Werner Best, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Werner Best

German general

Date of Birth: 10-Jul-1903

Place of Birth: Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 23-Jun-1989

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician, jurist, diplomat, soldier

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Karl Rudolf Werner Best (10 July 1903 – 23 June 1989) was a German Nazi, jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer and Nazi Party leader and theoretician from Darmstadt, Hesse.
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 World War II SS-Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads that were responsible for mass killings. Best served in the German military occupation administration of France (1940–1942), and then became the civilian administrator of occupied Denmark (1942–1945).
Convicted of war crimes in Denmark, Best was released in 1951.
He escaped further prosecution in West Germany in 1972 due to ill health and died in 1989, aged 85.