This register of SS leaders in general's rank includes the members of the Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS, in line with the appropriate SS seniority list (Dienstaltersliste der Waffen-SS) from July 1, 1944. It contains (incomplete) further SS Honour leaders (SS-Ehrenführer) and SS-Rank leaders for special duty (SS-Rangführer zur besonderen Verwendung), short for SS Honour – and rank leaders (SS-Ehren- und Rangführer).
SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer (literal: SS-Colonel group leader), short SS-Obstgruf, was from 1942 to 1945 the highest commissioned rank in the Schutzstaffel (SS), with the exception of Reichsführer-SS. SS-Obstgruf was comparable to four-star ranks in English speaking armed forces (today equivalent to NATO OF-9).
| Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kurt Daluege | Chief of the Ordnungspolizei 1936–1943; Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia 1942–1943 | 1897–1946 | also: Generaloberst der Polizei (Colonel general of the police); executed | |
| Josef Dietrich (also: Sepp Dietrich) | Supreme commander 6th Panzer Army | 1892–1966 | also: Generaloberst der Waffen-SS (Colonel general of the Waffen-SS); briefly imprisoned | |
| Paul Hausser (also: Papa Hausser) | Supreme commander Army Group "Oberrhein" (Heeresgruppe "Oberrhein") | 1880–1972 | also: Generaloberst der Waffen-SS | |
| Franz Xaver Schwarz | Reichsschatzmeister der NSDAP (Reich Treasurer of the Nazi Party) | 1875–1947 | Held in an internment camp until his death in 1947 |
SS-Obergruppenführer (literal: SS-Senior group leader), short SS-Ogruf, was the second highest commissioned rank in the SS, comparable to three-star ranks in English speaking armed forces (today equivalent to NATO OF-8).
| Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friedrich Alpers (also: Fritz Alpers) | Generalforstmeister (General forest supervisor) and State Secretary in the Reichsforstamt (Reich Forestry Office) | 1901–1944 | suicide in 1944, while in US custody | |
| Max Amann | SS-Ehren- und Rangführer (SS Honour – and Rank leader); President, Reich Press Chamber; Reichsleiter (Reich Leader) for the Press | 1891–1957 | labour camp until 1953 | |
| Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (also: Erich von dem Bach) | Chef der Bandenkampfverbände (Chief of the "bandit" fighting formations) | 1899–1972 | also: General der Waffen-SS und General der Polizei (General of the Waffen-SS and General of the police); 1958–1972 imprisoned | |
| Herbert Backe | SS-Ehrenführer (SS Honour leader); Reichsminister für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (Reich Minister for Nutrition and Agriculture) 1942–1945; | 1896–1947 | suicide | |
| Gottlob Berger | Chief of the SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office) 1939–1945 | 1896–1975 | also: General der Waffen-SS (General of the Waffen-SS); until 1951 imprisoned | |
| Theodor Berkelmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer (Higher SS- and police leader) Elbe (Saxony) 1938–1940; Rhein-Westmark 1940–1943; Wartheland 1943 | 1894–1943 | also: General der Polizei (General of the police) | |
| Werner Best | Deputy of Reinhard Heydrich in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office); Reichsbevollmächtigter (Reich Plenipotentiary) in Denmark | 1903–1989 | imprisoned until 1951 | |
| Wilhelm Bittrich | 1894–1979 | also: General der Waffen-SS; interned in Marseille 1948–1953 | ||
| Ernst Wilhelm Bohle | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter of the NSDAP Auslandsorganisation (Nazi Party Foreign Organisation) | 1903–1960 | imprisoned until 1949 | |
| Martin Bormann | SS-Ehrenrang; head of the Nazi Party Chancellery from 1941; Adolf Hitler's Personal Secretary from 1943; | 1900–1945 | Died 1945, likely by suicide; remains of body were discovered in 1972, finally identified formally by means of DNA tests as those of Bormann in 1998. | |
| Philipp Bouhler | 1899–1945 | suicide | ||
| Franz Breithaupt | Chief Hauptamt SS-Gericht (SS Court Main Office) 1942–1945 | 1880–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; murdered | |
| Walter Buch | 1883–1949 | suicide | ||
| Josef Bürckel | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS (Personal Staff Reichsführer SS) ; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) Reichsgau Vienna 1939–1940, Gau Westmark 1941–1944 | 1895–1944 | ||
| Leonardo Conti | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; German/Swiss physician, Reichsärzteführer (Reich Health Leader); Aktion T4 participant | 1900–1945 | suicide | |
