Suicides by hanging in Germany

German Nazi leader and Reich Minister without Portfolio (1894–1987)

German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)

Margarete Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was the commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in Nazi Germany, she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at the war's end and was referred to as the "Kommandeuse of Buchenwald".

East German soldier (1942-1998)

German far-left militant (1940–1977)

German politician (1896-1947)

German poet and philosopher (1841–1876)

German neurologist (1873–1941)

Usurper of the Roman Empire (died 280)

physician, Nazi officer (1900-1945)

German serial killer (1860–1924)

SS officer (1895-1946)

German Nazi physician (1909–1945)

German lawyer (1903–1938)

German actor (1939-1998)

SS officer, first commandant of Treblinka extermination camp (1910–1948)

German hacker and phreaker (1972–1998)

German serial killer

Romanian footballer (1941-1981)

German actor (1890–1932)

German actor (1924–1979)

Swiss-born SS officer and Einsatzkommando leader (1888-1959)

German politician (1900-1945)

Holocaust perpetrator (1912–1966)

SS officer (1910–1947)

SS officer (1911–1946)

SS officer and psychiatrist (1902-1964)

SS officer (1903–1961)

German serial killer (1959-2007)

German left-wing militant (1944–1977)

German actor (1886-1945)

German colonial administrator (1855-1917)

Czech footballer (1977–2018)

German actress (1892-1916)

Journalist and German Resistance fighter (1903-1942)

German musician, songwriter, lyricist (1943-2009)

senior researcher for the Action T4 Euthanasia program

German politician (1929-1990)

German serial killer (1924-1958)

German Gestapo employee (1892–1946)