 1944)
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Wilhelm Günther (1899–1945; missing): SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police (1943)
- SSPF Volhynia and Podolia (mid-1942 to early 1944)
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Karl Michael Gutenberger (1905–1961) (imprisoned until 1953): SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Police (1944)
- HSSPF West Düsseldorf (May 1, 1941 to May 8, 1945)
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- Hans Haltermann (1898–1981) (interned until 1949): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police (1943)
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Hermann Harm (1894–1985): SS-Brigadführer (1936) and Major General of the Police (1942)
- SSPF Lithuania (July 1943)
- SSPF Dnepropetrovosk (August 1942)
- HSSPF Baltic Sea,
- SSPF z. b. V. for special orders to fight gangs in the Pripyat swamps (May 1943)
- Deputy HSSPF Alpenland (August 1944)
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Ernst Hartmann (1897–1945; fallen): SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police (1944)
- SSPF Zhitomir (late October 1943 to January 1944)
- SSPF Tschernigow (July 1943 to October 1943)
- SSPF Pripyat (December 1943 to September 1944)
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August Heißmeyer (1897–1979) (imprisoned 1948–1951): SS-Obergruppenführer (1936) and Police General (1944)
- HSSPF Spree / Berlin (September 2, 1939 to May 8, 1945)
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Otto Hellwig (1898–1962) (interned): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police (1944)
- SSPF Zhitomir (October 1941 to May 1943)
- SSPF Białystok (May 1943 to July 1944)
- Deputy HSSPF Northeast (January 9, 1945 to May 8, 1945)
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Paul Hennicke (1883–1967) (interned): SS group leader (1938) and lieutenant general of the police (1942)
- SSPF Rostov (October 1942 to May 1943)
- SSPF Kiev (May 1943 to December 1943)
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Ernst-Albrecht Hildebrandt (1895–1970): SS-Oberführer
- SSPF Northern Italy Middle (April 1944 to October 1944)
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Richard Hildebrandt (1897–1952; executed): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police (1942)
- HSSPF Rhine (April 1, 1939 to October 1, 1939)
- HSSPF Vistula (October 1, 1939 to April 20, 1943)
- HSSPF Black Sea (December 25, 1943 to September 16, 1944)
- HSSPF Southeast (March 17, 1945 to May 8, 1945)
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Kurt Hintze (1901–1944; fallen): SS-Brigadführer (1942) and Major General of the Police (1944)
- SSPF Lithuania
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Hermann Höfle (1898–1947; executed): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police (1944)
- SSPF Lublin (September 1, 1940 to September 1943)
- HSSPF Mitte (September 15, 1943 to September 1944)
- HSSPF Slovakia (September 20, 1944 to May 1945)
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Horst Hoffmeyer (1903-1944; suicide): SS-Brigadführer and Major General of the Police (1943)
- SSPF Transnistria
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Otto Hofmann (1896–1982) (imprisoned until 1954): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police (1943)
- HSSPF Südwest (April 20, 1943 to May 8, 1945)
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Friedrich Jeckeln (1895–1946; executed): SS-Obergruppenführer (1936) and Police General (1941)
- HSSPF Mitte (June 28, 1938 to July 11, 1940)
- HSSPF West (July 12, 1940 to June 29, 1941)
- HSSPF Russia South (July 1941 to October 1941)
- HSSPF Russia North (November 1, 1941 to early 1945)
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Richard Jungclaus (1905–1945, fallen): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police
- HSSPF Belgium-Northern France (August 1, 1944 to September 16, 1944)
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Richard Kaaserer (1896–1947; executed): SS-Oberführer and colonel in the police
- Police Area Leader Knin (July 1943 to May 1944)
- SSPF Sandschak (June 1944 to November 1944)
- SSPF Central Norway (November 1944 to May 1945)
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Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903-1946; executed): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police (1943)
- HSSPF Donau (September 11, 1938 to January 21, 1943)
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Konstantin Kammerhofer (1899–1958) (interned, submerged): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police (1943)
