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).
Rank insignia
(Waffen-SS)
| Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kurt Daluege | Chief of the Ordnungspolizei | 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) |
| 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's treasurer of the Nazi Party) | 1875 – 1947 | in the internment camp until 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).
Rank insignia
(until April 1942
Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS)
(1942–1945
Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS)
(Waffen-SS)
(Waffen-SS, Wehrmacht)
| Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friedrich Alpers (also: Fritz Alpers) | Generalforstmeister (General forest supervisor) and Secretary of state in the Reichsforstamt (Reich's forest office) | 1901–1944 | suicide in 1944, while in US custody |
| Max Amann | SS-Ehren- und Rangführer (SS Honour – and Rank leader) | 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's secretary of nutrition and agriculture) | 1896–1947 | suicide |
| Gottlob Berger | Chief of the SS-Hauptamt (SS Main office) | 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) in the Reichsgau Wartheland | 1894–1943 | also: General der Polizei (General of the police) |
| Werner Best | Deputy of Reinhard Heydrich in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt(Reich Main Security Office) ; Reichsbevollmächtigter (plenipotentiary) in Danmark | 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; head 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, and Adolf Hitler's private secretary | 1900–1945 | Dead in 1945, most probably by suicide : remains of body were discovered in 1972, finally formally identified as those of Bormann in 1998, by means of DNA tests. |
| Philipp Bouhler | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief of Kanzlei des Führers (Hitler's Chancellery) | 1899–1945 | suicide |
| Franz Breithaupt | Chief Hauptamt SS-Gericht (Main Office SS-Court) | 1880–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; murdered |
| Walter Buch | SS-Ehrenrang; Highest party judge of the NSDAP | 1883–1949 | suicide |
| Josef Bürckel | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS (Personal Staff Reichsführer SS) | 1895–1944 | |
| Leonardo Conti | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; German / Swiss physician, Reich's health leader | 1900–1945 | suicide |
| Richard Walther Darré | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (Race - and Settlement Main Office); Reich's Minister; Reich's Farmers Leader | 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; Reich's press chief of the NSDAP | 1897–1952 | imprisoned until 1950 |
| Karl von Eberstein (also: Friedrich Karl von Eberstein) | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer South | 1894–1979 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
| Joachim Albrecht Eggeling | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP Halle-Merseburg | 1884–1945 | suicide |
| Theodor Eicke | Commander SS Division Totenkopf | 1892–1943 | also: General der Waffen-SS; killed in action |
| August Eigruber | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP Upper Danube | 1907–1947 | executed in Landsberg |
| Karl Fiehler | SS-Ehrenrang; Lord Mayor of Munich | 1895–1969 | interned until 1949 |
| Albert Forster | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP 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 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; Reich's Governor; Gauleiter NSDAP Wartheland | 1897–1946 | executed in Posen |
| Karl Gutenberger | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer West | 1905–1961 | also: General der Waffen; imprisoned until 1953 |
| Karl Hanke | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Supreme President and Gauleiter NSDAP; last Reichsführer-SS | 1903–1945 | slayed |
| August Heissmeyer | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Spree; Chief SS-Hauptamt; Chief Hauptamt Dienststelle Heissmeyer (Main Office Division Heißmeyer) | 1897–1979 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
| Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief Constable of Potsdam, later Berlin | 1896–1944 | contacts to resistance circles, executed in Berlin-Plötzensee |
| Konrad Henlein | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP; Sudetes Country | 1898–1945 | suicide |
| Maximilian von Herff | Chief SS-Personalhauptamt (SS Main Recruitment Office) | 1893–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
| Rudolf Hess | SS-Ehrenrang; Deputy of Adolf Hitler | 1894–1987 | imprisoned until 1987; suicide |
| Reinhard Heydrich | Chief Reichssicherheitshauptamt 1939-1942 | 1904–1942 | also: General der Polizei; assassinated in Prague |
| Friedrich Hildebrandt | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP | 1898–1948 | executed in Landsberg |
| Richard Hildebrandt | Chief Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt | 1897–1952 | also: General der Waffen; executed in Poland |
| Hermann Höfle | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Slovakia | 1898–1947 | also: General Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed in Bratislava |
| Otto Hofmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer South West; Chief SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt | 1896–1982 | also: General der Polizei; imprisoned 1945–1954 |
| Friedrich Jeckeln | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Upper Silesia | 1889–1946 | also: General der Polizei; executed in Riga |
| Hugo Jury | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 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 | 1903–1946 | also: General der Waffen-SS; executed |
