List of SS personnel

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Between 1925 and 1945, the German SS grew from a mere eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and well over a million Allgemeine-SS members. The following list of SS personnel gives the names of persons who are counted among the organization's most famous, influential, and sometimes notorious members.

Adolf Hitler

Prior to 1934 the SS were nominally under the command of the Sturmabteilung[1] and so it could be said that both Adolf Hitler as Oberster SA-Führer and Ernst Röhm as Stabschef SA outranked the most senior SS position of Reichsführer. Following the Night of the Long Knives Hitler "raised the SS, hitherto subordinate to the SA, to the rank of an independent organisation".[2] Hitler also was considered SS Member #1, Emil Maurice (considered the founder the SS) was Member #2, while Himmler was SS Member #168. Based on the seniority system of SS membership number, this made Hitler senior in the SS to all other members even if not by rank.

After the Night of the Long Knives, when the SS became independent from the SA, Hitler was listed on SS officer rolls as Member #1 and considered supreme commander of the entire SS by virtue of his position as the Führer of Germany. There is no photographic record of Hitler ever wearing an actual SS uniform nor was there a special SS insignia for Hitler above that worn by Himmler

SS generals

Rank Collar insignia
Reichsführer
Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Julius Schreck First Reichsführer SS
1925-1926.
Hitler's chauffer
Later held the ranks of SS Standartenführer and SS-Oberführer
Posthumously awarded the ranks SS Brigadeführer and SS Ehrenführer of the SS Regiment Munich 5 1925 53
Joseph Berchtold Second Reichsführer of the SS
1926-1927 August 1923 750
Erhard Heiden Third Reichsführer SS
1927-1929 1925
Heinrich Himmler Reichsführer SS
1929-1945
Chief of German Police
Minister of the Interior
Chief of the replacement Army 168 February 1925 14303
Karl Hanke Final Reichsführer SS
1945 203013 25 February 1934 102606
Rank Collar insignia
Oberstgruppenführer
Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Kurt Daluege Commander of the Ordnungspolizei 1119 1928 31981
Sepp Dietrich Original commander of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) and later commander of the 6th SS Panzer Army 1177 5 May 1928 89015
Paul Hausser Commander of the II SS Panzer Corps 239795 February 1934 4158779
Franz Xaver Schwarz NSDAP Treasurer 38500 16 September 1931 6
Rank Collar insignia
Obergruppenführer
(pre-1942:)
Name Position SS number Joined SS Party number
Max Amann Honorary SS Member. Party leader for the Reich of the Department Press 53143 3
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski Higher SS and Police Leader of Central Russia 9831 489101
Herbert Backe Minister of Agriculture 1944-1945 22766 1 October 1933 87882
Gottlob Berger Commander of the SS-Hauptamt 275991 426875
Werner Best Reich Plenipotentiary of Denmark 23377 341338
Wilhelm Bittrich Waffen SS combat commander, II SS Panzerkorps 39177 1934 829700
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle Leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party Foreign Organization 276915 13 Sept 1933 999185
Philipp Bouhler Head of the Action T4

Party Leader for the Reich in charge of the Führer Chancellery

54932 12
Martin Bormann Secretary of Hitler

Party leader for the Reich in charge of the NSDAP Chancellery

555 September 1929 60508
Franz Breithaupt Commanding general of the SS and Police Courts 39719 602663
Walter Buch Party Leader for the Reich as Chairman of the Inquiry and Mediation Board 81353 1 July 1933 7733
Richard Walther Darré First Director of the Race and Settlement Office ('Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt' or RuSHA), and Minister of the Reich for Food and Agriculture 6882 248156
Karl-Maria Demelhuber Commanded the SS-Standarte Germania, 6. SS-Gebirgs-Division Nord, XII. SS-Armeekorps and XVI. SS-Armeekorps. 252392 15 March 1935 4439
Otto Dietrich Party Leader for the Reich as NSDAP Press Chief
Honorary rank 101349 126727
Joachim Albrecht Eggeling Gauleiter of Saxony and Anhalt
High President of Merseburg 186155 1935 11579
Theodor Eicke Commander of the SS Totenkopf Division 2921 August 1930 114901
Karl Fiehler Lord mayor of Munich/Party Leader of the Reich in charge of the communal policy 91724 31 July 1933 37
Albert Forster Gauleiter of Danzig
Hans Frank Governor-General of Poland
Karl Hermann Frank Higher SS and Police Leader of Bohemia and Moravia 310460 6600002
Herbert Otto Gille Waffen SS commander 39854 537337
Curt von Gottberg Also General der Waffen-SS 45.923 September 1932 948.753
Ernst-Robert Grawitz Also General of Waffen SS; Reichsarzt SS and Polizei; Head of German red Cross; son in law of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Siegfried Taubert November 1931
Arthur Greiser Gauleiter of Reichsgau Wartheland 10795 1929 166635
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf Not member of SS, but wore the uniform of an SS Obergruppenführer uniform in his capacity as Polizeipresident Berlin

SA Obergruppenführer