- List of major perpetrators of the Holocaust
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This is a list of major perpetrators of The Holocaust.
See also: Responsibility for the HolocaustName Photograph Date of birth Date of death Age at death Role Fate Adolf Hitler 
April 20, 1889 April 30, 1945 56 years, 10 days Führer of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich Committed suicide by gunshot[1][2] (possibly while biting down on a cyanide capsule at the same time)[3] Heinrich Luitpold Himmler 
October 7, 1900 May 23, 1945 44 years, 228 days Reichsführer-SS Chief of the German Police
Arrested; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich 
March 7, 1904 June 4, 1942 38 years, 89 days Chief of the Reich Main Security Office Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia President of Interpol
Assassinated in Operation Anthropoid Adolf Otto Eichmann 
March 19, 1906 May 31, 1962 56 years, 73 days SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) who was charged by Heydrich with facilitating and managing the mass deportations of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Eastern Europe. Executed by hanging (arrested May 11, 1960) Odilo Lotario Globocnik 
April 21, 1904 May 31, 1945 41 years, 40 days SS and Police Leader in the General Government of Poland. Head of Operation Reinhard. Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning Theodor Eicke 
October 17, 1892 February 26, 1943 50 years, 132 days A major figure in the creation of the concentration camps. He led SS Division Totenkopf, which became notorious for its war crimes. Killed in action Richard Glücks 
April 22, 1889 May 10, 1945 56 years, 18 days Head of SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning Ernst Kaltenbrunner 
October 4, 1903 October 16, 1946 43 years, 12 days Chief of the Reich Main Security Office and Interpol after Heydrich was assassinated Executed by hanging Hermann Wilhelm Göring 
January 12, 1893 October 15, 1946 53 years, 276 days High-ranking Nazi Party member and military leader, as such responsible for war crimes. Charged Reinhard Heydrich with the task of developing a Final Solution. Sentenced to death by hanging; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels 
October 29, 1897 May 1, 1945 47 years, 184 days Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning Hans Michael Frank 
May 23, 1900 October 16, 1946 46 years, 146 days Governor of occupied Poland Executed by hanging Arthur Seyss-Inquart 
July 22, 1892 October 16, 1946 54 years, 86 days Ruler of the Netherlands after its conquest, and effectively deputy to Hans Frank in occupied Poland Executed by hanging Alfred Rosenberg 
January 12, 1893 October 16, 1946 53 years, 277 days Nazi theoretician and head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories Executed by hanging Martin Ludwig Bormann 
June 17, 1900 May 2, 1945? 44 years, 319 days? 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[4] Rudolf Brandt 
June 2, 1909 June 2, 1948 39 years, 0 days Deputy to Heinrich Himmler Executed by hanging Oswald Pohl 
June 30, 1892 June 8, 1951 58 years, 343 days High-ranking concentration camps administrator Executed by hanging Heinrich Müller 
April 28, 1900 Chief of the Gestapo Disappeared; believed to have died in May 1945 Wilhelm Bodewin Gustav Keitel 
September 22, 1882 October 16, 1946 64 years, 24 days Supreme Command of the Armed Forces Executed by hanging Hermann Julius "Hans" Höfle 
June 19, 1911 August 20, 1962 51 years, 62 days Coordinator of Operation Reinhard Arrested; committed suicide by hanging Richard Wolfgang Thomalla 
October 23, 1903 May 12, 1945 41 years, 201 days Head of extermination camp construction during Operation Reinhard Assassinated Erwin Hermann Lambert 
December 7, 1909 October 15, 1976 66 years, 313 days Head of gas chamber construction during Operation Reinhard Arrested; acquitted Karl Steubl Commander of transportation units during Operation Reinhard Christian Wirth 
November 24, 1885 May 26, 1944 58 years, 184 days Inspector of Action T4 and Operation Reinhard; Commandant of Chełmno, September 1941— March 1943 (1/1); Commandant of Bełżec, March 17, 1942—end of August 1942 (1/2)