| 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 Hamburg | 1900–1966 | imprisoned until 1949 and 1950 |
| Georg Keppler | acting on behalf of the Commanding general III SS Panzer 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 Ministers President 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 East | 1896–1975 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1960–1962 |
| Paul Körner | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Undersecretary in Prussia | 1893–1957 | imprisoned until 1951 |
| Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger | Commanding general V SS Mountain Corps; Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer East | 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's Chancellery (Reichskanzlei) | 1879–1962 | imprisoned until 1951 |
| Hartmann Lauterbacher | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS, deputy Reich's Youth Leader (Reichjugendführer); Gauleiter NSDAP South Hannover – Brunswick | 1909–1988 | interned until 1947 |
| 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 | 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 | 1900–1987 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned until 1951 |
| Wilhelm Murr | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; President of the exerservicemen organisation Württemberg | 1888–1945 | suicide |
| Konstantin von Neurath | SS-Ehrenrang; German Reich's foreign minister of Bohemia and Moravia | 1873–1956 | imprisoned until 1954 |
| Carl Oberg | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Paris | 1897–1965 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; imprisoned until 1962 |
| Günther Pancke | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Danmark | 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 | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Transylvania; Rumanian / German officer | 1881–1944 | also: General der Waffen-SS; killed in action |
| Oswald Pohl | Chief SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt | 1892–1951 | also: General der Waffen-SS; executed in Landsberg |
| Hans-Adolf Prützmann | German general attorney in Croatia and Inspector general counter-espionage | 1901–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; suicide |
| Rudolf Querner | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Centre | 1893–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; suicide |
| Friedrich Rainer | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1903–1947 | |
| Hanns Albin Rauter | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer North East | 1895–1949 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed |
| Wilhelm Rediess | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer East Prussia | 1900–1949 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
| Wilhelm Reinhard | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1869–1955 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
| Joachim von Ribbentrop | SS-Ehrenrang; German Reich's foreign minister | 1893–1946 | executed |
| Erwin Rösener | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Alpes Country | 1902–1946 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed |
| Ernst Sachs | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1880–1956 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
| Fritz Sauckel | SS-Ehrenrang; General attorney to deployment of labour | 1894–1946 | executed |
| Paul Scharfe | temporary Chief Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt | 1876–1942 | |
| Julius Schaub | SS-Ehrenrang; Personal chief adjutant of Adolf Hitler | 1898–1967 | interned until 1949 |
| Gustav Adolf Scheel | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1907–1979 | interned until 1948 |
| Fritz Schlessmann | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1899–1964 | imprisoned until 1950 |
| Ernst-Heinrich Schmauser | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Lower Silesia | 1890–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; missing in action |
| Walter Schmitt (SS general) | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1879–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; executed in Dablice (Czchoslovakia) |
| Oskar Schwerk | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Country leader Reich's war veteran organisation (Reichs Kriegerbund) | 1869–1950 | |
| Arthur Seyss-Inquart | SS-Ehrenrang; Reichsstatthalter Österreichs | 1892–1946 | executed |
| Felix Steiner | III SS Panzer Corps | 1896–1966 | also: General der Waffen-SS |
| Wilhelm Stuckart | SS-Ehrenrang; undersecretary in the German Reich's 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 Bavarian East Mark | 1891–1945 | shot death by SS-Men |
| Karl Wahl | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP Swabia | 1892–1981 | imprisoned until 1949 |
| Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Fulda-Werra | 1896–1967 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; imprisoned until 1950 |
| Paul Wegener | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP Weser-Ems | 1904–1993 | imprisoned until 1951 |
| Fritz Weitzel | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer West, leader North | 1904–1940 | |
| Otto Winkelmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Hungary | 1894–1977 | also: General der Waffen-SS; interned until 1948 |
| Karl Wolff | Chief Persönlicher Stabe Reichsführer SS; Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Italien | 1900–1984 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1945–1949 and 1964–1969 |
| Udo von Woyrsch | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Elbe | 1895–1983 | imprisoned 1945–1952 and 1957–1960 |
| Alfred Wünnenberg | Commander of a Police Division, Chief Ordnungspolizei | 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.