- SSPF Caucasus
- SSPF Azerbaijan
- HSSPF Croatia (March 13, 1943 to January 10, 1945)
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Fritz Katzmann (1906–1957) (submerged): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS and the police
- SSPF Radom (November 1939 to August 1941)
- SSPF Lemberg (April 1941 to April 1943)
- HSSPF Vistula (April 20, 1943 to May 8, 1945)
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Kurt Kaul (1890–1944; fallen): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police
- HSSPF Südwest (September 6, 1939 to April 21, 1943)
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Wilhelm Koppe (1896–1975) (1960 to 1962 in custody): SS-Obergruppenführer and Police General (1942)
- HSSPF Warthegau (October 9, 1939 to November 9, 1943)
- HSSPF Ost (November 9, 1943 to May 8, 1945)
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Gerret Korsemann (1895–1958) (imprisoned until 1949): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police (1942)
- SSPF z. b. V. Rovno (April 1941)
- SSPF Caucasus (1942)
- HSSPF Central Russia (March 24, 1943 to July 5, 1943)
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Karl von Krempler (1896–1972): SS-Standartenführer
- HSSPF Sadschak (September 1943 to June 1944)
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Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (1894–1945; suicide): SS-Obergruppenführer (1935) and general of the police and Waffen-SS
- HSSPF Ost (October 4, 1939 to November 9, 1943)
- Franz Kutschera (1904–1944; murdered): SS-Brigadführer (1940) and Major General of the Police (1942)
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Benno Martin (1893–1975) (temporarily in custody): SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Police (1944)
- HSSPF Main (Nuremberg) (December 17, 1942 to May 8, 1945)
- Johann-Erasmus Freiherr von Malsen-Ponickau (1895–1956) (imprisoned until 1952): SS-Brigadführer (1933)
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Emil Mazuw (1900–1987) (imprisoned until 1951): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police (1942)
- HSSPF Baltic Sea (August 28, 1938 to May 1945)
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Günther Merk (1888–1947; executed): SS brigade leader and major general of the police (1943)
- SSPF Kharkov
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August von Meyszner (1886–1947; executed): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police (1942)
- HSSPF Serbia (January 22, 1942 to April 1, 1944)
- Georg Michalsen (1906–1993) (imprisoned until 1948 and from 1961): SS-Sturmbannführer
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Paul Moder (1896–1942; fallen): SS-Gruppenführer (1936)
- SSPF Warsaw (autumn 1939 to August 1941)
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Hinrich Möller (1906–1974) (imprisoned until 1958): SS brigade leader and major general of the police (1944)
- SSPF Estonia (August 1941 to April 1944)
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Carl Oberg (1897–1965) (imprisoned until 1962): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police (1944)
- SSPF Radom (August 1941 to May 1942)
- HSSPF France (May 5, 1942 to November 28, 1944)
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Günther Pancke (1899–1973) (imprisoned until 1953): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police
- HSSPF Mitte (July 11, 1940 to September 15, 1943)
- HSSPF Denmark (October 6, 1943 to May 5, 1945)
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Artur Phleps (1881–1944; fallen): SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS (1943)
- HSSPF Transylvania (September 1944)
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Hans-Adolf Prützmann (1901–1945; suicide): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS
- HSSPF Northwest (from 1937)
- HSSPF Northeast (May 1941)
- HSSPF Russia North (June 1941)
- HSSPF Russia South (from October 1941)
- HöSSPF Ukraine (October 29, 1943 to September 1944)
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Carl Friedrich von Pückler-Burghauss (1886–1945; suicide): SS group leader and major general of the Waffen SS
- Representation of the HSSPF Central Russia (January 2, 1942 to March 24, 1943)
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Rudolf Querner (1893–1945; suicide): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS and police
- HSSPF North Sea (April 30, 1941 to January 1943)
- HSSPF Donau (January 21, 1943 to October 5, 1944)
- HSSPF Mitte (October 5, 1944 to May 8, 1945)
