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This register of SS leaders in general's rank includes the members of the Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS, in line with the appropriate SS seniority list (Dienstaltersliste der Waffen-SS) from July 1, 1944. It contains (incomplete) further SS Honour leaders (SS-Ehrenführer) and SS-Rank leaders for special duty (SS-Rangführer zur besonderen Verwendung), short for SS Honour – and rank leaders (SS-Ehren- und Rangführer).
List of SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer
SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer (literal: SS-Colonel group leader), short SS-Obstgruf, was from 1942 to 1945 the highest commissioned rank in the Schutzstaffel (SS), with the exception of Reichsführer-SS. SS-Obstgruf was comparable to four-star ranks in English speaking armed forces (today equivalent to NATO OF-9).
Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Comments |
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Kurt Daluege | Chief of the Ordnungspolizei 1936–1943; Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia 1942–1943 | 1897–1946 | also: Generaloberst der Polizei (Colonel general of the police); executed |
Josef Dietrich (also: Sepp Dietrich) | Supreme commander 6th Panzer Army | 1892–1966 | also: Generaloberst der Waffen-SS (Colonel general of the Waffen-SS); briefly imprisoned |
Paul Hausser (also: Papa Hausser) | Supreme commander Army Group "Oberrhein" (Heeresgruppe "Oberrhein") | 1880–1972 | also: Generaloberst der Waffen-SS |
Franz Xaver Schwarz | Reichsschatzmeister der NSDAP (Reich Treasurer of the Nazi Party) | 1875–1947 | Held in an internment camp until his death in 1947 |
List of SS-Obergruppenführer
SS-Obergruppenführer (literal: SS-Senior group leader), short SS-Ogruf, was the second highest commissioned rank in the SS, comparable to three-star ranks in English speaking armed forces (today equivalent to NATO OF-8).
Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Comments |
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Friedrich Alpers (also: Fritz Alpers) | Generalforstmeister (General forest supervisor) and State Secretary in the Reichsforstamt (Reich Forestry Office) | 1901–1944 | suicide in 1944, while in US custody |
Max Amann | SS-Ehren- und Rangführer (SS Honour – and Rank leader); President, Reich Press Chamber ; Reichsleiter (Reich Leader) for the Press | 1891–1957 | labour camp until 1953 |
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (also: Erich von dem Bach) | Chef der Bandenkampfverbände (Chief of the "bandit" fighting formations) | 1899–1972 | also: General der Waffen-SS und General der Polizei (General of the Waffen-SS and General of the police); 1958–1972 imprisoned |
Herbert Backe | SS-Ehrenführer (SS Honour leader); Reichsminister für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (Reich Minister for Nutrition and Agriculture) 1942–1945; | 1896–1947 | suicide |
Gottlob Berger | Chief of the SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office) 1939–1945 | 1896–1975 | also: General der Waffen-SS (General of the Waffen-SS); until 1951 imprisoned |
Theodor Berkelmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer (Higher SS- and police leader) Elbe (Saxony) 1938–1940; Rhein-Westmark 1940–1943; Wartheland 1943 | 1894–1943 | also: General der Polizei (General of the police) |
Werner Best | Deputy of Reinhard Heydrich in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office) ; Reichsbevollmächtigter (Reich Plenipotentiary) in Denmark | 1903–1989 | imprisoned until 1951 |
Wilhelm Bittrich | Commanding general II SS Panzer Corps | 1894–1979 | also: General der Waffen-SS; interned in Marseille 1948–1953 |
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter of the NSDAP Auslandsorganisation (Nazi Party Foreign Organisation) | 1903–1960 | imprisoned until 1949 |
Martin Bormann | SS-Ehrenrang; head of the Nazi Party Chancellery from 1941; Adolf Hitler's Personal Secretary from 1943; | 1900–1945 | Died 1945, likely by suicide; remains of body were discovered in 1972, finally identified formally by means of DNA tests as those of Bormann in 1998. |
Philipp Bouhler | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief of Kanzlei des Führers (Hitler's Chancellery); Head of Aktion T4 | 1899–1945 | suicide |
Franz Breithaupt | Chief Hauptamt SS-Gericht (SS Court Main Office) 1942–1945 | 1880–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; murdered |
Walter Buch | SS-Ehrenrang; Chairman of the Supreme Party Court | 1883–1949 | suicide |
Josef Bürckel | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS (Personal Staff Reichsführer SS) ; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) Reichsgau Vienna 1939–1940, Gau Westmark 1941–1944 | 1895–1944 | |
Leonardo Conti | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; German/Swiss physician, Reichsärzteführer (Reich Health Leader); Aktion T4 participant | 1900–1945 | suicide |
Richard Walther Darré | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (SS Race and Settlement Main Office) 1931–1938; Reichsminister of Nutrition and Agriculture 1933–1942; Reich Farmers Leader; Head of Reichsnährstand (Reich Nutrition Estate) | 1895–1953 | imprisoned until 1950 |
Karl Maria Demelhuber | Commander in Chief Armed forces staff East Coast | 1896–1988 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
