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Between 1925 and 1945, the German SS grew from a mere eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and well over a million Allgemeine-SS members. The following 'list of SS personnel' gives the names of persons who counted among the organizations most famous, influential, and sometimes notorious members.

Contents

Adolf Hitler

SS Generals

SS Officers

SS Non-Commissioned Officers

SS Soldiers

See also

References

Adolf Hitler

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

SS Generals

Rank	Collar insignia
Der Oberste Führer der SS	(None)

Name	Position	SS number	Joined SS	Party number
Adolf Hitler	Der Oberste Führer der SS, 1925–1945	1	February 1925	555 (actuallly #55)

Rank	Collar insignia
Reichsführer

Name	Position	SS number	Joined SS	Party number
Julius Schreck	First Reichsführer SS 1925–1926 Hitler’s chauffer Later held the ranks of SS Standartenführer and SS-Oberführer Posthumously awarded the ranks SS Brigadeführer and SS Ehrenführer of the SS Regiment Munich	5	1925	53
Joseph Berchtold	Second Reichsführer of the SS 1926–1927		August 1923	750
Erhard Heiden	Third Reichsführer SS 1927–1929		1925
Heinrich Himmler	Reichsführer SS and Chief of German Police Minister of the Interior Chief of the replacement Army	168	February 1925	14303
Karl Hanke	Final Reichsführer SS	203013	25 February 1934	102606

Rank	Collar insignia
Oberstgruppenführer

Name	Position	SS number	Joined SS	Party number
Kurt Daluege	Commander of the Ordnungspolizei	1119	1928	31981
Sepp Dietrich	Commander of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) and later the 6th SS Panzer Army	1177	5 May 1928	89015
Paul Hausser	Commander of the II SS Panzer Corps	239795	February 1934	4158779
Franz Xaver Schwarz	NSDAP Treasurer	38500	16 September 1931	6

Rank	Collar insignia
Obergruppenführer

Name	Position	SS number	Joined SS	Party number
Max Amann	Honorary SS Member	53143		3
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski	Higher SS and Police Leader of Central Russia	9831		489101
Gottlob Berger	Commander of the SS-Hauptamt	275991		426875
Werner Best	Reich Plenipotentiary of Denmark	23377		341338
Wilhelm Bittrich	Waffen SS combat commander, II SS Panzerkorps	39177	1934	829700
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle	Leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party Foreign Organization	276915	13 Sept 1933	999185
Philipp Bouhler	Head of the T4 Program	54932		12
Martin Bormann	Secretary of the Nazi Party	555	September 1929	60508
Franz Breithaupt	Commanding general of the SS and Police Courts	39719		602663
Walter Buch	Chairman of the Inquiry and Mediation Board	81353		7733
Richard Walther Darre	First Commander of the SS Race Office	6882		248156
Otto Dietrich	Honorary rank	101349		126727
Joachim Albrecht Eggeling	Gauleiter of Saxony and Anhalt High President of Merseburg	186155	1935	11579
Theodor Eicke	Commander of the SS Totenkopf Division	2921	August 1930	114901
Karl Fiehler	Lord mayor of Munich	91724	31 July 1933	37
Karl Hermann Frank	Higher SS and Police Leader of Bohemia and Moravia	310460		6600002
Herbert Otto Gille	Waffen SS commander	39854		537337
Arthur Greiser	Gauleiter of Reichsgau Wartheland	10795	1929	166635
Wolf-Heinrich Graf Von Helldorf	Not member of SS, but wore the uniform of an SS Obergruppenführer uniform in his capacity as Polizeipresident Berlin	None
August Heissmeyer	Commander of the SS Education Department	4370		21573
Rudolf Hess	Also Deputy-Führer of the NSDAP	50	1 November 1925	16
Konrad Henlein	Gauleiter of the Sudetenland	310307		6600001
Maximilian von Herff	Commander of the SS Personnel Department	405 894	1 April 1942	8858661
Reinhard Heydrich	Chief of the RSHA; president of Interpol	10120	14 July 1931	544916
Hermann Hoefle		463903		3924970
Ulrich Greifelt	Reich commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism	72909		1667407
Friedrich Jecklen	Higher SS and Police Leader of Eastern Russia	4367	12 January 1930	163348
Hans Juttner	Commander of the SS-Führungshauptamt	264497		541163
Ernst Kaltenbrunner	Second Commander of the RSHA	13039		300179
Hans Kammler	Head of V-2 program	113619	20 May 1933	1011855
Wilhelm Karl Keppler		50816		62424
Matthias Kleinheisterkamp	Waffen SS Divisional and Corps Commander	132399	8 January 1934	4158838
Friedrich Wilhelm Kruger	Higher SS and Police Leader of Poland	6123	February 1931	3995130
Walter Krüger	Commander of : 4th SS Panzer Grenadier Polizei 2nd SS Panzer Division ''Das Reich'' IV SS Panzer Corps VI SS Panzer Corps	266184		3991530
Hans Lammers	Honorary rank	118404		1010355
Werner Lorenz	Commander of the Office of Ethnic Germanization	6636	1931	337994
Artur Phleps	Commander of the 7.SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division ''Prinz Eugen''	401214
Oswald Pohl	Commander of the SS Economics and Administration Office (WVHA)	147614	1933	30842
Joachim von Ribbentrop	Foreign minister	63083	February 1938	1199927
Ernst Sachs		278781		4167008
Fritz Sauckel	Honorary rank	254890		1395
Paul Scharfe	Commander of the SS Legal Office
Julius Schaub	Cofounder of the SS, personal assistant to Hitler	7	February 1925	81
Oskar Schwerk		276825		5420196
Fritz von Scholz	Commander of 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division ''Nordland''
Arthur Seyss-Inquart	Commander of the Austrian SS, Deputy governor-general of Poland	292771		6270392
Felix Steiner	Commander of III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps	253351		4264295
Heinrich von Maur				5890310
Prince Josias zu Waldeck und Pyrmont		2139		160025
Karl Wolff	Chief of staff to Heinrich Himmler and Supreme SS and Police Leader of Italy	14235	7 October 1931	695131
Udo von Woyrsch		3689		162349

