Hitler's Henchmen

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Heinrich Müller – SS- Gruppenführer; Generalleutnant der Polizei; headed Gestapo (Secret State Police) under Reinhard Heydrich the SiPo and later RSHA chief. Roland Freisler – State Secretary of Adolf Hitler's Reich Ministry of Justice; President of the Volksgerichtshof (People's Court) from 1942 to 1945; sentenced hundreds of people to death, including Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl and various members of the July 20 Plot; killed while returning to the courthouse to collect some files during an air raid on Berlin. Franz Xaver Dorsch – A participant in the Beer Hall Putsch, he was Fritz Todt's deputy as Chief Engineer in the Organization Todt (OT). Dorsch played a leading role in the construction of the Siegfried Line and the Atlantic Wall. After Todt's death, he remained OT deputy under Albert Speer and succeeded him as head of the OT in April 1944. Amon Göth – SS- Hauptsturmführer. Nazi concentration camp commandant at Płaszów, General Government, German-occupied Poland. Alfred Rosenberg – An early Party member and Nazi philosopher, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Völkischer Beobachter from 1923 to 1938, head of the NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs, Reichsleiter, head of Amt Rosenberg and Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories. Convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.

Hjalmar Schacht – An economist, banker and politician, who served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic. A fierce critic of post-World War I reparation obligations, he became a supporter of Hitler and served as President of the Reichsbank and Reich Minister of Economics. He played a key role in restoring the German economy but since he opposed the policy of German re-armament, Schacht was first sidelined and then forced out beginning in December 1937. Schacht became a fringe member of the German Resistance and was imprisoned after the 20 July plot in 1944. He was tried at Nuremberg and acquitted. Philipp Bouhler – Reichsleiter, Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP and leader of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program. Also an SS- Obergruppenführer, he committed suicide in May 1945. Willy Marschler – One of the first two Nazis to hold ministerial office in a German State (1930–31). Minister President of Thuringia (1933–1945). He was also an SA-Obergruppenführer.Franz Schwede – The first Nazi elected as Bürgermeister of a German City ( Coburg) he was later Gauleiter of Gau Pomerania, Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Pomerania and an SA- Obergruppenführer. The phrase henchman is also used as a pejorative for any sort of political mastermind or to present others as such. Thus it was used for associates of President George W. Bush, [1] [2] e.g., by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. [3] Likewise, it was also used against associates of the former U.S. President Bill Clinton. [4] Rebekah Brooks has been described as the henchwoman of Rupert Murdoch. [5]

Max Scheubner-Richter – most senior Nazi killed during the Beer Hall Putsch, ideologue and mentor to Alfred Rosenberg. August Eigruber – Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Upper Danube; Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria; Obergruppenführer in both the SA and the SS.Odilo Globocnik – A prominent Austrian Nazi, as an SS- Obergruppenführer he was an SS and Police Leader in the General Government and in the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral. As head of Operation Reinhard he was one of those responsible for the murder of millions of people during the Holocaust.