# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/werner-best
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:27:08.135Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/werner-best"
name: "Werner Best"
slug: "werner-best"
description: "Karl Rudolf Werner Best was a German jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer, Nazi Party leader, and theoretician from Darmstadt. He was the first chief of Department 1 of the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police, and initiated a registry of all Jews in Germany. As a deputy of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, he organized the SS-Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads that carried out mass-murder in Nazi-occupied territories."
tagline: "German general (1903-1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B22627%2C_Dr._Werner_Best.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1903-07-10"
deathDate: "1989-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump