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.
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.
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 | |||
| 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 | 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 | |||
| 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) | |||
| 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 |  |
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| Name | Position | SS Number | Entry into SS | Nazi Party Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karl Brandt | Hitler's physician | |||
| Hermann Fegelein | SS-Cavalry General, Brother-in-law to Eva Braun | |||
| Odilo Globocnik | Higher SS and Police Leader of the Adriatic Region | |||
| Richard Glücks | Inspector of Concentration Camps | |||
| Heinrich Müller | Commander of the Gestapo | |||
| Artur Nebe | Commander of the Kriminalpolizei | |||
| Otto Ohlendorf | Commander of the Inland-SD | |||
| Heinz Reinefarth | Waffen-SS General | |||
| Jürgen Stroop | SS and Police Leader of Warsaw |
| 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 | |||
| Hans Nieland | Lord Mayor of Dresden | |||
| Walter Schellenberg | Commander of the Ausland-SD | |||
| Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz | Heer Panzer General | |||
| Christian Weber | Commander of the NSDAP Old Guard | 265902 | July 1934 | 15 |
SS Officers
SS Non-Commissioned Officers
SS Soldiers
See also
References
S.S. Officer Service Records, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland
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