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===Brigadeführer (Brigadier General)===
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|[[Brigadeführer]]
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! bgcolor="#efefef" | Joined SS
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|[[Otto Abetz]]
|German ambassador to [[Vichy France]]; sentenced to 20 years in 1949 for war crimes; released 1954. Died 1958
|253.314
|1 August 1935
|7.011.453
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|[[Franz Augsberger]]
|Also Generalmajor der Waffen-SS-[[20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian)]]
|139 528
|20 April 1932
|360 700
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|Hellmuth Becker
|SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS, Awarded Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Commander of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf.
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|[[Lothar Beutel]]
|Einsatzgruppen IV commander 1939
|2422
|1930
|135.238
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|[[Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen]]
|Member of the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]]; chairman of the regional council (Regierungspräsident) for Stettin, and later also for Potsdam.
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|[[Hugo Blaschke]]
|Hitler's dentist. Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen SS
|256882
|2 May 1935
|452082
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|Willi Brandner
| Gruppenführer [[Sudetendeutsches Freikorps]]gruppe 3 in Bayreuth 24.9.38 – 12.10.1938; Generalmajor der Polizei. Served in the Waffen-SS as a Reserveführer in LSSAH in Greece 23.1.41 – 1.6.41 Reserveführer in SS Totenkopf-Infanterie-Ersatzbataillon II 1.6.41 – 3.7.41 Reserveführer LSSAH 3.7.41 – 25.11.41
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|6644578
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|[[Josef Bühler]]
|Deputy governor Central Government on Krakow; attended [[Wannsee Conference]] 20 January 1942
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|Karl Burk
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|68910
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|1848222
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|Franz Claassen
|SS-Brigadeführer/Konteradmiral z.V.
|288638
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|1289757
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|Ernst Damzog
|SS-Brigadefuehrer und Generalmajor der Polizei
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|15 June 1933
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|[[Léon Degrelle]]
|Promoted by Himmler to this rank on 2 May 1945 (unofficial)/Commander of the Waffen SS division "Wallonie"
|None
|1 June 1943
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|Christoph Diehm
| SS und Polizeiführer [[Shitomir]] (25 Jan 1944 - 25 Feb 1944)
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|[[Anton Dunckern]]
|Commander of the Security Police (SiPo) and SD in Occupied Lorraine (Metz); also a [[Generalmajor]] der Polizei. From 31 May to 1 July 1953, Dunckern was tried as a war criminal before the Military Court of the 6th Region in Metz; he was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. In June 1954, Dunckern was granted an early release from a prison in the Loos district of Lille.
|3526
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|315601
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|Johannes Engel
|Reichsamtsleiter
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|Ernst Engelhardt
|SS BF 20.4.45. Born 31 July 1890. Last post, Stabsführer Oberabschnitt Spree; Missing believed killed Berlin early May 1945.
|52655
|1.9.1932
|103208
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|[[Hans Fischbock|Hans Fischböck]]
|Involved in [[Final Solution]] in the Netherlands
|367799
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|[[Karl Genzken]]
|Chief of Medical Office of the [[Waffen-SS]]
|207954
|5 November 1933
|39913
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|[[Ulrich Graf (Nazi)]]
|Hitler's Bodyguard
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|[[Franz Hayler]]
|Born 29 August 1900 in Schwarzenfeld – 11 September 1972 in Aschau im Chiemgau) was a German self-employed salesman who rose during the Third Reich to State Secretary and acting Reich Economics Minister as a member of the NSDAP and the SS.
|64697
|23 March 1934
|754133
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|Stefan Hedrich
| SS BF 20.4.45. Did not join the Nazi Party. Last post On the reserve attached to Amt V SSFHA. Died Marktoberdorf/Thalhofen in Allgau 1.2.1975.
