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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.

1 Adolf Hitler
2 SS Generals
3 SS Officers
4 SS Non-Commissioned Officers
5 SS Soldiers
6 See also
7 References

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.

Rank	Insignia
Der Oberste Fuhrer der SS	{No Insignia}
Reichsführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Adolf Hitler	Der Oberste Fuhrer der SS from 1925-1945	1	February 1925	555
Julius Schreck	First Reichsfuhrer SS 1925-1926 Hitler's chauffer Later Held ranks of SS Standartenfuhrer and SS-Oberfuhrer posthumously awarded SS Brigadefuhrer and SS Ehrenfurher of SS Regiment "Munich"	5	1925	53
Joseph Berchtold	Second Reichsfuhrer of the SS 1926-1927		August 1923	750
Erhard Heiden	Third Reichsfuhrer of the SS 1927-1929		1925
Heinrich Himmler	Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of German Police Minister of the Interior Chief of the replacement Army	168	February 1925	14303
Karl Hanke	Last Reich Leader of the SS	203013	25 February 1934	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	53143		3
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski	Higher SS and Police Leader of Central Russia	9831		489101
Gottlob Berger	Commander of the SS-Hauptamt	275991		426875
Werner Best	Reich Plenipotentiary of Denmark	23377		341338
Wilhelm Bittrich	Waffen SS combat commander - II.SS Panzerkorps	39177	1934	829700
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle	Leader of the Nazi Party Foreign Organization - NSDAP/AO	276915	13 Sept 1933	999185
Philipp Bouhler	Head of the T4 Program	54932		12
Martin Bormann	Secretary of the Nazi Party	555	September 1929	60508
Franz Breithaupt	Commanding General of the SS and Police Courts	39719		602663
Walter Buch	Chairman of the Inquiry and Mediation Board	81353		7733
Richard Walther Darre	First Commander of the SS Race Office	6882		248156
Otto Dietrich	Honorary SS Rank	101349		126727
Joachim Albrecht Eggeling	Gauleiter of Saxony and Anhalt High President of Merseburg	186155	1935	11579
Theodor Eicke	Commander of the Totenkopf Division	2921	August 1930	114901
Karl Fiehler	Lord Mayor of Munich	91724	31 July 1933	37
Karl Hermann Frank	Higher SS and Police Leader of Bohemia and Moravia	310460		6600002
Herbert Otto Gille	Waffen SS Commander	39854		537337
Arthur Greiser	Gauleiter of Reichsgau Wartheland	10795	1929	166635
Wolf-Heinrich Graf Von Helldorf	Not member of SS but wore SS Obergruppenfuhrer uniform as a Policepresident of Berlin	None
August Heissmeyer	Commander of the SS Education Department	4370		21573
Rudolf Hess	Also Deputy Fuhrer of the NSDAP	50	1 November 1925	16
Konrad Henlein	Gauleiter of the Sudetenland	310307		6600001
Maximilian von Herff	Commander of the SS Personnel Department	405 894	1 April 1942	8858661
Reinhard Heydrich	Chief of the RSHA; president of Interpol	10120	14 July 1931	544916
Hermann Hoefle		463903		3924970
Ulrich Greifelt	Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism	72909		1667407
Friedrich Jecklen	Higher SS and Police Leader of Eastern Russia	4367	12 January 1930	163348
Hans Juttner	Commander of the SS-Fuhrungshauptamt	264497		541163
Ernst Kaltenbrunner	Second Commander of the RSHA	13039		300179
Hans Kammler	Head of V-2 program	113 619	20 May 1933	1011855
Matthias Kleinheisterkamp		132399	January 8, 1934	4158838
Friedrich Wilhelm Kruger	Higher SS and Police Leader of Poland	6123	February 1931	3995130
Walter Kruger	Commander of : 4th SS Panzer Grenadier Polizei 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich IV SS Panzer Corps VI SS Panzer Corps	266184		3991530
Hans Lammers	Honorary SS Rank	118404		1010355
Werner Lorenz	Commander of the Office of Ethnic Germanization	6636	1931	337994
Artur Phleps	Commander of the 7.SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division Prinz Eugen	401214
Oswald Pohl	Commander of the SS Economics and Administration Office (WVHA)	147614	1933	30842
Joachim von Ribbentrop	Nazi Foreign Minister	63083	February 1938	1199927
Ernst Sachs		278781		4167008
Fritz Sauckel	Honorary SS Rank	254890		1395
Paul Scharfe	Commander of the SS Legal Office
Julius Schaub	Co-founder of the SS, Personal assistant to Hitler	7	February 1925	81
Oskar Schwerk		276825		5420196
Fritz von Scholz	Commander of Nordland Waffen-SS volunteer formation
Arthur Seyss-Inquart	Commander of the Austrian SS, Deputy Governor General of Poland	292771		6270392
Felix Steiner	Commander of III.(gemanisches) SS-Panzerkorps	253351		4264295
Dr. Heinrich Von Maur				5890310
Prince Josias zu Waldeck und Pyrmont		2139		160025
Karl Wolff	Chief of Staff to Heinrich Himmler and Supreme SS and Police Leader of Italy	14235	7 October 1931	695131
Udo Von Woyrsch		3689		162349

