Friedrich Jeckeln

German politician (NSDAP), MdR, General of the Waffen-SS, perpetrator of the Holocaust, lGerman SS general, executed for war crimes including mass murder (1895-1946)

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1895–1946
Aged 51
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Updated 2026-06-20

Friedrich August Jeckeln was a German Nazi Party member, police official and SS-Obergruppenführer during the Nazi era. He served as a Higher SS and Police Leader in Germany and in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II. Jeckeln was the commander of one of the largest groups of Einsatzgruppen death squads and was personally responsible for ordering and organising the deaths of over 100,000 Jews, Romani and others designated by the Nazis as "undesirables". After the end of the war in Europe, Jeckeln was convicted of war crimes by a Soviet military tribunal in Riga and executed by hanging.