List of suicides in Nazi Germany

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Himmler's corpse after his suicide by cyanide poisoning in Allied custody, 1945

This is a list of suicides in Nazi Germany. Many prominent Nazis, Nazi followers, and members of the armed forces committed suicide during the last days of World War II. Others killed themselves after being captured. Those who committed suicide includes 8 out of 41 NSDAP regional leaders who held office between 1926 and 1945, 7 out of 47 higher SS and police leaders, 53 out of 554 Army generals, 14 out of 98 Luftwaffe generals, 11 out of 53 admirals in the Kriegsmarine, and an unknown number of junior officials.^[1]

In many cases, Nazis committed suicide with their wife and children, a type of joint suicide. There are also notable cases of failed suicide attempts, such as that of Ludwig Beck.

Suicides occurred in Germany, except where noted otherwise.

	Person was a Nazi Party member
	Committed suicide in prison custody
*	Committed suicide together with his wife (joint suicide)
	Member of the 20 July plot

Person	Method	Location	Date	Age
Albrecht, Alwin-BroderAlwin-Broder Albrecht		Berlin	May 1, 1945	41 years, 225 days
Alpers, FriedrichFriedrich Alpers		Mons, Belgium	September 3, 1944	43 years, 162 days
Angern, GüntherGünther Angern		Stalingrad, Soviet Union	February 2, 1943	49 years, 334 days
Astel, KarlKarl Astel	Firearm	Jena	April 3, 1945	47 years, 36 days
Bachmayer, GeorgGeorg Bachmayer*	Firearm	Münzbach, Austria	May 8, 1945	31 years, 269 days
Barde, KonradKonrad Barde		Traunstein	May 4, 1945	47 years, 172 days
Bärenfänger, ErichErich Bärenfänger*		Berlin	May 2, 1945	30 years, 110 days
Becker, Karl Heinrich EmilKarl Heinrich Emil Becker		Berlin	April 8, 1940	60 years, 207 days
Bergmann, ErnstErnst Bergmann		Naumburg	April 16, 1945	63 years, 252 days
Bierkamp, WaltherWalther Bierkamp		Scharbeutz	May 15, 1945	43 years, 149 days
Blumenthal, Albrecht vonAlbrecht von Blumenthal*	Firearm	Marburg, Germany	March 28, 1945	55 years, 230 days
Bodenhausen, Erpo Freiherr vonErpo Freiherr von Bodenhausen		Grobin, Soviet Union	May 9, 1945	48 years, 27 days
Bodmann, Franz vonFranz von Bodmann		Austria	May 25, 1945	37 years, 63 days
Bormann, MartinMartin Bormann	Cyanide poisoning	Berlin	May 2, 1945	44 years, 319 days
Bouhler, PhilippPhilipp Bouhler	Cyanide poisoning	Altaussee, Austria	May 19, 1945	45 years, 250 days
Bracht, FritzFritz Bracht*	Cyanide poisoning	Bad Kudowa, Poland	May 9, 1945	46 years, 111 days
Budka, FranzFranz Budka	Firearm	Breslau, Poland	May 6, 1945	24 years, 261 days
Bumke, ErwinErwin Bumke		Leipzig	April 20, 1945	70 years, 287 days
Burchard, HeinrichHeinrich Burchard		Lübtheen	April 11, 1945	50 years, 188 days
Burgdorf, WilhelmWilhelm Burgdorf	Firearm	Berlin	May 2, 1945	50 years, 76 days
Chappuis, Friedrich-Wilhelm vonFriedrich-Wilhelm von Chappuis	Firearm	Magdeburg	August 27, 1942	55 years, 348 days
Collani, HansHans Collani		Narva, Soviet Union	July 29, 1944	36 years, 167 days
Conti, LeonardoLeonardo Conti	Hanging	Nuremberg	October 6, 1945	45 years, 43 days
Crinis, Max deMax de Crinis*	Cyanide poisoning	Stahnsdorf	May 2, 1945	55 years, 338 days
Dannecker, TheodorTheodor Dannecker		Bad Tölz	December 10, 1945	32 years, 258 days
Decker, KarlKarl Decker		Braunschweig	April 21, 1945	47 years, 142 days
Dettmann, JuliusJulius Dettmann		Netherlands	July 31, 1945	51 years, 189 days
Ding-Schuler, ErwinErwin Ding-Schuler		Freising	August 11, 1945	32 years, 326 days
Dollmann, FriedrichFriedrich Dollmann	Poison	France	June 28, 1944	62 years, 147 days
Drechsler, Otto-HeinrichOtto-Heinrich Drechsler		Lübeck	May 5, 1945	50 years, 34 days