Rank	Insignia
Gruppenführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Amin al-Husayni	Reported SS Honorary Rank {unconfirmed}
Albert Ritter Von Beck		153322	1937	5354436
Karl Brandt	Hitler's physician
Dr. Carl Clauberg	Involved in human experiments	23876		21635
Hermann Fegelein	SS-Cavalry General, Brother-in-law to Eva Braun
Bruno Erich Alfred Freyberg	Oberburgermiester of Leipzig
Odilo Globocnik	Higher SS and Police Leader of the Adriatic Region
Richard Glucks	Inspector of Concentration Camps/Amt D WVHA	58706	1932	214805
Wilhelm Harster	GeneralLieutnant of Police	225932	9 Nov 1933	3226594
Otto Hofmann	Head of RuSHA 1943 SS and Police Leader Southwest Germany	7646	1931	145729
Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper	Honorary rank
Heinrich Muller	Commander of the Gestapo	107043	20 April 1934	533199
Artur Nebe	Commander of the Kriminalpolizei	280152
Otto Ohlendorf	Commander of the Inland-SD		1926	6631
Heinz Reinefarth	Waffen-SS General
KArl Gustav Sauberzweig	2nd Commander of 13th Waffen SS Division
Jurgen Stroop	SS and Police Leader of Warsaw		1932

Rank	Insignia
Brigadeführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Leon Degrelle	See explanation on this rank for Degrelle in wikipedta article	None	1 June 1943	None
Anton Dunckern	Also Generalmajor der Poliezi	3526		315601
Heinz Jost	SD Commander & Commander of Einsatzkommando A
Bronislaw Kaminski	Commander of Kaminski Brigade
Kurt Meyer	Waffen SS divisional commander
Wilhelm Mohnke	Commander of the Reichs Chancellery defence during the Battle of Berlin		1 September 1931
Hans Nieland	Lord Mayor of Dresden	61702		33333
Johannes Rattenhuber	Commander of Hitler's SS Bodyguard Unit	52877	1 May 1933	3212449
Walter Schellenberg	Commander of the Ausland-SD
Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz	Heer Panzer General	82857		1405562
Bruno Streckenbach	Involved with Gestapo and Einsatzgruupe; commander of SS Cavalry Division
Otto Steinbrinck
Dr. Friedrich Weber	Commander of the NSDAP Old Guard	265902	July 1934	15
Wilhelm Werner	World War I war criminal; member of Himmler's personal staff	9916	15 July 1931	332139
Karl Maria Wiligut	Section VIII {Archives} RUSHA Himmler's Personal Staff		September 1933

