List of SS personnel

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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.

1 Adolf Hitler
2 SS Generals
3 SS Officers
4 SS Non-Commissioned Officers
5 SS Soldiers
6 See also
7 References

[edit] Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler, as the Führer of Germany, was by default the supreme commander of the SS and outranked Heinrich Himmler. In February of 1925, Hitler appointed himself SS Member #1 thus, by the seniority system of SS membership numbers, this made Hitler senior in the SS to all other members. Hitler, however, never referred to himself by an actual SS rank nor is there any photographic record of Hitler wearing an SS uniform.

[edit] SS Generals

Rank	Insignia
Reichsführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Heinrich Himmler	Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of German Police	168	February 1925	14303
Karl Hanke	Last Reich Leader of the SS	203013	1932	102606

Rank	Insignia
Oberstgruppenführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Kurt Daluege	Commander of the Ordnungspolizei	1119	1928	31981
Sepp Dietrich	Commander of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler and later 6.SS-Panzerarmee	1177	5 May 1928	89015
Paul Hausser	Commander of the II.SS-Panzerkorps	239795	February 1934	4158779
Franz Xaver Schwarz	NSDAP Treasurer	38500	16 September 1931	6

Rank	Insignia
Obergruppenführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Max Amann	Honorary SS Member
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski	Higher SS and Police Leader of Central Russia
Gottlob Berger	Commander of the SS-Hauptamt
Werner Best	Reich Plenipotentiary of Denmark
Wilhelm Bittrich	Waffen SS combat commander - II.SS Panzerkorps
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle	Leader of the Nazi Party Foreign Organization - NSDAP/AO
Martin Bormann	Secretary of the Nazi Party	555	September 1929	60508
Franz Breithaupt	Commanding General of the SS and Police Courts
Walter Buch	Chairman of the Inquiry and Mediation Board
Richard Walther Darré	First Commander of the SS Race Office
Otto Dietrich	Honorary SS Rank
Theodor Eicke	Commander of the Totenkopf Division
Karl Fiehler	Lord Mayor of Munich
Karl Hermann Frank	Higher SS and Police Leader of Bohemia and Moravia
Arthur Greiser	Gauleiter of Reichsgau Wartheland	10795	1929	166635
August Heissmeyer	Commander of the SS Education Department
Konrad Henlein	Gauleiter of the Sudetenland
Maximilin von Herff	Commander of the SS Personnel Department
Reinhard Heydrich	Chief of the RSHA; president of Interpol	10120	14 July 1931	544916
Rudolf Hess	Deputy Führer of the NSDAP	Unknown	1932	16
Ulrich Greifelt	Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism
Friedrich Jecklen	Higher SS and Police Leader of Eastern Russia	4367	12 January 1930	163348
Hans Jüttner	Commander of the SS-Führungshauptamt
Ernst Kaltenbrunner	Second Commander of the RSHA
Hans Kammler	Head of V-2 program	113 619	20 May 1933	1011855
Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger	Higher SS and Police Leader of Poland
Hans Lammers	Honorary SS Rank
Werner Lorenz	Commander of the Office of Ethnic Germanization
Artur Phleps	Commander of the 7.SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division Prinz Eugen
Oswald Pohl	Commander of the SS Economics and Administration Office (WVHA)	147 614	1933	30 842
Joachim von Ribbentrop	Nazi Foreign Minister	63083	February 1938	1199927
Fritz Sauckel	Honorary SS Rank
Paul Scharfe	Commander of the SS Legal Office
Julius Schaub	Co-founder of the SS, Personal assistant to Hitler	7	February 1925	81
Fritz von Scholz	Commander of Nordland Waffen-SS volunteer formation
Arthur Seyss-Inquart	Commander of the Austrian SS, Deputy Governor General of Poland
Felix Steiner	Commander of III.(gemanisches) SS-Panzerkorps
Karl Wolff	Chief of Staff to Heinrich Himmler and Supreme SS and Police Leader of Italy	14235	7 October 1931	695131

Rank	Insignia
Gruppenführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Amin al-Husayni	Reported SS Honorary Rank {unconfirmed}
Karl Brandt	Hitler's physician
Hermann Fegelein	SS-Cavalry General, Brother-in-law to Eva Braun
Bruno Erich Alfred Freyberg	Oberburgermiester of Leipzig
Odilo Globocnik	Higher SS and Police Leader of the Adriatic Region
Richard Glücks	Inspector of Concentration Camps/Amt D WVHA	58706		214805
[Wilhelm Harster]	GeneralLieutnant of Police	225932	9 Nov 1933	3226594
Heinrich Müller	Commander of the Gestapo	107043	20 April 1934	533199
Artur Nebe	Commander of the Kriminalpolizei	280152
Otto Ohlendorf	Commander of the Inland-SD		1926	6631
Heinz Reinefarth	Waffen-SS General
Jürgen Stroop	SS and Police Leader of Warsaw		1932

