List of Nazi Party leaders and officials

A

• 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 – Head of Nazi publishing house Eher-Verlag
• Benno von Arent – Responsible for art, theaters and movies in the Third Reich.
• Heinz Auerswald – Commissioner for the Jewish residential district in Warsaw from April 1941 to November 1942.
• Hans Aumeier – deputy commandant at Auschwitz
• Artur Axmann – Chief of the Social Office of the Reich Youth Leadership. Leader of the Hitler Youth from 1940, through war's end in 1945.

  B

• Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski – Commander of the "Bandenkämpfverbände" 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 – Minister of Food and Minister of Agriculture.
• 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 – Head of the Gestapo in Lyon. Nicknamed "the Butcher of Lyon" for his use of torture on prisoners.
• Josef Bauer – SS officer and politician.
• Josef Berchtold – Very early Party member, and the second Reichsführer-SS from 1926–27.
• Gottlob Berger – Chief of Staff for Waffen-SS and head of the SS's main leadership office.
• Alfred Ingemar Berndt – Propaganda Ministry Official and SS Hauptsturmführer
• Werner Best – SS-Obergruppenführer and Civilian administrator of Nazi-occupied France and Denmark.
• Hans Biebow – Chief of Administration of the Łódź Ghetto.
• Helmut Bischoff – SS-Obersturmbannführer. 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 – leader of the Foreign Organization of the German Nazi Party from 1933 until 1945.
• 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 – Gruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corps and adjutant to Adolf Hitler.
• Martin Bormann – Head of the Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler.

• Philipp Bouhler – Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP and leader of the Action T4 euthanasia program.
• Viktor Brack – Organizer of the Euthanasia program, Operation T4 and one of the men responsible for the gassing of Jews in the extermination camps.
• Otto Bradfisch – Commander of the Security Police in Łódź and Potsdam.
• Karl Brandt – Personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939.
• Walther von Brauchitsch – Generalfeldmarschall, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army 1938–1941.
• Franz Breithaupt, NSDAP deputy to the Reichstag between 1933–1945.
• Alois Brunner – Commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944.
• Walter Buch – Jurist and supreme magistrate of the Nazi party.
• Friedrich Buchardt – Member of the Einsatzgruppen 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 – State secretary for the Nazi-controlled General Government in Kraków during World War II.
• Josef Bürckel – Politician and leading member of the Schutzstaffel from November 1937.
• Wilhelm Burgdorf – General of the Wehrmacht.
• Anton Burger – Commandant of concentration camp Theresienstadt between 1943 and 1944.

  C

• 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 T-4 Program.
• Carl Clauberg – Doctor who conducted medical experiments on human beings in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
• Leonardo Conti – Head of the Reich Physicians' Chamber and leader of the National Socialist German Doctors' League.

  D

• Kurt Daluege – SS-Oberstgruppenführer and Generaloberst der Polizei as chief of the Ordnungspolizei ; from 1942 ruled the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia as Acting Protector after Reinhard Heydrich's assassination.
• Richard Walther Darré – Minister of Food and Agriculture from 1933 to 1942.
• Rudolf Diels – German politician. Protégé of Hermann Göring. First director of the Gestapo from 26 April 1933 to 1 April 1934.
• 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 – Press Chief of the Nazi regime.
• Oskar Dirlewanger – Commanded the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger unit made out of amnestied Germans convicted of major crimes.
• Karl Dönitz — Großadmiral, Führer der Unterseeboote 1936–1943, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy 1943–1945, last head of state of Nazi Germany following Hitler's suicide.
• Richard Drauz – Kreisleiter of Heilbronn
• Anton Drexler – Politician; member of the Nazi Party through the 1920s. The founder and a leader of the German Workers' Party. Responsible for changing the name of the Party to the National Socialist German Workers' Party early in 1920.

  E

• Irmfried Eberl – Commandant of Treblinka, July to September 1942.
• Dietrich Eckart – Important early member of the National-Socialist German Workers' Party; participated in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch.
• Adolf Eichmann – SS-Obersturmbannführer. Official in charge of RSHA Referat IV B4, Juden ; 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 – SS-Obergruppenführer. Leading figure in establishment of concentration camps in Nazi Germany; later commander of the 3rd Waffen-SS Division Totenkopf.
• August Eigruber – Gauleiter of Oberdonau ; Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria
• Hermann Esser – Propagandist; editor of Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter.
• Richard Euringer – Writer who selected 18,000 "unsuitable" books which did not conform to Nazi ideology and were publicly burned.
• Franz Ritter von Epp – General, German Army.

