# 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 and roughly 400 watchmen of Soviet origin. Over the 18 months that the camp was in service, 100 SS officers served there.

## 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; promoted to captain (Hauptsturmführer) after Himmler's visit on 12 February 1943 | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | [6] [8] |
| Gerhardt Börner | SS-Untersturmführer | Second lieutenant | |
| 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) | [5] [6] |
| Werner Karl Dubois | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant | [5] [6] |
| Herbert Floss | SS-Scharführer | Sergeant | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Paul Johannes Groth | | Supervised sorting of clothes in Lager II | |
| Lorenz Hackenholt | SS-Hauptscharführer | First sergeant | |
| Josef Hirtreiter | SS-Scharführer | Sergeant, transferred from Treblinka in October 1943 for a short while | |
| Franz Hödl | | | [5] [6] |
| Jakob Alfred Ittner | SS-Oberscharführer | Staff sergeant | [5] [6] |
| Robert Jührs | SS-Unterscharführer | Corporal | |
| Aleks Kaizer | | | |
| Rudolf "Rudi" Kamm | | | |
| 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 | |
| Adolf Müller | | | |
| Walter Anton Nowak | SS-Scharführer | Sergeant, killed in the revolt | [5] [6] |
| Wenzel Fritz Rehwald | | | [5] [6] |
| Karl Richter | | | |
| Paul Rost | SS-Untersturmführer | Second lieutenant | |
| Walter "Ryba" (real name: Hochberg) | SS-Unterscharführer | Corporal, killed in the revolt | [6] [8] |
| Klaus Schreiber | | | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Wachmänner guards (Soviet POW's) ||||

## 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)