Rank	Collar insignia
Gruppenführer

Name	Position	SS number	Joined SS	Party number
Amin al-Husayni	Reported SS Honorary Rank (unconfirmed)
Hans Baur	Generalleutenant der Polizei Hitler’s Pilot	808258		None, but received Golden Party Badge
Albert Ritter Von Beck		153322	1937	5354436
Karl Brandt	Hitler’s physician
Carl Clauberg	Involved in human experiments	23876		21635
Hermann Fegelein	SS-Cavalry General, Eva Braun’s brother-in-law
Bruno Erich Alfred Freyberg	Oberburgermiester of Leipzig
Odilo Globocnik	Higher SS and Police Leader of the Adriatic Region
Richard Glucks	Inspector of Concentration Camps/Amt D WVHA	58706	1932	214805
Wilhelm Harster	GeneralLieutnant of Police	225932	9 Nov 1933	3226594
Otto Hofmann	Head of RuSHA 1943 SS and Police Leader Southwest Germany	7646	1931	145729
Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper	Honorary rank
Heinrich Muller	Commander of the Gestapo	107043	20 April 1934	533199
Artur Nebe	Commander of the Kriminalpolizei	280152
Otto Ohlendorf	Commander of the Inland-SD	880	28 MAy 1925	6531
Heinz Reinefarth	Waffen-SS General
Karl Gustav Sauberzweig	2nd Commander of 13th Waffen SS Division
Jürgen Stroop	SS and Police Leader of Warsaw		1932

Rank	Collar insignia
Brigadeführer

Name	Position	SS number	Joined SS	Party number
Léon Degrelle	Promoted by Himmler to this rank on 2 May 1945 (unoffical)	None	1 June 1943	None
Anton Dunckern	Also Generalmajor der Polizei	3526		315601
Karl Genzken	Chief of Medical Office of the Waffen-SS	207954	5 November 1933	39913
Heinz Jost	SD Commander & Commander of Einsatzkommando A
Bronislaw Kaminski	Commander of Kaminski Brigade
Fritz Kranefuss	Head of Financial Department under Himmler	53092		964992
Kurt “Panzermeyer” 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
Johann Rattenhuber	Commander of LSSAH (Hitler’s bodyguard unit)	52877	1 May 1933	3212449
Walter Schellenberg	Commander of the Auslands-SD		10 Jaunary 1934
Franz Six	SD; Head of RSHA AMT VII Charged with creation of Chief of Einsatzgruppen for England Vorkommando of Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B.		1935
Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz	Heer panzer general	82857		1405562
Bruno Streckenbach	Involved with Gestapo and Einsatzgruppen Commander, SS Cavalry Division
Otto Steinbrinck	Freundeskreis der Reichsführer SS
Theobald Thier	Also a Generalmajor der Polizei Executed Krakow Poland 12 July 1949	250198	June 1935	1744848
Friedrich Weber	Commander of the NSDAP Old Guard	265902	July 1934	15
Wilhelm Werner	World War I war criminal; Member of Himmler’s personal staff	9916	15 July 1931	332139
Karl Maria Wiligut	Section VIII (Archives) RUSHA Himmler’s Personal Staff		September 1933