| Richard Walther Darré | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (SS Race and Settlement Main Office) 1931–1938; Reichsminister of Nutrition and Agriculture 1933–1942; Reich Farmers Leader; Head of Reichsnährstand (Reich Nutrition Estate) | 1895–1953 | imprisoned until 1950 | |
| Karl Maria Demelhuber | Commander in Chief Armed forces staff East Coast | 1896–1988 | also: General der Waffen-SS | |
| Otto Dietrich | SS-Ehrenrang; NSDAP Press Chief; Reich Press Chief; Vice-President, Reich Press Chamber | 1897–1952 | imprisoned until 1950 | |
| Karl von Eberstein (also: Friedrich Karl von Eberstein) | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Main (Northern Bavaria) 1938–1942; South (Southern Bavaria) 1938–1945 | 1894–1979 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei | |
| Joachim Albrecht Eggeling | SS-Ehrenrang; Gauleiter NSDAP Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt 1935–1937, Gau Halle-Merseburg 1937–1945; Oberpräsident of Halle-Merseburg Province | 1884–1945 | suicide | |
| Theodor Eicke | Commander SS Division Totenkopf 1939–1943 | 1892–1943 | also: General der Waffen-SS; killed in action | |
| August Eigruber | 1907–1947 | executed in Landsberg | ||
| Karl Fiehler | SS-Ehrenrang; Lord Mayor of Munich; Reichsleiter for Municipal Policy | 1895–1969 | interned until 1949 | |
| Albert Forster | 1902–1952 | executed in Warsaw | ||
| August Frank | Staff Oberkommando des Heeres | 1898–1984 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; imprisoned until 1954 | |
| Karl Hermann Frank | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; State Secretary in Bohemia and Moravia; Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia | 1898–1946 | also: General der Polizei; executed in Prague | |
| Herbert Gille (also: Herbert Otto Gille) | 1897–1966 | also: General der Waffen-SS | ||
| Curt von Gottberg | 1896–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide | ||
| Ernst-Robert Grawitz | Reich's physician of the SS- and police | 1899–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide | |
| Ulrich Greifelt | Chief of Staff to the Stabshauptamt des Reichskommissars für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums (Main Staff Office of the Reich's Commissioner for Strengthening of the German Nationality) | 1896–1949 | also: General der Polizei; imprisoned until 1949 | |
| Arthur Greiser | 1897–1946 | executed in Posen | ||
| Karl Gutenberger | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer West (Westphalia-North Rheinland) 1941–1945 | 1905–1961 | also: General der Waffen; imprisoned until 1953 | |
| Karl Hanke | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP Gau Lower Silesia; last Reichsführer-SS | 1903–1945 | killed attempting escape | |
| August Heissmeyer | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Spree (Berlin-Brandenburg); Chief SS-Hauptamt 1935–1939; Chief Hauptamt Dienststelle Heissmeyer (Main Office Division Heißmeyer) | 1897–1979 | also: General der Waffen-SS | |
| Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff | SS-Ehrenrang: General der Polizei; SA-Obergruppenführer; Police President of Potsdam (1933–1935) and Berlin (1935–1944) | 1896–1944 | involved in the 20 July Plot; executed in Plötzensee prison | |
| Konrad Henlein | 1898–1945 | suicide | ||
| Maximilian von Herff | Chief SS-Personalhauptamt (SS Personnel Main Office) 1942–1945 | 1893–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; died in British captivity | |
| Rudolf Hess | SS-Ehrenrang; Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler; Reichsminister without Portfolio | 1894–1987 | imprisoned after Nuremberg trials until 1987; suicide | |
| Reinhard Heydrich | Chief Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) 1939–1942; Oberster Befehlshaber der Sicherheitsdienst (SD); Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia 1941–1942 | 1904–1942 | also: General der Polizei; assassinated in Prague | |
| Friedrich Hildebrandt | 1898–1948 | executed in Landsberg | ||
| Richard Hildebrandt | Chief SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt 1943–1945; Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Rhein 1939; Weichsel (Danzig-West Prussia) 1939–1943; Black Sea 1943–1944; Southeast (Silesia) 1944–1945; Bohemia-Moravia (1945) | 1897–1951 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed in Poland | |
| Hermann Höfle | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Center (Hanover-Brunswick) 1943–1944; Slovakia 1944–1945 | 1898–1947 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed in Bratislava | |
| Otto Hofmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Southwest (Baden-Württemberg) 1943–1945; Chief SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt 1940–1943 | 1896–1982 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; imprisoned 1945–1954 | |
