Suicides in West Germany

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

German left-wing militant (1934–1976)

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".

German far-left militant leader (1943–1977)

German far-left militant (1940–1977)

German general (1883-1949)

German left-wing militant (1944–1977)

Polish writer (1934–1969)

German composer (1918–1970)

German film and stage actress (1909-1955)

German literary scholar and philologist (1929–1971)

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

Holocaust perpetrator (1912–1966)

German Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1903–1959)

SS officer and psychiatrist (1902-1964)

SS officer (1903–1961)

German journalist, author and resistance fighter (1901–1977)

German hacker (1965-1989)

SS guard at Auschwitz of Romanian Volksdeutsche origin (1919–1988)

German expressionist dancer (1911-1967)

German actress (1890-1959)

Turkish poet and writer (1956–1982)

Norwegian journalist

German politician (1896-1959)

German legal scholar (1895-1968)

German film editor (1942–1988)

German politician (1896-1968)

SS officer