•
Fritz Sauckel –
Gauleiter of
Gau Thuringia,
Reichsstatthalter of
Thuringia, General
Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (1942–45) and an
Obergruppenführer in both the SA and the SS. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal. •
Karl-Otto Saur – Head of the Technical Department in the
Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production, he was chief of staff to both the
Fighter Staff and the
Armaments Staff from 1944. He was named
Reichsminister of Munitions in Hitler’s will in place of
Albert Speer. •
Gerhard Schach – Deputy
Gauleiter of
Gau Berlin, 1944–1945. NSKK-
Brigadeführer. •
Hjalmar Schacht – An economist, banker and politician, who served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the
Reichsbank under the
Weimar Republic. A fierce critic of post-World War I reparation obligations, he became a supporter of Hitler and served as President of the
Reichsbank and Reich Minister of Economics. He played a key role in restoring the German economy but since he opposed the policy of German re-armament, Schacht was first sidelined and then forced out beginning in December 1937. Schacht became a fringe member of the German Resistance and was imprisoned after the
20 July plot in 1944. He was tried at Nuremberg and acquitted. •
Paul Schäfer – Hitler Youth member and Wehrmacht corporal, subsequently convicted for multiple charges of child sex abuse in Chile. •
Gustav Adolf Scheel –
Reichsstatthalter and
Gauleiter of
Reichsgau Salzburg (1941–1945) and a Nazi "multifunctionary." As the
Reichsstudentenführer, he headed the
National Socialist German Students' League and the
German Student Union. He was also a Higher
SS and Police Leader and an SS-
Obergruppenführer. •
Walther Schellenberg – SS-
Brigadeführer who rose through the SS as Heydrich's deputy. In March 1942, he became Chief of Department VI,
SD-foreign branch, which, by then, was a department of the RSHA. Later, following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944, he became head of all foreign intelligence. •
Hans Schemm – A
Gauleiter in Bavaria from 1928 and Head of the
National Socialist Teachers League. Died in a plane crash in 1935. •
Wilhelm Schepmann – SA-
Obergruppenführer, and SA-
Stabschef from 1943 to 1945. •
Max Scheubner-Richter – most senior Nazi killed during the Beer Hall Putsch, ideologue and mentor to Alfred Rosenberg. •
Arno Schickedanz – Leading figure in both the
NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs and
Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories. •
Baldur von Schirach –
Reichsleiter for Youth Education, leader of the
Hitler Youth (1931–40) and
Gauleiter &
Reichsstatthalter of Vienna (1940–45). He was an SA-
Obergruppenführer. •
Franz Schlegelberger – Jurist and State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice (1931–1941) he became Acting Reich Minister of Justice (1941–1942). •
Fritz Schlessmann – Police President, Deputy
Gauleiter and Acting
Gauleiter of
Gau Essen. He was also an SS-
Obergruppenführer. • Albert Schmierer – Head of the Reich pharmacists
Reichsapothekerführer (1933–1945). •
Carl Schmitt – Philosopher, jurist, and political theorist. •
Kurt Schmitt – Economic leader and Reich Economomics Minister (1933–1934). •
Paul Schmitthenner – Architect and city planner. •
Gertrud Scholtz-Klink – Leader of the
National Socialist Women's League (1934–1945). •
Wilhelm Freiherr von Schorlemer – SA-
Obergruppenführer. Member of the constituency of the National Socialist
Reichstag. Leader of SA Group "Danube". (1938–1945). •
Ferdinand Schörner – A
Generalfeldmarschall, he was a committed Nazi loyalist known for brutality and harsh discipline. A holder of the
Golden Party Badge, he was appointed the last Commander-in-Chief of the German Army in Hitler’s will. •
Julius Schreck – Co-founder of the SA and
Stoßtrupp-Hitler. The first commander of the SS from April 1925 to April 1926. Later Hitler's personal chauffeur. •
Walter Schultze –
Reichsdozentenführer (Reich Lecturer Leader) of the
National Socialist German Lecturers League 1935–1944. An SS-
Gruppenführer and physician involved in
Aktion T4. •
Franz Xaver Schwarz –
Reichsleiter, National Treasurer of the NSDAP 1925–1945 and head of the
Reichszeugmeisterei or National Material Control Office. Promoted to SS-
Oberstgruppenführer in 1944. •
Heinrich Schwarz – Commandant of Auschwitz III-Monowitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945. •
Franz Schwede – The first Nazi elected as
Bürgermeister of a German City (
Coburg) he was later
Gauleiter of
Gau Pomerania,
Oberpräsident of the Prussian
Province of Pomerania and an SA-
Obergruppenführer. •
