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 |
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Kommandants
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Franz Stangl | SS-Obersturmführer | First lieutenant, 28 April 1942 – 30 August 1942 transferred to Commandant of Treblinka extermination camp | |
Franz Reichleitner | SS-Obersturmführer | First lieutenant, 1 September 1942 – 17 October 1943;[better source needed] promoted to captain (Hauptsturmführer) after Himmler's visit on 12 February 1943 | |
Deputy kommandants
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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
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Erich Bauer | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant, operated gas chambers | |
Kurt Bolender | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant, gas chambers' operator | |
Other staff officers
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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)
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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)