List of fascists who died by suicide

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This is a list of fascists who died by suicide. This list includes members of fascist parties, the armed forces of fascist states, fascist paramilitary groups, and other fascist organisations. Ideological fascists who don't fall into any of the previous categories are also included. People who fall into one or more of the previous categories but who were principled anti-fascists and used their positions to undermine the regime or organisation as a whole (e.g. spies and saboteurs) are excluded.

List of fascists who died by suicide[edit | edit source]


Name	Date of birth	Date of death	Suicide method	Known for
Adachi Hatazō	17 June 1890	10 September 1947	Adachi committed suicide with a paring knife two months after being sentenced to life imprisonment by an Australian military tribunal for war crimes.^[1] He had previously stated that "The thought of life imprisonment is unbearable. I would rather have been sentenced to death."^[2]	Japanese lieutenant general and war criminal who commanded the 18th Army during the New Guinea campaign
Adolf Hitler	20 April 1889	30 April 1945	Hitler and his newly-wed wife Eva Braun killed themselves in April 1945 during the Battle of Berlin in order to avoid capture by the Red Army. Hitler shot himself in the right temple with a 7.65 mm Walther PPK pistol while Braun ingested cyanide. Afterwards their bodies were doused in petrol and burnt by Otto Günsche and Heinz Linge in the Reich Chancellery garden, as per Hitler's wishes.	German politician and leader of the Nazi Party who ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945
Albert Deutscher	18 August 1920	18 December 1981	A few hours after the U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Deutscher accusing him of lying about his past in order to gain entry into the country and seeking to strip him of his citizenship, Deutscher ran in front of an oncoming train. The train engineer spotted Deutscher and repeatedly whistled for him to move out of the way, but Deutscher stayed put. The engineer then hit the emergency brakes, but couldn't stop the train in time to prevent a collision, resulting in Deutscher's death.^[3] The incident was later ruled a suicide.^[4]	Black Sea German from Worms, Ukraine who served in the Selbstschutz paramilitary organisation, allegedly participating in the murder of hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust
Albert Frey	16 February 1913	1 September 2003	Firearm	SS-Standartenführer and Knight of the Iron Cross
Albert Vögler	8 February 1877	14 April 1945	Cyanide poisoning	German politician (DVP) and major industrialist who funded the Nazis
Aleksander Laak	24 August 1907	6 September 1960	A week after being outed as a Nazi collaborator by the Tass news agency, Laak was found dead in his garage, hanging from a rafter by a rope around his neck. His death was ruled a suicide, but his wife and others suspected foul play.^[5] Laak had previously gone on record stating that he was worried for himself and his family, fearing reprisals against them.^[6] Zionist journalist Michael Elkins claimed in his 1971 book Forged in Fury that Nakam agent Arnie Berg (pseudonym) tracked Laak down to his home in Winnipeg and explained in great detail how he planned to kill him and his wife. Laak begged for mercy, so Berg gave him a rope and allowed Laak to hang himself, according to Elkins.^[7]	Estonian Canadian Nazi collaborator and commandant of the Jägala concentration camp