Otto Dietrich | SS-Ehrenrang; NSDAP Press Chief; Reich Press Chief; Vice-President, Reich Press Chamber | 1897–1952 | imprisoned until 1950 |
Karl von Eberstein (also: Friedrich Karl von Eberstein) | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Main (Northern Bavaria) 1938–1942; South (Southern Bavaria) 1938–1945 | 1894–1979 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
Joachim Albrecht Eggeling | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt 1935–1937, Gau Halle-Merseburg 1937–1945; Oberpräsident of Halle-Merseburg Province | 1884–1945 | suicide |
Theodor Eicke | Commander SS Division Totenkopf 1939–1943 | 1892–1943 | also: General der Waffen-SS; killed in action |
August Eigruber | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Reichsgau Upper Danube | 1907–1947 | executed in Landsberg |
Karl Fiehler | SS-Ehrenrang; Lord Mayor of Munich; Reichsleiter for Municipal Policy | 1895–1969 | interned until 1949 |
Albert Forster | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Reichsgau Danzig | 1902–1952 | executed in Warsaw |
August Frank | Staff Oberkommando des Heeres | 1898–1984 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; imprisoned until 1954 |
Karl Hermann Frank | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; State Secretary in Bohemia and Moravia; Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia | 1898–1946 | also: General der Polizei; executed in Prague |
Herbert Gille (also: Herbert Otto Gille) | Commanding general IV SS Panzer Corps | 1897–1966 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
Curt von Gottberg | Commanding general XII SS Army Corps | 1896–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Ernst-Robert Grawitz | Reich's physician of the SS- and police | 1899–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Ulrich Greifelt | Chief of Staff to the Stabshauptamt des Reichskommissars für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums (Main Staff Office of the Reich's Commissioner for Strengthening of the German Nationality) | 1896–1949 | also: General der Polizei; imprisoned until 1949 |
Arthur Greiser | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Reichsgau Wartheland | 1897–1946 | executed in Posen |
Karl Gutenberger | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer West (Westphalia-North Rheinland) 1941–1945 | 1905–1961 | also: General der Waffen; imprisoned until 1953 |
Karl Hanke | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP Gau Lower Silesia; last Reichsführer-SS | 1903–1945 | killed attempting escape |
August Heissmeyer | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Spree (Berlin-Brandenburg); Chief SS-Hauptamt 1935–1939; Chief Hauptamt Dienststelle Heissmeyer (Main Office Division Heißmeyer) | 1897–1979 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff | SS-Ehrenrang: General der Polizei; SA-Obergruppenführer; Police President of Potsdam (1933–1935) and Berlin (1935–1944) | 1896–1944 | involved in the 20 July Plot; executed in Plötzensee prison |
Konrad Henlein | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Reichsgau Sudetenland | 1898–1945 | suicide |
Maximilian von Herff | Chief SS-Personalhauptamt (SS Personnel Main Office) 1942–1945 | 1893–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; died in British captivity |
Rudolf Hess | SS-Ehrenrang; Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler; Reichsminister without Portfolio | 1894–1987 | imprisoned after Nuremberg trials until 1987; suicide |
Reinhard Heydrich | Chief Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) 1939–1942; Oberster Befehlshaber der Sicherheitsdienst (SD); Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia 1941–1942 |
1904–1942 | also: General der Polizei; assassinated in Prague |
Friedrich Hildebrandt | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP Gau Mecklenburg and Reichsstatthalter Mecklenburg | 1898–1948 | executed in Landsberg |
Richard Hildebrandt | Chief SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt 1943–1945; Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Rhein 1939; Weichsel (Danzig-West Prussia) 1939–1943; Black Sea 1943–1944; Southeast (Silesia) 1944–1945; Bohemia-Moravia (1945) | 1897–1951 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed in Poland |
Hermann Höfle | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Center (Hanover-Brunswick) 1943–1944; Slovakia 1944–1945 | 1898–1947 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed in Bratislava |
Otto Hofmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Southwest (Baden-Württemberg) 1943–1945; Chief SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt 1940–1943 | 1896–1982 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; imprisoned 1945–1954 |
Friedrich Jeckeln | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Center (Hanover-Brunswick) 1938–1940; West (Westphalia-North Rheinland) 1940–1941; Russia-South 1941; Russia-North 1941–1945 | 1889–1946 | also: General der Polizei; executed in Riga |
Hugo Jury | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Reichsgau Lower Danube | 1887–1945 | suicide |
Hans Jüttner | Chief SS-Führungshauptamt (SS Main Office) | 1894–1965 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned until 1950 |
