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Achim Gercke
Achim Gercke (August 3, 1902 – October 27, 1997) was a German politician.
Born in Greifswald, Gercke became a department head of the NSDAP in Munich on January 1, 1932. In April 1933, he was appointed to the Ministry of the Interior, where he served...
Date of birth:
- Aug 3, 1902
Date of death:
- Oct 27, 1997 (age 95 years)
Adolf Ax
Adolf Ax (23 June 1906, Mouscron – 6 February 1983) was a German SS-Oberführer (Senior Colonel/Brigadier General), who was decorated with Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (9 May 1945).
He was commander of the 32nd SS Volunteer Grenadier Division 30...
Date of birth:
- Jun 23, 1906
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1983 (age 76 years)
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Otto Eichmann (March 19, 1906 – May 31, 1962) was a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Because of his organizational talents and ideological reliability, Eichmann was...
Date of birth:
- Mar 19, 1906
Date of death:
- May 31, 1962 (age 56 years)
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP),...
Date of birth:
- Apr 20, 1889
Date of death:
- Apr 30, 1945 (age 56 years)
Adolf Hühnlein
Adolf Hühnlein (November 12, 1881 Neustädtlein, Upper Franconia - June 18, 1942, Munich) was a German soldier and Nazi Party official. He was the Korpsführer (Corps Leader) of the National Socialist Motor Corps, the NSKK, from 1934 until his death...
Date of birth:
- Nov 12, 1881
Date of death:
- Jun 18, 1942 (age 60 years)
Adolf Pokorny
Adolf Pokorny was born on July 26, 1895 in Vienna, Austria. He was a dermatologist and Medical Doctorate. He was a defendant in the Doctors' Trial.
Pokorny participated from March 1915 to September 1918 in the First World War. He received many...
Date of birth:
- Jul 26, 1895 (age 116 years)
Adolf von Trotha
Adolf von Trotha (March 1, 1868, Koblenz, Rhine Province – October 11, 1940) was a German admiral in the Kaiserliche Marine from Koblenz, Rhenish Prussia.
Trotha was the third son of Karl von Trotha (1834–1870), who fell in the Franco-Prussian War,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 1, 1868
Date of death:
- Oct 11, 1940 (age 72 years)
Adolf Wagner
Adolf Wagner (1 October 1890 in Algringen, Lothringen - 12 April 1944 in Bad Reichenhall) was a German soldier and high-ranking Nazi Party official born in Algrange, Alsace-Lorraine.
He served in World War I as an officer in the German Army. A...
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1890
Date of death:
- Apr 12, 1944 (age 53 years)
Adrian von Renteln
Theodor Adrian von Renteln (September 15, 1897 in Khodz, Georgia, then Russian Empire – 1946 in Soviet Union) was an activist and politician in Nazi Germany. During World War II, he was General Commissioner of Generalbezirk Litauen and was involved...
Date of birth:
- Sep 15, 1897
Date of death:
- 1946 (age 48 years)
Ain-Ervin Mere
Ain Mere (from birth to Estification Ervin Martson; February 22, 1903 – April 5, 1969) was an Estonian military officer. During the World War II, he was an Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) in the Waffen SS and also the head of the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 22, 1903
Date of death:
- Apr 5, 1969 (age 66 years)
Albert Forster
Albert Maria Forster (July 26, 1902 – February 28, 1952) was a Nazi German politician. Under his administration as the Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia during the Second World War, the local non-German population suffered ethnic cleansing, mass...
Date of birth:
- Jul 26, 1902
Date of death:
- Feb 28, 1952 (age 49 years)
Albert Hujar
Albert Hujar was a staff German non-commissioned officer in the Waffen-SS who served in the Schutzstaffel (SS) Concentration Camp service. Hujar was posted to the labor camp at Pￅﾂaszￃﾳw and, from 1943 to 1944, served as NCO-adjutant to Amon Goeth. ...
Albert Speer
Albert Speer (born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer; ; pronounced [ˈʃpeːɐ̯] ( listen); March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich....
Date of birth:
- Mar 19, 1905
Date of death:
- Sep 1, 1981 (age 76 years)
Alex Pickowski
Alex Piorkowski was the SS Camp Commandant of Dachau concentration camp in Germany for nearly three years from 7 January 1939 until 2 January 1942.
