The term henchman originally referred to one who attended a horse for his employer, that is, a horse groom. Hence, like constable and marshal, also originally stable staff, henchman became the title of a subordinate official in a royal court or noble household. Wilhelm Ohnesorge – State Secretary from 1933 and Reich Minister (1937–1945) in the Reich Postal Ministry. He was an Obergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Korps (NSKK). Werner Lorenz – Waffen-SS general; leader of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the Reich from other parts of Europe.

Franz Kutschera – Gauleiter of Reichsgau Carinthia (1939–1941); an SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei, he was an SS and police leader in the General Government until he was assassinated in 1944. Karl Hermann Frank – Prominent Sudeten-German Nazi official and SS- Obergruppenführer who served as Minister of State and Higher SS and Police Leader in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Karl Holz – protégé of rabid antisemitic journalist Julius Streicher, he was editor-in-chief at Der Stürmer and Deputy Gauleiter of Gau Franconia for many years, becoming Gauleiter in 1942. He was also an SA- Gruppenführer.Leonardo Conti – Head of the Reich Physicians' Chamber ( Reichsärztekammer) and leader of the National Socialist German Doctors' League (1939–1944). He was an SS- Obergruppenführer and participated in the Aktion T4 euthanasia program. To some Doenitz was the saviour of millions of refugees from the East, to others a cold technocrat of the war. To the Allied forces he was a war criminal. In his own mind he saw himself as an apolitical soldier doing his duty.

J.K, Rowling (2005). Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Firsted.). NYC: Scholastic Inc. pp.441–45. ISBN 0-439-78454-9. Wilhelm Freiherr von Schorlemer – SA- Obergruppenführer. Member of the constituency of the National Socialist Reichstag. Leader of SA Group "Danube". (1938–1945). Felix Steiner – SS- Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS. He was chosen by Himmler to oversee the creation of, and command the volunteer Waffen-SS Division, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking.Hans Frank – A lawyer, he was Hitler's legal advisor, an Uschla judge, Reichsleiter for Legal Issues, Bavarian Minister of Justice, President of the Academy for German Law (1933–1942) Reich Minister without portfolio and Governor-General of occupied Poland. He was also an SA- Obergruppenführer. Involved in perpetration of the Holocaust, he was convicted of war crimes and hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal.