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Adrian von Renteln – An early leader of the Hitler Youth and the National Socialist Schoolchildren's League, he became Generalkommissar of occupied Lithuania from 1941 to 1944 and was hanged by the Soviets for war crimes. Joachim von Ribbentrop – Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945 and an SS-Obergruppenführer. Convicted ...
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. [5] [6] Wilhelm Keitel: September 22, 1882: October 16, 1946: 64 years, 24 days
For a list of the main leaders and most important party figures see: List of Nazi Party leaders and officials. This list has been divided into four sections for reasons of length: List of Nazis (A–E): from Gustav Abb to Hanns Heinz Ewers (~ 247 names) List of Nazis (F–K): from Arnold Fanck to Kurt Küttner (~ 268 names)
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluːɪtpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐ] ⓘ; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the German Nazi Party, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany.
Heinrich Müller (28 April 1900; date of death unknown, but evidence points to May 1945) [1] [2] was a high-ranking German Schutzstaffel (SS) and police official during the Nazi era. For most of World War II in Europe, he was the chief of the Gestapo, the secret state police of Nazi Germany.
When the attempt failed, the conspirators were soon identified. [34] An estimated 5,000 people were eventually executed, with many more sent to concentration camps. [35] [c] Historian Heinz Höhne counted Kaltenbrunner among the fanatical Hitler loyalists and described him as being committed "to the bitter end". [37]
The List of Gauleiter enumerates 114 men who held the Nazi Party (NSDAP) senior regional leader rank of Gauleiter under Adolf Hitler, from the reestablishment of the party in February 1925 to the fall of the Nazi regime in May 1945. It includes those that served in Germany proper and in those territories that were incorporated into Germany from ...
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany.Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess held that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate the United Kingdom's exit from the Second World War.