List of major perpetrators of the Holocaust

This is a list of major perpetrators of The Holocaust.

See also: Responsibility for the Holocaust and Category:Holocaust perpetrators

Name	Photograph	Date of birth	Date of death	Age at death	Role	Fate
Adolf Hitler		April 20, 1889	April 30, 1945		Leader of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich Chancellor of Germany Führer of Germany	Committed suicide by gunshot
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler		October 7, 1900	May 23, 1945		Reichsführer-SS Chief of German Police Reich Minister of the Interior	Arrested; committed suicide by biting down on a cyanide capsule
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich		March 7, 1904	June 4, 1942		Chief of the Reich Main Security Office Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (acting Protector) President of Interpol	Assassinated in Operation Anthropoid
Otto Adolf Eichmann		March 19, 1906	May 31, 1962		Head of the Gestapo Office of Jewish Affairs (RSHA Sub-Department IV-B4). Charged by Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the mass deportations of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Eastern Europe.	Evaded arrest after the war and escaped to Argentina in 1950. Discovered and kidnapped by Israeli agents in May 1960; subsequently brought to Israel, tried and executed by hanging in June 1962.
Hermann Wilhelm Göring		January 12, 1893	October 15, 1946		Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe President of the Reichstag Reichsminister of Aviation	Sentenced to death by hanging; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Odilo Globocnik		April 21, 1904	May 31, 1945		SS and Police Leader in the General Government Head of Operation Reinhard	Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Theodor Eicke		October 17, 1892	February 26, 1943		A major figure in the creation of the Nazi concentration camps First commander of SS Division Totenkopf, which became notorious for its war crimes.	Killed in action
Richard Glücks		April 22, 1889	May 10, 1945		Head of Concentration Camp Operations (Amt D: Konzentrationslagerwesen) in the SS Main Economic and Administrative Department (SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt)	Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Ernst Kaltenbrunner	100px	October 4, 1903	October 16, 1946		Chief of the Reich Main Security Office after Heydrich was assassinated President of Interpol	Executed by hanging
Paul Joseph Goebbels		October 29, 1897	May 1, 1945		Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda High-ranking Nazi Party member	Committed suicide by gunshot
Hans Michael Frank		May 23, 1900	October 16, 1946		Governor-General of the General Government	Executed by hanging
Arthur Seyss-Inquart		July 22, 1892	October 16, 1946		Ruler of the Netherlands after its conquest, and effectively deputy to Hans Frank in occupied Poland	Executed by hanging
Kurt Daluege		September 15, 1897	October 24, 1946		Chief of the Ordnungspolizei Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (acting Protector) Organized the massacres of the Czech villages of Lidice and Ležáky after the assassination of Heydrich	Executed by hanging
Hans Günther		August 22, 1910	May 5, 1945		Elder brother of Rolf Günther; head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague (1939–1945). Directly in charge of the Final Solution in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia	Killed by Czech partisans during the Prague Uprising
Rolf Günther		January 8, 1913	August 15, 1945		First deputy to Adolf Eichmann in the Gestapo Office of Jewish Affairs and head of the "Emigration Section" (RSHA Sub-Department IV-B4-a). Direct overseer of the deportations of Jews to concentration camps; personally oversaw the deportations of Greek Jews. Chief of Security Police and SD in Vienna (1943–1944) and in Prague (1944–1945)	Taken into American custody in May 1945; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning in August 1945.
Franz Novak		January 10, 1913	October 21, 1983		Deputy to Adolf Eichmann in the Office of Jewish Affairs; logistics and timetable coordinator for railway deportations of Jews under Rolf Günther (RSHA Sub-Department IV-B4-a-"Transport").	Arrested in 1961; sentenced to eight years imprisonment in 1964, but conviction overturned by the Supreme Court of Austria. Retried in 1966, but acquitted per "superior orders" defence and released; retried a third time and sentenced to nine years imprisonment in 1969. Appealed verdict, but sentenced to seven years imprisonment by the Austrian Supreme Court in 1972. Credit for time served and pardoned by the President of Austria.
Oswald Ludwig Pohl		June 30, 1892	June 8, 1951		Chief of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (SS Main Economic and Administrative Department), the central SS financial office responsible for overall administration of the concentration camps.	Executed by hanging
Arthur Greiser		January 22, 1897	July 21, 1946		Gauleiter of Wartheland; active participant in organising the Holocaust in Poland	Executed by hanging
Alois Brunner		April 8, 1912	c. 2010	c. 98	Deputy to Adolf Eichmann; organised the deportations of at least 140,000 Jews from France, Greece, Slovakia and Austria. Commandant of the Drancy internment camp	Escaped to Egypt around 1954, then fled to Syria. Served as a consultant to the al-Assad regime on torture techniques; died in Syria of natural causes around 2010.
