List of Nazi Party leaders and officials
This is a list of Nazi Party leaders and officials. It is not meant to be an all-inclusive list.
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- Gunter d'Alquen – Chief editor of the SS official newspaper, Das Schwarze Korps, and commander of the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers.
- Ludolf von Alvensleben – commander of the SS and police in Crimea and commander of the Selbstschutz of the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia.
- Max Amann – Reichsleiter for the Press, president of the Reich Press Chamber and head of the Nazi publishing house Eher Verlag. He was also an SS-Obergruppenführer.
- Benno von Arent – Responsible for art, theaters and movies in Nazi Germany.
- Heinz Auerswald – Commissioner for the Jewish residential district in Warsaw from April 1941 to November 1942.
- Artur Axmann – Chief of the Social Office of the Reich Youth Leadership. Leader of the Hitler Youth from 1940 to 1945.
B
- Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski – An SS-Obergruppenführer ''und General der Polizei, he was the commander of the "Bandenkampfverbände" SS units responsible for the mass murder of 35,000 civilians in Riga and more than 200,000 in Belarus and eastern Poland.
- Herbert Backe – State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture and later Reich Minister , he was also an SS-Obergruppenführer. An architect of the infamous Hunger Plan.
- Richard Baer – Commander of the Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945.
- Alfred Baeumler – Philosopher who interpreted the works of Friedrich Nietzsche in order to legitimize Nazism.
- Klaus Barbie – An SS-Hauptsturmführer, he was head of the Gestapo in Lyon. Nicknamed "the Butcher of Lyon" for his use of torture on prisoners.
- Josef Berchtold – Very early Party member and a member of Stoßtrupp-Hitler. Became the second Reichsführer-SS from 1926 to 1927.
- Gottlob Berger – Chief of staff for the Waffen-SS and head of the SS Main Office. He was an SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS.
- Werner Best – SS-Obergruppenführer and Reich Plenipotentiary for Nazi-occupied Denmark.
- Hans Biebow – Chief of Administration of the Łódź Ghetto.
- Helmut Bischoff – SS-Obersturmbannführer and commander of mobile death squad unit, Einsatzkommando 1/IV. Also a Gestapo officer and head of security for Nazi Germany's V-weapons program.
- Paul Blobel – SS commander primarily responsible for the Babi Yar massacre at Kiev.
- Werner von Blomberg – Generalfeldmarschall, Defense Minister 1933–1935, Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces 1935–1938. Forced out in the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair.
- Hans-Friedrich Blunck – Propagandist and head of the Reich Literature Chamber between 1933 and 1935.
- Ernst Boepple – State Secretary of the General Government in Poland, serving as deputy to Deputy Governor Josef Bühler. Deeply implicated in the "Final Solution".
- Ernst Wilhelm Bohle – Gauleiter of the Nazi Party/Foreign Organization from 1933 until 1945, he was also an SS-Obergruppenführer.
- Otto von Bolschwing – Member of the SD-foreign branch and deputy to Adolf Eichmann, played a major role in organizing the 1941 Bucharest pogrom.
- Albert Bormann – Adjutant in Chancellery of the Führer from 1931, in 1938 he became Chief of Main Office I, dealing with the personal affairs of the Führer. He was also a Gruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corps.
- Martin Bormann – Reichsleiter, head of the Party Chancellery and Secretary to the Führer, Adolf Hitler. Also an SS-Obergruppenführer, he committed suicide in May 1945. Convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death in absentia by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
- Philipp Bouhler – Reichsleiter, Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP and leader of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program. Also an SS-Obergruppenführer, he committed suicide in May 1945.
- Fritz Bracht – Gauleiter of Gau Upper Silesia and Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Upper Silesia and an SA-Obergruppenführer.
- Viktor Brack – Organizer of the Euthanasia program, Operation T4 and one of the men responsible for the gassing of Jews in the extermination camps. In 1936, he was also appointed chief of Hauptamt II in the Chancellery of the Führer.
- Otto Bradfisch – Commander of the Security Police in Łódź and Potsdam.
- Karl Brandt – Personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and co-headed the administration of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program from 1939. He was an SS-Gruppenführer.
- Walther von Brauchitsch – Generalfeldmarschall, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army 1938–1941.
- Franz Breithaupt, An SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS, he was Chief of the SS Court Main Office from 1942 to 1945, with exclusive jurisdiction for conducting investigations and trials of SS personnel.
- Helmuth Brückner – A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, he was Gauleiter of Gau Silesia from 1925 and Oberpräsident of the Prussian provinces of both Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia from 1933. An SA-Gruppenführer, he was removed from office and expelled from the Party in December 1934 in the aftermath of the Röhm Putsch.
- Alois Brunner – Commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944.
- Walter Buch – Jurist, Reichsleiter, Chairman of the Uschla 1927–1933 and Supreme Party Judge 1934–1945. He was an SS-Obergruppenführer.
