List of Nazi Party Leaders and Officials - M

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• Emil Maurice - Personal friend of Hitler, first head of the SA and one of the founding members of the SS.
• Josef Mengele - SS-Hauptsturmführer and physician at the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
• Willy Messerschmitt - Aeronautical engineer and head of the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW, later Messerschmitt AG); designer of several famous aircraft including the Bf.109.
• Alfred Meyer - Deputy Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories
• Kurt Meyer - SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS noted for his command of 1st SS Reconnaissance Battalion (LSSAH) and later the division commander of 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend.
• Erhard Milch – Generalfeldmarschall; Inspector-General of the Luftwaffe, responsible for aircraft production.
• Leopold von Mildenstein - Pro-Zionism expert in the headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) under Reinhard Heydrich until 1936, when the planned mass immigration of Jews to Palestine fell out of favour. Mildenstein convinced Adolf Eichmann to transfer to his SS department which handled "Jewish Affairs".
• Wilhelm Mohnke - SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS. He was one of the original 120 members of the SS-Staff Guard (Stabswache) "Berlin" formed in March 1933. Mohnke rose to become the commander of the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) and later in April 1945, was appointed by Hitler as commander of the Berlin government district, nicknamed Die Zitadelle (The Citadel), including the Reich Chancellery, Führerbunker and Reichstag.
• Hermann Muhs - Minister responsible for church and religious affairs.
• Heinrich Müller - SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei. Head of the Gestapo (Secret State Police) under Reinhard Heydrich as chief of the SiPo and later the RSHA.
• Eugen Munder - Early party organizer in Stuttgart and Gauleiter of Württemberg from 1925-1928.
• Wilhelm Murr - Gauleiter of Württemberg, SS-Obergruppenführer and Reich Defense Commissar of Defense District V.