Rank	Collar insignia
Oberführer

Name	Position	SS number	Joined SS	Party number
Adolf Ax	Waffen SS commander	3848	1 December 1930	378043
Karl-Heinz Bertling	Commander of the Indian Legion of the SS Holder of the Golden Nazi Party Badge. World War I veteran. Served in the Freikorps ''Ehrhardt Brigade'' 1919.	60258	1 November 1930	370275
Rudolf Diels	First commander of the Gestapo	187116	April 1934	3955308
Eduard Deisenhofer	Waffen SS combat commander
Oskar Dirlewanger	Leader of Dirlewanger Brigade
Ferdinand Porsche		None		5643287
Georg Martin	Waffen SS commander	87679		5649799
Emil Maurice	SS Member #2, credited with founding the SS	2	February 1925	39
Thomas Müller	Waffen-SS combat commander
Freidrich Panzinger	Chief Amt IV A RSHA; Einsatzgruppe A Deputy Gestapo chief Chief, Amt V RSHA	322118		5017341
Emanuel Schafer	Einsatzkommando/SD/Himmler’s personal staff	280018		4659879
Julian Scherner	SS and Police Leader of Kraków
Julius Schreck	First Reichsführer SS	5	February 1925	53
Otto Steinhäusl	Leader of Interpol	292773	1938

SS Officers

Rank	Collar insignia
Standartenführer

Name	Position	SS number	Joined SS	Party number
Gunter d'Alquen	Chief of Propaganda OKW Editor of ''Das Schwarze Korps'' Connected with SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers	8452	1931	66.689
Jakob Grimminger	Leader of Standarten 1 and bearer of the ''Blutfahne''	135	25 February 1926	759
Karl Jäger	Commander of Einsatzkommando 3/ Einsatzgruppe A Author of the infamous ''Jäger Report''.	62823	1932	359269
Rudolf Lange	SD Commander of Latvia, Commander Einsatzkommando A-2 Wannsee Conference participant	93501	1 March 1933	1159583
Professor Dr. Wilhelm Pfannenstiel	SS physician at Belzec and Auschwitz	273083		2828629
Jochen Peiper	Commander of LSSAH Kampgruppe Peiper (the unit involved in the Malmedy massacre)	132496	16 Oct 1933
Wolfram Seivers	Himmler's personnel Staff Gerneral Secretary of the Ahnenerbe Deputy of Managing Board of Directors of Reich Research Council	275325	1935	144983

Rank	Collar insignia
Obersturmbannführer

Name	Position	SS number	Joined SS	Party number
Freidrich Wilhelm Altena	Member of VOMI Murdered an Allied POW pilot on 9 August 1944. Details here.	354102		316030
Hans Bludau	SS doctor-SS Führungshauptamt	310384	1 November 1938	2765344
Hans Bissinger	Commander of Field-Ersatz-Brigade 102 II SS Panzer Corps	53698	1 April 1932	1200004
Leon Degrelle	Belgian Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander	None	1 June 1943	None
Adolf Doldi	RFSS RSD (Hitler’s pilot)	276881		1722844
Adolf Eichmann	Head of the Gestapo’s Office for Jewish Questions	45326	1 April 1932	889895
Walter Hänsch	RSHA I D-2 RSHA I D Sonderkommando 4-B	252573	1 August 1935	537256
Wilhelm Hoettl	RSHA Head of Counter Intelligence for Central and Southeastern Europe 2nd in command to Himmler’s representative in Hungary	309510	1938	6309616
Rudolf Höß	Commander of Auschwitz concentration camp	193616	20 September 1933	3240
Josef Jahn	9th SS Panzer Division ''Hohenstaufen''	2431
Frederik Jensen	Waffen-SS	456 051	4 April 1941	None
Herbert Kappler	Commander of SS and Police Forces in Rome, Italy	55211	8 May 1933	594899
Karl Rahm	Commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp
Harald Riipalu	Estonian member of the SS
Richard Schulze A.k.a. Richard Schulze-Kossens	Commander of SS Officers School Bad Tolz, Bavaria
Hans Seigling	Also held rank as an Oberstleutnant in the Schutzpolizei Commander of German Police Battalion 57 Commander of Schuma Brigade Siegling Last commander of the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian)	450.683	1940	3.279.337
Conrad Schellong		135553	28 December 1932	1428412
Edmund Trinkl	Oberregierungsrat RSHA Berlin Dept I A 6 Former member of Van Epp & Roehm’s ''Reichsflagge'' Freikorps brigade
Walter Vollmer	SD during the war KGB double agent in CIA-sponsored Gehlen Organization	21889		241213