Alessandro Frontoni	12 June 1882	25 August 1943	On 25 August 1943, following the fall of fascism in Italy, Count Frontoni reportedly killed himself in his apartment by shooting himself in the neck with a firearm.^[8]	Italian businessman and politician (NPF) who served as a member of the National Directorate of the National Fascist Party (PNF), National Inspector of the PNF, and the President of ONMI (1940–1943)
Alfred Freyberg	12 July 1892	18 April 1945	Cyanide poisoning	Nazi lawyer, politician, and Holocaust perpetrator who served as the Minister President of Anhalt (1932–1940) and Lord Mayor of Leipzig (1939–1945)
Alfred Meyer	5 October 1891	11 April 1945		Nazi Party official who served as the State Secretary in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and was present at the Wannsee Conference
Alfrēds Riekstiņš	30 January 1913	11 September 1952	Cyanide poisoning	Latvian soldier, Nazi collaborator, and CIA agent
Alwin-Broder Albrecht	18 September 1903	1 May 1945	Firearm (according to Erna Flegel)	German naval officer who served as an adjutant to Hitler (1939–1945)
Amamiya Tatsumi	15 December 1892	30 June 1945	Seppuku (disputed)	Japanese lieutenant general who served as the commander of the 24th Division during the Battle of Okinawa
Anami Korechika	21 February 1887	15 August 1945	Seppuku	Japanese general of the Second World War who briefly served as the Minister of the Army (1945)
Andreas Bolek	3 May 1894	5 May 1945	Firearm
Andō Rikichi	3 April 1884	19 April 1946	Cyanide poisoning
Aoki Tsune	16 August 1916	7 August 1944	Hanging
Araki Yukio	10 March 1928	27 May 1945	Kamikaze attack
Arno Jahr	12 April 1897	9 May 1945
Arthur Kobus	9 February 1879	April 1945
Arthur Rödl	13 June 1898	5 April 1945	Hand grenade
Artur Sirk	25 September 1900	2 August 1937	Falling (officially, disputed)
August Hirt	28 April 1898	2 June 1945	Firearm
August Sabbe	1 September 1909	27 or 28 September 1978	Drowning
Ben Klassen	20 February 1918	6–⁠7 August 1993	Drug overdose
Bernhard Rust	30 September 1883	8 May 1945	Firearm
Carl Friedrich von Pückler-Burghauss	7 October 1886	12 May 1945	Shortly after surrendering to Allied troops following the Battle of Slivice, Pückler-Burghauss shot himself.	German politician and military leader who served as the Commander of the Waffen-SS in Bohemia and Moravia (1942–43; 1944–45)
Carl Strobel	1 April 1895	19 April 1945	Firearm
Carl Westphal	1902	5 January 1947	Hanging
Charles Bedaux	10 October 1886	18 February 1944	Drug overdose
Chō Isamu	31 July 1887	22 June 1945	Seppuku
Claus Göttsche	26 May 1899	12 May 1945	Cyanide poisoning
Curt Rothenberger	30 June 1896	1 September 1959	Hanging
Curt von Gottberg	11 February 1896	31 May 1945
Dan Burros	5 March 1937	31 October 1965	Firearm
Dietrich von Jagow	29 February 1892	26 April 1945	Firearm
Dominic Lewitzke	6 December 1958	22 July 1980	Firearm
Dominique Venner	16 April 1935	21 May 2013	Firearm
Dragoș Protopopescu	17 October 1892	11 April 1948	Decapitation
Dylan Klebold	11 September 1981	20 April 1999	Firearm
Eberhard Kinzel	18 October 1897	25 June 1945	Firearm
Edmund Glaise-Horstenau	27 February 1882	20 July 1946	Fearing extradition to Austria for his crimes, Glaise killed himself at the Langwasser camp in Nuremberg by taking poison.^[9]
Eduard Wagner	1 April 1894	23 July 1944	Firearm
Eduard Weiter	18 July 1889	27 April or 2 May 1945	Firearm (disputed)
Eduard Wirths	4 September 1909	20 September 1945	Hanging
Emil Fey	23 March 1886	16 March 1938	Firearm
Emil Haussmann	11 October 1910	31 July 1947	Hanging
Enno Lolling	19 July 1888	27 May 1945
Erich Bärenfänger	12 January 1915	2 May 1945	Firearm
Eric Harris	9 April 1981	20 April 1999	Firearm
Ernst Bergmann	7 August 1881	16 April 1945
Ernst Holzlöhner	23 February 1899	14 June 1945	Carbon monoxide poisoning
