Flashcards: SS officers

SS-Sturmbannführer Richard Baer (September 9, 1911 – June 17, 1963) was a German SS officer with the rank of major, and the commandant of the Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945.

Julius Schaub (20 August 1898 – 27 December 1967) was the chief aide and adjutant to German dictator Adolf Hitler until the dictator's suicide on 30 April 1945.

Johannes Hendrik Feldmeijer (Assen, 30 November 1910 – near Raalte, 22 February 1945) was a Dutch National Socialist politician and a member of the NSB.

Hermann Johann Heinrich Behrends (11 May 1907 in Rüstingen, Oldenburg – 4 December 1948 in Belgrade) was a Nazi Party and SS official, obtaining the rank of Brigadefuehrer in the latter organisation.

Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946), more commonly known as Joachim von Ribbentrop, was Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945.

Helmut Knochen (March 14, 1910 – April 4, 2003) was the senior commander of the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) and Sicherheitsdienst in Paris during the Nazi occupation of France during World War II.

Karl-Friedrich Höcker (11 December 1911 – 30 January 2000) was a SS-Obersturmführer (first lieutenant) and the adjutant to Richard Baer, who was a commandant of Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to December 1944.

Oberführer (Senior Colonel) Hans Loritz (12 December 1895, Augsburg – 31 January 1946) joined the SS in September, 1930 and the NSDAP in August, 1930.

Hasan Salama or Hassan Salameh (Arabic: حسن سلامة‎‎, Ḥasan Salāmah) (1913–1948) was a commander of the Palestinian Holy War Army (Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas, Arabic: جيش الجهاد المقدس) in the 1948 Palestine War along with Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni.

Karl Linnas (6 August 1919, Tartu – 2 July 1987) was an Estonian who was sentenced to capital punishment during the Holocaust trials in Soviet Estonia in 1961.

Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein (6 May 1898 – 10 May 1945) was a leading Sudeten German politician in Czechoslovakia.

Kurt Daluege (15 September 1897 – 24 October 1946) was a German Nazi SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer and Generaloberst of the Police (ranks equivalent to colonel-general, or four-star General) as chief of the national uniformed Ordnungspolizei (Order Police), and ruled the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia as Deputy Protector after Reinhard Heydrich's assassination.

Rudolf Spanner (born 17 April 1895 in Metternich bei Koblenz; died 1960) was Director of the Danzig Anatomical Institute during World War II.

Joseph Bürckel (30 March 1895, in Lingenfeld, Germersheim – 28 September 1944, in Neustadt an der Weinstraße) was a Nazi Germany politician and a member of the German parliament (the Reichstag).

Georg Herbert Mehlhorn (24 March 1903 – 30 October 1968) was an SS Oberführer, Nazi legal expert, and Gestapo official.

Arthur Qvist (17 February 1896 – 20 September 1973) was a Norwegian horse rider who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Bernd Rosemeyer (14 October 1909 – 28 January 1938) was a German racing driver.

Emil Maurice (19 January 1897, Westermoor – 6 February 1972, Munich) was an early member of the National Socialist German Workers Party and a founding member of the SS.

Johann Paulus Appler (June 13, 1892 in Obernzenn, Middle Franconia – December 21, 1978 in Gunzenhausen) was a member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP (Nazi Party).

Ferid Džanić (1918 – 17 September 1943) was a Bosniak soldier during World War II.

Oster was the son of Oberstleutnant Heinrich Oster and served as a volunteer for a year in the army himself in 1898 before studying chemistry at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Technical Academy and the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, obtaining his doctorate in 1905.

Reinhard Kopps (29 September 1914 Hamburg – 11 September 2001 Bariloche, Argentina) was an SS Officer for the Nazi Party during World War II.

Eugen Dollmann (8 August 1900 in Regensburg – 17 May 1985 in Munich) was a German Diplomat and a member of the SS.

Finn Hannibal Kjelstrup (7 November 1884 – 5 December 1961) was a Norwegian military officer and civil servant for Nasjonal Samling.

Baron Günther Hubertus von Reibnitz (8 September 1894 – 2 March 1983) was a cavalry officer of the German Empire during the First World War.

Karl Möbius was World War II German tank commander.

Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling (27 July 1907 – 30 October 1991) was an SS-officer who served in the Nazi government of German dictator Adolf Hitler and in the SS Main Office.

Hans Endres (born 26 February 1911 in Stuttgart – died 11 June 2004 in Heidelberg) was a German religious philosopher and author.

Wilhelm Krüger (died May 2, 1943), sometimes referred to as "The Heydrich of Poland" was the Chief of Gestapo operations in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.

He was born on 22 March 1911.

Eduard-Maria Joseph Ritter von Schleich (August 9, 1888 – November 15, 1947), born Schleich, was a high scoring Bavarian flying ace of the First World War.

Leopold Itz, Edler von Mildenstein (30 November 1902 – November 1968) was an SS officer of the 1930s and 1940s who is remembered as a leader of the Nazi Party's support during the 1930s for the aims of Zionism.

Kurt Heinrich Debus (November 29, 1908 – October 10, 1983) was a German V-2 rocket scientist during World War II who, after being brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip, became the first director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in 1962.

Franz Murer (24 January 1912 – 5 January 1994), also known as the "Butcher from Vilnius", was an Austrian SS officer, who set up, organized, and ruled Vilna Ghetto.

Gino Boccasile (14 July 1901 – 10 May 1952) was an Italian illustrator.

Hans Joachim Sewering (30 January 1916 – 18 June 2010) was a German doctor.