Appendix I
Richard Baer (9 September 1911 – 17 June 1963)
German Nazi official with the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer and commander of the Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945.
Hermann Baranowski (11 June 1884 in Schwerin – 5 February 1940 in Aue)
A German politician and military figure. Commandant of two German concentration camps of the SS Death’s Head unit. He was the commandant of Dachau concentration camp in 1938. He served as the SS-Oberführer of Sachsenhausen concentration camp from February 1938 to September 1939.
Hans Bothmann (11 November 1911 – 4 April 1946)
Holding the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer he was the last commandant of the Chełmno extermination camp from 1942 on (SS card number 117630); he was leader of the SS Special Detachment Bothmannconducting the extermination of Jews from the Łódź Ghetto and other places. He committed suicide in British custody in April 1946 while in Heide.
Alois Brunner (born 8 April 1912)
An Austrian SS officer and became Adolf Eichmann’s assistant. Eichmann referred to Brunner as his best man. Brunner is held responsible for sending at least 140,000 European Jews to the gas chambers. He was commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, from which nearly 24,000 people were deported. He was condemned to death in absentia in France in 1954 for crimes against humanity.
Karl Chmielewski (born 16 July 1903 in Frankfurt am Main; died 1 December 1991 in Bernau am Chiemsee)
A German SS officer and concentration camp commandant. Such was his cruelty that he was dubbed Teufel von Gusen or the Devil of Gusen.
Heinrich Deubel (19 February 1890 – 2 October 1962)
A German soldier, civil servant and officer in the SS who served as commandant of Dachau concentration camp.
Irmfried Eberl (8 September 1910 – 16 February 1948)
An Austrian Nazi, he held the rank of SS-Obersturmführer. He assisted in the creation of the Treblinka extermination camp and was its first commandant, where he worked from 11 July 1942 until his dismissal on 26 August 1942. As a psychiatrist, Eberl was the only physician to command an extermination camp. In January 1948 he was arrested. Before his trial could begin, he hanged himself.
Theodor Eicke (17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943)
An SS-Obergruppenführer, commander of the SS-Division (mot) Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS and one of the key figures in the establishment of concentration camps.
Walter Eisfeld (born 11 July 1905 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt; died 3 April 1940 in Dachau)
An SS officer and Nazi concentration camp commandant.
Hermann Florstedt (18 February 1895 – 15 April 1945)
Became the third Commandant of Majdanek concentration camp in October 1942. He was executed by the SS in 1945.
Otto Förschner (4 November 1902 – 28 May 1946)
German SS-Sturmbannfuhrer and Nazi concentration camp officer. Commandant of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp and the Dachau sub-camp of Kaufering.
Kurt Franz (17 January 1914 – 4 July 1998)
An SS officer and one of the commanders of the Treblinka extermination camp.
Karl Fritzsch (Born 10 July 1903; went missing 2 May 1945)
Held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer and was a concentration camp officer at Auschwitz and deputy. He first suggested and experimented with using Zyklon-B gas for the purpose of mass murder.
Wilhelm Gideon (15 November 1898 in Oldenburg, died after 1975)
An SS officer and was appointed commandant of Gross-Rosen concentration camp on 16 September 1942 in succession to Arthur Rödl. He held the post until 10 October 1943 when Johannes Hassebroek succeeded him.
Amon Goeth (11 December 1908 – 13 September 1946)
An Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer and the commandant of the Kraków-Płasźw concentration camp in Płasźw in German-occupied Poland.
Fritz Hartjenstein (3 July 1905 – 20 October 1954)
An SS-Obersturmbannführer, Totenkopfverbände. He worked at various concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen.
Johannes Hassebroek (11 July 1910 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt – 17 April 1977 in Westerstede)
An officer and commandant of Gross-Rosen concentration camp in succession to Wilhelm Gideon in October 1943.
Hans Helwig (25 September 1881 in Hemsbach – 24 August 1952 also in Hemsbach)
A Nazi politician, SS general and concentration camp commandant. Initially he became commandant of the women’s camp at Lichtenburg. In July 1937 he succeeded Karl Otto Koch as commandant of Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Gottlieb Hering (2 June 1887 – 9 October 1945)
An SS-Hauptsturmführer who served in Action T4 and later as the second and last commandant of Bełżec extermination camp during Operation Reinhard.
Paul-Werner Hoppe (28 February 1910 – 15 July 1974)
An SS-Sturmbannführer and was the commandant of Stutthof concentration camp from September 1942 until April 1945.
