Friedrich Jeckeln

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Friedrich Jeckeln
Jeckeln as SS-Obergruppenführer
Born	(1895-02-02)2 February 1895 Hornberg, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire
Died	3 February 1946(1946-02-03) (aged 51) Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
Cause of death	Execution by hanging
Known for	Command of Einsatzgruppen death squads Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre Babi Yar massacre Rumbula massacre
Criminal status	Executed
Conviction(s)	War crimes
Trial	Riga Trial
Criminal penalty	Death
Details
Victims	100,000+
Span of crimes	1941–1945
Country	Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine
Target(s)	Slavs, Jews, Romas, and Communists
SS career
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service / branch	SS
Rank	SS-Obergruppenführer
Commands	Higher SS and Police Leader, Reichskommissariat Ostland
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves War Merit Cross, with Swords

Friedrich Jeckeln (2 February 1895 – 3 February 1946) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. He served as a Higher SS and Police Leader in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II. Jeckeln was the commander of one of the largest groups of Einsatzgruppen death squads and was personally responsible for ordering and organising the deaths of over 100,000 Jews, Romani and others designated by the Nazis as "undesirables". After the end of World War II in Europe, Jeckeln was convicted of war crimes by a Soviet military tribunal in Riga and executed by hanging in 1946.