Rank	Collar insignia
Sturmbannführer

Name	Position	SS number	Joined SS	Party number
Kurt Bartsch	SS Kavallerie-Ausbidldungs und Ersatz-Abteilung 8	460 816 (V)	1942	None
Karl Boemelburg	Gestapo leader in France	35898		892239
Wernher von Braun	Allgemeine-SS battalion officer (also SS Horseriding Club)	185068	1933
Joseph Darnand	French Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander
Hans Günther	Adolf Eichmann deputy; Brother of Rolf Günther	290.129		119.925
Rolf Günther	Adolf Eichmann deputy; Brother of Hans Günther	290.130		472.421
Hans Keiffer	Deputy Gestapo leader in France	280104		2632427
Wilhelm Kment	Commander, 1st Company, 2nd SS Panzer Division ''Das Reich'' Decorated personally by Himmler	167103	Prior to 1935	4262124
Werner Knab	Gestapo chief in Norway Commander of the Security Police in Lyon, France	191584	1935	3269940
Horst Kopkow	Counterintelligence; Postwar employee of MI6	46034	1931	607161
Gerald Krause	SS foreign legion commander	565 781	1940	67 324
Bernhard Krueger	Leader of VI F4A (RSHA) Operation Bernhard	15429		528729
Hans Latza	HSSP Norway	129260		2180945
Heinz Linge	Hitler's valet	35795
Ricard Edwin Mattel	Gynecology, Kaisern Elisabethspital, Vienna, 1940		4 Nov 1938	6212863
Alfred Naujocks	SD commander, leader of the Gleiwitz incident	624279	1930 or 1931	26246
Hermann Hofle	Deputy head of the Aktion Reinhard programme Postwar member of Gehlen Organization			3924970
Adolf Shulz-Lenhardt	Detective (''Kriminalrat''), cities of Hamm and Magdeburg	290716		5641530
Otto Skorzeny	RSHA commando leader
Eduard Wirths	Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarztat) at the Auschwitz extermination camp

Rank	Collar insignia
Hauptsturmführer

Name	Position	SS number	Joined SS	Party number
Klaus Barbie	Head of the Gestapo in Lyon, France		1935
Amon Goth	Commander of the Plaszow Labor Camp	43673	1930	510764
Oskar Hans	SD-Hauptamt	101662
Karl Hass	SD; participant in the Ardeatine Caves massacre		1934
Josef Mengele	Chief medical officer 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 the Riga Ghetto		1938
Willy Whitteler	Dachau concentration camp	310314
Fritz Woehrn	RSHA IVb4	280238	Sept 11, 1938	2863618

Rank	Collar insignia
Obersturmführer

Name	Position	SS number	Joined SS	Party number
Kurt Gerstein	Author of the ''Gerstein Report''		10 March 1941
Willy Hund	Waffen SS Knight’s Cross holder	391949	3 April 1939	None
Leo John	Deputy Commander of the Plaszow Labor Camp
Friedrich Peter]]	Einstatzgruppen member Leader of FPO Party Austria		1938
Walter Scharpwinkel	Gestapo chief, participant in the killing of Allied POWs (namely as depicted in ''The Great Escape'')	290803		1053578

Rank	Collar insignia
Untersturmführer

{| align="center" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"
! style="background:#efefef;" | Name
! style="background:#efefef;" | Position
! style="background:#efefef;" | SS number
! style="background:#efefef;" | Joined SS
! style="background:#efefef;" | Party number
|-
|Paul Dickopf
|SD; postwar president of Interpol
|337259
|1937
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|Heinz Felfe
|SD Switzerland and Netherlands; postwar KGB spy in British Intelligence and the CIA-sponsored Gehlen Organization
|
|1936
|
|-
|Walter Kutschmann
|Kriminalkommisar
Gestapo Chief in Drobohycz
{After being Identifed as living in Argentina by Simon Wiesenthal arrested June 28, 1975; released June 29, 1975; Kutschmann died August 30, 1986}
|
|1940
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|Benson Freeman
|British defector and SS propaganda officer
SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers
|
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|Martin James Monti
|US Air Corps deserter and SS propaganda officer
SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers
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|1945
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|Reimond Tollenaere
|Waffen SS Belgian Foreign Legion officer
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|Hanns-Martin Schleyer
|Leader of board of Zentralverband der Industrie in Prague
|221714
|30 June 1933
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|}