Alexander Bülow
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...
Date of birth:
- Apr 28, 1905 (age 106 years)
Alexander Palfinger
Alexander Palfinger was the first official in charge of the "Transferstelle" in the Lodz Ghetto, and afterwards in the Warsaw Ghetto. This agency was in charge of the traffic of goods entering and leaving the ghetto. He was succeeded by Max Georg...
Alfred Baeumler
Alfred Baeumler (November 19, 1887 in Neustadt an der Tafelfichte (Nové Město pod Smrkem), Bohemia – March 19, 1968 in Eningen unter Achalm, near Reutlingen), was a German philosopher and pedagogue. From 1924 he taught at the Technische Universität...
Date of birth:
- Nov 19, 1887
Date of death:
- Mar 19, 1968 (age 80 years)
Alfred Hoche
Alfred Erich Hoche (German pronunciation: [ˈalfʁeːt ˈeːʁɪç ˈhɔxə]; August 1, 1865 in Wildenhain, Province of Saxony - May 16, 1943 in Baden-Baden) was a German psychiatrist well-known for his writings about eugenics and euthanasia.
Hoche studied in...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1865
Date of death:
- May 16, 1943 (age 77 years)
Alfred Meyer
Dr. Alfred Meyer (October 5, 1891 – April 11, 1945) was a Nazi official, achieving the rank of Staatssekretär and Deputy Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (Reichministerium für die Besetzten Ostgebiete or...
Date of birth:
- Oct 5, 1891
Date of death:
- Apr 11, 1945 (age 53 years)
Alfred Naujocks
Alfred Helmut Naujocks, alias Hans Müller, Alfred Bonsen, or Rudolf Möbert (20 September 1911 – 4 April 1966), was an SS-Sturmbannführer (Major), and took part in a staged incident intended to provide the justification for the attack on Poland by...
Date of birth:
- Sep 20, 1911
Date of death:
- Apr 4, 1966 (age 54 years)
Alfred Rosenberg
Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (help·info) (12 January 1893 – 16 October 1946) was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi Party. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart; he later held several important posts in...
Date of birth:
- Jan 12, 1893
Date of death:
- Oct 16, 1946 (age 53 years)
Alfred Trzebinski
Alfred Trzebinski (29 August 1902 – 8 October 1946) was an SS-physician at the Auschwitz, Majdanek and Neuengamme concentration camps in Nazi Germany. He was sentenced to death and executed for his involvement in war crimes committed at the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 29, 1902
Date of death:
- Oct 8, 1946 (age 44 years)
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (13 August 1907 – 30 July 1967), often referred to as Alfried Krupp, was a convicted war criminal, an industrialist, a competitor in Olympic yacht races and a member of the Krupp family, which has...
Date of birth:
- Aug 13, 1907
Date of death:
- Jul 30, 1967 (age 60 years)
Algimantas Dailidė
Algimantas Mykolas Dailidė (born March 12, 1921 in Kaunas) is a former Lithuanian Security Police (Saugumas) official. After the war, Dailidė sought refuge in the United States, saying he had been a "forester." While in the United States, Dailidė...
Date of birth:
- Mar 12, 1921 (age 91 years)
Alois Brunner
Alois Brunner (born 8 April 1912) is an Austrian Nazi war criminal. Brunner was Adolf Eichmann's assistant, and Eichmann referred to Brunner as his "best man." As commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 8, 1912 (age 99 years)
Amon Göth
Amon Leopold Göth (11 December 1908 – 13 September 1946; pronounced [ˈɡøːt]) was an Austrian Nazi and the commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Płaszów, General Government (a German-occupied area of Poland). A Hauptsturmführer (Captain) of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 11, 1908
Date of death:
- Sep 13, 1946 (age 37 years)
Ante Pavelić
Ante Pavelić (July 14, 1889 – December 28, 1959) was a Croatian fascist leader, revolutionary, and politician. He ruled as Poglavnik or head, of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a World War II puppet state of Nazi Germany in Axis-occupied...
Date of birth:
- Jul 14, 1889
Date of death:
- Dec 28, 1959 (age 70 years)
Anton Burger
Anton Burger (19 November 1911 - 25 December 1991) born in Neunkirchen, Austria, was a Nazi war criminal, Sturmbannführer (Major) in the German Nazi SS. He was member of the Reich Security Main Office Special Action Command "Eichmann" (RSHA...
Date of birth:
- Nov 19, 1911
Date of death:
- Dec 25, 1991 (age 80 years)
Anton Drexler
Anton Drexler (13 June 1884 – 24 February 1942) was a German right-wing political leader of the 1920s, known for being Adolf Hitler's mentor during his early days in politics.
Born in Munich, Drexler was a machine-fitter before becoming a railway...
Date of birth:
- Jun 13, 1884
Date of death:
- Feb 24, 1942 (age 57 years)
Anton Lechner
Anton Lechner (November 18, 1907, - ?) was an SS-Rottenführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial.
Lechner was born in Buchers (Pohoří na Šumavě, Puchéřov (1869-1910), (Sudetenland)). He was...
Date of birth:
- Nov 18, 1907 (age 104 years)
Anton Malloth
Anton Malloth (February 13, 1912, Innsbruck, Austria – October 31, 2002, Straubing, Germany) was a supervisor in the "Kleine Festung" (Small Fortress) part of the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Malloth grew up in the town of Schenna, near Merano...
Date of birth:
- Feb 13, 1912
Date of death:
- Oct 31, 2002 (age 90 years)
Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald
Anton Freiherr von Hohberg und Buchwald (September 21, 1885 – July 2, 1934 (date estimated) was a German Reichswehr- and SS - Officer.
Hohberg was born in Wismar, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and started a career as an Cavalry officer in the German...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1885
Date of death:
- Jul 2, 1934 (age 48 years)
Aribert Heim
Aribert Ferdinand Heim (born 28 June 1914 – allegedly died 10 August 1992) was an Austrian doctor, also known as Dr. Death. As an SS doctor in a Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, he is accused of killing and torturing many inmates by various...
Date of birth:
- Jun 28, 1914
Date of death:
- Aug 10, 1992 (age 78 years)
Arthur Greiser
Arthur Greiser (22 January 1897 – 21 July 1946) was a Nazi German politician and SS Obergruppenfuhrer. He was one of the persons primarily responsible for organizing the Holocaust in Poland and numerous other war crimes and crimes against humanity,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 22, 1897
Date of death:
- Jul 14, 1946 (age 49 years)
Arthur Liebehenschel
Arthur Liebehenschel (25 November 1901 - 28 January 1948) was a commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps during World War II. He was convicted of war crimes after the war and executed.
Liebehenschel was born in Posen (now Poznań). He...
Date of birth:
- Nov 25, 1901
Date of death:
- Jan 28, 1948 (age 46 years)
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Arthur Seyss-Inquart (in German: Seyß-Inquart) (22 July 1892 – 16 October 1946) was a Chancellor of Austria, lawyer and later Nazi official in pre-Anschluss Austria, the Third Reich and for wartime Germany in Poland and the Netherlands. At the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 22, 1892
Date of death:
- Oct 16, 1946 (age 54 years)
Artur Axmann
Artur Axmann (18 February 1913 – 24 October 1996) was the German Nazi leader of the Hitler Youth (Reichsjugendführer) from 1940 through war's end in 1945.
Axmann was born in Hagen on 18 February 1913. He studied law and in 1928, founded the first...
Date of birth:
- Feb 18, 1913
Date of death:
- Oct 24, 1996 (age 83 years)
Artur Nebe
SS-Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe (13 November 1894 – 21 March 1945) was a member of the NSDAP (Nazi) party with card number 574,307. In July 1931, he joined the SS and his membership number was 280,152. His early career included the Berlin position of...
Date of birth:
- Nov 13, 1894
Date of death:
- Mar 21, 1945 (age 50 years)
Artur Phleps
Artur Martin Phleps (29 November 1881 – 21 September 1944) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian and German officer who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer and General of Waffen-SS in the Waffen-SS during World War II. An Austro-Hungarian Army...