| Friedrich Jeckeln | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Center (Hanover-Brunswick) 1938–1940; West (Westphalia-North Rheinland) 1940–1941; Russia-South 1941; Russia-North 1941–1945 | 1889–1946 | also: General der Polizei; executed in Riga | |
| 1887–1945 | suicide | |||
| Hans Jüttner | Chief SS-Führungshauptamt (SS Main Office) | 1894–1965 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned until 1950 | |
| Ernst Kaltenbrunner | Chief Reichssicherheitshauptamt 1943–1945; Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Danube 1938–1943 | 1903–1946 | also: General der Waffen-SS; executed after Nuremberg trials | |
| Hans Kammler | SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt, Chef Amt C (Bauwesen) SS Main Management – and Administration Office, Chief Office division C (Construction) | 1901–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide | |
| Jürgen von Kamptz | Commander in Chief of the Ordnungspolizei in Italy | 1891–1954 | also: General der Polizei | |
| Karl Kaufmann | 1900–1966 | imprisoned for short periods between 1948 and 1953 | ||
| Commanding general I SS Panzer Corps; III SS Panzer Corps; XVIII SS Army Corps | 1894–1966 | also: General der Waffen-SS; interned until 1948 | ||
| SS-Ehrenrang; industrialist | 1882–1960 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned until 1951 | ||
| Dietrich Klagges | SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Ministerpräsident Free State Brunswick | 1891–1971 | imprisoned until 1957 | |
| Matthias Kleinheisterkamp | 1893–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide | ||
| Kurt Knoblauch | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief Office division B | 1885–1952 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned1949–1951 | |
| Wilhelm Koppe | 1896–1975 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1960–1962 | ||
| Paul Körner | 1893–1957 | imprisoned until 1951 | ||
| Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger | Commanding general V SS Mountain Corps 1944–1945; Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer East (General Government) 1939–1943 | 1894–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide | |
| Walter Krüger | Commanding general VI SS Army Corps | 1890–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; suicide | |
| Hans Heinrich Lammers | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief of the German Reich Chancellery (Reichskanzlei); Reichsminister without Portfolio | 1879–1962 | imprisoned until 1951 | |
| Hartmann Lauterbacher | 1909–1988 | interned until 1948; escaped | ||
| Werner Lorenz | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office) | 1891–1974 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned until 1955 | |
| Benno Martin | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Main (Northern Bavaria) 1942–1945 | 1893–1975 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; interned until 1948; imprisonment 1953, absolved | |
| Heinrich von Maur | SS-Ehrenrang; Stab Upper Sector South West | 1863–1947 | also: General of the Artillery | |
| Emil Mazuw | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Baltic Sea (Pomerania-Mecklenburg) | 1900–1987 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned until 1951 | |
| Wilhelm Murr | 1888–1945 | suicide | ||
| Konstantin von Neurath | SS-Ehrenrang; Reichsminister for Foreign Affairs 1933–1938; President, Secret Cabinet Council; Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia 1939–1943 | 1873–1956 | imprisoned after Nuremberg trials until 1954 | |
| Carl Oberg | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer France | 1897–1965 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; imprisoned until 1962 | |
| Günther Pancke | Chief SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt 1938–1940; Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Center (Hanover-Brunswick) 1940–1943; Denmark 1943-1945 | 1899–1973 | also: General der Polizei; imprisoned until 1953 | |
| Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch | SS-Führungshauptamt; Commanding general in Hungary | 1888–1971 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei | |
| Artur Phleps | Commanding general V SS Mountain Corps 1943–1944 | 1881–1944 | also: General der Waffen-SS; killed in action | |
| Oswald Pohl | Chief SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt (SS Main Economic and Administrative Office) 1942–1945 | 1892–1951 | also: General der Waffen-SS; executed in Landsberg | |