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Hanns Albin Rauter (1895–1949; executed): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS
- HSSPF Northwest / Netherlands (June 26, 1940 to May 8, 1945)
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Wilhelm Redieß (1900–1945; suicide): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police
- HSSPF Nordost / Königsberg (June 28, 1938 to June 19, 1940)
- HSSPF Nord (June 19, 1940 to May 8, 1945)
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Otto Reich (1891–1955): SS-Oberführer
- Police Area Leader Agram (December 1944 to January 1945)
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Heinz Reinefarth (1903–1979) (prisoner of war until 1948/49): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS
- HSSPF Warthe (January 29, 1944 to December 30, 1944)
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Alfred Rodenbücher (1900–1979) (prisoner of war until 1948): SS brigade leader
- HSSPF Alpenland (April 25, 1939 to April 30, 1941)
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Erwin Rösener (1902–1946; executed): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS and the police
- HSSPF Rhine (July 24, 1940 to November 11, 1941)
- HSSPF Alpenland (November 24, 1941 to May 8, 1945)
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Heinz Roch (1905–1945; suicide): SS-Oberführer
- SSPF Białystok
- SSPF Norway North
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Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg (1897–1944; fallen): SS brigade leader and major general of the police
- SSPF Warsaw (November 1942 to April 1943)
- Police Area Leader Esseg (April 1943)
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Karl Schäfer (1892–1943): SS brigade leader
- SSPF Latvia (April 1942)
- SSPF Lithuania (May 1942)
- SSPF White Ruthenia (May 1942 to July 1942)
- SSPF Dnepropetrovsk-Krivoi-Rog (October 1943 to November 1943)
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Julian Scherner (1895–1945, suicide): SS-Oberführer
- SSPF Krakow (August 1941 to March 1944)
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Ernst-Heinrich Schmauser (1890–1945; missing): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS
- HSSPF Silesia (from 1941)
- HSSPF Southeast (May 20, 1941 to February 20, 1945)
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Willy Schmelcher (1894–1974): SS group leader
- SSPF Tschernigow (November 1941 to June 1943)
- SSPF Zhitomir (May 1943 to September 1943)
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Gustav Adolf Scheel (1907–1979): SS brigade leader and general of the police
- HSSPF Alpenland (April 30, 1941 to November 24, 1941)
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Walter Schimana (1898–1948; suicide): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS and police
- SSPF Saratov (September 1941 to November 1941)
- SSPF White Ruthenia (July 1942 to July 1943)
- HSSPF Greece (October 22, 1943 to September 24, 1944)
- HSSPF Donau (October 5, 1944 to May 8, 1945)
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Eberhard Schöngarth (1903–1946; executed): SS brigade leader and major general of the police
- HSSPF Northwest (March 10, 1945 to April 1945)
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Walther Schröder (1902–1973): SS brigade leader
- SSPF Latvia / Riga (August 1941 to October 1944)
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Erwin Schulz (1900–1981; imprisoned from 1948 to 1954): SS brigade leader and major general of the police
- Deputy HSSPF Alpenland (May 1, 1944 to May 28, 1944)
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Hans Schwedler (1878–1945: suicide), SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS
- 1940 inspector of the SS-Totenkopfverband
- 1940 SSPF from Krakow
- 1944 SS-Führerhauptam
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Jakob Sporrenberg (1902–1952, executed): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police
- HSSPF Nord-Ost / Königsberg (June 21, 1940 to May 1, 1941)
- SSPF Lublin (August 1943 to July 1944)
- HSSPF Oslo (late 1944)
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Walter Stein (1896–1985; imprisoned from 1947 to 1954): SS-Oberführer and Police President
- SSPF Warsaw (February / March 1944)
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Jürgen Stroop (1895–1952; executed): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police
- SSPF Warsaw (April / May 1943)
- HSSPF Greece (September 8, 1943 to October 4, 1943)
- HSSPF Rhein-Westmark (November 11, 1943 to May 8, 1945)
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Friedrich Suhr (1907–1946; suicide): SS-Obersturmbannführer