Ernst-Robert Grawitz	8 June 1889	24 April 1945	Hand grenade
Ernst Runde	12 August 1905	1967	Runde committed suicide in prison after being indicted for murder by the Regional Court of Duisburg, hanging himself with his belt.^[10]
Ernst Udet	26 April 1896	17 November 1941	Firearm
Ernst Weiner	13 December 1913	17 December 1945	Firearm (disputed)
Ernst Zörner	27 June 1895	21 December 1945
Erpo Freiherr von Bodenhausen	12 April 1897	9 May 1945
Erwin Bumke	7 July 1874	20 April 1945
Erwin Ding-Schuler	19 September 1912	11 August 1945
Erwin Müller		11 September 1944
Erwin Rommel	15 November 1891	14 October 1944	Cyanide poisoning
Francis Parker Yockey	18 September 1917	17 June 1960	Cyanide poisoning
Frank Schubert	28 January 1957	24 December 1980	Firearm
Franz Böhme	15 April 1885	29 May 1947	Jumping
Franz Schädle	19 November 1906	2 May 1945	Firearm
Franz von Bodmann
François Genoud	26 October 1915	30 May 1996	Poisoning
Friedrich Alpers	25 March 1901	3 September 1944
Friedrich Dollmann	2 February 1882	29 June 1944	Poisoning (disputed)
Friedrich Mussgay	3 January 1892	3 September 1946	Hanging
Friedrich Panzinger	1 February 1903	8 August 1959	Poisoning
Friedrich Tillmann	6 August 1903	12 February 1964	Falling
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger	8 May 1894	10 May 1945
Fritz Adam
Fritz Baeßler
Fritz Bracht
Fritz Freitag
Fritz Tittmann	18 July 1898	25 April 1945	Explosion (disputed)
Fujioka Takeo	3 March 1891	22 June 1945
Fujita Shigeshi	4 August 1920	5 August 1944	Hanging
Gavril Olteanu
Georg Altner
Georg Meindl	1 March 1899	10 May 1945	Self-immolation (suspected)
Georg von Majewski
Gundolf Köhler
Gustav Schmidt
Gustav Wagner	18 July 1911	3 October 1980	Stabbing (disputed)
Günther Angern
Günther von Kluge
Hans-Adolf Prützmann
Hans Bothmann
Hans Collani	13 December 1908	29 July 1944
Hans Delmotte	15 December 1917	1945	Firearm

Hans Georg Schmidt von Altenstadt	21 August 1904	25 July 1944	Von Altenstadt was injured twice, first at the Battle of Monte Cassino and again in a traffic collision. He later died at Bad Tölz Reserve Hospital in Bavaria as a result of a pulmonary embolism. Some of his colleagues maintained after the war that von Altenstadt had killed himself to avoid arrest, torture, and execution following the failure of the 20 July plot.	German military officer, resistance fighter, and war criminal
Hans Jeschonnek
Hans Kammler
Hans Krebs
Hans Langsdorff	20 March 1894	20 December 1939	Firearm
Hans Loritz	12 December 1895	31 January 1946	Hans Loritz hanged himself in his cell at the Gadeland internment camp in Neumünster, presumably to avoid being transferred to the Soviet Union.	German policeman and SS functionary who served as the commandant of several Nazi concentration camps
Hans Schwedler
Harald Oster	12 June 1919	27 January 1943	Oster shot himself in the heart at Stalingrad.	Son of Generalmajor Hans Oster andOberleutnant in the German Army
Hatanaka Kenji
Heinrich Fehlis
Heinrich Heimann
Heinrich Himmler
Heinz Roch	17 January 1905	10 May 1945
Heinz Rutha	20 April 1897	4 November 1937	Hanging	Bohemian German architect, paedophile, and politician of the Sudeten German Party
Heinz Thilo	8 October 1911	13 May 1945
Herbert Backe
Herbert Linden
Herbert Wissmann		14 January 1947	Poisoning	Nazi legal scholar and press attaché at the German embassy in Lisbon during the Second World War
Hermann Brandl
Hermann Geyer
Hermann Göring
Hermann Görtz
Hermann Höfle
Hiratsuka Akio	20 September 1924	5 August 1944	Firearm
Honda Ishimatsu	29 November 1906	5 August 1944	Hanging
Honjō Shigeru	10 May 1876	30 November 1945	Seppuku
Hoshino Shinroku	5 March 1914	5 August 1944
Horst Birr
