ആജ്ഞയുടെ ശൃംഖല Name Rank Function and Notes Citation Organisers of the camp (Germans and one former Austrian) Odilo Globocnik SS- Brigadeführer Major-General and SS Police Chief ( SS- Polizeiführer ) at the time, Head of Operation Reinhard Hermann Höfle SS- Hauptsturmführer Captain, Coordinator of Operation Reinhard Richard Thomalla SS- Obersturmführer First Lieutenant, Head of death camp construction during Operation Reinhard Erwin Lambert SS- Unterscharführer Corporal, Head of gas chamber construction during Operation Reinhard Karl Steubl SS- Sturmbannführer Major, Commander of transportation units during Operation Reinhard Christian Wirth SS- Hauptsturmführer Captain at the time, Inspector of Operation Reinhard Commandants (Germans and Austrians) Franz Stangl SS- Obersturmführer First Lieutenant, Error in Template:Date table sorting : 'April' is not a valid month – Error in Template:Date table sorting : 'August' is not a valid month transferred to Commandant of Treblinka extermination camp Franz Reichleitner SS- Obersturmführer First Lieutenant, Error in Template:Date table sorting : 'September' is not a valid month – Error in Template:Date table sorting : 'October' is not a valid month ; promoted to Captain ( Hauptsturmführer ) after Himmler 's visit on Error in Template:Date table sorting : 'February' is not a valid month Deputy commandants (Germans and Austrians) Gustav Wagner SS- Oberscharführer Staff Sergeant, Deputy commandant (Quartermaster, sergeant major of the camp) ; Johann Niemann SS- Untersturmführer Second Lieutenant, Deputy commandant, killed in the revolt Karl Frenzel SS- Oberscharführer Staff Sergeant, Commandant of Camp I (forced labor camp) Hermann Michel SS- Oberscharführer Staff Sergeant, Deputy commandant, gave speeches to trick condemned prisoners into entering gas chambers Gas chamber executioners (Germans ) Erich Bauer SS- Oberscharführer Staff Sergeant, operated gas chambers ; Kurt Bolender SS- Oberscharführer Staff Sergeant, gas chambers' operator Other staff officers (Germans and Austrians) Ernst Bauch committed suicide in December 1942 on vacation in Berlin from his Sobibor duty Rudolf Beckmann SS- Oberscharführer Staff Sergeant, killed in revolt 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 ) Werner Karl Dubois SS- Oberscharführer Staff Sergeant Herbert Floss SS- Scharführer Sergeant Erich Fuchs SS- Scharführer Sergeant Friedrich Gaulstich SS- Scharführer Sergeant, killed in the revolt Anton Getzinger Hubert Gomerski SS- Unterscharführer Corporal Siegfried Graetschus SS- Oberscharführer Staff Sergeant, Head of Ukrainian Guard (2/2) , killed in the revolt ; 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 Jakob Alfred Ittner SS- Oberscharführer Staff Sergeant Robert Jührs SS- Unterscharführer Corporal Aleks Kaizer Rudolf "Rudi" Kamm Johann Klier SS- Untersturmführer Second Lieutenant Fritz Konrad SS- Scharführer Sergeant, killed in the revolt Erich Lachmann SS- Scharführer Sergeant, Head of Ukrainian Guard (1/2) Karl Emil Ludwig 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 Wenzel Fritz Rehwald Karl Richter Paul Rost SS- Untersturmführer Second Lieutenant Walter "Ryba" (real name: Hochberg) SS- Unterscharführer Corporal, killed in the revolt Klaus Schreiber Hans-Heinz Friedrich Karl Schütt SS- Scharführer Sergeant Thomas Steffl SS- Scharführer Sergeant, killed in the revolt Ernst Stengelin killed in revolt Heinrich Unverhau SS- Unterscharführer Corporal Josef Vallaster SS- Scharführer Sergeant, killed in the revolt Otto Weiss commandant of the Bahnhof-kommando at Lager I before Frenzel Wilhelm "Willie" Wendland Franz Wolf SS- Oberscharführer Staff Sergeant, brother of Josef Wolf (below) Josef Wolf SS- Scharführer Sergeant, killed in the revolt Ernst Zierke SS- Unterscharführer Corporal Heinrich Barbl SS- Rottenführer Private First Class, pipes for the gas chambers (from Action T4 ) Wachmänner guards (Ukrainians and Russians) Sobibór "Road to Heaven" in 2007 Volksdeutsche and up to 200 Trawniki men (former Soviet prisoners-of-war of various ethnicities trained at the SS compound in Trawniki ) Ivan Klatt Emanuel Schultz Russian B. Bielakow Ivan Nikiforow Mikhail Affanaseivitch Razgonayev J. Zajcew Ukrainian Ivan Demjanjuk (alleged; conviction pending appeal not upheld by German criminal court) Emil Kostenko M. Matwiejenko W. Podienko Fiodor Tichonowski Timeline of Sobibór, March 1942 – October 1943 March 1942 Under the supervision of Richard Thomalla , SS and police authorities construct Sobibór extermination camp in the spring of 1942 in an isolated area not far from the local Chelm-Wlodawa rail line.