List of former Nazi Party members

National Socialist German Workers' Party
Leader	1919–1920 Karl Harrer 1920–1921 Anton Drexler 1921–1945 Adolf Hitler 1945 Martin Bormann
Founded	1919
Dissolved	1945
Preceded by	German Workers' Party (DAP)
Succeeded by	none; banned Ideologies continued as Neo-nazism
Newspaper	Völkischer Beobachter
Youth wing	Hitler Youth
Membership	1920  fewer than 60 1945  8.5 million
Ideology	National Socialism Fascism Anti-communism Anti-capitalism
Political position	Far right
Colors	Black, white, red, brown
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The list of notable people who were at some point members of the Nazi Party, before it was declared illegal and disbanded upon the victory of the Allies. After 1945 many former party members had to go through a process of denazification and some were indicted and convicted at the Nuremberg Trials, or other trials, notably for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Many others evaded capture or managed to escape, in particular with the help of the ODESSA organization. In the mid-1950s, most people convicted during these trials were given amnesty and subsequently released.

Some former party members managed to obtain very important positions in West Germany after the war (e.g. Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of West Germany from 1966 to 1969), others were recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency after the war as part of the Gehlen Organization, predecessor of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). In East Germany, the Stasi, the GDR's intelligence service, was alleged to have employed several chief informers and agents who were former SS and Gestapo operatives.^[1]

