Editing Wannsee Conference (section)

== Attendees ==
The attendees from the Reich civilian ministries were high level administrators. Most were either the state secretary or an undersecretary. With the cabinet not meeting regularly, meetings between the state secretaries were the chief means of policy coordination among agencies.{{sfn|Roseman|2002|p=57}} The process of disseminating information about the fate of the Jews was already well underway by the time the meeting was held, and several of the attendees were aware that changes to the Jewish policy were already underway.{{sfn|Browning|2007|pp=410–411}} In addition to the invited guests, Heydrich instructed several SS officials from his RSHA component to attend.{{sfn|Roseman|2002|p=66}} In all, 15 officials attended the conference.{{efn|The invited representatives of two agencies were absent: [[Leopold Gutterer]], State Secretary of the Propaganda Ministry, and [[Ulrich Greifelt]], chief of staff of the [[Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood|RKFDV]].{{harvnb|Gerlach|1998|p=794}}.}} Half the attendees were under forty years of age and only two were over fifty.{{sfn|Roseman|2002|p=67}} They were well educated, with ten having a university education (of whom eight held academic [[doctorate]]s), and eight were lawyers.{{sfn|Jasch|Kreutzmüller|2017|pp=3, 180}}

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|+ List of attendees{{sfn|Roseman|2002|p=66}}
|-
! scope="col" align="left" | Name
! scope="col" align="center" | Photo
! scope="col" align="left" | Title
! scope="col" align="left" | Organization
! scope="col" align="left" | Superior
|-
! scope="row" | SS-''[[Obergruppenführer]]'' (Lieutenant General) [[Reinhard Heydrich]]
| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1969-054-16, Reinhard Heydrich.jpg|60px]]
| Chief of the [[Reich Security Main Office]] (RSHA)<br>Deputy Protector of [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia|Bohemia and Moravia]]<br>
Deputy Reichsführer-SS<br>Presiding
| RSHA, ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' (SS)
| ''[[Reichsführer-SS]]'' (SS-Leader) [[Heinrich Himmler]]
|-
! scope="row" | SS-''[[Gruppenführer]]'' (Major General) [[Otto Hofmann]]
| [[File:Otto Hofmann.jpg|60px]]
| Head of the [[SS Race and Settlement Main Office]] (RuSHA)
| RuSHA, ''Schutzstaffel''
| ''Reichsführer''-SS Heinrich Himmler
|-
! scope="row" | SS-''Gruppenführer'' (Major General) [[Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)|Heinrich Müller]]
| [[File:Heinrich Müller.jpg|60px]]
| Chief of Amt IV ([[Gestapo]])
| RSHA, ''Schutzstaffel''
| Chief of the RSHA SS-''Obergruppenführer'' Reinhard Heydrich
|-
! scope="row" | SS-''[[Oberführer]]'' (Senior Colonel) [[Karl Eberhard Schöngarth]]
| [[file:KarlEberhardSchongarth.jpg|60px]]
| Commander of the [[Sicherheitspolizei|SiPo]] and the [[Sicherheitsdienst|SD]] in the [[General Government]]
| SiPo and SD, RSHA, ''Schutzstaffel''
| Chief of the RSHA SS-''Obergruppenführer'' Reinhard Heydrich
|-
! scope="row" | SS-''Oberführer'' (Senior Colonel) [[Gerhard Klopfer]]
| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 119-06-44-12, Gerhard Klopfer.jpg|60px]]
| Permanent Secretary
| [[Nazi Party Chancellery]]
| Chief of the Party Chancellery [[Martin Bormann]]
|-
! scope="row" | SS-''[[Obersturmbannführer]]'' (Lieutenant Colonel) [[Adolf Eichmann]]
| [[File:Adolf Eichmann, 1942.jpg|60px]]
| Head of [[Reich Security Head Office Referat IV B4|Referat IV B4]] of the Gestapo<br>Recording secretary
| Gestapo, RSHA, Schutzstaffel
| Chief of Amt IV SS-''Gruppenführer'' Heinrich Müller
|-
! scope="row" | SS-''[[Sturmbannführer]]'' (Major) [[Rudolf Lange]]
| [[File:Lange-a.jpg|60px]]
| Commander of the SiPo and the SD for [[Generalbezirk Lettland|Latvia]]; Deputy Commander of the SiPo and the SD for the ''[[Reichskommissariat Ostland]]'' (RKO);<br>Head of ''[[Einsatzkommando]]'' 2
| SiPo and SD, RSHA, ''Schutzstaffel''
| Commander of the SiPo and the SD for the RKO, SS-''[[Brigadeführer]]'' (Brigadier General) and ''[[Generalmajor]] der Polizei'' (Brigadier General of Police) [[Franz Walter Stahlecker]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[Georg Leibbrandt]]
| [[File:LeibbrandtGeorg.jpg|60px]]
| Undersecretary 
| [[Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories|Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories]]
| Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories [[Alfred Rosenberg]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[Alfred Meyer]]
| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1991-0712-500, Alfred Meyer.jpg|60px]]
| ''[[Gauleiter]]'' (Regional Party Leader)<br>[[State Secretary]] and Deputy Minister
| Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories
| Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories Alfred Rosenberg
|-
! scope="row" | [[Josef Bühler]]
| [[File:Josef Bühler.jpg|60px]]
| State Secretary
| General Government<br>(Polish Occupation Authority)
| Governor-General [[Hans Frank]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[Roland Freisler]]
| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J03238, Roland Freisler.jpg|60px]]
| State Secretary
| [[Federal Ministry of Justice (Germany)|Ministry of Justice]]
| Minister of Justice [[Franz Schlegelberger]]
|-
! scope="row" | SS-''[[Brigadeführer]]'' (Brigadier General) [[Wilhelm Stuckart]]
| [[File:Wilhelm Stuckart.jpg|60px]]
| State Secretary
| [[Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany)|Interior Ministry]]
| Minister of the Interior [[Wilhelm Frick]]
|-
! scope="row" | SS-''Oberführer'' (Senior Colonel) [[Erich Neumann (politician)|Erich Neumann]]
| [[File:NeumannErich.jpg|60px]]
| State Secretary
| Office of the [[Plenipotentiary]] for the [[Four Year Plan]]
| Plenipotentiary of the Four Year Plan [[Hermann Göring]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger]]
| [[File:KritzingerFriedrich.jpg|60px]]
| Permanent Secretary
| [[Reich Chancellery]]
| Minister and head of the Reich Chancellery SS-''Obergruppenführer'' [[Hans Lammers]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[Martin Luther (diplomat)|Martin Luther]]
| [[File:LutherMartin.jpg|60px]]
| Undersecretary
| [[Federal Foreign Office#Nazi Germany|Foreign Office]]
| [[Ernst von Weizsäcker]], State Secretary to Foreign Minister [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]]
|}