Eggeling, Joachim AlbrechtJoachim Albrecht Eggeling	Firearm	Halle	April 15, 1945	60 years, 136 days
Fehlis, HeinrichHeinrich Fehlis	Firearm	Porsgrunn, Norway	May 11, 1945	38 years, 191 days
Frank, WalterWalter Frank		Braunschweig	May 9, 1945	40 years, 86 days
Freisler, OswaldOswald Freisler		Berlin	March 4, 1939	43 years, 65 days
Freitag, FritzFritz Freitag		Graz, Austria	May 10, 1945	51 years, 12 days
Freytag von Loringhoven, WesselWessel Freytag von Loringhoven		Mauerwald	July 26, 1944	44 years, 259 days
Friedeburg, Hans-Georg vonHans-Georg von Friedeburg	Cyanide poisoning	Flensburg	May 23, 1945	49 years, 312 days
Fürstner, WolfgangWolfgang Fürstner	Firearm	Berlin	August 19, 1936	40 years, 137 days
Genechten, Robert vanRobert van Genechten	Hanging	Scheveningen, Netherlands	December 13, 1945	50 years, 49 days
Gerstein, KurtKurt Gerstein		Paris, France	July 25, 1945	39 years, 348 days
Giesler, PaulPaul Giesler*		Berchtesgaden	May 8, 1945	49 years, 327 days
Gilsa, Werner vonWerner von Gilsa		Leitmeritz, Czechoslovakia	May 8, 1945	56 years, 65 days
Globocnik, OdiloOdilo Globocnik	Cyanide poisoning	Paternion, Austria	May 31, 1945	41 years, 40 days
Glücks, RichardRichard Glücks	Cyanide poisoning	Flensburg	May 10, 1945	56 years, 18 days
Goebbels, JosephJoseph Goebbels*	Firearm	Berlin	May 1, 1945	47 years, 184 days
Goebbels, MagdaMagda Goebbels*	Firearm	Berlin	May 1, 1945	43 years, 181 days
Gottberg, Curt vonCurt von Gottberg		Flensburg	May 31, 1945	49 years, 109 days
Grawitz, Ernst-RobertErnst-Robert Grawitz	Hand grenade	Potsdam	April 24, 1945	45 years, 320 days
Greim, Robert Ritter vonRobert Ritter von Greim	Cyanide poisoning	Salzburg, Austria	May 24, 1945	52 years, 336 days
Gross, WalterWalter Gross		Berlin	April 25, 1945	40 years, 186 days
Günther, RolfRolf Günther	Cyanide poisoning	Ebensee, Austria	1945	32 years
Hamann, JoachimJoachim Hamann			July 13, 1945	32 years, 56 days
Henlein, KonradKonrad Henlein	Wrist slitting	Plzeň, Czechoslovakia	May 10, 1945	47 years, 4 days
Hewel, WaltherWalther Hewel	Firearm	Berlin	May 2, 1945	41 years, 120 days
Heydrich, HeinzHeinz Heydrich	Firearm	Poland	November 19, 1944	39 years, 51 days
Himmler, HeinrichHeinrich Himmler	Cyanide poisoning	Lüneburg	May 23, 1945	44 years, 228 days
Hirt, AugustAugust Hirt	Firearm	Schluchsee	June 2, 1945	47 years, 35 days
Hitler, AdolfAdolf Hitler*	Firearm[2][3]	Berlin	April 30, 1945	56 years, 10 days
Braun, EvaEva Braun*	Cyanide poisoning	Berlin	April 30, 1945	33 years, 83 days
Jahr, ArnoArno Jahr	Firearm	Podgornoye, Soviet Union	January 21, 1943	52 years, 49 days
Jeschonnek, HansHans Jeschonnek	Firearm	Rastenburg	August 18, 1943	44 years, 131 days
Jury, HugoHugo Jury		Zwettl, Austria	May 8, 1945	57 years, 299 days
Killinger, Manfred Freiherr vonManfred Freiherr von Killinger		Bucharest, Romania	September 2, 1944	58 years, 50 days
Kinzel, EberhardEberhard Kinzel		Flensburg	May 23, 1945	47 years, 217 days
Kleinheisterkamp, MatthiasMatthias Kleinheisterkamp		Halbe	April 29, 1945	51 years, 281 days
Kluge, Günther vonGünther von Kluge		Metz, France	August 17, 1944	61 years, 292 days
Kobus, ArthurArthur Kobus		Berlin	April 1945	66 years
Krebs, HansHans Krebs	Firearm	Berlin	May 2, 1945	47 years, 59 days
Krüger, Friedrich-WilhelmFriedrich-Wilhelm Krüger	Firearm	Eggelsberg, Austria	May 10, 1945	51 years, 2 days
Krüger, WalterWalter Krüger		Lithuania	May 22, 1945	55 years, 84 days
Langsdorff, HansHans Langsdorff	Firearm	Buenos Aires, Argentina	December 20, 1939	45 years, 275 days
Ley, RobertRobert Ley	Hanging	Nuremberg	October 25, 1945	55 years, 252 days
Meyer, AlfredAlfred Meyer		Hessisch Oldendorf	April 11, 1945	53 years, 188 days
Meyer, Emil HeinrichEmil Heinrich Meyer		Berlin	May 9, 1945	59 years, 3 days