Theodor Dannecker		March 27, 1913	December 10, 1945		Deputy to Adolf Eichmann; Head of the SD Hauptamt – Judenreferat (SD Head Office – Jewish Affairs Department) for Paris: September 1940 – July 1942 In charge of the Final Solution in Bulgaria, the Balkans and Hungary (from 1943)	Arrested by the U.S. military; committed suicide
Martin Ludwig Bormann		June 17, 1900	May 2, 1945		Head of the Nazi Party Chancellery Private Secretary to Adolf Hitler	Sentenced to death by hanging in absentia; believed to have committed suicide to avoid capture in Berlin; the buried body was not found until 1972; the remains were conclusively identified in 1998.
Alfred Ernst Rosenberg		January 12, 1893	October 16, 1946		Nazi theoretician and head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories	Executed by hanging
Rudolf Hermann Brandt		June 2, 1909	June 2, 1948		Chief of the Ministerial Office of the Reich Ministry of the Interior and personal deputy of administration to Heinrich Himmler	Executed by hanging
Heinrich Müller		April 28, 1900			Chief of the Gestapo	Disappeared; believed to have died in May 1945
Roland Freisler		October 30, 1893	February 3, 1945		Prominent lawyer/judge and State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice and President of the People's Court (Volksgerichtshof) in Nazi Germany. Between 1942 and 1945, more than 5,000 death sentences were handed out, and of these, 2,600 through the court's First Senate, which Freisler headed	Killed during an Allied bombing raid
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel		September 22, 1882	October 16, 1946		Minister of War and chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces	Executed by hanging
Hermann Julius "Hans" Höfle	100px	June 19, 1911	August 20, 1962		Coordinator of Operation Reinhard	Arrested; committed suicide by hanging
Richard Wolfgang Thomalla		October 23, 1903	May 12, 1945		Head of extermination camp construction during Operation Reinhard	Executed by the NKVD (presumed)
Erwin Hermann Lambert		December 7, 1909	October 15, 1976		Head of gas chamber construction during Operation Reinhard	Arrested but acquitted
Karl Steubl		October 25, 1910	September 21, 1945		Commander of transportation units during Operation Reinhard	Arrested; committed suicide
Karl Bischoff		August 9, 1897	October 2, 1950		Head of extermination camp construction at Auschwitz II-Birkenau	Died without being suspected of a crime
Christian Wirth		November 24, 1885	May 26, 1944		Inspector of Action T4 and Operation Reinhard; Commandant of Bełżec, March 17, 1942—end of August 1942 (1/2)	Assassinated
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss		November 25, 1900	April 16, 1947		Commandant of Auschwitz, May 4, 1940—December 1, 1943, May 8, 1944—January 18, 1945 (1/2)	Executed by hanging
Arthur Liebehenschel		November 25, 1901	January 28, 1948		Commandant of Auschwitz, December 1, 1943—May 8, 1944 (2/2); Commandant of Majdanek, May 19, 1944—July 22, 1944 (5/5)	Executed by hanging
Irmfried Eberl		September 8, 1910	February 16, 1948		Commandant of Treblinka, July 11, 1942—August 26, 1942 (1/3)	Arrested; committed suicide by hanging
Franz Paul Stangl		March 26, 1908	June 28, 1971		Commandant of Sobibór, April 28, 1942—August 30, 1942 (1/2); Commandant of Treblinka, September 1, 1942—August 1943 (2/3)	Arrested on February 28, 1967; sentenced to life imprisonment on October 22, 1970; died in prison
Kurt Hubert Franz		January 17, 1914	July 4, 1998		Commandant of Treblinka, August 1943—October 19, 1943 (3/3)	Arrested on December 2, 1959; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1965; released on health grounds in 1993
Franz Karl Reichleitner		December 2, 1906	January 3, 1944		Commandant of Sobibór, September 1, 1942—October 17, 1943 (2/2)	Assassinated
Gottlieb Hering	100px	June 2, 1887	October 9, 1945		Commandant of Bełżec, end of August 1942—June 1943 (2/2)	Died of mysterious health complications
Amon Leopold Goeth		December 11, 1908	September 13, 1946		Commandant of Kraków-Płaszów (1/1)	Executed by hanging
Dr. Josef Mengele		March 16, 1911	February 7, 1979		Human medical experimentation, particularly children, and selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz	Escaped to Brazil; evaded arrest and died in 1979
Karl Hermann Frank		January 24, 1898	May 22, 1946		Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) and State Minister for Bohemia and Moravia	Executed by hanging
Hanns Albin Rauter		February 4, 1895	March 24, 1949		Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) for the Netherlands	Executed by firing squad
