Nikolaus Herbet (20 March 1889 – date of death unknown) was a German SS officer and the second and last commandant of Warsaw concentration camp, during the period from September 1943 to July 1944.
Herbet was admitted into the SS in March 1927 (member number 2,394), and rose to the rank of SS-Untersturmführer by 1934.
After the beginning of World War II, he was first employed as a member of the Waffen-SS in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in 1940.
[1] From September 1943 to July 1944, he was commandant of the Warsaw concentration camp.
Herbet was arrested together with the Schutzhaftlagerführer and the Lagerältester of Warsaw concentration camp in the wake of a corruption scandal in this concentration camp in the spring of 1944.