List of Sobibor extermination camp personnel

At any given point in time, the personnel at Sobibor extermination camp included 18-25 German and Austrian SS officers[1] and roughly 400 watchmen of Soviet origin.[2][3] Over the 18 months that the camp was in service, 100 SS officers served there.[4]

SS personnel

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Name Rank Function and notes Citation
Kommandants      
 Franz Stangl SS-Obersturmführer First lieutenant, 28 April 194230 August 1942 transferred to Commandant of Treblinka extermination camp  [5] [6]
 Franz Reichleitner  SS-Obersturmführer First lieutenant, 1 September 194217 October 1943;[7][better source needed] promoted to captain (Hauptsturmführer) after Himmler's visit on 12 February 1943 [6]
Deputy kommandants      
 Gustav Wagner SS-Oberscharführer Staff sergeant, deputy commandant (Quartermaster, sergeant major of the camp) [5] [6]
 Johann Niemann SS-Untersturmführer Second lieutenant, deputy commandant, killed in the revolt [5] [6] [8]
 Karl Frenzel SS-Oberscharführer Staff sergeant, commandant of Camp I (forced labor camp)  [5] [6]
 Hermann Michel SS-Oberscharführer Staff sergeant, deputy commandant, gave speeches to trick condemned prisoners into entering gas chambers [5] [6] [9]
Gas chamber executioners   
 Erich Bauer SS-Oberscharführer Staff sergeant, operated gas chambers  [5] [6]
 Kurt Bolender SS-Oberscharführer Staff sergeant, gas chambers' operator  [5] [6]
Other staff officers      
 Heinrich Barbl SS-Rottenführer Private first class, pipes for the gas chambers (from Action T4) [6][10]
 Ernst Bauch Committed suicide in December 1942 on vacation in Berlin from his Sobibor duty [6]
 Rudolf Beckmann SS-Oberscharführer Staff sergeant, killed in the revolt [6] [8]
 Gerhardt Börner SS-Untersturmführer Second lieutenant [11]
 Paul Bredow SS-Unterscharführer Corporal, managed the "Lazarett" killing station  [6]
 Max Bree Killed in the revolt [6]
 Arthur Dachsel Police sergeant, transferred from Belzec in 1942, burning of corpses (Sonnenstein) [5] [6]
 Werner Karl Dubois SS-Oberscharführer Staff sergeant  [5] [6]
 Herbert Floss SS-Scharführer Sergeant  [6]
 Erich Fuchs SS-Scharführer Sergeant  [6] [11]
 Friedrich Gaulstich SS-Scharführer Sergeant, killed in the revolt [6] [8]
Anton Getzinger SS-Oberscharführer Staff sergeant, killed in an accident with a hand grenade in September 1943, several weeks before the revolt [6]
 Hubert Gomerski SS-Unterscharführer Corporal [5] [6]
 Siegfried Graetschus SS-Oberscharführer Staff sergeant, Head of Ukrainian Guard (2/2), killed in the revolt  [5] [6]
 Ferdinand "Ferdl" Grömer Austrian cook, helped also with gassings [6]
 Paul Johannes Groth Supervised sorting of clothes in Lager II [5][12]
 Lorenz Hackenholt SS-Hauptscharführer First sergeant
 Josef Hirtreiter SS-Scharführer Sergeant, transferred from Treblinka in October 1943 for a short while [7][better source needed]
 Franz Hödl [5] [6]
 Jakob Alfred Ittner SS-Oberscharführer Staff sergeant [5] [6]
 Robert Jührs SS-Unterscharführer Corporal [5]
 Aleks Kaizer [5]
 Rudolf "Rudi" Kamm [6]
 Johann Klier SS-Untersturmführer Second lieutenant [5] [6] [8]
 Fritz Konrad SS-Scharführer Sergeant, killed in the revolt [6] [8]
 Erich Lachmann SS-Scharführer Sergeant, Head of Ukrainian Guard (1/2) [5] [6]
 Karl Emil Ludwig [5] [6]
 Willi Mentz SS-Unterscharführer Corporal, transferred from Treblinka for a short time in December 1943 [5]
 Adolf Müller [6]
 Walter Anton Nowak SS-Scharführer Sergeant, killed in the revolt  [5] [6]
 Wenzel Fritz Rehwald [5] [6]
 Karl Richter [6]
 Paul Rost SS-Untersturmführer Second lieutenant [7][better source needed]
 Walter "Ryba" (real name: Hochberg) SS-Unterscharführer Corporal, killed in the revolt [6] [8]
 Klaus Schreiber [8]
 Hans-Heinz Friedrich Karl Schütt SS-Scharführer Sergeant  [5] [6]
 Thomas Steffl SS-Scharführer Sergeant, killed in the revolt [6] [8]
 Ernst Stengelin SS-Unterscharführer Corporal, killed in the revolt [6]
 Heinrich Unverhau SS-Unterscharführer Corporal [5] [6]
 Josef Vallaster SS-Scharführer Sergeant, killed in the revolt [6] [8]
 Otto Weiss Commandant of the Bahnhof-kommando at Lager I before Frenzel [6]
 Wilhelm "Willie" Wendland [5] [6]
 Franz Wolf SS-Oberscharführer Staff sergeant, brother of Josef Wolf (below)  [5] [6]
 Josef Wolf SS-Scharführer Sergeant, killed in the revolt [6] [8]
 Ernst Zierke SS-Unterscharführer Corporal [5]
Wachmänner guards (Soviet POW's)      