Assassinated Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss 
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November 25, 1900 April 16, 1947 46 years, 142 days 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 46 years, 64 days 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 Dr. Irmfried Eberl 
September 8, 1910 February 16, 1948 37 years, 161 days 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 63 years, 94 days Commandant of Sobibor, 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 84 years, 168 days 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 37 years, 32 days Commandant of Sobibor, September 1, 1942— October 17, 1943 (2/2) Assassinated Gottlieb Hering 
June 2, 1887 October 9, 1945 58 years, 129 days Commandant of Bełżec, end of August 1942— June 1943 (2/2) Died of mysterious health complications Dr. Josef Rudolf Mengele 
March 16, 1911 February 7, 1979 67 years, 328 days Human medical experimentation, particularly children, and selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz Escaped to Brazil; evaded arrest for 34 years until death Dr. Eduard Wirths 
September 4, 1909 September 20, 1945 36 years, 16 days Human medical experimentation, and formal responsibility of medical staff at Auschwitz Arrested; committed suicide by hanging Dr. Horst Schumann 
May 1, 1906 May 5, 1983 77 years, 4 days 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 58 years, 315 days Human medical experimentation at Auschwitz Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in 1948; released in 1955; re-arrested in West Germany; died of heart attack Viktor Brack 
November 9, 1904 June 2, 1948 43 years, 206 days Action T4; Human medical experimentation
Executed by hanging Dr. Karl Gebhardt 
November 23, 1897 June 2, 1948 50 years, 192 days Human medical experimentation Executed by hanging Dr. Fritz Klein 
November 24, 1888 December 13, 1945 57 years, 19 days Selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz Executed by hanging Dr. Karl Brandt 
January 8, 1904 June 2, 1948 44 years, 146 days Co-director of Action T4; Human medical experimentation
Executed by hanging Philipp Bouhler 
September 11, 1899 May 19, 1945 45 years, 250 days Director of Action T4 Arrested; committed suicide Josef Kramer 
November 10, 1906 December 13, 1945 39 years, 33 days Deputy commandant of Auschwitz Commandant of Bergen-Belsen
Executed by hanging Hans Aumeier 
August 20, 1906 January 28, 1948 41 years, 161 days Deputy commandant of Auschwitz Executed by hanging Franz Hössler 
February 4, 1906 December 13, 1945 39 years, 312 days Deputy commandant of Auschwitz Executed by hanging Maximilian Grabner 
October 2, 1905 January 28, 1948 42 years, 118 days Gestapo command (torture of prisoners) at Auschwitz Executed by hanging Heinrich Arthur Matthes 
January 11, 1902 Deceased Deputy commandant of Treblinka Arrested in 1964; sentenced to life imprisonment on September 3, 1965 Josef Oberhauser January 21, 1915 November 22, 1979 64 years, 305 days Deputy commandant of Bełżec Sentenced to 15 years in prison; released early on 28 April 1956 Lorenz Hackenholt 
June 25, 1914 December 31, 1945 31 years, 189 days Gas chamber construction and executioner of Bełżec and other camps during Operation Reinhard Declared legally dead Johann Niemann 
August 4, 1913 October 14, 1943 30 years, 71 days Deputy commandant of Bełżec and Sobibor Assassinated during Sobibor revolt Gustav Franz Wagner 
July 18, 1911 October 3, 1980 69 years, 77 days Deputy commandant of Sobibor 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 85 years, 5 days Commandant of Camp I (forced labor camp) at Sobibor Arrested on March 22, 1962; sentenced to life imprisonment on December 20, 1966; released on health grounds in 1982 Hermann Michel 
April 23, 1912 99 years, 212 days Deputy commandant of Sobibor Evaded arrest; whereabouts unknown Hermann Erich Bauer 
March 26, 1900 February 4, 1980 79 years, 315 days Gas chamber executioner of Sobibor Sentenced to death by hanging; commuted to life imprisonment; died in prison Heinz Kurt Bolender 