Rank insignia
until April 1942
(Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS)
1942–1945
(Allgemeine SS, Waffen-SS)
(Waffen-SS)
(Waffen-SS, Wehrmacht)
| Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ludolf-Hermann von Alvensleben (also: Bubi von Alvensleben) | Höherer SS- und Parteiführer "Elbe" (Higher SS- and police leader) | 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 | 1878–1958 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS (Lieutenant general of the Waffen-SS) |
| Georg-Henning von Bassewitz-Behr | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer region North Sea | 1900–1949 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
| Hans Baur | Commander flying squadron of the Führer | 1897–1993 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei |
| Max von Behr | SS-Commanding officer of Berlin | 1879–1951 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Carl Blumenreuter | Office Reich's physician of the SS and police, Master medical ordnance (Sanitäts-Feldzeugmeister) | 1881–1969 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Adolf von Bomhard | Head of the police in Reichskommissariat Ukraine | 1891–1976 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei |
| Walter Braemer | Nazi criminal responsible for mass murders of the civilian population | 1883–1955 | also: General of the Cavalry |
| Karl Brandt (also: Karl Jakob Heinrich Brenner) | SS-Führungshauptamt (SS-Command and control main office) , physician of the euthanasia | 1881–1948 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; executed |
| Karl Jakob Heinrich Brenner | Commander police battle group Brenne (Polizei-Kampfgruppe Brenner) | 1895–1954 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei |
| Lothar Debes | Commander in chief of the Waffen-SS Italy | 1895–1960 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Hermann Fegelein | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief Office division VI | 1906–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Josef Fitzthum | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Albania | 1896–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
| Karl Gebhardt | Office Reich's physician of the SS and Police, Head clinician | 1897–1948 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; executed |
| Karl Genzken | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief office division D; physician | 1895–1957 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1945–1954 |
| Richard Glücks | SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt (SS-Management and administration main office), Chief office division D | 1898–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| József Grassy | Commander 25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS "Hunyadi" | 1894–1946 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Leo von Jena | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS (Personal staff Reichsführer SS) , À la suite SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | 1876–1957 | |
| Fritz Katzmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Vistula | 1906–1957 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
| Heinz Lammerding | Chief of staff Supreme command Army Group Vistula (Heeresgruppe Weichsel) | 1905–1971 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Georg Lörner | SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt, Chief Office division B | 1899–1959 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1945–1954 |
| Otto Ohlendorf | Commander in Chief Task Group D (Task groups Sicherheitspolizei and SD) | 1907–1951 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei; executed |
| Werner Ostendorff | Chief of staff Supreme Command Army Group Upper Rhine | 1903–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Leo Petri | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief Office division III | 1876–1961 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Hermann Priess | Commanding general I SS Panzer Corps | 1901–1985 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Carl Friedrich von Pückler-Burghauss | Commander in Chief of the Waffen-SS Bohemia and Moravia | 1886–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Heinz Reinefarth | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Warthe | 1903–1979 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
| Hans-Joachim Riecke | 1933 member of the German Reichstag; Reichskommissar of Schaumburg-Lippe | 1899-1986 | 1933-1936 Staatsminister of Lippe |
| Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig | SS-Führungshauptamt | 1899–1944 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; suicide |
| Walter Schimana | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer in Greece and Vine | 1898–1946 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; suicide |
| Fritz von Scholz | Commander 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland" | 1896–1944 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; killed in action |
| Otto Schumann (also: Heinrich Eduard Otto Schumann) | Commander of the SS-Oberabschnitt West, in Düsseldorf | 1886-1952 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei |
