People in the occupation apparatus

This first English cohort contains 20 profiles selected as a connected research set. Together they expose regional police offices, civil administration, prisons, ghettoisation, deportation, cultural plunder and postwar justice.

Scope note. The full Polish archive contains 178 profiles. English pages are published in coherent, source-reviewed clusters rather than through automatic bulk translation.

Circle IV — Territorial rulers and programme chiefs

Circle IV

Friedrich Uebelhoer

president of the Kalisz administrative district and author of the order establishing the Łódź ghetto

missing; later declared dead

Circle IV

Walter Braemer

military commander of Bydgoszcz and a rear-area district in September 1939

interned; never tried for Bydgoszcz

Circle V — Operational commanders

Circle V

Georg Michalsen

Operation Reinhard staff officer involved in deportations from Warsaw and Białystok

twelve years’ imprisonment; released in 1979

Circle V

Hans Bothmann

second commandant of the Chełmno killing centre

died by suicide in captivity in 1946

Circle V

Hans Krüger

head of the Security Police office in Stanisławów

life sentence; released in 1986

Circle V

Helmut Bischoff

commander of Einsatzkommando 1/IV and head of the Gestapo in Poznań

no final conviction

Circle V

Herbert Lange

commander of Sonderkommando Lange and first commandant of the Chełmno killing centre

killed in 1945; never tried

Circle V

Max Grosskopf

commander of the Security Police and SD in the Kraków district

died by suicide in 1945; never tried

Circle V

Maximilian Grabner

head of the Gestapo Political Department at Auschwitz concentration camp

executed in 1948

Circle V

Otto Bradfisch

head of the Łódź Gestapo office and former commander of Einsatzkommando 8

convicted; released in 1969

Circle V

Rudolf Mildner

head of the Gestapo in Katowice and presiding officer of the police summary court at Auschwitz

never tried; later fate unresolved

Circle VI — Enablers of war and occupation

Circle VI

Franz Konrad

head of the Werterfassung property-seizure apparatus in the Warsaw ghetto

executed in 1952

Circle VI

Franz Schlegelberger

state secretary and acting Reich minister of justice

life sentence; released in 1951

Circle VI

Günter Fuchs

head of Section II B of the Łódź Gestapo, responsible for Jewish affairs

life sentence in 1963

Circle VI

Gustav Abb

head of the Main Administration of Libraries in the General Government

killed in 1945; never tried

Circle VI

Heinz Auerswald

commissioner for the Jewish residential district in Warsaw

investigated but never tried; died in 1970

Circle VI

Hermann Worthoff

head of the Jewish affairs section of the Lublin Gestapo and commander of a liquidation unit

sentenced to eight years in 1975

Circle VI

Jakob Lölgen

commander of an Einsatzkommando 16 detachment in Bydgoszcz

acquitted in 1966

Circle VI

Walter Pelzhausen

commandant of the Radogoszcz police prison in Łódź

executed in 1948

Circle VI

Werner Ventzki

lord mayor of occupied Łódź and an official of the Wartheland administration

never tried; continued an administrative career in West Germany