List

Name	Year Joined	Resigned/ expelled (when)	Membership no.	Local Division	Year of Birth	Year of Death	Convicted (when)[note 1]	Party related information
Batz, Rudolf	1934	No	2955905	?	1903	1961	No	SS member from 1932
Feder, Gottfried	N/A (Founder)	No	?	?	1883	1941	No	Founding member
Hitler, Adolf	1920	No	555 (55 in actuality)[2]	Munich	1889	1945	No	Party leader
Dietl, Eduard	1919 (DAP)	No[note 2]	?	Munich	1890	1944	No
Bormann, Martin	1925	No	60,598	Thuringia	1900	1945	Yes (1945)	Chief of the Parteikanzlei since 1941
Dönitz, Karl	1944 (honorary)[3]	N/A	?	?	1891	1980	Yes (1946)	President of the German Reich
Frank, Hans	1919 (DAP)	No	?	?	1900	1946	Yes (1946)	Served as the party's lawyer
Fritzsche, Hans	1933	No	?	?	1900	1953	No	Ministerialdirektor Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda
Frick, Wilhelm	1925	No	?	?	1877	1946	Yes (1946)	Minister of the Interior
Funk, Walther	1931	No	?	?	1890	1960	Yes (1946)	Minister of Economics
Göring, Hermann	1922	No	?	?	1893	1946	Yes (1946)	Minister of Aviation; Minister of Forestry
Hess, Rudolf	1920	No	?	Munich	1894	1987	Yes (1946)	Deputy party leader
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst	1930	No	?	Austria	1903	1946	Yes (1946)	Director of the Reich Main Security Office; SS general
Keitel, Wilhelm	1944 (honorary)	No	?	N/A	1882	1946	Yes (1946)	Supreme commander of armed forces
Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Gustav	1940 (honorary)	N/A	?	?	1870	1950	No	Party financier
Ley, Robert	1924	No	?	Rheinland-Süd	1890	1945	No	Head of German Labour Front
Neurath, Konstantin von	1937	No	?	?	1873	1956	Yes (1946)	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Papen, Franz von	1938 (honorary)	N/A	?	?	1879	1969	No	Vice-Chancellor of Germany
Ribbentrop, Joachim von	1938 (honorary)	No	1,199,927	?	1893	1946	Yes (1946)	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Rosenberg, Alfred	1919 (DAP)	No	?	?	1893	1946	Yes (1946)	Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories
Sauckel, Fritz	1923	No	1,395	Schweinfurt	1894	1946	Yes (1946)	Gauleiter of Thuringia; Reichsstatthalter of Thuringia
Schacht, Hjalmar	1938 (honorary)	N/A	3,805,230	N/A	1877	1970	No	Minister of Economics
Schirach, Baldur von	1925	No	?	?	1907	1974	Yes (1946)	Reichsjugendführer; Gauleiter of Vienna
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur	1938	No	?	?	1892	1946	Yes (1946)	Foreign Minister of Germany; Reichskommissar of the Netherlands
Speer, Albert	1931	No	474,481	?	1905	1981	Yes (1946)	Minister of Armaments and War Production
Streicher, Julius	1919	No	?	Nuremberg	1885	1946	Yes (1946)	Gauleiter of Franconia
Blome, Kurt	1922	No	?	?	1894	1969	No	Deputy Leader of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Ärztebund
Fischer, Fritz	1937	No	?	?	1912	2003	Yes (1947)	SS member; Waffen SS officer
Beiglböck, Wilhelm	1932	No	?	?	1905	1963	Yes (1947)	SA member; SS officer
Genzken, Karl	1926	No	39,913	?	1885	1957	Yes (1947)	Waffen SS general
Oberheuser, Herta	1937	No	?	?	1911	1987	Yes (1947)
Poppendick, Helmut	1932	No	998,607	?	1902	1994	No	Senior SS officer; Head of Office for genealogy at RuSHA
Rose, Gerhard	1930	No[note 3]	346,161	?	1896	1992	Yes (1947)
Rostock, Paul	1937	No	5,917,621	?	1892	1956	No	Commissioner for Health and Sanitation
Brack, Viktor	1929	No	173,388	?	1904	1948	Yes (1947)	Senior SS officer; Senior Waffen SS officer; Chief Administrative Officer in the Chancellery of the Führer
Brandt, Karl	1928	No	1,009,617	?	1904	1948	Yes (1947)	SA officer; SS general; Waffen SS general; Commissioner for Health and Sanitation
