Johann Rattenhuber

Johann Rattenhuber
Rattenhuber in Soviet custody
Born	30 April 1897 Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Died	30 June 1957 (aged 60) Munich, Free State of Bavaria, West Germany
Resting place	Munich Ostfriedhof
Criminal status	Deceased
Conviction(s)	War crimes[citation needed]
Criminal penalty	25 years; repatriated to East Germany in 1955
SS career
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	SS
Rank	Gruppenführer
Commands held	Reichssicherheitsdienst

Johann Rattenhuber (30 April 1897 – 30 June 1957), also known as Hans Rattenhuber, was a German police and SS general (Gruppenführer, i. e. Generalleutnant). Rattenhuber was the head of German dictator Adolf Hitler's personal Reichssicherheitsdienst (Reich Security Service; RSD) bodyguard from 1933 to 1945. In January 1942, Rattenhuber's RSD units participated in the mass shooting of 227 Jews at Strizhavka. After the war, he was released from a Soviet prison on 10 October 1955 and allowed to go to West Germany. He died in Munich in 1957.