- Friedrich Buchardt – Member of the Einsatzgruppen death squads, who started off grading people on their Germanness and then progressed to outright genocide. Attributed to having been responsible for sending tens of thousands to their deaths, avoided justice by working for the Allied powers as an "Intelligence Source" on the Soviets.
- Josef Bühler – The State Secretary of the General Government in Kraków, he served as deputy to Hans Frank. He was a participant at the Wannsee Conference and was hanged as a war criminal by Poland in 1948.
- Josef Bürckel – A Gauleiter from 1926 in the Rhinepfalz and the Saarland from 1935. An SS-Obergruppenführer, he was Chief of Civil Administration in occupied Lorraine. He was also Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter in Vienna 1938–1940. He died in 1944.
- Wilhelm Burgdorf – General of the Wehrmacht'' and Chief of its personnel office.
- Anton Burger – Commandant of concentration camp Theresienstadt between 1943 and 1944.
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- Werner Catel – Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Leipzig, considered an expert on the program of euthanasia for children and participated in the Aktion T4 program.
- Leonardo Conti – Head of the Reich Physicians' Chamber and leader of the National Socialist German Doctors' League. He was an SS-Obergruppenführer and participated in the Aktion T4 euthanasia program.
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- Kurt Daluege – SS-Oberstgruppenführer und Generaloberst der Polizei as chief of the Ordnungspolizei ; from 1942 he ruled the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia as Acting Protector after Reinhard Heydrich's assassination.
- Leopold Damian – SA-Obergruppenführer and Chief of the Supreme SA Court from 1937 to 1941. He was also an associate lay judge on the Supreme Party Court and the People's Court.
- Richard Walther Darré – Reichsleiter, Reich Peasant Leader and Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture from 1933 to 1942. He was an SS-Obergruppenführer and head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office 1932–38.
- Rudolf Diels – Protégé of Hermann Göring. First Chief of the Gestapo from 26 April 1933 to 20 April 1934. An SS-Oberführer, he was the Regierungspräsident of the Cologne district and the Hanover district.
- Josef "Sepp" Dietrich – SS-Oberstgruppenführer in the Waffen-SS; original commander of Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler ; later commander of the 6th SS Panzer Army.
- Otto Dietrich – Reichsleiter, Reich Press Chief, Vice-President of the Reich Press Chamber, State Secretary in the Ministry of Propaganda and an SS-Obergruppenführer.
- Oskar Dirlewanger – A SS-Oberführer and war criminal, he commanded the Dirlewanger Brigade consisting of amnestied Germans convicted of major crimes and probationary troops.
- Karl Dönitz – Großadmiral, Führer der Unterseeboote 1936–1943, Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine 1943–1945 and the last head of state of Nazi Germany following Hitler's suicide.
- Franz Xaver Dorsch – A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, he was Fritz Todt's deputy as Chief Engineer in the Organization Todt. Dorsch played a leading role in the construction of the Siegfried Line and the Atlantic Wall. After Todt's death, he remained OT deputy under Albert Speer and succeeded him as head of the OT in April 1944.
- Richard Drauz – Kreisleiter of Heilbronn.
- Otto-Heinrich Drechsler –Bürgermeister of Lübeck he was an SS-Brigadeführer and Generalkommissar of occupied Latvia from 1941 to 1945.
- Anton Drexler – A founder and Chairman of the German Workers' Party, the precursor to the Nazi Party. He was a co-author of the National Socialist Program and Chairman of the Nazi Party from February 1920 to July 1921 when he was succeeded by Adolf Hitler.
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- Irmfried Eberl – Commandant of Treblinka extermination camp, July to September 1942.
- Dietrich Eckart – A founder of the German Workers' Party, a precursor to the Nazi Party, he was the first editor of Völkischer Beobachter and a participant in the Beer Hall Putsch.
- Joachim Albrecht Eggeling – Gauleiter of Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt and Gau Halle-Merseburg ; Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Halle-Merseburg from 1944; and an SS-Obergruppenführer.
- Adolf Eichmann – SS-Obersturmbannführer. Official in charge of RSHA Referat IV B4 ; responsible for facilitation and transportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps. Fled to Argentina; captured there by Mossad operatives in 1960, tried in Israel and executed on 1 June 1962.
- Theodor Eicke – An SS-Obergruppenführer and one of the executioners of Ernst Röhm. A leading figure in the establishment of the concentration camps system, he was Commandant of Dachau, Concentration Camps Inspector from 1934 to 1939 and then commander of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf.
- August Eigruber – Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Upper Danube; Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria; Obergruppenführer in both the SA and the SS.
- Franz Ritter von Epp – Reichsleiter, Reichsstatthalter of Bavaria, head of the NSDAP Office of Colonial Policy and General of Infantry.
- Hermann Esser – Early member of the Nazi Party; propagandist; editor of Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter; Second Vice-President of the Reichstag; State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Propaganda.
- Richard Euringer – Writer who selected 18,000 "unsuitable" books, which did not conform to Nazi ideology and were publicly burned.