  F

• Gottfried Feder – Economic theorist; early NSDAP leader.
• Karl Fiehler – Lord Mayor of Munich from 1933 to 1945.
• Albert Forster – Politician; Governor of Danzig-West Prussia province from 1939 to 1945.
• Hans Frank – Governor-General of occupied Poland; involved in perpetration of the Holocaust.
• Karl Hermann Frank – SS-Obergruppenführer and prominent Sudeten-German Nazi official in Czechoslovakia before and during World War II.
• Roland Freisler – State Secretary of Adolf Hitler's Reich Ministry of Justice; President of the Volksgerichtshof|People's Court; sentenced hundreds of people to death, including Sophie Scholl, Werner Scholl and various members of the July 20 Plot; killed while returning to the courthouse to collect some files during an air raid on Berlin.
• Wilhelm Frick – Minister of Interior until August 1943; later appointed to ceremonial post of Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
• Werner von Fritsch – Generaloberst, Commander-in-Chief of the Army from 1935 to 1938. Forced out in the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair.
• Hans Fritzsche – Senior official at the Ministry for Propaganda.
• Walther Funk – Minister for Economic Affairs from 1938 to 1945.

  G

• Karl Gebhardt – Personal physician of Heinrich Himmler; one of the main perpetrators of surgical experiments performed on concentration camp inmates at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz.
• Achim Gercke – Expert on racial matters at the Ministry of the Interior. Devised the system of racial prophylaxis, forbidding intermarriage between Jews and Aryans.
• Kurt Gerstein – SS officer; member of the Waffen-SS Institute for Hygiene; witnessed mass murders in Nazi extermination camps; gave information to Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter and Roman Catholic Church officials to inform the international public about the Holocaust; in 1945 wrote the Gerstein Report about the Holocaust; afterward allegedly committed suicide while in French custody.
• Herbert Otto Gille – SS-Obergruppenfuhrer; Waffen-SS General. Awarded the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds and the German Cross in Gold, became the most highly decorated Waffen SS member during World War II.
• Odilo Globocnik – SS-Obergruppenführer; prominent Austrian Nazi; later an SS leader in Poland; head of "Operation Reinhard"; one of those responsible for the murder of millions of people during the Holocaust.
• Richard Glücks – SS officer; inspector of concentration camps.
• Joseph Goebbels – One of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, known for zealous oratory and antisemitism. Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda throughout the Third Reich and World War II. Named Reich Chancellor in Hitler's will, a position he held for only one day before his own suicide.
• Hermann Göring – Hitler's designated successor ; Luftwaffe commander. As Reichsmarschall, highest-ranking military officer in the Third Reich; sole holder of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross; sentenced to death by the Nuremberg Tribunal but committed suicide hours before his scheduled hanging; World War I veteran as ace fighter pilot; participated in the Beer Hall Putsch; founder of the Gestapo.
• Amon Goeth – SS-Hauptsturmführer. Nazi concentration camp commandant at Płaszów, General Government, German-occupied Poland.
• Robert Ritter von Greim – German Field Marshal, pilot and last Luftwaffe commander succeeding the deposed Hermann Göring in the last days of World War II.
• Arthur Greiser – Chief of Civil Administration; Gauleiter, Greater Poland military district.
• Walter Groß – Chief of the Nazi Party 's Racial Policy Office. Implicated in the Final Solution.
• Kurt Gruber – First chairman of the Hitler Youth.
• Hans Friedrich Karl Günther – Academic, teaching racial theory and eugenics.
• Franz Gürtner – Minister of Justice responsible for co-ordinating jurisprudence in the Third Reich.

