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

Name	Rank	Function and notes	Citation
Kommandants
Franz Stangl	SS-Obersturmführer	First lieutenant, 28 April 1942 – 30 August 1942 transferred to Commandant of Treblinka extermination camp	[5] [6]
Franz Reichleitner	SS-Obersturmführer	First lieutenant, 1 September 1942 – 17 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

• Ivan Klatt[8][13]
• Emanuel Schultz[8]
• B. Bielakow[5][8]
• Ivan Nikiforow[5][8]
• Mikhail Affanaseivitch Razgonayev[14]
• J. Zajcew[5][8]
• Ivan Demjanjuk[15] (alleged; conviction pending appeal not upheld by German criminal court)[16]^[better source needed]
• Emil Kostenko[8]
• M. Matwiejenko[5][8]
• W. Podienko[5][8]
• Fiodor Tichonowski[5][8]
• Iwan Karakasz[17] (deserted and joined Soviet partisans)
• Kaszewacki[18] (deserted and joined Soviet partisans)
• Wiktor Kisiljew[19] (escaped along with Jewish prisoners in 1941, killed by police)
• Wasyl Zischer[19] (escaped along with Jewish prisoners in 1941, killed by police)

References

1. Schelvis 2007, p. 245.
2. Bem 2015, p. 122.
3. Schelvis 2007, pp. 33–36.
4. Bem 2015, p. 109.
5. Sobibor − The Forgotten Revolt (Internet Archive). Webpage featuring first-person account of Holocaust survivor and prisoner age 16, Thomas Blatt.
6. 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. Lest we forget (14 March 2004), "Extermination camp Sobibor". Archived from the original on 7 March 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2005. The Holocaust. Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
8. 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. 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. Bem 2015, p. 256.

• Schelvis, Jules (2007). Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp. Berg, Oxford & New Cork. pp. 147–168. ISBN 978-1-84520-419-8. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
• Bem, Marek (2015). Sobibor Extermination Camp 1942-1943 (PDF). Translated by Karpiński, Tomasz; Sarzyńska-Wójtowicz, Natalia. Stichting Sobibor. ISBN 978-83-937927-2-6.