Rank	Insignia
Brigadeführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Heinz Jost	SD Commander and Commander of Einsatzkommando A
Bronislaw Kaminski	Commander of Kaminski Brigade
Kurt Meyer	Waffen SS divisional commander
Wilhelm Mohnke	Commander of the Reichs Chancellery defence during the Battle of Berlin		1 September 1931
Hans Nieland	Lord Mayor of Dresden	61702		33333
[Johannes Rattenhuber]	Commander of Hitler's SS Bodyguard Unit	52877	1 May 1933	3212449
Walter Schellenberg	Commander of the Ausland-SD
Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz	Heer Panzer General
Dr. Christian Weber	Commander of the NSDAP Old Guard	265902	July 1934	15
Karl Maria Wiligut	Section VIII {Archives} RUSHA Himmler's Personal Staff		September 1933

Rank	Insignia
Oberführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Rudolf Diels	First Commander of the Gestapo	187116	April 1934	3955308
Eduard Deisenhofer	Waffen SS combat commander
Oskar Dirlewanger	Leader of Dirlewanger Brigade
Emil Maurice	SS Member #2, credited with founding the SS	2	February 1925	39
Thomas Müller	Waffen-SS combat commander
Emanuel Schäfer	Einsatkommando/SD/Himmler personal Staff	280018		4659879
Julian Scherner	SS and Police Leader of Krakow
Julius Schreck	First Reich Leader of the SS	5	February 1925	53
[Otto Steinhausl]	Leader of Interpol	292773	1938

[edit] SS Officers

Rank	Insignia
Standartenführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Jakob Grimminger	Leader of Standarten 1 and Bearer of the Blutfahne	135	25 February 1926	759
Karl Jaeger	Commander of Einsatzkommando 3/Einsatzgruppe A. Author of infamous "Jaeger Report".	62823	1932	359269
Rudolf Lange	SD Commander of Latvia, Commander Einsatzkommando A-2, Participant of Wannsee Conference	93501	1 March 1933	1159583
Wolfram Sievers	Reich Manager of the Ahnenerbe and Director of its Institute for Military Scientific Research

Rank	Insignia
Obersturmbannführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Léon Degrelle	Belgian Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander
Adolf Eichmann	Head of the Jewish Department of the Gestapo	45326	1 April 1932	889895
Rudolf Höss	Commander of Auschwitz Concentration Camp	193616	20 September 1933	3240
Herbert Kappler	Commander of SS and Police Forces in Rome, Italy	55211	8 May 1933	594899
Joachim Peiper	LSSAH Kampfgruppe Commander
Karl Rahm	Commandant of Theresienstadt
Richard Schulze AKA Richard Schulze-Kossens	Commander of SS Officer School Bad Tölz, Bavaria

Rank	Insignia
Sturmbannführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Wernher von Braun	Allgemeine-SS Battalion Officer {ALso SS Horseriding Club }	185068	1933
Joseph Darnand	French Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander
Bernhard Krueger	Leader of VI F4A {RSHA} OPeration Bernhard	15429		528729
Alfred Naujocks	SD Commando, Gleiwitz Strike Leader	624279	1930 or 1931	26246
Hermann Höfle	Deputy head of the Aktion Reinhard programme
[Adolf Shulz-Lenhardt]	Kriminalrat Hamm & Madgeburg	290716		5641530
Otto Skorzeny	RSHA Commando Leader
Eduard Wirths	Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarztat) at the Auschwitz Extermination Camp

Rank	Insignia
Hauptsturmführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Klaus Barbie	Head of the Gestapo in Lyon
Amon Göth	Commander of the Plaszow Labor Camp	43673	1930	510764
Josef Mengele	Chief Medical Officer of main infirmary camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau	3177885	May 1938	5574974
Peter Neumann	Captain of the 5th Viking Division, Wrote The Black March		1939
Erich Priebke	SD and Sicherheitspolizei Commander in Rome, Italy
Eduard Roschmann	Commandant of Riga Ghetto/K-z		1938

Rank	Insignia
Obersturmführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Leo John	Deputy Commander of the Plaszow Labor Camp
[Walter Scharpwinkel]	Gestapo Chief incolved in killing of Allied Pows {i.e The Great Escape}	290803		1053578

Rank	Insignia
Untersturmführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS
Paul Dickopf	SD; postwar president of Interpol	337259	1937
Heinz Felfe	SD Switzerland and Netherlands; postwar KGB spy in British Intelligence and CIA sponsered Gehlen.org		1936
Benson Freeman	British Defector and SS Propaganda Officer
Reimond Tollenaere	Belgian Foreign Legion Waffen-SS Officer
Hanns-Martin Schleyer			1933

[edit] SS Non-Commissioned Officers

Rank	Insignia
Sturmscharführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Gustav Wagner	Head SS-NCO of Sobibor Concentration Camp

Rank	Insignia
Oberscharführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Ernst Barkmann	Waffen-SS Panzer Ace
Eric Muhsfeldt	Senior NCO of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando

Rank	Insignia
Unterscharführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Albert Hujar	Staff NCO of Plaszow Labor Camp

[edit] SS Soldiers

Rank	Insignia
Schütze
Mann
[Anwarter]	{No Insignia}
Bewerber	{SS Uniform without Insignia}

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Alfred Krupp	SS sponsorship member; Arms/Steel industralist/ Colonel in NSFK {Nazi Flying Corps}	None	1934	6989627
Eric Pleasants	British Defector and member of the SS British Freikorps. {British Free Corps}	None	1940	None
Albert Speer	Reichminister for Armaments and War Production	46 104	20 July 1942	474 481