  H

• Eugen Hadamovsky – National programming director for German radio; chief of staff in the Nazi Party's Central Propaganda Office in Berlin from 1942 to 1944.
• :de:Heinrich Hager|Heinrich Hager SA-Oberführer. Elected at Reichstag 1932 to his death in 1941. Leader of SA Brigade 77.
• Ernst Hanfstaengl – Confidant and early supporter of Adolf Hitler.
• Karl Hanke – Governor of Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945; the last Reichsführer-SS for a few days in 1945.
• Fritz Hartjenstein – SS-Obersturmbannführer. Concentration camp commandant at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Natzweiler and Flossenbürg.
• Paul Hausser – SS-Oberstgruppenführer; Generaloberst der Waffen-SS. First commander of the military SS-Verfügungstruppe that grew into the Waffen-SS, in which he was a prominent field commander.
• Franz Hayler – State Secretary and acting Reich Economics Minister during the latter part of World War II.
• Martin Heidegger – Eminent philosopher; NSDAP member who supported Hitler after he became Chancellor in 1933.
• Erhard Heiden – Founding member of the Schutzstaffel ; its third Reichsführer from 1927 to 1929.
• August Heißmeyer – Leading SS member.
• Rudolf Hess – Deputy Führer to Hitler until his flight to Scotland on the eve of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.
• Walther Hewel – Diplomat; personal friend of Hitler.
• Werner Heyde – Psychiatrist; one of the main organizers of the T-4 Euthanasia Program.
• Reinhard Heydrich – SS-Obergruppenführer; General der Polizei, Chief of the RSHA or Reichssicherheitshauptamt ; Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia. He was Himmler's "right-hand man", and considered a principal architect of the Night of the Long Knives and the Final Solution. Assassinated in Prague in 1942 by British-trained Czech commandos.
• Konstantin Hierl – Head of the Reichsarbeitsdienst; associate of Adolf Hitler before he came to power.
• Erich Hilgenfeldt – Head of the Nazi Party's Office For People's Welfare.
• Heinrich Himmler – Reichsführer-SS. As head of the SS, Chief of the German Police and later the Minister of the Interior, one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich.
• Hans Hinkel Journalist; Commissioner at the Reich Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda.
• August Hirt – Chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg; instigated a plan to build a study-collection of specialized human anatomical specimens from over 100 murdered Jews. Allied discovery of corpses, paperwork and statements of laboratory assistants led to war crimes trial preparation, which he avoided through suicide.
• Adolf Hitler – Politician; leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party. Absolute dictator of Germany from 1934 to 1945, with titles of Chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and head of state from 1934 to 1945.
• Hermann Höfle – Deputy to Odilo Globocnik in the Aktion Reinhard program. Played a key role in the "Harvest Festival" massacre of Jewish inmates of various labor camps in the Lublin district of Nazi-occupied Poland in early November 1943.
• Rudolf Höß – SS-Obersturmbannführer; Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp.
• Franz Hofer – Gauleiter of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg regions.
• Adolf Hühnlein – Korpsführer of the National Socialist Motor Corps, from 1934 until his death in 1942.
• Karl Holz – protege of rabid antisemitic journalist Julius Streicher; succeeded him as Gauleiter of Franconia.
• Franz Josef Huber – former Munich political police department inspector with Heinrich Müller; in 1938 appointed chief of the State Police and Gestapo for Vienna and the "Lower Danube", and "Upper Danube" regions of Austria.

  J

• Karl Jäger – SS officer; Einsatzkommando leader; author of the "Jäger Report" giving details of mass murders in Lithuania between July and December 1941.
• Friedrich Jeckeln – Leader of one of the largest collection of Einsatzgruppen; personally responsible for ordering the deaths of over 100,000 Jews, Slavs, Roma and other "undesirables."
• Alfred Jodl – Generaloberst; Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command during World War II, acting as deputy to Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel.
• Hanns Johst – Playwright and Nazi Party poet laureate.
• Hans Jüttner – SS-Obergruppenführer; head of the SS-Führungshauptamt or SS-FHA.
• Rudolf Jung – An instrumental force and agitator of German-Czech National Socialism and, later on, a member of the German Nazi Party.

