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)