Ernst Kaltenbrunner | Chief Reichssicherheitshauptamt 1943–1945; Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Danube 1938–1943 | 1903–1946 | also: General der Waffen-SS; executed after Nuremberg trials |
Hans Kammler | SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt, Chef Amt C (Bauwesen) SS Main Management – and Administration Office, Chief Office division C (Construction) | 1901–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Jürgen von Kamptz | Commander in Chief of the Ordnungspolizei in Italy | 1891–1954 | also: General der Polizei |
Karl Kaufmann | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Gau Hamburg | 1900–1966 | imprisoned for short periods between 1948 and 1953 |
Georg Keppler | Commanding general I SS Panzer Corps; III SS Panzer Corps; XVIII SS Army Corps | 1894–1966 | also: General der Waffen-SS; interned until 1948 |
Wilhelm Keppler | SS-Ehrenrang; industrialist | 1882–1960 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned until 1951 |
Dietrich Klagges | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Ministerpräsident Free State Brunswick | 1891–1971 | imprisoned until 1957 |
Matthias Kleinheisterkamp | Commanding general XI SS Army Corps | 1893–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Kurt Knoblauch | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief Office division B | 1885–1952 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned1949–1951 |
Wilhelm Koppe | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Warthegau 1939–1943; East (General Government) 1943–1945; State Secretary for Security in the General Government | 1896–1975 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1960–1962 |
Paul Körner | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; State Secretary of Prussia and the Four Year Plan | 1893–1957 | imprisoned until 1951 |
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger | Commanding general V SS Mountain Corps 1944–1945; Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer East (General Government) 1939–1943 | 1894–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Walter Krüger | Commanding general VI SS Army Corps | 1890–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide |
Hans Heinrich Lammers | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief of the German Reich Chancellery (Reichskanzlei); Reichsminister without Portfolio | 1879–1962 | imprisoned until 1951 |
Hartmann Lauterbacher | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; HJ-Stabsführer & Deputy Reichsjugendführer; Gauleiter NSDAP Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick; Oberpräsident Province of Hanover | 1909–1988 | interned until 1948; escaped |
Werner Lorenz | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office) | 1891–1974 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned until 1955 |
Benno Martin | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Main (Northern Bavaria) 1942–1945 | 1893–1975 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; interned until 1948; imprisonment 1953, absolved |
Heinrich von Maur | SS-Ehrenrang; Stab Upper Sector South West | 1863–1947 | also: General of the Artillery |
Emil Mazuw | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Baltic Sea (Pomerania-Mecklenburg) | 1900–1987 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned until 1951 |
Wilhelm Murr | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern and Reichsstatthalter Württemberg | 1888–1945 | suicide |
Konstantin von Neurath | SS-Ehrenrang; Reichsminister for Foreign Affairs 1933–1938; President, Secret Cabinet Council; Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia 1939–1943 | 1873–1956 | imprisoned after Nuremberg trials until 1954 |
Carl Oberg | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer France | 1897–1965 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; imprisoned until 1962 |
Günther Pancke | Chief SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt 1938–1940; Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Center (Hanover-Brunswick) 1940–1943; Denmark 1943-1945 | 1899–1973 | also: General der Polizei; imprisoned until 1953 |
Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch | SS-Führungshauptamt; Commanding general in Hungary | 1888–1971 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
Artur Phleps | Commanding general V SS Mountain Corps 1943–1944 | 1881–1944 | also: General der Waffen-SS; killed in action |
Oswald Pohl | Chief SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt (SS Main Economic and Administrative Office) 1942–1945 | 1892–1951 | also: General der Waffen-SS; executed in Landsberg |
Hans-Adolf Prützmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer North Sea (Schleswig-Holstein; Weser-Ems) 1938–1941; Northeast (East Prussia) 1941; Russia-North 1941; Russia-South 1941–1943; Höchster SS- und Polizeiführer (Supreme SS and Police Leader) Ukraine 1943–1944; Inspector General Werwolf units 1944–1945 | 1901–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; suicide |
Rudolf Querner | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer North Sea (Schleswig-Holstein; Weser-Ems) 1941–1943; Danube 1943–1944; Center (Hanover-Brunswick) 1944–1945 | 1893–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; suicide |
Friedrich Rainer | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Reichsgau Salzburg 1938–1941, Reichsgau Carinthia 1941–1945 | 1903–1947 | executed in Ljubljana |