  K

• Ernst Kaltenbrunner – SS-Obergruppenführer; General der Polizei und Waffen-SS. Chief of the RSHA, a main office of the SS, from January 1943 to Germany's surrender in May 1945.
• Hans Kammler – SS Construction projects and V-2 program director.
• Siegfried Kasche – German Plenipotentiary Minister to the allied Independent State of Croatia.
• Emil Kaschub – Physician who conducted experiments on Nazi concentration camp prisoners.
• Karl Kaufmann – Nazi Party founding member; Gauleiter of Hamburg.
• Wilhelm Keitel – Field Marshal ; head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht during World War II.
• Hanns Kerrl – Reichsminister of Church Affairs for the Third Reich.
• Dietrich Klagges – Premier of the Free State of Brunswick between 1933 and 1945.
• Matthias Kleinheisterkamp – SS-Obergruppenführer; divisional leader of SS divisions Das Reich and Nord
• Hans Ulrich Klintzsch – Second head of the SA, from 1921 to 1923
• Helmut Knochen – Senior commander of the Sicherheitspolizei in Paris in Nazi-occupied France.
• Erich Koch – Gauleiter in East Prussia from 1928 to 1945; Reichskomissar in Ukraine from 1941 to 1944.
• Karl Otto Koch – Concentration camp commandant at Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941, and later at Lublin.
• Max Koegel – SS-Obersturmbannführer. Concentration camp commandant at Majdanek and Flossenbürg.
• Karl Koller – Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff.
• Josef Kramer – Concentration camp commandant at Bergen-Belsen.
• Hans Krebs – General of the Wehrmachht; last OKH Chief of Staff.
• Bernhard Krüger – Leader of the VI F 4a Unit in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt responsible for, among other things, falsifying passports and documents.
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger – High-ranking member of the SA and SS.
• Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach – Ran the Friedrich Krupp AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 until 1941; Nazi party financier, Succeeded by his son Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
• Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach – member of Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft; Colonel, NSDAP Flying Corps; ran the Friedrich Kiesow AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1943 to 1945, and subsequently from 1951 to 1967.

  L

• Hans Lammers – Head of the Reich Chancellery.
• Herbert Lange – SS-Sturmbannführer; Chełmno extermination camp commandant, implicated in thousands of gassings there; supervised the execution of 1,558 mental patients at Soldau concentration camp.
• Robert Ley – Head of the German Labor Front from 1933 to 1945.
• Arthur Liebehenschel – Commandant of Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps during World War II.
• Julius Lippert – Nazi activist and propaganda official.
• Wilhelm Loeper – Gauleiter in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.
• Hinrich Lohse – Gauleiter for Schleswig-Holstein and Reich Commissar for the Ostland.
• Werner Lorenz – Waffen-SS general; leader of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the Reich from other parts of Europe.
• Hanns Ludin – Diplomat; ambassador to Slovakia.
• Martin Luther – advisor to Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop; participant in the Wannsee Conference.
• Viktor Lutze – SA officer; important participant in the Night of the Long Knives; succeeded Ernst Röhm as Stabschef.

  M

• Emil Maurice – Personal friend of Hitler, first head of the SA and one of the founding members of the SS. But referred to in 1960 paperback Eichmann: the Man and His Crimes as Hitler's chauffeur, speculating whether Hitler knew he was a French Jew.
• Otto Meissner – Head of the Presidential Chancellery under Hitler.
• Josef Mengele – SS-Hauptsturmführer; physician at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
• Willy Messerschmitt – Aeronautical engineer; head of the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke ; designer of several famous aircraft including the Bf.109.
• Alfred Meyer – Deputy Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories
• Kurt Meyer – SS-Brigadeführer; Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; commanded 1st SS Reconnaissance Battalion ; later commanded 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend.
• Karl Freiherr Michel von Tüßling – SS-Sturmbannführer in Hitler's Chancellery; adjutant of Philipp Bouhler; staff officer, Reichsführer SS and SS Main Office.
• Erhard Milch - Generalfeldmarschall; Luftwaffe Inspector-General, responsible for aircraft production.
• Leopold von Mildenstein – Pro-Zionism expert in the headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst under Reinhard Heydrich until 1936, when the planned mass immigration of Jews to Palestine fell out of favor; convinced Adolf Eichmann to transfer to his SS department which handled "Jewish Affairs".
• Wilhelm Mohnke – SS-Brigadeführer; Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; one of original 120 members of SS-Staff Guard "Berlin" formed in March 1933; later commanded 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler ; appointed by Hitler in April 1945 as commander of the Berlin government district, nicknamed Die Zitadelle, including the Reich Chancellery, Führerbunker and Reichstag.
• Robert Mohr – Gestapo interrogation specialist; headed special commission responsible for search and arrest of White Rose, part of the anti-Nazi German Resistance.
• Hermann Muhs – Minister responsible for church and religious affairs.
• Robert Mulka – SS-Obersturmführer, adjutant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
• Heinrich Müller – SS-Gruppenführer; Generalleutnant der Polizei; headed Gestapo under Reinhard Heydrich as SiPo and later RSHA chief.
• Eugen Munder – Early party organizer in Stuttgart; Gauleiter of Württemberg from 1925 to 1928.
• Wilhelm Murr – Gauleiter of Württemberg; SS-Obergruppenführer; Reich Defense Commissar, Defense District V.