Model, WalterWalter Model	Firearm	Duisburg	April 21, 1945	54 years, 87 days
Müller, LudwigLudwig Müller		Berlin	July 31, 1945	62 years, 38 days
Murr, WilhelmWilhelm Murr	Cyanide poisoning	Vorarlberg, Austria	May 14, 1945	56 years, 149 days
Oertzen, Hans-Ulrich vonHans-Ulrich von Oertzen	Hand grenade	Berlin	July 21, 1944	29 years, 137 days
Petersen, HeinrichHeinrich Petersen		Czechoslovakia	May 9, 1945	41 years, 39 days
Prützmann, Hans-AdolfHans-Adolf Prützmann		Lüneburg	May 21, 1945	43 years, 263 days
Pückler-Burghauss, Carl Friedrich vonCarl Friedrich von Pückler-Burghauss		Čimelice, Czechoslovakia	May 13, 1945	58 years, 218 days
Querner, RudolfRudolf Querner		Magdeburg	May 27, 1945	51 years, 351 days
Rahn, OttoOtto Rahn	Freezing	Tyrol, Austria	March 13, 1939	35 years, 23 days
Rediess, WilhelmWilhelm Rediess	Firearm	Oslo, Norway	May 8, 1945	44 years, 210 days
Reitzenstein, Hans Albin Freiherr vonHans Albin Freiherr von Reitzenstein		Soviet Union	November 30, 1943	32 years, 271 days
Rödl, ArthurArthur Rödl	Hand grenade	Stettin	April 1945	46 years
Rommel, ErwinErwin Rommel	Cyanide poisoning	Herrlingen	October 14, 1944	52 years, 334 days
Tonningen, Meinoud Rost vanMeinoud Rost van Tonningen	Jumping from a height	Scheveningen, Netherlands	June 6, 1945	51 years, 107 days
Rumohr, JoachimJoachim Rumohr		Budapest, Hungary	February 11, 1945	34 years, 179 days
Rust, BernhardBernhard Rust		Nübel	May 8, 1945	61 years, 220 days
Schädle, FranzFranz Schädle	Firearm	Berlin	May 1, 1945	38 years, 163 days
Schleif, HansHans Schleif*		Berlin	April 27, 1945	43 years, 63 days
Schmidt, FritzFritz Schmidt		Chartres, France	June 20, 1943	39 years, 213 days
Schmidt, GustavGustav Schmidt		Belgorod, Soviet Union	August 7, 1943	50 years, 105 days
Scholze, GeorgGeorg Scholze	Firearm	Berlin	April 23, 1945	47 years, 245 days
Schrader, Otto vonOtto von Schrader		Bergen, Norway	July 19, 1945	57 years, 123 days
Schrader, WernerWerner Schrader	Firearm	Zossen	July 28, 1944	49 years, 143 days
Seetzen, HeinrichHeinrich Seetzen	Cyanide poisoning	Blankenese	September 28, 1945	39 years, 98 days
Simon, GustavGustav Simon	Hanging	Paderborn	December 18, 1945	45 years, 138 days
Sprenger, JakobJakob Sprenger*		Kössen, Austria	May 7, 1945	60 years, 287 days
Steubl, KarlKarl Steubl		Linz, Austria	September 21, 1945	34 years, 331 days
Stumpfegger, LudwigLudwig Stumpfegger	Cyanide poisoning	Berlin	May 2, 1945	34 years, 295 days
Telschow, OttoOtto Telschow	Wrist slitting	Lüneburg	May 31, 1945	69 years, 93 days
Terboven, JosefJosef Terboven	Dynamite	Asker, Norway	May 8, 1945	46 years, 350 days
Thilo, HeinzHeinz Thilo		Hohenelbe, Czechoslovakia	May 13, 1945	33 years, 217 days
Tresckow, Henning vonHenning von Tresckow	Hand grenade	Królowy Most, Poland	July 21, 1944	43 years, 193 days
Udet, ErnstErnst Udet	Firearm	Berlin	November 17, 1941	45 years, 205 days
Wagner, EduardEduard Wagner	Firearm	Zossen	July 23, 1944	50 years, 113 days
Weiner, ErnstErnst Weiner	Firearm	Norway	December 17, 1945	31–32 years
Weinheber, JosefJosef Weinheber	Morphine overdose	Kirchstetten, Austria	April 8, 1945	53 years, 30 days
Weiseborn, JakobJakob Weiseborn	Poison	Flossenbürg	January 20, 1939	46 years, 304 days
Wirths, EduardEduard Wirths	Hanging	Germany	September 20, 1945	36 years, 16 days
Zschech, PeterPeter Zschech	Firearm	Azores, Atlantic Ocean	October 24, 1943

References

1. Christian Goeschel (2009). Suicide in Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press. p. 153. ISBN 0-19-953256-7.
2. Kershaw (2008) Hitler: A Biography, p. 955.
3. Joachimsthaler (1999) [1995] The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth, pp. 160–182.