1989
Werner Best, German police officer and jurist (born 1903)
Werner Best, German police officer and jurist (born 1903)
Werner Best, German police officer and jurist (born 1903)
Werner Best
German jurist and SS general (1903–1989)
- Died
- 1989
Karl Rudolf Werner Best was a German jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer, Nazi Party leader, and theoretician from Darmstadt. He was the first chief of Department 1 of the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police, and initiated a registry of all Jews in Germany. As a deputy of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, he organized the SS-Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads that carried out mass-murder in Nazi-occupied territories.