Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV), which ran the Nazi concentration and extermination camps.
The following list of SS personnel gives the names of notable persons who are counted among the organization's most famous, influential or notorious members.
Following the Night of the Long Knives Hitler "raised the SS, hitherto subordinate to the SA, to the rank of an independent organisation".
The ranks include distinctive insignia designs worn on the collar at one points by all officers.
Wagner was awarded the War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords for his service.