|490725(V)
|1.3.1942
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|[[Franz Josef Huber]]
|Served as head of the State Police (SiPo) for Vienna, the "Lower Danube" and "Upper Danube" regions; also a Generalmajor der Polizei
|107099
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|4583151
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|[[Heinz Jost]]
|SD officer and original Chief of the Ausland-SD, Amt VI (Department VI) of the [[RSHA]] & Commander of [[Einsatzkommando]] A (29 March - 2 September 1942)
|36243
|25 July 1934
|75946
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|[[Bronislaw Kaminski]]
|Commander of [[Kaminski Brigade]]
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|Paul Ernst Kanstein
|Regierungsprasident and Beauftragter des Auswärtigen Amtes für Fragen der Inneren Verwaltung in Dänemark
|2306733
|1933
|189786
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|Dr. Gerhard Karehnke
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|422143
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|[[Fritz Kranefuss]]
|Head of Financial Department under Himmler
|53092
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|964992
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|[[Christian Peder Kryssing]]
|Commander of [[Frikorps Danmark]] and SS-Kampfgruppe Kueste
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|[[Franz Kutschera]]
|SS [[General]] and [[Gauleiter]] of [[Carinthia (state)|Carinthia]]. [[SS and Police Leader]] of the [[Poland]]'s [[Warsaw]] district, and a Generalmajor der Polizei.
|19659
|1 November 1931
|363031
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|[[Gustav Lombard]]
|SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS
|185.023
|May 1933
|2.649.630
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|Kurt Ludwig
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|1397
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|[[Kurt Meyer (Panzermeyer)|Kurt "Panzermeyer" Meyer]]
|Noted for his command of 1st SS Reconnaissance Battalion (LSSAH) and later as the Waffen-SS division commander of [[12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend]].
|17 559
|15 October 1931
|316 714
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|[[Wilhelm Mohnke]]
|Waffen-SS divisional commander and (Kommandant) Battle Commander for the defence of the central government district (Zitadelle sector) that included the [[Reich Chancellery]] and [[Führerbunker]] during the [[Battle of Berlin]]
|15541
|1 September 1931
|649984
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|Franz Müller-Darss
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|[[Erich Naumann]]
|SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei, Commander of Einsatzgruppe B (November 1941 - March 1943)
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|170257
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|[[Hans Nieland]]
|Lord Mayor of [[Dresden]]
|61702
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|33333
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|Karl Petry
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|Dr. Otto Rasch
|SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei, Einsatzgruppe C Commander (June - October 1941)
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|Dr. Günther Reinecke
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|77151
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|[[Joachim Rumohr]]
|Brigadeführer und Generalmajor of the Waffen SS
|7450
|1933
|216161
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|[[Walter Schellenberg]]
|SD officer and second Chief of the Ausland-SD, Amt VI (Department VI) of the RSHA
| 124.817
|10 January 1934
|3.504.508
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|[[Gustav Adolf Scheel]]
|Police Major General; Leader of the National Socialist Students' Federation, Superior SS and Police Leader in Salzburg, Gauleiter in Salzburg. Leader of the Heidelberg Student Body; Honorary Senator of the University of Heidelberg; Leader of the Berlin SD School; Inspector of the Security Police and the SD in Stuttgart; Leader of the Nazi Old Gentlemen's Federation; Chairman of the Reich Student Works; President of the German Study Works for Foreigners; Member of the Reich Labour Chamber and the Reichstag; Commander of the SiPo and the SD under Chief of the civil administration in Alsace; Leader of the SD Upper Division South (Munich); Inspector of the SiPo and the SD under the higher SS and Police leaders South and Main; Higher SS and Police leader; Leader of the SS Upper Division Alpenland (Salzburg); [[Volkssturm]] Leader
|107189
|1 October 1931
|391 271
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|Fritz Schmedes
|Commander of the [[4th SS Polizei Division]] and the [[36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS]]. Died on 7 Feb 1952 in Springe/Deister
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|Willy Schmelcher
|SS und Polizeiführer [[Shitomir]] (5 May 1943 - 25 Sep 1943)
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|[[August Schmidthuber]]
|CO of the [[7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen]] from 20 January 1944 to 8 May 1945, and the [[21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian)]] from May 1944 onwards.