May 21, 1912 October 10, 1966 54 years, 142 days Gas chamber executioner of Sobibor Arrested in May 1961; committed suicide by hanging Jürgen Stroop 
September 26, 1895 March 6, 1952 56 years, 162 days Suppression and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Executed by hanging Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger 
February 27, 1894 May 9, 1945 51 years, 71 days SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland Committed suicide Bruno Heinrich Streckenbach 
February 7, 1902 October 28, 1977 75 years, 263 days Trained and commanded the Einsatzgruppen Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in 1952; released on October 10, 1955 Friedrich Jeckeln 
February 2, 1895 February 3, 1946 51 years, 1 day Rumbula, Babi Yar, Kamianets-Podilskyi Executed by hanging Dr. Franz Walter Stahlecker 
October 10, 1900 March 23, 1942 41 years, 164 days 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 60 years, 126 days 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 Dr. Humbert Achamer-Pifrader November 21, 1900 April 25, 1945 44 years, 155 days Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, September 10, 1942– September 4, 1943 (3/5) Killed in action Friedrich Panzinger February 1, 1903 August 8, 1959 56 years, 188 days Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, September 5, 1943– May 6, 1944 (4/5) Dr. Wilhelm Fuchs September 1, 1898 January 24, 1947 48 years, 145 days Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, May 6, 1944– October 10, 1944 (5/5); Commander of Einsatzkommando 3, September 15, 1943– May 27, 1944
Dr. Eduard Strauch 
August 17, 1906 September 15, 1955 49 years, 29 days 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 Dr. Martin Franz Erwin Rudolf Lange April 18, 1910 February 23, 1945 34 years, 311 days Commander of Einsatzkommando 2, Latvia, December 3, 1941– 1944 Believed to have been killed in action Karl Jäger September 20, 1888 June 22, 1959 70 years, 275 days Commander of Einsatzkommando 3, Lithuania, June 1941– August 1, 1943 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 50 years, 128 days Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, June 1941– November 1941 (1/5) 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 46 years, 40 days Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, November 1941– March 1943 (2/5) Executed by hanging Horst-Alwin Böhme 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)Erich Ehrlinger October 14, 1910 July 31, 2004 93 years, 291 days 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 Seetzen June 22, 1906 September 28, 1945 39 years, 98 days 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
Dr. Otto Bradfisch May 10, 1903 June 22, 1994 91 years, 43 days Commander of Einsatzkommando 8, Belarus, June 1941– April 1, 1942 Arrested on April 21, 1958; sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in 1963 Dr. Otto Rasch 
December 7, 1891 November 1, 1948 56 years, 330 days 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 54 years, 124 days Commander of Einsatzgruppe C, north and central Ukraine, October 1941– April 29, 1943 (2/3) Paul Blobel 
August 13, 1894 June 8, 1951 56 years, 299 days Commander of Einsatzkommando 4a, Ukraine (Babi Yar), June 1941– January 13, 1942; Director of Sonderaktion 1005
Executed by hanging Dr. Otto Ohlendorf 
February 4, 1907 June 8, 1951 44 years, 124 days Commander of Einsatzgruppe D, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, June 1941– July 1942 (1/2) Executed by hanging Walter Bierkamp Commander of Einsatzgruppe D, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, July 1942– March 1943 (2/2) Karl Rudolf Werner Braune 
April 11, 1909 June 8, 1951 42 years, 58 days Commander of Einsatzkommando 11b, south Ukraine and the Crimea, October 1941– September 1942 Executed by hanging Maria Mandel 
January 10, 1912 January 24, 1948 36 years, 14 days Commandant of female camp at Auschwitz Executed by hanging Irma Ida Ilse Grese 
October 7, 1923 December 13, 1945 22 years, 67 days Warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen, and later Auschwitz Executed by hanging References
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