officiers ss et collaborateurs

Membre du parti nazi (NSDAP) en 1937, Korherr (1903- ?) devint le statisticien en chef de la SS en 1940. Son rapport (Rapport sur la solution finale de la question juive , 1943) est plus connu que le personnage en lui-même à la fois parce qu’il est extrêmement...

Leo Ferdinand von Jena (* 8. Juli 1876 in Biebrich am Rhein; † 7. April 1957 in Celle) war ein deutscher Militär und SS-General. Jena schloss sich 1921 der DNVP und dem „Stahlhelm“ an. Seit den späten 1930er Jahren war er Mitglied der NSDAP. Zuvor hatte...

Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (22 March 1902, Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Lower Franconia - 23/24 April 1945). The von Guttenberg family originates back to 1149 in Franconia (northern part of Bavaria) in the southern part of Germany. Karl...

Arnold Strippel (1911-94) was an SS man, employed in concentration camps from 1935 until the end of the war. First he was in Sachsenburg; then from July 1937 to March 1941 in Buchenwald as chief roll call leader (Rapportführer). From March 1941 he was...

Adolf Speck (1911-46) came as a guard to Neuengamme Concentration Camp and, in the same summer, was put in command of the concentration camp brickworks. He was known to be brutal and violent. On the night of the crime he was guarding the Soviet prisoners-of-war...

Hans Friedrich Petersen (1897-1967) was junior squad leader (Unterscharführer) and the driver for the Neuengamme Concentration Camp postal office. He drove the truck containing the children, their attendants, and six of the Soviet prisoners-of-war, who...

Ewald Jauch (1902-46) was initially employed as a guard (1940-44) and then as roll call leader (Rapportführer) in Neuengamme. From December 1944 he was section commander of the Bullenhuser Damm satellite camp. He, too, took part in the murder of the children...

Vladas Zajančkauskas (born December 27, 1915) is an alleged Nazi war criminal. He was born in Aukštadvaris, Lithuania. At age 95 (as of July 2010) he stands to become the oldest person ever deported as a result of an investigation by the U.S. Justice...

Hans Fischböck (24 January 1895 - 3 July 1967) was an Austrian banker who was the economics minister and minister of finance of Austria and the finance minister of Nazi occupied Holland. He was born in Geras, Austria and studied in Vienna. From 1915 to...

Adolf von Bomhard (born 6 January 1891 in Augsburg - died 19 July 1976) was an SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Ordnungspolizei in the German Third Reich. In the post-war era he was Bürgermeister of Prien am Chiemsee. During the First World...

Johann Frahm (1901-46) trained in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp from 1939. From November 1942 he was in service in Neuengamme Concentration Camp; from 1944 he deputized for roll call leader (Rapportführer) Dreimann in the camp typing pool. He participated...

Wilhelm Dreimann (1904–46) was deployed from the Hamburg police force in 1940 as a guard in Neuengamme Concentration Camp. He carried out executions in the camp single-handedly. Prisoners identified him as the executioner of Neuengamme. According to evidence...

Dr. Ernst Heinrich Schmidt (March 27, 1912 - November 28, 2000) was a German physician and SS-Hauptsturmführer, employed in a variety of Nazi concentration camps during World War II. He was tried in 1947 and 1975 for complicity in war crimes, but was...

Erich Wasicky (May 27, 1911 – May 28, 1947) was a pharmacist at the Mauthausen concentration camp in charge of gassing victims. Wasicky was a physician. He joined the NSDAP and was a member of the SS. Between 1941 and 1944, he worked as a pharmacist at...

Julius Ludolf (March 26, 1893—May 28, 1947) was an SS-Obersturmführer, a member of the Waffen-SS and commander of various satellite camps of Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Upper Austria. Julius Ludolf worked at concentration camps from January...

August Eigruber (16 April 1907 – 28 May 1947) was an Austrian-born Nazi Gauleiter of Reichsgau Oberdonau (Upper Danube) and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria, later hanged by the Allies. Born in Steyr, Austria, after finishing middle school, Eigruber underwent...

Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper (13 October 1883 in Schwerin – 23 October 1935 in Dessau) was a Nazi politician and a Nazi Gauleiter in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt. First Loeper became an ensign (Fahnenjunker) in Pioneer Battalion 2 in Spandau and then completed...

Paul Götze (November 13, 1903 - January 28, 1948) was an SS-Rottenführer at Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Born in Halle, Götze was a painter by profession. He joined the Nazi party in 1937 and the SS in 1942. In July 1942 he was posted...

Erich Adam Oskar Dinges (November 20, 1911, - ?) was an SS-Sturmmann and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial. Dinges was born in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as a driving instructor. He joined the...

Luise Danz (born December 11, 1917) is a former concentration camp guard. She was born in Walldorf (Werra), Thuringia. On January 24, 1943 at the age of 25, Luise Danz was conscripted as an Aufseherin within the Nazi concentration camp system. She served...

Alexander Bülow (born April 28, 1905) was an SS-Sturmmann and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial. Bülow was born in Andriówce. A farm worker, he was unable to read or write, until he joined the SS...