|266450
|17 May 1935
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|Johannes Oskar Schmiedel
|SS BF 18.11.1944 Born 20 May 1897 Party 1 May 1937. Last post Inspekteur Kraftfahrtruppen Amtsgruppe Kommando I Hauptamt ORPO. Died 3.6.1954
|499342
|23.1.1945
|2819752
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|[[Karl Eberhard Schöngarth]]
|Commander of [[Einsatzgruppen]]; perpetrated the [[Massacre of Lviv professors]], among other atrocities; [[Wannsee Conference]] participant
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|[[Hinrich Schuldt]]
|Awarded Knight's Cross with oak Leaves and Swords
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|[[Franz Six]]
|Chief of Amt VII (Department VII) of the RSHA; charged with creation of Chief of [[Einsatzgruppen]] for England<br />Vorkommando of Moscow of [[Einsatzgruppe]] B
|107480
|1935
|245679
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|Dr. Franz Walter Stahlecker
|SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei, Einsatzgruppe A Commander (22 June 1941 - 23 March 1942)
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|[[Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz]]
|[[German Army|Heer]] panzer general
|82857
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|[[Bruno Streckenbach]]
|Awarded 30 January 1939 [[Golden Party Badge]]; Chief of Amt I (Department I), Administration and Personal of the RSHA; and [[Einsatzgruppe]]n Commander, [[8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer]]
|14713
|1 September 1931
|489972
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|[[Otto Steinbrinck]]
|[[Freundeskreis der Wirtshaft|Freundeskreis der Reichsführer SS]]
|63084
|30 May 1933
|2638206
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|Willy Tensfeld
|born November 27, 1893. Imperial German Navy 1909-23 (WWI with U-Boats). 1923-31, worked in Kiel shipyards. Joined SS September 1, 1931, and NSDAP December 1931. First served with 1./III./40.SS-Standarte. From November 1931 to August 1932, Adjutant, III./40.SS-Standarte. Commissioned SS-Sturmführer on March 14, 1932. From August 1932 to November 1933, Stabsführer of SS-Abschnitt XIV (Bremen). From June 1934 to March 1935, commander of 17.SS-Standarte (then Harburg-Wilhelmsburg). From March 1935 to April 1936, commander of 19.SS-Standarte (Münster). From April 1936 to January 1939, commander of SS-Abschnitt IX (Nürnberg, then Würzburg). From January 1939 to June 1942, Stabsführer of SS-Oberabschnitt "Nordwest", later "Nordsee" (Hamburg). Final rank - SS-Brigadeführer (promoted January 30, 1941) und Generalmajor der Polizei (from June 1, 1942). From August 1941 to May 1943, SS-und Polizeiführer "Charkow". From May to September 1943, SS-und Polizeiführer "Stalino". April to May 1943, also SS-und Polizeiführer "Shitomir". From September 1943 to January 1944, SS-und Polizeiführer for special assignment to the Höchster SS-und Polizeiführer "Italien". From January 1944 to May 1945, SS-und Polizeiführer "Oberitalien-West". Awarded Iron Cross Second Class (March 31, 1943), Iron Cross First Class (September 25, 1943), NSDAP Long Service Award in Silver, both classes of the War Service Cross with Swords and the German Cross in Gold (February 15, 1945), for his command of German troops and Italian blackshirts in defeating partisans in Domodossola during October 1944. He died in Hamburg on September 2, 1982.
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|1 September 1931
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|[[Theobald Thier]]
|A [[Generalmajor]] der Polizei<br />Executed Kraków Poland 12 July 1949{{Citation needed|date=September 2007}}
|250198
|June 1935
|1744848
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|[[Wilhelm Trabandt]]
|Colonel of [[1 SS Infantry Brigade]]<br />Commander of [[18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Horst Wessel]]
|218.852
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|Friedrich Uebelhoer
|[[Łódź Ghetto]] 1939<br />Gauinspekteur Gau Wartheland 1940 – 10.43 MWGB Regierungspräsident Merseberg 10.43 – 45 Died 31 12 1950. See [http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=117690]
|209059
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|11707
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|Dr. Gerd Unbehaun,
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|33025
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|[[Edmund Veesenmayer]]
|Involved in [[Final Solution]] in Croatia; Serbia and Hungary
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|[[Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig]]
|Also Generalmajor der [[Ordnungspolizei]].
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|[[Jürgen Wagner]]
|Commander of [[23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland]]<br />[[4th SS Polizei Division]]
|23 692
|15 June 1931
|707279
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|[[Friedrich Weber (veterinarian)|Friedrich Weber]]
|Commander of the NSDAP Old Guard
|265902
|July 1934
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|[[Wilhelm Werner]]
|World War I war criminal. See [http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=73806] ;<br />Member of [[Himmler]]'s personal staff
|9916
|15 July 1931
|332139
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|[[Karl Maria Wiligut]]
|Section VIII (Archives) [[RUSHA]]<br />Himmler's Personal Staff
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|September 1933
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|[[Fritz Witt]]
|Commander of the [[12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend]]
|21518
|1 December 1931
|816769
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|Prof. Dr. Walter Wüst,
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