  N

• Alfred Naujocks – SS Sturmbannführer; led attack on Gleiwitz radio station starting World War II on 9/1/39.
• Arthur Nebe – SS Gruppenführer; Generalleutnant der Polizei; Berlin Police Commissioner in the 1920s; early member of both Sturmabteilung and Schutzstaffel ; Interpol President from June 1942 to 1943; appointed head of Kriminalpolizei or Kripo under Heydrich as SiPo and later RSHA chief. Executed in 1945 for alleged involvement in the 20 July Plot.
• Konstantin von Neurath – Foreign Minister of Germany ; Reichsprotektor of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
• Hans Nieland – Lord Mayor of Dresden from 1940 to 1945.

  O

• Herta Oberheuser – Ravensbrück concentration camp physician from 1940 to 1943; the only female defendant in the Nuremberg Medical Trial.
• Otto Ohlendorf – headed SD, domestic branch, the RSHA department responsible for intelligence and security within Nazi Germany.

  P

• Artur Phleps – SS Obergruppenführer; saw action with 5. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Wiking; later commanded 7. SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division Prinz Eugen and the V SS Mountain Corps; killed in September 1944.
• Paul Pleiger – State adviser; corporate general director.
• Oswald Pohl – SS Obergruppenführer; concentration camp organizer and administrator.
• Franz Pfeffer von Salomon – SA Supreme Leader from its re-founding in 1925 until removed in 1930 when Hitler personally assumed the title.
• Erich Priebke – Participated in the Ardeatine massacre in Rome on March 24, 1944.
• Hans-Adolf Prützmann – Superior SS and Police Leader; SS Obergruppenführer.

  R

• Erich Raeder — Großadmiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy 1936–1943.
• Friedrich Rainer – Austrian Nazi politician, Gauleiter and State governor of Salzburg and Carinthia.
• Sigmund Rascher – SS doctor who carried out experiments on inmates at Dachau concentration camp.
• Walter Rauff – SS Standartenführer and aide to Reinhard Heydrich. He escaped captivity at the end of the war, subsequently working for the Syrian Intelligence.
• Hermann Rauschning – Nazi leader in Danzig
• Walter Reder – SS Sturmbannführer convicted of war crimes in Italy.
• Wilhelm Rediess – Commanding General of SS forces in occupied Norway from 1940 to 1945
• Walter von Reichenau – Generalfeldmarschall and committed Nazi; he joined the Party in 1932 in violation of regulations and was one of the few ardent National Socialists among the Army's senior officers.
• Fritz Reinhardt – State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Finance 1933 to 1945
• Adrian von Renteln – Generalkommissar of occupied Lithuania from 1941 to 1944.
• Joachim von Ribbentrop – Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945. Condemned at Nuremberg and executed 16 October 1946
• Ernst Röhm – a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung or SA, the Nazi Party militia and later was the SA commander. In 1934, as part of the Night of the Long Knives, he was executed on Hitler's orders as a potential rival.
• Alfred Rosenberg – Nazi philosopher and Reich Minister for the Eastern Territories, tried at Nuremberg and executed on 16 October 1946
• Erwin Rösener – SS-Obergruppenführer, Higher SS and Police Leader, Commander SS Upper Division Alpenland
• Ernst Rudin – Psychiatrist and eugenicist. His work directly influenced the racial policy of Nazi Germany.
• Bernhard Rust – Minister of Science, Education and National Culture from 1934 to 1945