- SSPF Upper Alsace (December 1944 to May 1945)
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Karl Taus (1893–1977): SS brigade leader
- SS and Police Commander Gorizia (May 1944 to May 1945)
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Willy Tensfeld (1893–1982): SS brigade leader and major general of the police
- SSPF Northern Italy West
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Theobald Thier (1897–1949; executed): SS-Brigadführer
- SSPF Kuban (not realized)
- SSPF Kerch (May 43 to July 1943)
- SSPF Galicia (July 1943 to February 1944)
- SSPF Krakow (February 1944 to January 1945)
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Fritz Tittmann (1898–1945; fallen): SS brigade leader
- SSPF Nikolajew (October 1941 to September 1942)
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Wilhelm Traub (1910–1946): SS-Obersturmbannführer
- SS and police commander Fiume (summer 1944 to May 1945)
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Josias zu Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896–1967) (imprisoned from 1947 to 1950): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS
- HSSPF Fulda-Werra (October 6, 1938 to May 8, 1945)
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Waldemar Wappenhans (1893–1967): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police
- SSPF Volhynien-Brest-Liwosk (September 1941 to September 1942)
- SSPF Dnepropetrovsk Krivoy Rog (October 1942 to October 1943)
- SSPF Nikolajew (September 1942 to April 1943)
- SSPF egV at HSSPF Ukraine
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Rudolf Weiß (1899–1945; fallen): SS brigade leader
- SSPF Nikolajew (February 1944 to March 1944)
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Fritz Weitzel (1904–1940; fallen): SS-Obergruppenführer
- HSSPF West (June 11, 1938 to April 20, 1940)
- HSSPF Nord (April 20, 1940 to June 19, 1940)
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Richard Wendler : (1898–1972) (imprisoned 1948–1951): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police
- SSPF Stanislaw-Rostow (later Rostow-Avdejewka) (August 1941 to May 1942)
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Arpad Wigand (1906–1983) (imprisoned until 1956 and after 1981): SS-Oberführer
- SSPF Warsaw (1941 to May 1942)
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Otto Winkelmann (1894–1977) (imprisoned until 1948): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS
- HSSPF Hungary (March 19, 1944 to February 11, 1945)
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Karl Wolff (1900–1984) (imprisoned until 1949 and 1962–1969): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS
- HSSPF Italy (September 23, 1943 to May 8, 1945)
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Udo von Woyrsch (1895–1983) (imprisoned until 1952 and 1957–1960): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police
- HSSPF Elbe (April 20, 1940 to February 11, 1944)
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Lucian Wysocki (1899–1964): SS brigade leader
- SSPF Lithuania (July 1941 to July 1943), then SSPF z. b. V.
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Karl Zech (1892–1944; suicide): SS group leader
- SSPF Krakow (November 1939 to October 1940)
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Carl Zenner (1899–1969) (imprisoned until 1950 and 1961–1969): SS brigade leader and major general of the protection police
- SSPF Belarus in Minsk (August 12, 1941 to July 21, 1942)
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Paul Zimmermann (1895–1980) (prisoner of war until 1948): SS brigade leader and major general of the police
- SSPF Nikolajew (April 1943 to October 1943)
Note
Of the 111 SS and police leaders on this list, at the end of the war or later (as of 2019):
- 15 executed
- 16 suicide
- 21 in custody
- 7 interned
- 7 in captivity
- 12 fallen
- 3 died (including accidents, murdered) by 1946
- 4 submerged
- 2 missing
literature
- Ruth Bettina Birn : The Higher SS and Police Leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-0710-7 .
- Michael Miller, Andreas Schulz: SS Brigade Leader. 1933-1945 . CD-ROM 2004, 172 pages (Engl.)
- Heinz Höhne : The order under the skull - The history of the SS. Bertelsmann, Munich, ISBN 3-570-05019-X .
- Hermann Weiß : Personal Lexicon 1933–1945. Tosa Verlag, Vienna 2003.
- Ernst Klee : The personal dictionary on the Third Reich - Who was what before and after 1945 , 2nd edition, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003.
Individual evidence
Web links
Commons : SS and Police Leaders - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files