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk – Reich Minister of Finance (1932–1945) and "Leading Minister" of the last cabinet of the Third Reich under
Reich President Großadmiral Karl Dönitz. •
Siegfried Seidl – Commandant of the Theresienstadt (1941–1943) and Bergen-Belsen (1943–1944) concentration camps. •
Franz Seldte – Leader of
Der Stahlhelm under the
Weimar Republic, he was Reich Minister for Labour from 1933 to 1945. •
Arthur Seyss-Inquart – Austrian Nazi; upon being appointed Chancellor in 1938 he invited in German troops resulting in Austria's annexation. Later Deputy to
Hans Frank in the
General Government of occupied
Poland (1939–40), and
Reichskommissar of the
Netherlands (1940–44). He was also an SS-
Obergruppenführer. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal. •
Ludwig Siebert – Minister President and Minister of Finance in Bavaria until his death in 1942, he was also an SA-
Obergruppenführer. •
Gustav Simon –
Gauleiter of
Gau Moselland from 1931 and Chief of Civil Administration in
Luxembourg from 1940 to 1944. He was an NSKK-
Obergruppenführer. •
Franz Six – Chief of Amt VII, Written Records of the
Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) which dealt with ideological tasks. These included the creation of anti-semitic, anti-masonic propaganda, the sounding of public opinion and monitoring of Nazi indoctrination by the public. •
Otto Skorzeny – An SS-
Obersturmbannführer, he headed many commando operations including the rescue from captivity of Italian dictator
Benito Mussolini. •
Albert Speer – Architect for Nazis' offices and residences, Party rallies and State buildings (1932–42). In 1942 he succeeded
Fritz Todt as
Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production, Head of the
Organisation Todt, Inspector General for German Roadways and Inspector General for Water and Energy. •
Jakob Sprenger – The
Gauleiter of
Gau Hesse-Nassau as well as
Reichsstatthalter and Minister President of
Hesse and
Oberpräsident of the Prussian
Province of Nassau from 1944, he was also an SA-
Obergruppenführer. •
Franz Stangl – Commandant of the Sobibor (1942) and Treblinka (1942–1943) extermination camps. •
Johannes Stark – German physicist and Physics Nobel Prize laureate who was closely involved with the
Deutsche Physik movement under the Nazi regime. •
Otto Steinbrinck – Industrialist and bureaucrat. •
Felix Steiner – SS-
Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS. He was chosen by Himmler to oversee the creation of, and command the volunteer Waffen-SS Division,
5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. •
Walter Stennes – the Berlin commandant of the
Sturmabteilung (SA), who in the summer of 1930 and again in the spring of 1931 led a revolt against the NSDAP in Berlin as these SA members saw their organization as a revolutionary group, the vanguard of a socialist order that would overthrow the hated Republic. Both revolts were put down and Stennes was expelled from the Nazi Party. He left Germany in 1933 and worked as a military adviser to Chiang Kai-shek. •
Willi Stöhr – From late 1944, he was
Gauleiter and
Reichsstatthalter of
Gau Westmark. In addition, he was the
Chief of Civil Administration in occupied
Lorraine. •
Gregor Strasser – early prominent German
Nazi official and politician. Murdered during the
Night of the Long Knives in 1934. •
Otto Strasser – early prominent German
Nazi official and politician. Otto Strasser, together with his brother
Gregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party's
left-wing faction, and broke from the party due to disputes with the dominant "
Hitlerite" faction. •
Julius Streicher – founder and publisher of anti-semitic Nazi newspaper
Der Stürmer (1923–1945),
Gauleiter of Franconia (1929–40). Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal. •
Karl Strölin – Lord Mayor of Stuttgart (1933–1945) and Chairman of the
Deutsches Ausland-Institut (DAI). •
Jürgen Stroop – SS-
Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei. Stroop's most prominent role was the suppression of the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an action which cost the lives of over 50,000 people. •
Wilhelm Stuckart – Jurist, State Secretary in the Interior Ministry and attendee at the
Wannsee Conference. He was also an SS-
Obergruppenführer. •
Otto von Stülpnagel –
General and Military Commander of occupied France from 1940 to 1942. •
Emil Stürtz – He was
Gauleiter of
Gau March of Brandenburg and
Oberpräsident of the Prussian
Province of Brandenburg (1936–1945). He was also
Oberpräsident of
Posen-West Prussia from 1936 to its dissolution in 1938, and was an
Obergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corps. •
Friedrich Syrup – Jurist and politician, who served as
Reich Minister for Labour from 1932 to 1933. ==T==