Carl Oberg		January 27, 1897	June 3, 1965		SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) for Radom (August 1941 – May 1942) Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) for France (May 1942 – November 1944). Supreme German authority in France for anti-Jewish and anti-Resistance operations	Sentenced to death – 1946, transferred to French custody and sentenced to death – 1954, commuted to life imprisonment in 1958, released November 1962
Dr. Eduard Wirths		September 4, 1909	September 20, 1945		Human medical experimentation, and formal responsibility of medical staff at Auschwitz	Arrested; committed suicide by hanging
Dr. Horst Schumann	100px	May 1, 1906	May 5, 1983		Human medical experimentation at Auschwitz	Arrested in 1966; released on health grounds on July 29, 1972
Dr. Carl Clauberg		September 28, 1898	August 9, 1957		Human medical experimentation at Auschwitz	Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in 1948; released in 1955; re-arrested in West Germany, but died of a heart attack before being tried
Viktor Hermann Brack		November 9, 1904	June 2, 1948		Action T4; Human medical experimentation	Executed by hanging
Dr. Karl Franz Gebhardt	100px	November 23, 1897	June 2, 1948		Director of the German Red Cross and personal physician to Heinrich Himmler. Oversaw human medical experimentation of concentration camp inmates.	Executed by hanging
Dr. Fritz Klein		November 24, 1888	December 13, 1945		Selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz	Executed by hanging
Dr. Karl Brandt		January 8, 1904	June 2, 1948		Co-director of Action T4 Conducted human medical experimentation	Executed by hanging
Philipp Bouhler		September 11, 1899	May 19, 1945		Director of Action T4	Arrested; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Josef Kramer		November 10, 1906	December 13, 1945		Deputy commandant of Auschwitz Commandant of Bergen-Belsen	Executed by hanging
Hans Aumeier		August 20, 1906	January 28, 1948		Deputy commandant of Auschwitz	Executed by hanging
Franz Hössler		February 4, 1906	December 13, 1945		Deputy commandant of Auschwitz	Executed by hanging
Karl Fritzsch	100px	July 10, 1903	May 2, 1945?	?	Deputy commandant of Auschwitz	Disappeared in May 1945; fate uncertain
Maximilian Grabner		October 2, 1905	January 28, 1948		Gestapo command (torture of prisoners) at Auschwitz	Executed by hanging
Heinrich Arthur Matthes	File:Matthes, Heinrich.jpg	January 11, 1902	Deceased		Deputy commandant of Treblinka	Arrested in 1964; sentenced to life imprisonment on September 3, 1965
Josef Kaspar Oberhauser		January 21, 1915	November 22, 1979		Deputy commandant of Bełżec	Sentenced to 15 years in prison; released early on 28 April 1956
Lorenz Marie Hackenholt		June 25, 1914	December 31, 1945		Gas chamber construction and executioner of Bełżec and other camps during Operation Reinhard	Declared legally dead
Johann Niemann		August 4, 1913	October 14, 1943		Deputy commandant of Bełżec and Sobibór	Assassinated during Sobibór revolt
Gustav Franz Wagner		July 18, 1911	October 3, 1980		Deputy commandant of Sobibór	Sentenced to death by hanging in absentia; evaded arrest for 35 years until found dead, believed to have committed suicide by stabbing
Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel		August 28, 1911	September 2, 1996		Commandant of Camp I (forced labor camp) at Sobibór	Arrested on March 22, 1962; sentenced to life imprisonment on December 20, 1966; released on health grounds in 1982
Hermann Michel		April 23, 1912			Deputy commandant of Sobibór	Evaded arrest; whereabouts unknown
Hermann Erich Bauer		March 26, 1900	February 4, 1980		Gas chamber executioner of Sobibór	Sentenced to death by hanging; commuted to life imprisonment; died in prison
Heinz Kurt Bolender		May 21, 1912	October 10, 1966		Gas chamber executioner of Sobibór	Arrested in May 1961; committed suicide by hanging
Jürgen Stroop	100px	September 26, 1895	March 6, 1952		Suppression and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	Executed by hanging
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger		February 27, 1894	May 9, 1945		SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland	Committed suicide
Bruno Heinrich Streckenbach		February 7, 1902	October 28, 1977		Trained the Einsatzgruppen; commander of Einsatzgruppe I in Poland	Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in 1952; released on October 10, 1955
Friedrich August Jeckeln		February 2, 1895	February 3, 1946		Responsible for Rumbula, Babi Yar, and Kamianets-Podilskyi massacres	Executed by hanging