| Hans-Adolf Prützmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer North Sea (Schleswig-Holstein; Weser-Ems) 1938–1941; Northeast (East Prussia) 1941; Russia-North 1941; Russia-South 1941–1943; Höchster SS- und Polizeiführer (Supreme SS and Police Leader) Ukraine 1943–1944; Inspector General Werwolf units 1944–1945 | 1901–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; suicide | |
| Rudolf Querner | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer North Sea (Schleswig-Holstein; Weser-Ems) 1941–1943; Danube 1943–1944; Center (Hanover-Brunswick) 1944–1945 | 1893–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; suicide | |
| Friedrich Rainer | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP and Reichsstatthalter Reichsgau Salzburg 1938–1941, Reichsgau Carinthia 1941–1945 | 1903–1947 | executed in Ljubljana | |
| Hanns Albin Rauter | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Northwest (Netherlands) | 1895–1949 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed | |
| Wilhelm Rediess | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Northeast (East Prussia) 1938–1940; North (Norway) 1940–1945 | 1900–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; suicide | |
| Wilhelm Reinhard | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1869–1955 | also: General der Waffen-SS | |
| Joachim von Ribbentrop | SS-Ehrenrang; Reichsminister for Foreign Affairs 1933–1938 | 1893–1946 | executed after Nuremberg trials | |
| Erwin Rösener | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Rhein (Southern Rheinland-Saar)1940-1941; Alpenland 1941-1945 | 1902–1946 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed | |
| Ernst Sachs | Head of Telecommunications in Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1880–1956 | also: General der Waffen-SS | |
| Fritz Sauckel | 1894–1946 | executed after Nuremberg trials | ||
| Paul Scharfe | Chief SS Court Main Office 1933–1942; | 1876–1942 | ||
| Julius Schaub | SS-Ehrenrang; Chief Personal Adjutant of Adolf Hitler | 1898–1967 | interned until 1949 | |
| Gustav Adolf Scheel | 1907–1979 | interned until 1948 | ||
| Fritz Schlessmann | 1899–1964 | imprisoned until 1950 | ||
| Ernst-Heinrich Schmauser | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Southeast (Silesia) | 1890–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; missing in action | |
| Walter Schmitt | Chief SS-Personalhauptamt (SS Personnel Main Office) 1939–1942; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1879–1945 | also: General der Waffen-SS; executed in Dablice (Czchoslovakia) | |
| Friedrich Graf von der Schulenburg | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1865–1939 | ||
| Oskar Schwerk | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Country leader Reich's war veteran organisation (Reichs Kriegerbund) | 1869–1950 | ||
| Arthur Seyss-Inquart | SS-Ehrenrang; Reichsstatthalter Austria; Reichskommissar Netherlands; Reichsminister without Portfolio | 1892–1946 | executed after Nuremberg trials | |
| Felix Steiner | 1896–1966 | also: General der Waffen-SS | ||
| Wilhelm Stuckart | SS-Ehrenrang; State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Interior | 1902–1953 | ||
| Siegfried Taubert | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS | 1880–1946 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei | |
| Fritz Wächtler | 1891–1945 | shot to death by SS for desertion | ||
| Karl Wahl | 1892–1981 | imprisoned until 1949 | ||
| Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Fulda-Werra (Hesse-Thuringia) | 1896–1967 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; imprisoned until 1950 | |
| Paul Wegener | 1904–1993 | imprisoned until 1951 | ||
| Fritz Weitzel | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer West (Westphalia-North Rheinland) 1938–1940 | 1904–1940 | ||
| Otto Winkelmann | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Hungary | 1894–1977 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; interned until 1948 | |
| Karl Wolff | Chief Persönlicher Stabe Reichsführer SS; SS liaison officer to Führer HQ 1939–1943; Höchster SS- und Polizeiführer (Supreme SS and Police Leader) Italy 1943-1945 | 1900–1984 | also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1945–1949 and 1964–1969 | |
| Udo von Woyrsch | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Elbe (Saxony) | 1895–1983 | imprisoned 1945–1952 and 1957–1960 | |
| Alfred Wünnenberg | Commander of 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division 1941–1943; Chief Ordnungspolizei 1943–1945 | 1891–1963 | also: General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; interned until 1947 |
SS-Gruppenführer (literal: SS-Group leader), short SS-Gruf, was the third highest commissioned rank in the SS, comparable to two-star ranks in English speaking armed forces (today equivalent to NATO OF-7).
| Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludolf-Hermann von Alvensleben (also: Bubi von Alvensleben) | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer (Higher SS- and police leader) Elbe (Saxony) | 1901–1970 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei (Lieutenant general of the Waffen-SS and of the Police) | |
| Rūdolfs Bangerskis | Latvian general and War ministry; Inspector general of the Latvian SS-Formations | 1878–1958 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS (Lieutenant general of the Waffen-SS) | |
| Georg-Henning Graf von Bassewitz-Behr | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer North Sea (North Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein) | 1900–1949 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei | |
| Hans Baur | Commander flying squadron of the Führer | 1897–1993 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei | |
| Herbert Becker | Head of Ordnungspolizei, General Government; Inspector General Ordnungspolizei Main Office | 1887–1974 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei | |
| Max von Behr | SS-Commanding officer of Berlin | 1879–1951 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | |
| Carl Blumenreuter | Office Reich's physician of the SS and police, Master medical ordnance (Sanitäts-Feldzeugmeister) | 1881–1969 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | |
| Adolf von Bomhard | Head of the police in Reichskommissariat Ukraine | 1891–1976 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei | |
| Walter Braemer | Nazi criminal responsible for mass murders of the civilian population | 1883–1955 | also: General of the Cavalry | |
| Karl Brandt (also: Karl Jakob Heinrich Brenner) | SS-Führungshauptamt (SS-Command and control main office) , physician of the euthanasia | 1881–1948 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; executed | |
| Karl Jakob Heinrich Brenner | 1895–1954 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei | ||
| Lothar Debes | Commander in chief of the Waffen-SS Italy | 1895–1960 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | |
| Hermann Fegelein | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief Office Division VI; Himmler's liaison officer in Führerbunker; Eva Braun brother-in-law | 1906–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; shot on Hitler's orders for attempted desertion | |
| Josef Fitzthum | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Albania | 1896–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei | |
| Alfred Freyberg | Minister-President of Anhalt; Oberbürgermeister of Leipzig | 1892–1945 | suicide | |
| Karl Gebhardt | Office Reich's physician of the SS and Police, Head clinician | 1897–1948 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; executed | |
| Karl Genzken | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief Office Division D; physician | 1895–1957 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1945–1954 | |
| Karl Gerland | Gauleiter NSDAP Kurhessen | 1905–1945 | ||
| Odilo Globočnik | Gauleiter NSDAP Vienna; SS- und Polizeiführer Lublin; Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Adriatic Coast | 1904–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei; suicide | |
| Richard Glücks | SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt (SS-Management and administration main office), Chief office division D | 1898–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; suicide | |
| József Grassy | 1894–1946 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; executed in Yugoslavia | ||
| Wilhelm Grimm | 1889–1944 | died in a car accident | ||
| Hans Haltermann | SS- und Polizeiführer Kiev; Charkow; Mogilew | 1898–1981 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei | |
| Paul Hennicke | Police President of Weimar; SS- und Polizeiführer Rostow-Awdejewka; Kiev | 1883–1967 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei | |
| Albert Hoffmann | Gauleiter NSDAP Westphalia South | 1907–1972 | ||
| Leo von Jena | Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS (Personal staff Reichsführer SS) | 1876–1957 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | |
| Rudolf Jung | Honorary Gauleiter | 1882–1945 | committed suicide in Czech captivity | |
| Richard Jungclaus | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Belgium and Northern France | 1905–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei; killed in action | |
| Konstantin Kammerhofer | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Croatia | 1899–1958 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei | |
| Fritz Katzmann | SS- und Polizeiführer Radom; Lemberg; Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Vistula, 1943–1945 | 1906–1957 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei | |
| Kurt Kaul | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Southwest (Württemberg and Baden) | 1890–1944 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei; killed in action | |
| Gerhard Klopfer | State Secretary of the Party Chancellery; Wannsee Conference participant | 1905–1987 | ||
| Gerret Korsemann | SS- und Polizeiführer Rowno; Rostov-Awdejewka | 1895–1958 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei; imprisoned 1947–1949 | |
| Wilhelm Kube | SS-Ehrenführer; Gauleiter NSDAP Kurmark; Generalkommissar Belarus | 1887–1943 | discharged from the SS 11 March 1936; assassinated by a Soviet partisan in Minsk | |
| Heinz Lammerding | Chief of staff Supreme command Army Group Vistula (Heeresgruppe Weichsel) | 1905–1971 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | |
| Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper | SS-Ehrenführer; Gauleiter NSDAP Magdeburg-Anhalt; Reichsstatthalter Anhalt and Brunswick | 1883–1935 | ||