Brandt, Rudolf	1932	No	1,331,536	?	1909	1948	Yes (1947)	Senior SS officer; Ministerial Counsellor Ministry of Interior; Chief of Ministerial Office Ministry of Interior
Gebhardt, Karl	1933	No	?	?	1897	1948	Yes (1947)	SS general; Waffen SS general
Hoven, Waldemar	1937	No	?	?	1903	1948	Yes (1947)	SS officer; Waffen SS officer;
Mrugowsky, Joachim	1937	No	210,049	?	1905	1948	Yes (1947)	SA member; Senior SS officer; Senior Waffen SS officer;
Sievers, Wolfram	1937	No	?	?	1905	1948	Yes (1947)	Senior SS officer
Milch, Erhard	1937 (honorary)	N/A	?	?	1892	1972	Yes (1947)	Secretary of State Ministry of Aviation
Altstötter, Josef	1937[4]	No[note 4]	5,823,836	?	1892	1979	No	SA member; Senior SS officer; Chief of civil law and procedure division at Ministry of Justice; Golden Party Badge
Schlegelberger, Franz	1938 (honorary)	N/A	?	?	1876	1970	Yes (1947)	Minister of Justice
Pohl, Oswald	1922/26	No	30,842	?	1892	1951	Yes (1947)	Leader of local division Swinemünde; head of WVHA; SA member; Waffen SS general
Frank, August	1932	No	1,471,185	?	1898	1984	Yes (1947)	Deputy head of WVHA; SS general ; Waffen SS general
Lörner, Georg	1931	No	676,772	?	1899	1959	Yes (1947)	Deputy head of WVHA; SS general ; Waffen SS general
Six, Franz	?	?	?	?	1909	1965	?	Waffen SS general; SD member
Flick, Friedrich	?	?	?	?	1883	1972	?
Wilhelm, Adam	1923	Yes (1929)	?	?	1899	1959	?
Rauschning, Hermann	1933	Yes (1934)	?	?	1887	1982	?
Strasser, Otto	1925	Yes (1930)	?	?	1897	1974	?
Ewald, Manfred	?	?	?	?	1926	2002	?
Wagner, Gustav	?	?	?	?	1911	1980	?
Steinbrinck, Otto	?	?	?	?	1888	1949	No	SS general
Rendulic, Lothar	1944 (honorary)	N/A	?	?	1887	1971	Yes (1948)
Werner, Lorenz	1929	?	?	?	1891	1974	Yes (1948)	SS general; Golden Nazi Party Badge
Hofmann, Otto	1923	?	145 729	?	1896	1982	Yes (1948)	SS general
Weizsäcker, Ernst von	1938	?	?	?	1882	1951	?	SS general; Secretary of State at the Foreign Office; Ambassador to the Holy See
Abb, Gustav[5]	?	?	?	?	1886	1945	?	?
Abel, Wolfgang[6]	?	?	?	?	1905	1997	?	?
Abetz, Otto[7]	?	?	?	?	1903	1958	?	?
Abicht, Albert[8]	?	?	?	?	1893	1973	?	?
Abromeit, Franz[9]	?	?	?	?	1907	1964	?	?
Abt, Karl Ferdinand[10]	?	?	?	?	1903	1945	?	?
Achamer-Pifrader, Humbert[11]	?	?	?	?	1900	1945	?	?
Achenbach, E	?	?	?	?	1909	1991	?	?
Achterberg, Eberhard[12]	?	?	?	?	1910	1983	?	?
Ackermann, Eberhard[13]	?	?	?	?	1905	1997	?	?
Adam, Karl[14]	?	?	?	?	1876	1966	?	?
Adam, Wilhelm[15]	?	?	?	?	1893	1978	?	?
Ahl, Ernst[16]	?	?	?	?	1898	1945	?	?
Albach-Retty, Wolf[17]	?	?	?	?	1906	1967	?	?
Albrecht, Herbert[18]	?	?	?	?	1900	1945	?	?
Alquen, Gunter d'[19]	1927	No	?	?	1910	1998	?	SA member; senior SS officer; Party Youth Leader
Altenburg, Günther[20]	?	?	?	?	1894	1984	?	?
Altfuldisch, Johann	?	?	?	?	1911	1947	?	?
Altner, Georg[21]	?	?	?	?	1901	1945	?	?
Alvensleben, Ludolf-Hermann von[22]	?	?	?	?	1901	1970	?	?
Aly, Wolfgang[23]	?	?	?	?	1881	1962	?	Philogist
Amann, Max[24]	1921	No	3	?	1891	1957	?	SS general
Ambros, Otto[25]	?	?	?	?	1901	1990	?	German chemist
Appler, Johann[26]	?	?	?	?	1892	1978	?	Reichstag
Arent, Benno von[27]	1932	No	?	?	1898	1956	?	SS officer; Waffen SS general;
Astel, Karl[28]	?	?	?	?	1898	1945	?	?
Auerswald, Heinz[29]	?	?	?	?	1908	1970	?	?
Augsberger, Franz[30]	?	?	?	?	1905	1945	?	?
Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia[31]	?	?	?	?	1887	1949	?	?
Aumeier, Hans[32]	?	?	?	?	1906	1948	?	?
Aust, Hans Walter[33]	?	?	?	?	1900	1983	?	?
Axmann, Artur[34]	1931	No	?	?	1913	1996	?	Reichsjugendführer; Reichsleiter; member of Reichstag; leader of Reichsberufswettkampf
von Braun, Wernher	May 1, 1937	No	5,738,692[2]	?	1912	1977	No	Developed weapons for Hitler's war machine

• Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903–1960). Leader of the Foreign Organisation of the NSDAP. Sentenced to 5 years imprisonment at the Ministries Trial
• Otto Dietrich (1897–1952). Press Chief of the Third Reich. 7 years imprisonment, released in 1951.
• Hans Lammers (1879–1962). Head of the Reich Chancellery. Sentenced to 20 years during the Ministries Trial
• Wilhelm Stuckart (1902–1953). Secretary of State in the Interior Minister. Sentenced at the Ministries Trial
• Richard Walther Darré (1895–1953). Minister for Food and Agriculture (1933–42). Sentenced to 7 years during the Ministries Trial
• Otto Meissner (1880–1953). Head of the Presidential Chancellery. Acquitted during the Ministries' Trial.
• Gottlob Berger (1896–1975). Chief of Staff of the SS. Sentenced to 25 years during the Ministries' Trial
• Walter Schellenberg (1910–1952). Head of Foreign Intelligence. Sentenced to 7 years during the Ministries' Trial
• Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (1887–1977). Finance Minister. Sentenced to 10 years at the Ministries' Trial
• Paul Pleiger (1889–1985). Head of the Hermann-Göring-Werke (confiscated steel plants employing slave laborers). Sentenced to 15 years at the Ministries' Trial.
• Martin Sandberger (1911–2010) SS Standartenführer and commander of Sonderkommando 1a of the Einsatzgruppe. Death sentence commuted in 1951
• Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966), joined the NSDAP in 1933.
• Heinrich Harrer (1912–2006), member of the SS
• Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007)
• Richard Baer (1911–1963). Sturmbannführer, commander of the Auschwitz I concentration camp
• Alfred Baeumler (1887–1968)
• Werner Best (1903–1989)
• Carl Diem (1882–1962). Held top posts in the Nazi Sports Office, Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (NSRL)
• Petar Brzica
• Erhard Eppler (born 1926)
• Eugen Fischer (1874–1967), appointed by Hitler rector of the University of Berlin, and one of the leading theorists of scientific racism
• Fritz Fischer (1908–1999)
• Karl Frenzel (1911–1996), Nazi concentration camp commandant at Sobibor
• Hans Sommer (born 1914), SS Untersturmführer
• Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)
• Herbert von Karajan (1908–1989), joined the Nazi Party in 1933 in Salzburg, Austria
• Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904–1988)
• Helmut Knochen (1910–2003), SS Standartenführer
• Horst Kopkow (1910–1996), SS Major protected
• Walter Kopp
• Heinz Lammerding (1905–1971), commander of the 2nd SS Division Das Reich
• Fritz Lenz (1887–1976)
• Siegfried Lenz (1926-2014)
• Otfrid Mittmann (born 1908, joined 1929)
• Carl Oberg (1897-1965), SS and Police Leader headed all German police units in France since 1942 to 1944.
• Theodor Oberländer, (1905–1998) NSDAP member, SA-Obersturmbannführer
• Heinz Reinefarth (1903–1979), an SS Brigadeführer
• Karl Ritter von Halt (1891-1964), The last supreme leader (Reichssportführer) of the Nazi Sports Office, Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (NSRL)
• Franz Schönhuber (1923–2005), Waffen-SS
• Carl Schmitt (1888–1985)
• Hanns-Martin Schleyer (1915–1977), SS
• Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006), NSDAP member
• Fritz Thyssen (1873–1951), NSDAP member since 1931
• Erich von dem Bach (1899–1972). Obergruppenführer
• Guido von Mengden (1896–1982). Held a key post as propaganda leader in the Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (NSRL)
• Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer (1896–1969)
• Herta Bothe (1921-2000)
• Luise Danz (born 1917), convicted as part of 1946 Auschwitz trial in Poland
• Eduard Lorenz (born 1921)
• Hermann Michel (1912-1984?)
• Erich Priebke (1913-2013), Hauptsturmführer of the SS
• Ludolf von Alvensleben (1901–1970). SS-Gruppenführer and Major General of the Police (1943)
• Josef Mengele (1911–1979). SS officer
• Walter Rauff (1906–1984). SS-Standartenführer and member of the RSHA
• Eduard Roschmann (1908–1977). SS Hauptsturmführer
• Walter Schreiber (1893–1970), joined 1933
• Aribert Heim (1912-1992)
• Franz Stangl (1908–1971).
• Wernher von Braun (1912–1977), SS Major; NSDAP membership
• Konrad Dannenberg (1912–2009), NSDAP member
• Arthur Rudolph (1906–1996), NSDAP member
• Klaus Barbie (1913–1991), the "Butcher of Lyon", Hauptsturmführer and Gestapo official.
• Alois Brunner (1912-c.2010)
• Otto Skorzeny (1908–1975). Obersturmbannführer
• Helmut Bischoff (1908-1993), Obersturmbannführer Gestapo official.
• Heinrich Berutz (1910-1985)
• Josef Bauer (1881-1958)
• Alfred Krupp (1907-1967) Industralist

See also

• List of Axis war criminals
• List of SS personnel
• List of Nazi Party leaders and officials
• List of denaturalized former citizens of the United States

Notes

1. Convicted by a court of law or international tribunal for crimes against humanity, war crimes or atrocities.
2. Eduard Dietl's party membership became legally dormant in 1920, when he became a member of the armed forces.
3. Gerhard Rose's party membership became legally dormant in 1939, when he became a member of the armed forces.
4. Josef's party membership became legally dormant between 1939 and 1942, when he was a member of the armed forces.

References

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34. Wistrich, p.5