| Otto Schwab | Commander Artillery School | 1889–1959 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Max Simon | Commanding general XIII SS Army Corps | 1899–1961 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Jakob Sporrenberg | higher police leader in Minsk, Belarus and Lublin, Poland | 1902-1952 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei; sentenced to death |
| Walter Staudinger | Higher artillery commander 6th Panzer Army | 1898–1964 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Bruno Streckenbach | Commander 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS | 1902–1977 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Jürgen Stroop | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Rhine West Mark | 1895–1952 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed |
| Karl von Fischer-Treuenfeld |
|
1885–1946 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Harald Turner | Deputy chief SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (SS-Race- and settlement main office) | 1891–1947 | |
| Otto Wächter (also: Baron Otto Gustav von Wächter) | Governor of the district of Kraków in the General Government | 1901–1949 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS |
| Friedrich Weber | instructor in veterinary medicine at the University of Munich | 1892–1955 | |
| Richard Wendler | Governor of new District Lublin in the General Government | 1898–1972 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei |
| Curt Wittje (also: Kurt Wittje) |
|
1894–1947 | discharged from the SS, November 12, 1938 |
List of SS-Brigadeführer[]
SS-Brigadeführer (literal: SS-Brigade leader), short SS-Brif, was the lowest general rank in the SS, comparable to one-star ranks in English speaking armed forces (today equivalent to NATO OF-6.
Rank insignia
until April 1942
(Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS)
1942–1945
(Allgemeine SS, Waffen-SS)
(Waffen-SS)
(Waffen-SS, Wehrmacht)
| Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heinrich Otto Abetz | German ambassador to Vichy France during World War II | 1903–1958 | also: convicted war criminal |
| Franz Augsberger | 20th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division | 1905–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS (Major general of the Waffen-SS); killed in action |
| Werner Ballauff | Commander SS-Waffen-Junker-School Braunschweig | 1890–1973 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Hellmuth Becker | Commander 3rd SS-Panzer Division Totenkopf | 1902–1953 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Curt Brasack | IV SS Panzer Corps, artillery-commander | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
| Karl Burk | Commander 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS | 1898–1963 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Friedrich Karl Dermietzel | Army physician 6th Panzer Army | 1899–1981 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Christoph Diehm | Member of the German Reichstag; SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office) | 1892–1960 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Gustav Diesterweg | Commander SS-Waffen-Technische Lehranstalt (SS Weapon technical training centre) | 1875–19?? | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Werner Dörffler-Schuband | SS-Führungshauptamt (SS Main Command and Control Office), Chef Amt XI (Chief Office division XI) | ||
| Wilhelm von Dufais | Chief communications | ||
| Ernst Otto Fick | SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office), Inspector W.E. | 1898–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Fritz Freitag | Commander 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS | 1894–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS und der Polizei (Major general of the Waffen-SS and of the police); suicide |
| Heinrich Gärtner | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief Office division VIII | 1889–1963 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Werner Gerlach | SS-Ehrenrang (SS Honour Rank); Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS (Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS) | 1891–1963 | |
| Bruno Goedicke | SS-Commanding officer of Vienna | ||
| Hermann Haertel | Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (Race- and Settlement Main Office) | ||
| Desiderius Hampel | Commander 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS "Handschar" | 1895–1981 | Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Peter Hansen | Artillery commander | 1896–1967 | |
| Heinz Harmel | Commander 10th SS Panzer Division "Frundsberg" | 1906–2000 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Karl Herrmann | collocated to Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer (Higher SS- and police leader) Adriatic Coast | ||
| Alfred Karrasch | Commander SS Training Area Bohemia | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