| Georg Lörner | SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt, Chief Office division B | 1899–1959 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1945–1954 | |
| Wilhelm Meinberg | Reich Chairman of the Reichsnährstand; Executive in the Reichswerke Hermann Göring | 1898–1973 | ||
| Heinrich Müller | Head of Amt-IV: Gestapo | 1900–1945(?) | missing, May 1945 | |
| Arthur Nebe | Head of Amt-V: Kriminalpolizei; Commander in Chief Task Group B (Task groups Sicherheitspolizei and SD); | 1894–1945 | involved in the 20 July Plot; executed at Plötzensee Prison | |
| Otto Ohlendorf | Head of Amt-III: SD-Inland (Internal Intelligence); Commander in Chief Task Group D (Task groups Sicherheitspolizei and SD); | 1907–1951 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei; executed | |
| Werner Ostendorff | Chief of staff Supreme Command Army Group Upper Rhine | 1903–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | |
| Leo Petri | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief Office division III | 1876–1961 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | |
| Hermann Priess | 1901–1985 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | ||
| Commander in Chief of the Waffen-SS Bohemia and Moravia | 1886–1945 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | ||
| Heinz Reinefarth | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Warthe, 1944 | 1903–1979 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei | |
| Hans-Joachim Riecke | 1899–1986 | |||
| Alfred Rodenbücher | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Alpenland | 1900–1980 | ||
| Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig | SS-Führungshauptamt | 1899–1944 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; suicide | |
| Walter Schimana | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Greece; Danube | 1898–1946 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; suicide | |
| Willy Schmelcher | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Warthe, 1945 | 1894–1974 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei | |
| Fritz von Scholz | 1896–1944 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; killed in action | ||
| Otto Schumann (also: Heinrich Eduard Otto Schumann) | Commander of the SS-Oberabschnitt West, in Düsseldorf | 1886–1952 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei | |
| Otto Schwab | Commander Artillery School | 1889–1959 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | |
| Siegfried Seidel-Dittmarsch | Chief of SS-Amt and Fuhrungstabs | 1887–1934 | ||
| Max Simon | 1899–1961 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | ||
| Jakob Sporrenberg | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Northeast (East Prussia); SS- und Polizeiführer Minsk; Lublin | 1902–1952 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei; sentenced to death | |
| Walter Staudinger | 1898–1964 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | ||
| Bruno Streckenbach | Commander 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS | 1902–1977 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | |
| Jürgen Stroop | Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Rhine-Westmark | 1895–1952 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei; executed | |
| Karl von Fischer-Treuenfeld | 1885–1946 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | ||
| Harald Turner | 1891–1947 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS; executed in Belgrade | ||
| Otto Wächter (also: Baron Otto Gustav von Wächter) | Governor of the Kraków District and, later, the District of Galicia in the General Government | 1901–1949 | also: Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS | |
| Waldemar Wappenhans | SS- und Polizeiführer Wolhynien-Brest-Litovsk; Nicolajew; Dnjepropetrowsk-Krivoi Rog | 1893–1967 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei | |
| Friedrich Weber | Instructor in veterinary medicine at the University of Munich | 1892–1955 | ||
| Richard Wendler | Governor of Lublin District in the General Government | 1898–1972 | also: Generalleutnant der Polizei | |
| Curt Wittje (also: Kurt Wittje) | Member of the German Reichstag; Chief SS-Hauptamt (SS Main office) 1934–1935 | 1894–1947 | discharged from the SS, November 12, 1938 | |
| Karl Zech | 1892–1944 | Expelled from the SS and committed suicide. |
SS-Brigadeführer (literal: SS-Brigade leader), short SS-Brif, was the lowest general rank in the SS, comparable to one-star ranks in English speaking armed forces (today equivalent to NATO OF-6).
| Name | Assignment | Birth and death | Remark | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heinrich Otto Abetz | German ambassador to Vichy France during World War II | 1903–1958 | also: convicted war criminal | |
| Franz Augsberger | 20th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division | 1905–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS (Major general of the Waffen-SS); killed in action | |
| Werner Ballauff | Commander SS-Waffen-Junker-School Braunschweig | 1890–1973 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
| Hellmuth Becker | 1902–1953 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; executed in the Soviet Union for war crimes | ||
| Walther Bierkamp | Commander of SiPo and SD: Düsseldorf, Belgium & northern France, General Government, Südwest; Commander of Einsatzgruppe D; Acting Higher SS and Police Leader, "Südost" | 1901–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; suicide | |
| Wilhelm Börger | 1896–1962 | |||
| Herbert Böttcher | SS- und Polizeiführer "Radom;" Police Director, Memel; Police President, Kassel | 1907–1950 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; hanged in Radom for war crimes | |
