List of SS and police leaders

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List of SS and police leaders

A.

B.

  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Gottlob Berger (1896–1975) (1945–1951 in custody): SS-Obergruppenführer
    • HSSPF Slovakia (August 31, 1944 to September 20, 1944)
  • 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)
  • Walter Bierkamp (1901–1945; suicide): SS brigade leader and major general of the police
    • HSSPF Southeast (February 20, 1945 to March 17, 1945)
  • 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)
  • Willi Brandner (1909–1944; fallen): SS brigade leader and major general of the police
    • Police Area Leader Agram (July 1943 to December 1944)
  • Karl Brunner (1900–1980) (interned 1945/48): SS brigade leader and major general of the police (1942)
  • 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

D.

  • 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)
  • Hans Döring (1901–1970): SS brigade leader and major general of the police
    • SSPF Stalino-Donets Region (November 1941 to May 1943)
  • Anton Dunckern (1905–1985) (imprisoned until 1954): SS brigade leader and major general of the police (November 1942)

E.

  • Friedrich Karl von Eberstein (1894–1979) (interned until 1948): SS-Obergruppenführer (1936) and Police General (1941)
    • HSSPF Süd (April 12, 1938 to May 1945)
  • 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
    • SSPF Kiev (December 1941 to September 1943)
    • SSPF Central Russia and Belarus (September 1943 to April 1944)
  • Theodor Eicke (1892–1943; fallen): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS
    • HSSPF Ost (September 10, 1939 to October 1, 1939)

F.

  • Richard Fiedler (1908–1974): SS Brigade Leader (1939) and Major General of the Police (1944)
  • Josef Fitzthum (1896–1945, accident): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police (1944)
    • HSSPF Albania (November 3, 1943 to September 1944)
  • 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)
  • Wilhelm Fuchs (1898–1947; executed): SS-Oberführer
    • HSSPF Mitte (July 8, 1943 to September 15, 1943)

G

  • Paul Otto Geibel (1898–1966; suicide): SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police (1944)
    • SSPF Warsaw (March 1944 to February 1945)
  • 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)
  • Walter Grieb : SS Brigade Leader
    • Deputy HSSPF Alpenland (May 1, 1944 to May 28, 1944)
  • Wilhelm Günther (1899–1945; missing): SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police (1943)
    • SSPF Volhynia and Podolia (mid-1942 to early 1944)

H

  • Hans Haltermann (1898–1981) (interned until 1949): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police (1943)
    • SSPF Kiev (October 1941)
    • SSPF Kharkov (May 1943),
    • SSPF Belarus (November 1943)
    • Deputy HSSPF Northeast (July 7, 1944 to January 9, 1945)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • August Heißmeyer (1897–1979) (imprisoned 1948–1951): SS-Obergruppenführer (1936) and Police General (1944)
    • HSSPF Spree / Berlin (September 2, 1939 to May 8, 1945)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Kurt Hintze (1901–1944; fallen): SS-Brigadführer (1942) and Major General of the Police (1944)
  • 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)
  • Otto Hofmann (1896–1982) (imprisoned until 1954): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police (1943)
    • HSSPF Südwest (April 20, 1943 to May 8, 1945)

J

  • 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)
  • 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)

K

  • 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)
  • Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903-1946; executed): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police (1943)
    • HSSPF Donau (September 11, 1938 to January 21, 1943)
  • Konstantin Kammerhofer (1899–1958) (interned, submerged): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police (1943)
  • 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)
  • Kurt Kaul (1890–1944; fallen): SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police
    • HSSPF Südwest (September 6, 1939 to April 21, 1943)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Karl von Krempler (1896–1972): SS-Standartenführer
    • HSSPF Sadschak (September 1943 to June 1944)
  • 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)
    • SSPF Mogilew (April to September 1943)
    • SSPF Warsaw (September 1943 to February 1944)

M.

  • 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)
  • Emil Mazuw (1900–1987) (imprisoned until 1951): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police (1942)
    • HSSPF Baltic Sea (August 28, 1938 to May 1945)
  • Günther Merk (1888–1947; executed): SS brigade leader and major general of the police (1943)
  • 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
    • SS and Police Commander Fiume (from spring 1944)
    • SS and police commander Pola (from summer 1944)
    • SS and police commander Trieste (autumn 1944 to 1945)
  • Paul Moder (1896–1942; fallen): SS-Gruppenführer (1936)
    • SSPF Warsaw (autumn 1939 to August 1941)
  • Hinrich Möller (1906–1974) (imprisoned until 1958): SS brigade leader and major general of the police (1944)
    • SSPF Estonia (August 1941 to April 1944)

O

  • 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)
  • Willi Ost (1903–1945; deceased): SS-Standartenführer

P

  • 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)
  • Artur Phleps (1881–1944; fallen): SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS (1943)
  • 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)
  • 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)

Q

  • 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)

R.

  • Hanns Albin Rauter (1895–1949; executed): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS
    • HSSPF Northwest / Netherlands (June 26, 1940 to May 8, 1945)
  • 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)
  • Otto Reich (1891–1955): SS-Oberführer
    • Police Area Leader Agram (December 1944 to January 1945)
  • 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)
  • Alfred Rodenbücher (1900–1979) (prisoner of war until 1948): SS brigade leader
    • HSSPF Alpenland (April 25, 1939 to April 30, 1941)
  • 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)

S.

  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Willy Schmelcher (1894–1974): SS group leader
    • SSPF Tschernigow (November 1941 to June 1943)
    • SSPF Zhitomir (May 1943 to September 1943)
  • Gustav Adolf Scheel (1907–1979): SS brigade leader and general of the police
    • HSSPF Alpenland (April 30, 1941 to November 24, 1941)
  • 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)
  • Eberhard Schöngarth (1903–1946; executed): SS brigade leader and major general of the police
    • HSSPF Northwest (March 10, 1945 to April 1945)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • Walter Stein (1896–1985; imprisoned from 1947 to 1954): SS-Oberführer and Police President
    • SSPF Warsaw (February / March 1944)
  • 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)
  • Friedrich Suhr (1907–1946; suicide): SS-Obersturmbannführer
    • SSPF Upper Alsace (December 1944 to May 1945)

T

  • Karl Taus (1893–1977): SS brigade leader
    • SS and Police Commander Gorizia (May 1944 to May 1945)
  • Willy Tensfeld (1893–1982): SS brigade leader and major general of the police
    • SSPF Northern Italy West
  • 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)
  • Fritz Tittmann (1898–1945; fallen): SS brigade leader
    • SSPF Nikolajew (October 1941 to September 1942)
  • Wilhelm Traub (1910–1946): SS-Obersturmbannführer
    • SS and police commander Fiume (summer 1944 to May 1945)

W.

  • 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)
  • 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
  • Rudolf Weiß (1899–1945; fallen): SS brigade leader
    • SSPF Nikolajew (February 1944 to March 1944)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Arpad Wigand (1906–1983) (imprisoned until 1956 and after 1981): SS-Oberführer
    • SSPF Warsaw (1941 to May 1942)
  • Otto Winkelmann (1894–1977) (imprisoned until 1948): SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS
    • HSSPF Hungary (March 19, 1944 to February 11, 1945)
  • 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)
  • 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)

Z

  • Karl Zech (1892–1944; suicide): SS group leader
    • SSPF Krakow (November 1939 to October 1940)
  • 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)
  • 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

  1. Historical Lexicon of Bavaria

Web links

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