Horst Hoffmeyer
Horst Höltring
Hugo Jury
Imamura Hōsaku	4 January 1900	24 April 1949	Poisoning
Ilse Koch
Irmfried Eberl
Ishimaru Yoshimi	10 March 1913	5 August 1944	Hanging
Ishizaka Otsuji	13 July 1915	5 August 1944	Hanging
Iwabuchi Sanji
Jakob Sprenger
Jakob Weiseborn
James Larratt Battersby	5 February 1907	September 1955	Jumping
Jane Greenhow Ruth Fleming Stephen Bateman
Joachim Albrecht Eggeling
Joachim Engel
Joachim Rumohr
Johann Blank
Johannes Blaskowitz
Johan Pitka	19 February 1872	22 November 1944	Lethal injection
Josef Terboven
Joseph Goebbels
J. T. Ready
Józef Szeryński
Kaigi Masanobu	5 November 1915	6 August 1944	Train collision
Kakimoto Enji	April 1920	5 August 1944	Hanging
Kamiya Takekazu	8 March 1921	5 August 1944	Hanging
Karl Astel	26 February 1898	4 April 1945	Firearm
Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig	1 September 1899	20 October 1946	Poison
Karl Henke	22 July 1896	27 April 1945	Firearm
Karl Holz
Karl Heinrich Emil Becker
Karl Jäger	20 September 1888	22 June 1959	Hanging
Karl von Treuenfeld
Karl Zech
Keith Luke
Kinoshita Juichi	20 April 1912	5 August 1944	Hanging
Koizumi Chikahiko
Kojima Masao	24 October 1917	5 August 1944	Hanging
Konoe Fumimaro
Konrad Barde
Konrad Henlein
Kurt Bolender
Kurt Eberhard
Kurt Lisso
Leonardo Conti
Ludwig Stumpfegger
Magda Fontanges	10 May 1905	1 October 1960	Sleeping pill overdose
Magda Goebbels
Manlio Morgagni
Martin Bormann
Matthias Kleinheisterkamp
Max de Crinis
Max Grosskopf
Maxim Martsinkevich
Max Koegel
Meinoud Rost van Tonningen	19 February 1894	6 June 1945	Jumping
Meir Feinstein	5 October 1927	21 April 1947	Rather than be hanged by the British authorities, Moshe Barazani and Meir Feinstein decided to follow the Biblical example of Samson by blowing themselves and their executioners up at the gallows with improvised hand grenades that they had hidden in hollowed-out oranges. However, upon learning that Rabbi Yaakov Goldman intended to attend the execution, they instead opted to blow themselves up in their shared prison cell in order to avoid wounding the Rabbi, which they did around midnight on 21 April 1947.
Michael Popczuk
Moshe Barazani	14 June 1926	21 April 1947	Rather than be hanged by the British authorities, Moshe Barazani and Meir Feinstein decided to follow the Biblical example of Samson by blowing themselves and their executioners up at the gallows with improvised hand grenades that they had hidden in hollowed-out oranges. However, upon learning that Rabbi Yaakov Goldman intended to attend the execution, they instead opted to blow themselves up in their shared prison cell in order to avoid wounding the Rabbi, which they did around midnight on 21 April 1947.
Mārtiņš Grundmanis
Nagumo Chūichi
Nakagawa Kunio
Nakajima Tokutarō	2 April 1890	22 June 1945
Nakano Seigō
Niino Kenji	29 August 1917	5 August 1944	Hanging
Nils Flyg
Obata Hideyoshi
Oda Kensaku
Odilo Globočnik
Okamura Motoharu
Omori Yasuo	20 July 1913	11 November 1945
Ono Toshio	13 January 1913	5 August 1944	Hanging
Otto-Heinrich Drechsler
Otto Hess
Otto von Schrader
Otto von Stülpnagel
Paul Giesler
Paul Heigl	29 April 1887	8 April 1945	Drug overdose
Paul Hinkler
Paul Otto Geibel
Peter Donnhäuser
Peter Zschech
Philipp Bouhler
Raven Freiherr von Barnekow
Richard Glücks
Robert Ley
Robert Macher
Robert van Genechten
Roman Shukhevych
Rudolf Batz
Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Jung
Rudolf Querner
Saitō Yoshitsugu
Seki Yukio
Shiizaki Jirō
Shimoyama Yoshio	14 May 1910	7 April 1944	Hanging
Shimuzu Haruichi	2 October 1920	5 August 1944	Hanging
Shiono Takeo	3 February 1922	5 August 1944	Hanging