Rudolf Höss (25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947)
An SS-Obersturmbannführer, and from 4 May 1940 to November 1943 was the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp.
Anton Kaindl (14 July 1902, Munich – 1948 in Vorkuta)
An SS-Standartenführer and commandant of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1942-1945.
Karl-Otto Koch (2 August 1897 – 5 April 1945)
Holding the rank of SS-Standartenführer he was the first commandant of the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September 1941 until August 1942 Koch served as the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in occupied Poland.
Max Koegel (16 October 1895 – 27 June 1946)
An SS officer who served as a commander at Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Flossenbürg concentration camps.
Josef Kramer (10 November 1906 – 13 December 1945)
The commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, dubbed ‘The Beast of Belsen’ by camp inmates.
Herbert Lange (29 September 1909 – 20 April 1945)
A Sturmbannführer in the SS and the commandant of Chełmno extermination camp until April 1942; he was leader of the SS Special Detachment Lange conducting the extermination of Jews from the Łódź Ghetto.
Arthur Liebehenschel (25 November 1901 – 28 January 1948)
A commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps.
Michael Lippert (24 April 1897 – 1 September 1969)
He held the position of SS-Standartenführer, and commanded several concentration camps, including Sachsenhausen, before becoming a commander of the SS-Freiwilligen Legion Flandern and the 10 SS-Panzer-Division, Frundsberg.
Hans Loritz (12 December 1895 – 31 January 1946)
Commandant at camp Papenburg and Esterwegen, he was then transferred to commandant of Dachau until 1939. In 1940 he was posted to Sachsenhausen, and in 1942 was removed and sent to oversee a camp in Norway.
Max Pauly
SS-Standartenführer, commandant of Stutthof concentration camp from September 1939 to August 1942 and commandant of Neuengamme concentration camp and the associated sub-camps from September 1942 until the end of the war in 1945.
Hermann Pister
SS-Oberführer and commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp from 21 January 1942 until April 1945.
Kurt Pompe
Commandant in a number of forced labour camps for Jews in Silesia until the end of the war, part of a huge network of over 160 camps run by an SS organization known as Dienststelle Schmelt.
Franz Reichleitner
SS-Hauptsturmführer serving in Operation Reinhard. He served as the second and last commandant of Sobibor death camp from 1 September 1942 until the camp’s closure on about 17 October 1943. He was directly responsible for the wholesale murder of the Jews at Sobibor.
Arthur Rödl
SS-Standartenführer, Waffen-SS, deputy-commandant at Buchenwald, eventually given a command of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
Heinrich Schwarz
SS-Hauptsturmführer and concentration camp officer, stationed at Mauthausen and Sachsenhausen concentration camps during 1940–1941. He also served as commandant of Auschwitz III-Monowitz and Natzweiler-Struthof in Alsace-Lorraine.
Franz Stangl
SS-Hauptsturmführer, an Austrian, graduate of Hartheim ‘euthanasia’ centre. He later became commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps during Operation Reinhard.
Karl Streibel
SS-Hauptsturmführer, the second and last commander of the Trawniki concentration camp, one of the sub-camps of the KL Lublin system of concentration camps in occupied Poland.
Fritz Suhren
SS-Sturmbannführer, was initially stationed at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1941. Later he became commandant of the women’s camp at Ravensbrück.
Richard Thomalla
SS-Hauptsturmführer, headed construction of the Reinhard camps, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka.
Lotte Toberentz
Commander of the Uckermark concentration camp for girls. From December 1944 to April 1945, Lagerführerin (camp leader) of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Hilmar Wäwckerle
Chosen by Himmler to be commandant of the newly-established Dachau concentration camp in 1933, he left his post a few months later. During the war he was a member of the Waffen-SS and served with the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking.
Martin Gottfried Weiss
SS-Obersturmbannführer, served as the commandant of Neuengamme concentration camp from April 1940 until September 1942, and was the Majdanek death camp’s fourth commandant from November 1943 until May 1944. His last posting was commandant of Dachau where he was in 1945 at the time of his arrest.
Christian Wirth
SS-Sturmbannführer, was a German policeman and SS officer who was one of the leading architects of the program to exterminate the Jewish population of Poland, known as Operation Reinhard. Wirth served as Inspector of all Operation Reinhard camps. He was commandant of Chełmno and Bełżec extermination camps during most of their operation.
Franz Ziereis
SS-Standartenführer, became commandant of Mauthausen on 9 February 1939.
Egon Zill
He was commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof before taking charge at Flossenbürg. He was later transferred to the Eastern Front in 1943.