| Andreas Bolek | Honorary Gauleiter; SD Main Office; Police President, Magdeburg | 1894–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; suicide | |
| Curt Brasack | IV SS Panzer Corps, artillery-commander | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | ||
| Karl Burk | 1898–1963 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | ||
| Friedrich Karl Dermietzel | 1899–1981 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | ||
| Christoph Diehm | SS- und Polizeiführer "Shitomir;" "Lemberg;" "Kattowitz" | 1892–1960 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS und der Polizei | |
| Gustav Diesterweg | Commander SS-Waffen-Technische Lehranstalt (SS Weapon technical training centre) | 1875–19?? | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
| Werner Dörffler-Schuband | SS-Führungshauptamt (SS Main Command and Control Office), Chef Amt XI (Chief Office division XI) | |||
| Hans Döring | SS- und Polizeiführer "Stalino-Donezgebeit" | 1901–1970 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; Hauptsturmführer der Waffen-SS | |
| Wilhelm von Dufais | Chief communications | |||
| Ernst Otto Fick | SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office), Inspector W.E. | 1898–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; killed in action | |
| Richard Fiedler | SS- und Polizeiführer "Montenegro" | 1908–1974 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; Hauptsturmführer der Waffen-SS | |
| Fritz Freitag | Commander 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS | 1894–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS und der Polizei (Major general of the Waffen-SS and of the police); suicide | |
| Heinrich Gärtner | SS-Führungshauptamt, Chief Office division VIII | 1889–1963 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
| Paul Otto Geibel | SS- und Polizeiführer "Warsaw" | 1898–1966 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; convicted of war crimes and committed suicide in a Polish prison. | |
| Werner Gerlach | SS-Ehrenrang (SS Honour Rank); Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS (Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS) | 1891–1963 | ||
| Bruno Goedicke | SS-Commanding officer of Vienna | |||
| Walter Granzow | Minister-president of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; president of the Deutsche Rentenbank | 1887–1952 | ||
| Ludwig Grauert | State Secretary in the Prussian and Reich Ministry of the Interior | 1891–1964 | ||
| Wilhelm Günther | SS- und Polizeiführer "Bergvolker-Ordshonikidse," "Ronow;" Commander of SiPo and SD in Trieste | 1899–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; declared dead at the end of the war | |
| Leopold Gutterer | 1902–1996 | |||
| Hermann Haertel | Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (Race- and Settlement Main Office) | |||
| Desiderius Hampel | 1895–1981 | Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | ||
| Peter Hansen | Artillery commander | 1896–1967 | ||
| Hermann Harm | SS- und Polizeiführer "Dnjepropetrovsk-Kriwoi Rog;" "Litauen" | 1894–1985 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei | |
| Heinz Harmel | 1906–2000 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | ||
| Ernst Hartmann | SS- und Polizeiführer "Tschernigow;" "Shitomir;" "Pripet;" "Wolhynien-Luzk" | 1897–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; died of cancer May 1945 | |
| Max Henze | Police President in Kassel, Bromberg, Danzig and Essen | 1899–1951 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; hanged in Bydgoszcz for war crimes | |
| Karl Herrmann | collocated to Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer (Higher SS- and police leader) Adriatic Coast | |||
| Kurt Hintze | SS- und Polizeiführer "Litauen" | 1901–1944 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei | |
| Alfred Karrasch | Commander SS Training Area Bohemia | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | ||
| Adolf Katz | Politician (NSDAP); Chief Constable | 1899–1980 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
| Wilhelm Keilhaus | SS-Führungshauptamt, Inspector Intelligence and Chief Communications | 1898–1977 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
| Hubert Klausner | Gauleiter NSDAP and Landeshauptmann Carinthia | 1892–1939 | died of a stroke | |
| Gottfried Klingemann | Reichssicherheitshauptamt | 1884–1953 | discharged from the Waffen-SS May 31, 1944 | |
| Fritz Kraemer | 1900–1959 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS und der Polizei | ||
| Hans Krebs | Honorary Gauleiter and a Regierungspräsident in Reichsgau Sudetenland | 1888–1947 | Executed for treason in Czechoslovakia | |
| Gustav Krukenberg | Inspector of the French Waffen-SS Voluntary formations | 1888–1980 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
| Christian Peter Kryssing | 1891–1976 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; Dane | ||
| Wilhelm Küper | Inspector General of food service | |||
| Otto Kumm | 1909–2004 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | ||
| Franz Kutschera | Deputy and Acting Gauleiter NSDAP Carinthia; SS- und Polizeiführer "Mogilev;" "Warsaw" | 1904–1944 | assassinated in Warsaw | |
| Gustav Lombard | 1895–1992 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | ||
| Johann-Erasmus Freiherr von Malsen-Ponickau | SS- und Polizeigebietkommandeur "Istrien;" Police President: Frankfurt am Oder, Posen, Halle | 1895–1956 | imprisoned seven years in Poland | |
| Günther Merk | SS- und Polizeiführer "Charkow;" Commander of Ordnungspolizei in Krakau | 1888–1947 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; executed by firing squad in the Soviet Union | |
| Kurt Meyer | Commander 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" | 1910–1961 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
| Wilhelm Mohnke | 1911–2001 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | ||
| Hinrich Möller | Police Chief of Neumünster; Police Director of Flensburg; SS and Police Leader, "Estland" | 1906–1974 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; imprisoned for murder | |
| Kurt-Peter Müller | 1894–1993 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | ||
| Erich Naumann | Commander, Einsatzgruppen VI & B; SiPo & SD Commander, Netherlands | 1905–1951 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; hanged at Landsberg prison for war crimes | |
| Werner Naumann | State Secretary, Propaganda Ministry; Vice President, Reich Chamber of Culture | 1909–1982 | ||
| Walther Neblich | Commander SS-Automotive training center | |||
| Walther Oberhaidacher | 1896–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei | ||
| Karl von Oberkamp | SS-Führungshauptamt, Inspector In2 and In6 | 1893–1947 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; hanged in Belgrade for war crimes | |
| Hans Plesch | Police President of Munich, 1943–1945 | 1905–1985 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei | |
| Ernst Rode | Chief of staff to the Chef Bandenkampfverbände (Chief of formations to break up bands) | 1894–1955 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
| Bruno Rothardt | ||||
| Ludwig Ruckdeschel | Deputy and Acting Gauleiter NSDAP Bayreuth | 1907–1986 | ||
| Joachim Rumohr | Commander 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" | 1910–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; suicide | |
| Karl Schäfer | SS- und Polizeiführer "Weissruthenien;" "Dnjepropetrowsk-Krivoi-Rog" | 1892–1943 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; killed in action | |
| Walther Schellenberg | Head of Amt-VI: SD-Ausland (Foreign Intelligence) | 1910–1952 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei | |
| Fritz Schmedes | 1894–1952 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS und der Polizei | ||
| August Schmidhuber | 1901–1947 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; hanged in Belgrade for war crimes | ||
| Eberhard Schöngarth (also: Karl Eberhard Schöngarth) | Commander of Einsatzgruppe z.b.V.; SiPo and SD Commander in the General Government and the Netherlands; Acting Higher SS and Police Leader, "Nordwest" | 1903–1946 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; hanged in Germany for war crimes | |
| Otto Schottenheim | Staff SS-Oberabschnitt (SS Supreme Sector) Main burgomaster of Regensburg | 1890–1980 | ||
| Walther Schröder | Police President of Lübeck (1933–1945); SS and Police Leader, "Lettland;" "Estland" | 1902–1973 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei | |
| Franz Schwarz | Staff SS-Oberabschnitt South | 1899–1960 | ||
| Hans Schwedler | SS- und Polizeiführer "Krakau;" Inspector of SS-Totenkopfstandarten; SS-Führungshauptamt | 1878–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; suicide. | |
| Franz Six (also: Franz Alfred Six) | Reichssicherheitshauptamt; Head of Amt-VII: Ideological Research and Evaluation | 1909–1975 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; imprisoned | |
| Johannes Soodla | 1897–1965 | |||
| Ludwig Steeg | Oberbürgermeister and Stadtpräsident (City President) of Berlin | 1894 – 1945 | ||
| Karl Taus | SS- und Polizeiführer "Görz" | 1893–1977 | ||
| Willy Tensfeld | SS- und Polizeiführer "Charkow;" "Stalino-Donezgebeit;" "Oberitalien-West" | 1893–1982 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei | |
| Theobald Thier | SS- und Polizeiführer "Kuban;" "Kerch-Taman;" "Lemberg;" "Kraków" | 1897–1949 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; sentenced to death in Kraków for war crimes | |
| Fritz Tittmann | SS- und Polizeiführer "Nikolajew;" SS-Plenipotentiary for Volksdeutsche issues | 1898–1945 | Died in unclear circumstances in April 1945 | |
| August-Willhelm Trabandt | 1891–1968 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | ||
| Friedrich Tscharmann | SS-Führungshauptamt | 1871–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
| Herbert-Ernst Vahl | SS-Führungshauptamt, Inspector of SS Armoured troops | 1896–1944 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; died in a car accident | |
| Anton Vogler | SS-Commanding officer of Munich | 1882–1961 | ||
| Bernhard Voss | SS-Führungshauptamt | |||
| Jürgen Wagner | 1901–1947 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; executed by firing squad in Belgrade for war crimes | ||
| Theodor Wisch | Commander 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" | 1907–1995 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS | |
| Fritz Witt | Commander 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" | 1908–1944 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; killed in action | |
| Gustav Adolf von Wulffen (also: Gustav-Adolf von Wulffen) | Stab Reichsführer-SS; Commander Infantry-Division "Potsdam" | 1878–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Wehrmacht; killed in action | |
| Lucian Wysocki | Police President of Oberhausen; Mülheim an der Ruhr; Duisburg; Kassel; SS- und Polizeiführer "Generalbezirk Litauen" | 1899–1964 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei | |
| August Zehender | 1903–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; killed in action | ||
| Carl Zenner | Police President of Aachen; SS- und Polizeiführer "Weissruthenien" | 1899–1969 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei; convicted war criminal | |
| Joachim Ziegler | 1904–1945 | also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; killed in action | ||
| Paul Zimmermann | SS- und Polizeiführer "Nikolajew" | 1895–1980 | also: Generalmajor der Polizei |