Hanns Albin Rauter | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Northwest (Netherlands) | 1895–1949 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed |
Wilhelm Rediess | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Northeast (East Prussia) 1938–1940; North (Norway) 1940–1945 | 1900–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; suicide |
Wilhelm Reinhard | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1869–1955 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
Joachim von Ribbentrop | SS-Ehrenrang; Reichsminister for Foreign Affairs 1933–1938 | 1893–1946 | executed after Nuremberg trials |
Erwin Rösener | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Rhein (Southern Rheinland-Saar)1940-1941; Alpenland 1941-1945 | 1902–1946 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed |
Ernst Sachs | Head of Telecommunications in Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1880–1956 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
Fritz Sauckel | SS-Ehrenrang; General Plenipotentiary for Deployment of Labour; Gauleiter NSDAP Gau Thuringia and Reichsstatthalter Thuringia | 1894–1946 | executed after Nuremberg trials |
Paul Scharfe | Chief SS Court Main Office 1933–1942; | 1876–1942 | |
Julius Schaub | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief Personal Adjutant of Adolf Hitler | 1898–1967 | interned until 1949 |
Gustav Adolf Scheel | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Reichsgau Salzburg | 1907–1979 | interned until 1948 |
Fritz Schlessmann | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Deputy Gauleiter NSDAP Gau Essen | 1899–1964 | imprisoned until 1950 |
Ernst-Heinrich Schmauser | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Southeast (Silesia) | 1890–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; missing in action |
Walter Schmitt | Chief SS-Personalhauptamt (SS Personnel Main Office) 1939–1942; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1879–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; executed in Dablice (Czchoslovakia) |
Friedrich Graf von der Schulenburg | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1865–1939 | |
Oskar Schwerk | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Country leader Reich's war veteran organisation (Reichs Kriegerbund) | 1869–1950 | |
Arthur Seyss-Inquart | SS-Ehrenrang; Reichsstatthalter Austria; Reichskommissar Netherlands; Reichsminister without Portfolio | 1892–1946 | executed after Nuremberg trials |
Felix Steiner | Commanding general III SS Panzer Corps; Commanding general 11th SS Panzer Army | 1896–1966 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
Wilhelm Stuckart | SS-Ehrenrang; State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Interior | 1902–1953 | |
Siegfried Taubert | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1880–1946 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
Fritz Wächtler | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP Gau Bavarian Eastern March | 1891–1945 | shot to death by SS for desertion |
Karl Wahl | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP Gau Swabia and Regierungspräsident Swabia | 1892–1981 | imprisoned until 1949 |
Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Fulda-Werra (Hesse-Thuringia) | 1896–1967 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; imprisoned until 1950 |
Paul Wegener | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP Gau Weser-Ems; Reichsstatthalter Oldenburg and Bremen | 1904–1993 | imprisoned until 1951 |
Fritz Weitzel | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer West (Westphalia-North Rheinland) 1938–1940 | 1904–1940 | |
Otto Winkelmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Hungary | 1894–1977 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; interned until 1948 |
Karl Wolff | Chief Persönlicher Stabe Reichsführer SS; SS liaison officer to Führer HQ 1939–1943; Höchster SS- und Polizeiführer (Supreme SS and Police Leader) Italy 1943-1945 | 1900–1984 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1945–1949 and 1964–1969 |
Udo von Woyrsch | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Elbe (Saxony) | 1895–1983 | imprisoned 1945–1952 and 1957–1960 |
Alfred Wünnenberg | Commander of 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division 1941–1943; Chief Ordnungspolizei 1943–1945 | 1891–1963 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; interned until 1947 |
List of SS-Gruppenführer
SS-Gruppenführer (literal: SS-Group leader), short SS-Gruf, was the third highest commissioned rank in the SS, comparable to two-star ranks in English speaking armed forces (today equivalent to NATO OF-7).
Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Comments |
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Ludolf-Hermann von Alvensleben (also: Bubi von Alvensleben) | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer (Higher SS- and police leader) Elbe (Saxony) | 1901–1970 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei (Lieutenant general of the Waffen-SS and of the Police) |
Rūdolfs Bangerskis | Latvian general and War ministry; Inspector general of the Latvian SS-Formations | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Register_of_SS-Leaders_in_general’s_rank