Rank	Insignia
Oberführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Adolf Ax	Waffen SS commander	3848	1 December 1930	378043
Rudolf Diels	First Commander of the Gestapo	187116	April 1934	3955308
Eduard Deisenhofer	Waffen SS combat commander
Oskar Dirlewanger	Leader of Dirlewanger Brigade
Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Porsche		None		5643287
Georg Martin	Waffen SS Commander	87679		5649799
Emil Maurice	SS Member #2, credited with founding the SS	2	February 1925	39
Thomas Muller	Waffen-SS combat commander
Freidrich Panzinger	Chief Amt IV A RSHA; Einsatzgruppe A; Deputy Chief of Gestapo; Chief Amt V RSHA	322118		5017341
Emanuel Schafer	Einsatkommando/SD/Himmler personal Staff	280018		4659879
Julian Scherner	SS and Police Leader of Kraków
Julius Schreck	First Reich Leader of the SS	5	February 1925	53
Otto Steinhausl	Leader of Interpol	292773	1938

Rank	Insignia
Standartenführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Gunter d'Alquen	Chief of Propaganda OKW Editor Schwartz Corps connceted with SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers	8452	1931	66.689
Jakob Grimminger	Leader of Standarten 1 and Bearer of the Blutfahne	135	25 February 1926	759
Karl Jaeger	Commander of Einsatzkommando 3/Einsatzgruppe A. Author of infamous "Jaeger Report".	62823	1932	359269
Rudolf Lange	SD Commander of Latvia, Commander Einsatzkommando A-2, Participant of Wannsee Conference	93501	1 March 1933	1159583
Dr. Wilhelm Pfannenstiel	SS Physician at Belzec
Jochen Peiper	"LSSAH" Commander of Kampgruppe Peiper {unit involved in Malmedy Massacre}	132496	16 Oct 1933
Wolfram Sievers	Reich Manager of the Ahnenerbe and Director of its Institute for Military Scientific Research

Rank	Insignia
Obersturmbannführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Hans Bissinger	Commander of Field-Ersatz-Brigade 102 II. SS Panzer Corps	53698	1 April 1932	1200004
Leon Degrelle	Belgian Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander	None	1 June 1943	None
Adolf Eichmann	Head of the Jewish Department of the Gestapo	45326	1 April 1932	889895
Dr. Walter Haensch	RSHA I D-2 RSHA I D Sonnderkommando 4-B	252573	1 August 1935	537256
Wilhelm Hoettl	RSHA Head of Counter Intelligence for Central and South East Europe 2nd in command to Himmler representative in Hungary	309510	1938	6309616
Rudolf Hoss	Commander of Auschwitz Concentration Camp	193616	20 September 1933	3240
Herbert Kappler	Commander of SS and Police Forces in Rome, Italy	55211	8 May 1933	594899

Karl Rahm	Commandant of Theresienstadt
Richard Schulze AKA Richard Schulze-Kossens	Commander of SS Officer School Bad Tolz, Bavaria
Hans Seigling	Also held rank as a Obersleutnant of the Schutzpolizei Commander of German Police Battalion 57 Commander of Schuma Brigade Siegling Last commander of 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian)	450.683	1940	3.279.337
Edmund Trinkl	Oberregierungsrat RSHA Berlin Dept I A 6 former member of Freikorps Van Epp and Roehm Reichsflagge

Rank	Insignia
Sturmbannführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Karl Boemelburg	Gestapo Leader {France}	35898		892239
Wernher von Braun	Allgemeine-SS Battalion Officer {ALso SS Horseriding Club }	185068	1933
Joseph Darnand	French Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander
Hans Guenther	Adolf Eichmann Deputy; Brother of Rolf Gunther	290.129		119.925
Rolf Guenther	Adolf Eichmann Deputy; Brother of Hans Gunther	290.130		472.421
Hans Keiffer	Deputy Gestapo leader {France}	280104		2632427
Dr. Werner Knab	Gestapo Chief in Norway Kdr der Sipo Lyons France	191584	1935	3269940
Horst Kopkow	Counterintelligence; Postwar employed by MI6	46034	1931	607161
Bernhard Krueger	Leader of VI F4A {RSHA} OPeration Bernhard	15429		528729
Dr. Ricard Edwin Mattel	Gynecology, Kaisern Elisabethspital, Vienna 1940		4 Nov 1938	6212863
Alfred Naujocks	SD Commando, Gleiwitz Strike Leader	624279	1930 or 1931	26246
Hermann Hofle	Deputy head of the Aktion Reinhard programme			3924970
Adolf Shulz-Lenhardt	Kriminalrat Hamm & Madgeburg	290716		5641530
Otto Skorzeny	RSHA Commando Leader
Eduard Wirths	Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarztat) at the Auschwitz Extermination Camp
Gerald Krause	Foreign Legion Commander	565 781	1940	67 324

