SS-Oberscharführer Franz Wolf (9 April 1907 – 9 October 1999) was a German Nazi senior squad leader serving with the Action T4 forced euthanasia program, and later, at the Sobibór extermination camp in occupied Poland during the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, codenamed Operation Reinhard.

Leading a normal life in West Germany for the next twenty years,[1][2] along with thousands of war criminals protected by Konrad Adenauer,[3][4] Wolf was arrested in 1964,[1][2] and indicted during the Sobibór trial with participating in the murder of 115,000 Jews.

He was in the Czechoslovak Army and in the German Wehrmacht, before he was posted to Hadamar Euthanasia Centre and the Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic where the killing of patients deemed beyond the reach of therapy was taking place.

[8] He supervised the sorting barracks where belongings of the victims were processed, but also led the Waldkommando forest brigade,[8] cutting trees for the fuelling of corpse cremation pyres in the camp's killing zone.

[9] Wolf was presented with an arrest warrant in 1964 at Eppelheim[10] as one of a selected twelve former members of the SS camp personnel, which constituted about a quarter of the German staff there.