List of former Nazi Party members

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Founded 1919 Newspaper Völkischer Beobachter		Dissolved 1945

Leader 1919–1920 Karl Harrer 1920–1921 Anton Drexler 1921–1945 Adolf Hitler 1945 Martin Bormann Preceded by German Workers' Party (DAP) Succeeded by none; banned Ideologies continued as Neo-nazism

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 and the Vatican. 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.

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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

Alex Vömel (1897-1987) NSDAP member from 1933

References

List of former Nazi Party members Wikipedia

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