Soviet prisoners of war

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References

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  1. ^ Schelvis 2007, p. 245.
  2. ^ Bem 2015, p. 122.
  3. ^ Schelvis 2007, pp. 33–36.
  4. ^ Bem 2015, p. 109.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag Sobibor − The Forgotten Revolt (Internet Archive). Webpage featuring first-person account of Holocaust survivor and prisoner age 16, Thomas Blatt.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq Jules Schelvis & Dunya Breur. "Biographies of SS-men – Sobibor Interviews". Sobiborinterviews.nl. NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The core of this website consists of thirteen interviews with survivors of the uprising on 14 October 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp, originally recorded in 1983 and 1984 forty years after the fact.
  7. ^ a b c Lest we forget (14 March 2004), "Extermination camp Sobibor". Archived from the original on 7 March 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2005.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) The Holocaust. Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Chris Webb; Carmelo Lisciotto; Victor Smart (2009). "Sobibor Death Camp". HolocaustResearchProject.org. Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team.
  9. ^ Nizkor Web Site Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 9 April 2009
  10. ^ Robin O'Neil (2009). "6". Belzec: Stepping Stone to Genocide. JewishGen.org. ISBN 978-0-9764759-3-4.
  11. ^ a b Klee, Ernst, Dressen, Willi, Riess, Volker The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders. ISBN 1-56852-133-2.
  12. ^ Involved at KZ Sobibor and KZ Belzec. Disappeared at the end of the war -fate unknown. Officially declared dead by a German court in 1951 at the request of his wife
  13. ^ "Survivors of the revolt – Sobibor Interviews". sobiborinterviews.nl.
  14. ^ "Interrogation of Mikhail Affanaseivitch Razgonayev Sobibor Death Camp Wachman - www.HolocaustResearchProject.org". holocaustresearchproject.org.
  15. ^ BBC News (12 May 2011). "John Demjanjuk guilty of Nazi death camp murders". BBC News. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
  16. ^ "Convicted Nazi criminal Demjanjuk deemed innocent in Germany over technicality". Haaretz.com. 23 March 2012.
  17. ^ Bem 2015, p. 77.
  18. ^ Bem 2015, pp. 250–253.
  19. ^ a b Bem 2015, p. 256.