  S

• Fritz Sauckel – Gauleiter of Thuringia, General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment
• Hjalmar Schacht – Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht was a German economist, banker and liberal politician, who served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic. He was a fierce critic of his country's post-World War I reparation obligations. Schacht became a supporter of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and served in Hitler's government as President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics. As such, Schacht played a key role in implementing the policies attributed to Hitler. Since he opposed the policy of German re-armament spearheaded by Hitler, Schacht was first sidelined and then forced out of the Third Reich government beginning in December 1937; therefore, he had no role during World War II. Schacht became a fringe member of the German Resistance to Hitler and was imprisoned by the Nazis after the 20 July plot in 1944. Following the war, Schacht was tried at Nuremberg and acquitted.
• Paul Schäfer – Hitler Youth member and Wehrmacht corporal, subsequently convicted for multiple charges of child sex abuse in Chile.
• Gustav Adolf Scheel – SS Brigadeführer, Gauleiter and Nazi 'multifunctionary'.
• Walther Schellenberg – SS-Brigadeführer who rose through the SS as Heydrich's deputy. In March 1942, he became Chief of Department VI, SD-foreign branch, which, by then, was a department of the RSHA. Later, following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944, he became head of all foreign intelligence.
• Hans Schemm – Gauleiter and member of the Reichstag. Died in a plane crash in 1935.
• Wilhelm Schepmann – SA Obergruppenführer and Stabschef.
• Max Scheubner-Richter – most senior Nazi killed during the Beer Hall Putsch, ideologue and mentor to Alfred Rosenberg.
• Baldur von Schirach – leader of Hitler Youth, Gauleiter of Vienna.
• Franz Schlegelberger – Jurist and Reich Minister of Justice
• Carl Schmitt – Philosopher, jurist, and political theorist.
• Kurt Schmitt – Economic leader and Reich Economy Minister
• Paul Schmitthenner – Architect and city planner.
• Gertrud Scholtz-Klink – Leader of the National Socialist Women's League
• :de:Wilhelm Freiherr von Schorlemer|Wilhelm Freiherr von Schorlemer – SA-Obergruppenführer. Member of the constituency of the National Socialist Reichstag. Leader of SA Group "Danube".
• Julius Schreck – Co-founder of the SA, first commander of the SS. Later Hitler's personal chauffeur.
• Franz Xaver Schwarz – National Treasurer of the NSDAP 1925–1945 and head of the Reichszeugmeisterei or National Material Control Office. Promoted to SS-Oberstgruppenführer in 1944.
• Heinrich Schwarz – Commandant of Auschwitz III-Monowitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945.
• Siegfried Seidl – Commandant of the Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.
• Franz Seldte – Reich Minister for Labour from 1933 to 1945
• Arthur Seyss-Inquart – Austrian Nazi; upon being appointed Chancellor in 1938 he invited in German troops resulting in his country's annexation. Later deputy to Hans Frank in the General Government of occupied Poland, and Reichskommissar of the Netherlands. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
• Gustav Simon – Nazi Gauleiter and Chief of Civil Administration in Luxembourg from 1940 to 1944.
• Franz Six – Chief of Amt VII, Written Records of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt which dealt with ideological tasks. These included the creation of anti-semitic, anti-masonic propaganda, the sounding of public opinion and monitoring of Nazi indoctrination by the public.
• Albert Speer – architect for Nazis' offices and residences, Party rallies and State buildings, Minister of Armaments and War Production.
• Franz Stangl – Commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps.
• Johannes Stark – German physicist and Physics Nobel Prize laureate who was closely involved with the Deutsche Physik movement under the Nazi regime.
• Otto Steinbrinck – Industrialist and bureaucrat.
• Felix Steiner – SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS. He was chosen by Himmler to oversee the creation of, and command the volunteer Waffen-SS Division, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking.
• Walter Stennes – the Berlin commandant of the Sturmabteilung, who in the summer of 1930 and again in the spring of 1931 led a revolt against the NSDAP in Berlin as these SA members saw their organization as a revolutionary group, the vanguard of a socialist order that would overthrow the hated Republic. Both revolts were put down and Stennes was expelled from the Nazi Party. He left Germany in 1933 and worked as a military adviser to Chiang Kai-shek.
• Gregor Strasser – early prominent German Nazi official and politician. Murdered during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934.
• Otto Strasser – early prominent German Nazi official and politician. Otto Strasser, together with his brother Gregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party's left-wing faction, and broke from the party due to disputes with the dominant "Hitlerite" faction.
• Julius Streicher – founder and editor of anti-semitic Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer'', Gauleiter of Franconia.
• Karl Strölin – Lord Mayor of Stuttgart and Chairman of the 'Deutsches Ausland-Institut'
• Jürgen Stroop – SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei. Stroop's most prominent role was the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an action which cost the lives of over 50,000 people.
• Wilhelm Stuckart – Jurist, State Secretary and attendee at the Wannsee Conference.
• Otto von Stülpnagel – Military Commander in France from 1940 to 1942.
• Friedrich Syrup - Jurist and politician, who served as Reich Minister for Labour from 1932 to 1933.