Franz Walter Stahlecker		October 10, 1900	March 23, 1942		(Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, June 22, 1941–March 23, 1942 (1/5)	Killed in action
Heinz Jost		July 9, 1904	November 12, 1964		Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, March 29, 1942–September 2, 1942 (2/5)	Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1945; commuted to 10 years; released in 1951
Humbert Achamer-Pifrader		November 21, 1900	April 25, 1945		Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, September 10, 1942–September 4, 1943 (3/5)	Killed in air raid
Friedrich Panzinger		February 1, 1903	August 8, 1959		Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, September 5, 1943–May 6, 1944 (4/5) Chief of the Kripo (2/2)	Arrested; committed suicide
Wilhelm Fuchs		September 1, 1898	January 24, 1947		Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, May 6, 1944–October 10, 1944 (5/5); Commander of Einsatzkommando 3, September 15, 1943–May 27, 1944	Executed
Eduard Strauch		August 17, 1906	September 15, 1955		Commander of Einsatzkommando 2, Latvia (Rumbula), November 4, 1941–December 2, 1941; Commander of Sonderkommando 1b, March 1942–August 1942	Sentenced to death by hanging in 1948; died in prison
Rudolf Lange		April 18, 1910	February 23, 1945		Commander of Einsatzkommando 2, Latvia, December 3, 1941–1944	Believed to have been killed in action
Karl Jäger		September 20, 1888	June 22, 1959		Commander of Einsatzkommando 3, Lithuania, June 1941–August 1, 1943	Discovered and arrested in 1959; committed suicide
Hermann Schaper		August 12, 1911	deceased after 2002	over 90 years	Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Poland	Arrested in 1964; released due to insufficient evidence
Arthur Nebe		November 13, 1894	March 21, 1945		Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, June 1941–November 1941 (1/5) Chief of the Kripo (1/2) President of Interpol	Executed by Nazi Germany for involvement in the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler
Erich Naumann		April 29, 1905	June 8, 1951		Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, November 1941–March 1943 (2/5)	Executed by hanging
Horst Böhme		August 24, 1909	April 10, 1945		Lidice Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, March 12, 1943–August 28, 1943, August 12, 1944 (3/5); Commander of Einsatzgruppe C, north and central Ukraine, September 6, 1943–March 1944 (3/3)	Presumed killed in action in Königsberg, East Prussia; officially declared dead in 1954
Erich Ehrlinger		October 14, 1910	July 31, 2004		Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, August 28, 1943–April 1944 (4/5); Commander of Sonderkommando 1b, June 1941–November 1941	Arrested in December 1958; sentenced to 12 years imprisonment
Heinrich Otto Seetzen		June 22, 1906	September 28, 1945		Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, April 28, 1944–August 1944 (5/5); Commander of Einsatzkommando 10a, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, June 1941–July 1942	Arrested in September 1945; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning.
Otto Bradfisch		May 10, 1903	June 22, 1994		Commander of Einsatzkommando 8, Belarus, June 1941–April 1, 1942	Arrested on April 21, 1958; sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in 1963
Emil Otto Rasch	100px	December 7, 1891	November 1, 1948		Commander of Einsatzgruppe C, north and central Ukraine, June 1941–October 1941 (1/3)	Arrested; removed from trial on health grounds; died in prison
Max Thomas		August 4, 1891	December 6, 1945		Commander of Einsatzgruppe C, north and central Ukraine, October 1941–April 29, 1943 (2/3)	Committed suicide
Paul Blobel	100px	August 13, 1894	June 8, 1951		Commander of Einsatzkommando 4a, Ukraine (Babi Yar), June 1941–January 13, 1942; Director of Sonderaktion 1005	Executed by hanging
Otto Ohlendorf	100px	February 4, 1907	June 8, 1951		Commander of Einsatzgruppe D, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, June 1941–July 1942 (1/2)	Executed by hanging
Walther Bierkamp		December 17, 1901	May 15, 1945		Commander of Einsatzgruppe D, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, July 1942–March 1943 (2/2)	Committed suicide
Werner Braune		April 11, 1909	June 8, 1951		Commander of Einsatzkommando 11b, south Ukraine and the Crimea, October 1941–September 1942	Executed by hanging
Maria Mandel	100px	January 10, 1912	January 24, 1948		Commandant of female camp at Auschwitz	Executed by hanging
Irma Ida Ilse Grese		October 7, 1924	December 13, 1945		Warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen, and later Auschwitz	Executed by hanging