Commanders and Staff at Treblinka
The Treblinka extermination camp was run by the SS with the help of Eastern European Trawnikis, who were collaborationist auxiliary police recruited directly from Soviet POW camps. This is a partial list of those involved in running the camp.
| Name | Rank | Function and Notes |
| Heinrich Himmler | Reichsführer | main architect of the Holocaust |
| Odilo Globocnik | SS-Hauptsturmführer and SS-Polizeiführer at the time (Captain and SS Police Chief) | head of Operation Reinhard |
| Hermann Höfle | SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain) | coordinator of Operation Reinhard |
| Christian Wirth | SS-Hauptsturmführer at the time (Captain) | inspector for Operation Reinhard |
| Richard Thomalla | SS-Obersturmführer at the time (First Lieutenant) | head of death camp construction during Operation Reinhard |
| Erwin Lambert | SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) | head of gas chamber construction during Operation Reinhard (large gas chambers) |
| Theodor van Eupen | SS-Sturmbannführer (Major), Commandant of Treblinka I Arbeitslager, 15 November 1941 – July 1944 (cleanup) | head of the forced-labor camp |
| Irmfried Eberl | SS-Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant), Commandant of Treblinka II, 11 July 1942 – 26 August 1942 | transferred to Berlin due to incompetence |
| Franz Stangl | SS-Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant), 2nd Commandant of Treblinka II, 1 September 1942 – August 1943 | transferred to Treblinka from Sobibor extermination camp |
| Kurt Franz | SS-Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant), last Commandant of Treblinka II, August (gassing) – November 1943 | promoted from deputy commandant in August 1943 following camp prisoner revolt |
| Karl Pötzinger | SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant), Deputy commandant of Treblinka II | head of cremation |
| Heinrich Matthes | SS-Scharführer (Sergeant), Deputy commandant | chief of the extermination area |
| Fritz Schmidt | SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) | gas chambers |
| Lorenz Hackenholt | SS-Hauptscharführer (Master Sergeant) | gas chambers, gas pipes |
| Kurt Küttner | SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant) | lower camp of Treblinka II |
| Willy Mätzig | SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant) | unloading ramp |
| Herbert Floss | SS-Scharführer (Sergeant) | cremation pyres |
| Erich Fuchs | SS-Scharführer (Sergeant) | generator, gassing engine |
| Josef Hirtreiter | SS-Scharführer (Sergeant) | unloading ramp terror |
| Karl Emil Ludwig | SS-Scharführer (Sergeant) | head of the Waldkommando forest brigade |
| Gustav Münzberger | SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) | gas chambers |
| Max Biala (de) | SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) | stabbed to death by inmate Meir Berliner on 11 September 1942 at roll call selection |
| Paul Bredow | SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) | head of Kommando Rot |
| Hans Hingst | SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) | gas chambers |
| Otto Horn (de) | SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) | corpse detail |
| Willi Mentz | SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) | Lazaret killing station |
| August Miete | SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) | Lazaret |
| Max Möller | SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) | Lazaret |
| Willi Post | SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) | Head of Ukrainian Guard, Volksdeutsche SS squad leader |
| Albert Rum (de) | SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) | gas chambers |
| Karl Schiffer | SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) | command of Ukrainian guard unit of 12 Trawnikis overseeing farmhouse construction |
| Ernst Stengelin | SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) | killed in attack on 14 October 1943 |
| Franz Suchomel | SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) | Goldjuden supervisor |
| Otto Stadie | SS-Stabsscharführer (Staff Squad Leader) | camp administration |
| Ivan Marchenko | Wachmänner (Guard), presumed Ukrainian | gas chambers |
| Feodor Fedorenko | Wachmänner (Guard) | gas chambers |
Source: Wikipedia
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