August Raimond Bogusch (August 5, 1890 - January 28, 1948) was an SS-Scharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial. Bogusch was born in Lubliniec, Upper Silesia. He joined the Nazi Party in October...

Ernst Freiherr von Weizsäcker (May 25, 1882 – August 4, 1951) was a German diplomat and politician. He served as State Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1938 to 1943, and as German Ambassador to the Holy See from 1943 to 1945. He was a member of the...

Karl Ritter (June 5, 1883, Dörflas, Marktredwitz – July 31, 1968, Murnau am Staffelsee) was a German diplomat during the Third Reich and was convicted as a war criminal in the Ministries Trial. A member of the Nazi Party, he was ambassador to Brazil for...

Otto von Erdmannsdorff (1888–1978) was a German diplomat who served as ambassador to Hungary under the Nazis from 1937 to 1941, and was later acquitted of war crimes in the Ministries Trial. A member of the Saxon juridical service before the First World...

Hans Ehlich (born 1 July 1901, in Leipzig - 30 March 1991 in Braunschweig) was a doctor and SS-Standartenführer (Colonel) in Germany during World War II. He was the commander of Amtsgruppe III B "Volkstum und Volksgesundheit" in the SD in occupied Poland....

Werner Lorenz (October 2, 1891 – March 13, 1974) was SS head of the Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (English: Main Welfare Office for Ethnic Germans) (VOMI) an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the German Reich from other parts...

Herbert Hübner ( 7. August 1902 in Bad Salzschlirf ; unbekannt) war ein deutscher SS-Führer und verurteilter Kriegsverbrecher. Hübner absolvierte nach seiner Schulzeit eine Lehre zum Bankkaufmann und war anschließend in diesem Beruf tätig. Dem Jungdeutschen...

Ulrich Heinrich Emil Richard Greifelt (b. Berlin, Germany, 8 December 1896; d. Landsberg Prison, 6 February 1949) was an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) during the Nazi regime in Germany. He was found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg and died in Landsberg...

Heinrich Bütefisch (24 February 1894 – 5 September 1969) was a German chemist, manager at IG Farben, and Nazi war criminal. As a leading figure in IG Farben, Bütefisch joined the Freunde des Reichsführer-SS, an exclusive group close to Heinrich Himmler...

Fritz ter Meer ( July 4, 1884 – October 27, 1967 ) was a German chemist and Nazi war criminal. From 1925 to 1945 Fritz ter Meer was on the board of IG Farben AG. He was involved in the planning of Monowitz concentration camp, a satellite camp of KZ Auschwitz....

Christian Schneider (born 19 November 1887 in Kulmbach - died 5 May 1972 in Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen) was a German chemist, industrial manager and, in the Third Reich, a Wehrwirtschaftsführer (war economy leader). The son of August Schneider, an electrician,...

Hermann Schmitz (January 1, 1881– October 8, 1960) was a German industrialist and Nazi war criminal. CEO of IG Farben from 1935 to 1945, he was sentenced to four years in prison in the IG Farben Trial. Schmitz was born in Hessen on 1 January 1881, son...

Heinrich Oster (born 9 May 1878 in Strasbourg - died 29 October 1954 in Essen) was a German chemist, executive at BASF and IG Farben and convicted Nazi war criminal. Oster was the son of Oberstleutnant Heinrich Oster and served as a volunteer for a year...

Carl Ludwig Lautenschläger (27 February 1888 in Karlsruhe - 6 December 1962 in Karlsruhe) was a German chemist and physician. Lautenschläger was the son of Ludwig Lautenschläger, an architect and his wife Paula Schober. He was trained in pharmacy before...

Gustav von Myrdacz (born 12 July 1874 in Vienna; died 11 July 1945 in Tirana) was an Austrian noble who was instrumental in organising the Royal Albanian Army from the early 1920s to 1945. Gustav von Myrdacz was born in Vienna on 11 July 1874 to a German-speaking...

Hans Kühne (born June 3 1880 in Magdeburg - died February 18 1969 in Lindau) was a German chemist on the board of IG Farben and a defendant during the Nuremberg Trials. The son of Julius and Elisabeth Kühne, Hans Kühne enrolled in the University of Leipzig...

Carl Krauch (April 7, 1887 – February 3, 1968) was a German chemist, industrialist and Nazi war criminal. He was an executive at BASF (later IG Farben); during World War II, he was chairman of the supervisory board. He was a key implementer of the Reich’s...

Georg August Eduard von Schnitzler (born October 29, 1884 in Cologne - died May 24, 1962 in Basel) was a member of the board at IG Farben and a Nazi war criminal. Schnitzler studied law at a number of universities, eventually completing his doctorate...

Heinrich Gattineau (January 6 1905 in Bucharest - April 27 1985) was a German economist, Strumabteilung (SA) leader, director of IG Farben and defendant during the Nuremberg trials. Gattineau was born in Bucharest, the son of Julius Gattineau, a German...