SS Non-Commissioned Officers

{| align="left" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"
! style="background:#efefef;" | Rank
! style="background:#efefef;" | Collar insignia
|-
|Sturmscharführer
|
|-
|}
{| align="center" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"
! style="background:#efefef;" | Name
! style="background:#efefef;" | Position
! style="background:#efefef;" | SS number
! style="background:#efefef;" | Joined SS
! style="background:#efefef;" | Party number
|-
|Lorenz Hackenholt
|SS-NCO in charge of gassing at Belzec Concentration Camp
|
|1933
|1727962
|-
|Gustav Wagner
|Head SS-NCO of Sobibor Concentration Camp
|
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|}


{| align="left" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"
! style="background:#efefef;" | Rank
! style="background:#efefef;" | Collar insignia
|-
|Oberscharführer
|
|-
|}
{| align="center" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"
! style="background:#efefef;" | Name
! style="background:#efefef;" | Position
! style="background:#efefef;" | SS number
! style="background:#efefef;" | Joined SS
! style="background:#efefef;" | Party number
|-
|Wilhelm Ardnt
|Hitler valet killed April 21, 1945 in plane crash
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|Ernst Barkmann
|Waffen-SS Panzer ace
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|Franz Bürkl
|Deputy commander and infamous executioner at Pawiak Prison, Warsaw, Poland
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|Heinrich Harrer
|Austrian mountaineer and explorer in Tibet
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|Karl Wilhelm Krause
|Hitler Chief Valet 1933-1939
In 1944 with Flakzug of SS Panzer Regiment 12 in 1944
|236858
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|Eric Muhsfeldt
|Senior NCO of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando
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|Karl Silberbauer
|Vienna Gestapo;
SD at the Hague;
Arrested Anne Frank
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{| align="left" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"
! style="background:#efefef;" | Rank
! style="background:#efefef;" | Collar insignia
|-
|Unterscharführer
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|-
|}
{| align="center" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"
! style="background:#efefef;" | Name
! style="background:#efefef;" | Position
! style="background:#efefef;" | SS number
! style="background:#efefef;" | Joined SS
! style="background:#efefef;" | Party number
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|Albert Hujar
|Staff NCO at the Plaszow Labor Camp
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SS Soldiers

{| align="left" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"
! style="background:#efefef;" | Rank
! style="background:#efefef;" | Collar insignia
|-
|Rottenführer
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|Sturmmann
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|Schütze
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|Mann
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|-
|Anwärter
|(No Insignia)
|-
|Bewerber
|(SS Uniform without Insignia)
|-
|}
{| align="center" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"
! style="background:#efefef;" | Name
! style="background:#efefef;" | Position
! style="background:#efefef;" | SS number
! style="background:#efefef;" | Joined SS
! style="background:#efefef;" | Party number
|-
|Josef Blösche
|Rottenführer; member of SD; involved in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
|314655
|
|6547348
|-
|Friedrich Flick
|Freundeskreis der Reichsführer SS
Arms/Steel industrialist
|
|
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|Alfred Krupp
|Freundeskreis der Reichsführer SS
Arms/Steel industrialist/
Colonel in National Socialist Flyers Corps (NSFK)
|None
|1934
|6989627
|-
|Josef Oberle
|Dutch SS guard at Amersfoort concentration camp
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|Berend Johan Westerveld
|Dutch SS Guard at Amersfoort concentration camp
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|Eric Pleasants
|British defector and member of the SS British Free Corps
|None
|1940
|None
|-
|Sebastian Schmid
|Driver at Dachau concentration camp
War Crimes Defendant
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|Albert Speer
|Reichminister for Armaments and War Production
|46 104
|20 July 1942
|474 481
|-
|}

See also

★ Ex-Nazis, List of living Nazis and List of former Nazis influential after 1945

★ SS rank

★ SS unit insignia

★ Orpo rank

References

SS Officer Service Records, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland