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 NameRankFunction and notesCitationFranz Stangl First lieutenant, – transferred to Commandant of Treblinka extermination camp Sobibor − The Forgotten Revolt (Internet Archive). Webpage featuring first-person account of Holocaust survivor and prisoner age 16, Thomas Blatt. SS-Obersturmführer First lieutenant, – ;Lest we forget (14 March 2004), The Holocaust. Retrieved on 17 May 2013. promoted to captain (Hauptsturmführer) after Himmler's visit on 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 Nizkor Web Site Retrieved on 9 April 2009Erich Bauer SS-Oberscharführer Staff sergeant, operated gas chambers Kurt Bolender SS-Oberscharführer Staff sergeant, gas chambers' operator 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 Klee, Ernst, Dressen, Willi, Riess, Volker The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders. .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 revoltHubert Gomerski SS-Unterscharführer Corporal Siegfried Graetschus SS-Oberscharführer Staff sergeant, Head of Ukrainian Guard , killed in the revolt Ferdinand "Ferdl" Grömer Austrian cook, helped also with gassings Paul Johannes Groth Supervised sorting of clothes in Lager II 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 wifeLorenz Hackenholt SS-Hauptscharführer First sergeant Josef Hirtreiter SS-Scharführer Sergeant, transferred from Treblinka in October 1943 for a short while 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 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 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
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) 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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