  T

• Josef Terboven – Reichskommissar of occupied Norway from 1940 to 1945
• Otto Georg Thierack – Jurist and Reich Minister of Justice from 1942 to 1945
• Fritz Todt – civil engineer, Director of the Head Office for Engineering, General Commissioner for the Regulation of the Construction Industry, and founder and head of Organisation Todt. He died in a plane crash in February 1942. He was the first recipient of the German Order.
• Hans von Tschammer und Osten – Commissioner for Gym and Sports of the Reich from 1933 to 1943.

  W

• Fritz Wächtler, politician and Gauleiter of the eastern Bavarian administrative region of Gau Bayreuth.
• Otto Wächter, Austrian lawyer and high-ranking member of the SS. He was appointed to government positions in Poland and Italy. In 1940 68,000 Jews were expelled from Krakow, Poland and in 1941 the Kraków Ghetto was created for the remaining 15,000 Jews by his decrees.
• Otto Wagener, soldier and economist. Was successively Chief of Staff of the SA, head of the Party Economic Policy Section, and Reich Commissar for the Economy. Subsequently, served at the front, reaching the rank of Generalmajor.
• Adolf Wagner – Gauleiter of München-Oberbayern and Bavarian Interior Minister
• Gerhard Wagner – Leader of the Reich Physicians' Chamber from 1935 to 1939.
• Josef Wagner – Gauleiter of the Gau of Westphalia-South, and as of January 1935 also of the Gau of Silesia. In 1942 he was expelled from the Nazi Party.
• Robert Heinrich Wagner – Gauleiter of occupied Alsace from 1940 to 1944.
• Wilhelm Weiß – SA-Obergruppenführer and editor-in-chief of the Nazi Party's official newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter.
• Horst Wessel – Sturmführer in the Berlin SA and author of the Horst-Wessel-Lied , the Party anthem. Elevated to martyr status by Nazi propaganda after his 1930 murder- by Communists or by a rival pimp, according to their opponents.
• Max Winkler-Reich Commissioner for the German Film Industry
• Christian Wirth – SS-Obersturmführer. He was a senior German police and SS officer during the program to exterminate the Jewish people of occupied Poland during World War II, known as "Operation Reinhard". Wirth was a top aide of Odilo Globocnik, the overall director of "Operation Reinhard".
• Hermann Wirth – Dutch-German historian and scholar of ancient religions and symbols. He co-founded the SS-organization Ahnenerbe, but was later pushed out by Heinrich Himmler.
• Eduard Wirths – Chief camp physician at Auschwitz concentration camp from 1942 to 1945
• Karl Wolff – SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Waffen-SS. He became Chief of Personal Staff to the Reichsführer-SS and SS Liaison Officer to Hitler until his replacement in 1943. From 1943 to 1945, Wolff was the Supreme SS and Police Leader of the 'Italien' area. By 1945 Wolff was acting military commander of Italy, and in that capacity negotiated the surrender of all the forces in the Southwest Front.
• Alfred Wünnenberg – SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei. Commander of the SS-Polizei-Division, 1941-1943; Chief of the Ordnungspolizei, 1943–1945 after Kurt Daluege suffered a massive heart attack.

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• Adolf Ziegler – Hitler's favorite painter, tasked with the destruction of Entartete Kunst.
• Franz Ziereis – Commandant of Mauthausen concentration camp