Rudolf Batz

Rudolf Christoph Batz was a German lawyer and a Schutzstaffel (SS) police official during the Nazi era, who rose to the rank of SS-Standartenführer. From 1 July to 4 November 1941, he was the commander of Einsatzkommando 2 and was responsible for the mass murder of Jews and others in the Baltic states. He also commanded security police and security service forces in Poland and in Germany, where he organized mass deportations of Jews to extermination camps. After the end of the Second World War, Batz lived undetected for many years but was arrested in 1960 and committed suicide while in custody awaiting trial.