Date of birth:
- Nov 29, 1881
Date of death:
- Sep 21, 1944 (age 62 years)
August Becker
August Becker (17 August 1900, Staufenberg, Hesse - 31 December 1967) was during the Nazi regime in Germany (1933–1945) an SS lieutenant colonel (Obersturmbannführer) and chemist in the Central Reich Security Office (RSHA). He helped design the vans...
Date of birth:
- Aug 17, 1900
Date of death:
- Dec 31, 1967 (age 67 years)
August Bogusch
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...
Date of birth:
- Aug 5, 1890
Date of death:
- Jan 28, 1948 (age 57 years)
August Eigruber
August Eigruber (16 April 1907 – 28 May 1947) was an Austrian-born Nazi Gauleiter of Oberdonau (Upper Danube) and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria, later hanged by the Allies.
Born in Steyr, Austria, after finishing middle school, Eigruber underwent...
Date of birth:
- Apr 16, 1907
Date of death:
- May 28, 1947 (age 40 years)
August Frank
August Frank (5 April 1898 – 21 March 1984) was an official of the Main Economic Administration Office of the Nazi SS (SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt) generally known by its initials WVHA. WVHA was, among other things, responsible for the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 5, 1898
Date of death:
- Mar 21, 1984 (age 86 years)
August Heissmeyer
August Heißmeyer (or Heissmeyer – born 11 January 1897 in Gellersen, nowadays part of Aerzen; died 16 January 1979 in Schwäbisch Hall) was a leading member of the SS. After the World War II, he was sentenced to a prison term as a war criminal. His...
Date of birth:
- Jan 11, 1897
Date of death:
- Jan 16, 1979 (age 82 years)
August Hirt
August Hirt (April 28, 1898 in Mannheim, Baden – June 2, 1945 in Schönenbach/Schwarzwald), an SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain), served as a chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg during World War II.
Working with the Ahnenerbe division, Wolfram...
Date of birth:
- Apr 28, 1898
Date of death:
- Jun 2, 1945 (age 47 years)
August Schmidthuber
August Schmidthuber was an SS-Brigadeführer of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen from 20 January 1944 to 8 May 1945, and the 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) from May 1944 onwards.
August...
Date of birth:
- 1901
Date of death:
- 1947 (age 46 years)
Baldur von Schirach
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (9 May 1907 – 8 August 1974) was a Nazi youth leader later convicted of being a war criminal. Schirach was the head of the Hitler-Jugend (HJ, Hitler Youth) and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter ("Reich Governor") of Vienna...
Date of birth:
- May 9, 1907
Date of death:
- Aug 8, 1974 (age 67 years)
Benno von Arent
Benno von Arent (19 July 1898 – 14 October 1956) was a German Nazi, member of the Nazi Party and SS, responsible for art, theatres, movies etc.
Von Arendt was born in Görlitz, Kingdom of Prussia on 19 July 1898. Self-taught, after various apprentice...
Date of birth:
- Jul 19, 1898
Date of death:
- Oct 14, 1956 (age 58 years)
Bernhard Krüger
Bernhard Krüger (German pronunciation: [ˈbɛʁnhaʁt ˈkʁyːɡɐ]; 26 November 1904–1989) was a Schutzstaffel (SS) Sturmbannführer (Major) during World War II, the leader of the VI F 4a Unit in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office) or...
Date of birth:
- Nov 26, 1904
Date of death:
- 1989 (age 84 years)
Bernhard Rust
Dr. Bernhard Rust (30 September 1883 — 8 May 1945) was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture (Reichserziehungsminister) in Nazi Germany. A combination of school administrator and zealous Nazi, he issued decrees, often bizarre, at every...
Date of birth:
- Sep 30, 1883
Date of death:
- May 8, 1945 (age 61 years)
Bodo Lafferentz
Bodo Lafferentz (27 July 1897 – 17 January 1974) was a member of the Nazi Party from 1933 and an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) from 1939. He served in World War I and received the Iron Cross 2nd Class in 1916.
In 1928, he completed his...
Date of birth:
- Jul 27, 1897
Date of death:
- Jan 17, 1974 (age 76 years)
