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 and roughly 400 watchmen of Soviet origin. Over the 18 months that the camp was in service, 100 SS officers served there.

SS personnel

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

Soviet prisoners of war

  • Ivan Klatt
  • Emanuel Schultz
  • B. Bielakow
  • Ivan Nikiforow
  • Mikhail Affanaseivitch Razgonayev
  • J. Zajcew
  • Ivan Demjanjuk (alleged; conviction pending appeal not upheld by German criminal court)[better source needed]
  • Emil Kostenko
  • M. Matwiejenko
  • W. Podienko
  • Fiodor Tichonowski
  • Iwan Karakasz (deserted and joined Soviet partisans)
  • Kaszewacki (deserted and joined Soviet partisans)
  • Wiktor Kisiljew (escaped along with Jewish prisoners in 1941, killed by police)
  • Wasyl Zischer (escaped along with Jewish prisoners in 1941, killed by police)

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