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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