Rank	Insignia
Hauptsturmführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Klaus Barbie	Head of the Gestapo in Lyon		1935
Amon Goth	Commander of the Plaszow Labor Camp	43673	1930	510764
Karl Hass	SD; particpant in Ardeatine Caves Massacre;		1934
Josef Mengele	Chief Medical Officer of main infirmary camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau	3177885	May 1938	5574974
Peter Neumann	Captain of the 5th Viking Division, Wrote The Black March		1939
Erich Priebke	SD and Sicherheitspolizei Commander in Rome, Italy
Eduard Roschmann	Commandant of Riga Ghetto/K-z		1938
Fritz Woehrn	RSHA IVb4	280238	Sept 11, 1938	2863618

Rank	Insignia
Obersturmführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Kurt Gerstein	Author of the Gerstein Report		10 March 1941
Willy Hund	Waffen SS Knight's Cross holder	391949	3 April 1939	None
Leo John	Deputy Commander of the Plaszow Labor Camp
Walter Scharpwinkel	Gestapo Chief particpant in killing of Allied Pows {i.e The Great Escape}	290803		1053578

Rank	Insignia
Untersturmführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS
Paul Dickopf	SD; postwar president of Interpol	337259	1937
Heinz Felfe	SD Switzerland and Netherlands; postwar KGB spy in British Intelligence and CIA sponsored Gehlen.org		1936
Benson Freeman	British Defector and SS Propaganda Officer SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers
Martin James Monti	USA Deserter and SS Propaganda Officer SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers		1945
Reimond Tollenaere	Belgian Foreign Legion Waffen-SS Officer
Hanns-Martin Schleyer	Leader of board of Zentralverband der Industrie in Prague	221714	30 June 1933

Rank	Insignia
Sturmscharführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Lorenz Hackenholt	SS-NCO in charge of gassing at Belzec Concentration Camp		1933	1727962
Gustav Wagner	Head SS-NCO of Sobibor Concentration Camp

Rank	Insignia
Oberscharführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Ernst Barkmann	Waffen-SS Panzer Ace
Franz Buerkl {See Pawiak}	Deputy Commander/Sadistic executioner at Pawiak Prision Warsaw POland
Heinrich Harrer	Austrain Mountainer & Explorer in Tibet
Eric Muhsfeldt	Senior NCO of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando
Karl Silberbauer	Vienna Gestapo; SD at The Hague; arrested Anne Frank

Rank	Insignia
Unterscharführer

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Albert Hujar	Staff NCO of Plaszow Labor Camp

Rank	Insignia
Rottenführer
Sturmmann
Schütze
Mann
Anwarter	{No Insignia}
Bewerber	{SS Uniform without Insignia}

Name	Position	SS Number	Entry into SS	Nazi Party Number
Josef Bloesche	Member of SD; involved in suppression of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	314655		6547348
Alfred Krupp	SS sponsorship member; Arms/Steel industrialist/ Colonel in NSFK {Nazi Flying Corps}	None	1934	6989627
Josef Oberle	Dutch SS Guard at K-Z Amersfoort
Berend Johan Westerveld	Dutch SS Guard at K-Z Amersfoort
Eric Pleasants	British Defector and member of the SS British Freikorps. {British Free Corps}	None	1940	None
Sebastian Schmid	Driver at K-Z Dachau War Crimes Defendant
Albert Speer	Reichminister for Armaments and War Production	46 104	20 July 1942	474 481