| Adolf Katz | Politician (NSDAP); Chief Constable | 1899–1980 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Wilhelm Keilhaus | SS-Führungshauptamt, Inspector Intelligence and Chief Communications | 1898–1977 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Gottfried Klingemann | Reichssicherheitshauptamt | 1884–1953 | discharged from the Waffen-SS May 31, 1944 |
| Fritz Kraemer | Commander 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" | 1900–1959 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
| Gustav Krukenberg | Inspector of the French Waffen-SS Voluntary formations | 1888–1980 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Christian Peter Kryssing | III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps | 1891–1976 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; Dane |
| Wilhelm Küper | Inspector General of food service | ||
| Otto Kumm | 1909–2004 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
| Gustav Lombard | Commander 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" | 1895–1992 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Kurt Meyer | Commander 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" | 1910–1961 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Wilhelm Mohnke |
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1911–2001 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Kurt-Peter Müller | Corps physician V SS Mountain Corps | 1894–1993 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Walther Neblich | Commander SS-Automotive training center | ||
| Karl von Oberkamp | SS-Führungshauptamt, Inspector In2 and In6 | 1893–1947 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Ernst Rode | Chief of staff to the Chef Bandenkampfverbände (Chief of formations to break up bands) | 1894–1955 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Bruno Rothardt | Corps physician II SS Panzer Corps | ||
| Joachim Rumohr | Commander 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" | 1910–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; suicide |
| Fritz Schmedes | Commander 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division | 1894–1952 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS und der Polizei |
| August Schmidhuber | Commander 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS "Skanderbeg" | 1901–1947 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; executed |
| Otto Schottenheim | Staff SS-Oberabschnitt (SS Supreme Sector) Main burgomaster of Regensburg | 1890–1980 | |
| Franz Schwarz | Staff SS-Oberabschnitt South | 1899–1960 | |
| Hans Schwedler | SS-Führungshauptamt | ||
| Franz Six (also: Franz Alfred Six) | Reichssicherheitshauptamt | 1909–1975 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| August-Willhelm Trabandt | Commander 18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division "Horst Wessel" | 1891–1968 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Friedrich Tscharmann | SS-Führungshauptamt | 1871–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Herbert-Ernst Vahl | SS-Führungshauptamt, Inspection SS Armoured troops | 1896–1944 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Anton Vogler | SS-Commanding officer of Munich | 1882–19?? | |
| Bernhard Voss | SS-Führungshauptamt | ||
| Jürgen Wagner | Commander 4th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Brigade "Nederland" | 1901–1947 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; executed |
| Theodor Wisch | Commander 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" | 1907–1995 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS |
| Fritz Witt | Commander 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" | 1908–1944 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; killed in action |
| Gustav Adolf von Wulffen (also: Gustav-Adolf von Wulffen) |
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1878–1945 | also: Generalmajor |
| August Zehender | Commander 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Maria Theresia | 1903–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; suicide |
| Joachim Ziegler | Commander 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland" | 1904–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; killed in action |
See also[]
- Comparative ranks of Nazi Germany
- Generaloberst Third Reich
- List of Nazi Party leaders and officials
Sources[]
- Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, Dieter Zinke: Die Generale der Waffen-SS und der Polizei 1933–1945. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2003 ff., ISBN 3-7648-2528-6. (in 6 volumes).
- Volume 1: A–G (Abraham–Gutenberger), Bissendorf 2003, ISBN 3-7648-2373-9
- Volume 2: H–K (Hachtel–Kutschera), Bissendorf 2005, ISBN 3-7648-2592-8
- Volume 3: LA–PL (Lammerding–Plesch), Bissendorf 2008, ISBN 3-7648-2375-5
- Volume 4: PO–SCHI (Podzun–Schimana), Bissendorf 2009, ISBN 3-7648-2587-1
- Volume 5: SCHL–T (Schlake–Turner), Bissendorf 2011, ISBN 3-7648-3209-6
- Volume 6: U-Z (Ullmann–Zottmann), Bissendorf 2012, ISBN 3-7648-3202-9
- Wolfgang Graf: Österreichische SS-Generale, Himmlers verlässliche Vasallen. Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Wien 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4
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