Shirota Hiroshi	27 July 1919	7 September 1944	Shirota died from strangulation. It's unclear whether he killed himself in order to avoid being recaptured (as many Cowra escapees did) or whether he was killed by someone else.^[11]
Stefan Baretzki	24 March 1919	21 June 1988
Sugiyama Hajime
Tamura Yoshitomi	8 June 1897	11 August 1944
Tanaka Kiyoshi	10 June 1914	5 August 1944	Train collision
Tanaka Shizuichi
Teddy Joseph Von Nukem
Teleki Pál
Temistocle Testa
Teramoto Kumaichi
Theodor Dannecker
Theodor Rõuk	14 December 1891	21 July 1940
Tito Agosti
Tobias Rathjen	1977	19 February 2020	Firearm
Tsuda Akira	10 January 1920	5 August 1944	Hanging
Ugaki Matome	15 February 1890	15 August 1945	Kamikaze attack
Ugo Cavallero	20 September 1880	13 September 1943	Firearm (officially)
Unity Mitford	8 August 1914	28 May 1948	Meningitis due to gunshot wound
Ushijima Mitsuru
Uwe Behrendt
Uwe Mundlos
Walter Boenicke
Walter Borbet			Firearm (allegedly)
Walter Buch
Walter Dönicke
Walter Frank
Walter Griphan
Walter Gross
Walter Hewel
Walter Kexel
Walter Krüger
Walter Model
Walter Scherff	1 November 1898	24 May 1945	Scherff killed himself while in Statesian captivity in Saalfelden, Salzburg on 24 May 1945 by ingesting cyanide.
Walter Schimana
Walther Bierkamp
Werner Heyde
Werner Schrader
Werner von Gilsa
Wilhelm Burgdorf
Wilhelm Murr
Wilhelm Rediess
Willy Liebel	31 August 1897	20 April 1945	Gunshot (officially, disputed)
Willy Sachs
Willy Wiederroth
Yamamura Makoto	1 January 1917	11 August 1944	Hanging
Yamashita Nobuyuki	26 April 1917	5 August 1944	Hanging
Yokota Shigeki	22 February 1920	15 May 1946
Yoshikawa Tadaichi	6 March 1921	5 August 1944	Hanging
Yoshimoto Teiichi
Ōnishi Takijirō

List of fascists who attempted suicide[edit | edit source]

Fascists who attempted suicide but weren't successful. This list does not include those who would succeed in later attempts.


Name	Date of birth	Date of death	Suicide method	Known for
Adolf Nassenstein			Firearm
Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel	2 January 1886	30 August 1944	Firearm
Franz Brandl	14 April 1875	15 March 1953
Hermann Müller-John	4 August 1894	8 May 1945	On 8 May 1945, as U.S. forces were approaching the farmhouse he was hiding in near Itter, Müller-John opted to kill himself in order to escape prosecution. He shot his wife and daughter before turning the gun on himself. His own wound was not fatal however, and it took a Statesian soldier delivering a coup de grâce for him to finally die.	Bandleader of the SS-Leibstandarte's Music Corps and perpetrator of the Błonie massacre
Kurt Daluege	15 September 1897	23 October 1946	Daluege attempted suicide at least twice:^[12] On 21 October 1946, Daluege attempted to have poison smuggled into his cell via a parcel of a dozen cigarettes. A guard noticed that one of the cylinders was thicker than the rest however, leading to the poison's discovery and their confiscation, much to Daluege's fury. At 4 a.m. on 23 October 1946, 8 hours before he was set to hang, Daluege, who had covered himself with a blanket (likely in order to hide what he was doing), slit his wrists with fragments of a broken earthenware soup bowl. Daluege's antics were immediately noticed and his wounds were treated by the prison doctor.	German SS and police functionary who served as Chief of the Ordnungspolizei and acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, responsible for the Lidice and Ležáky massacres
Maeda Yoshimitsu	5 May 1918
Ludwig Beck	29 June 1880	20 July 1944	Firearm

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Drea, Edward J. (2003).: In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. University of Nebraska Press. p. 109.
↑ No author (1947-04-24).: "General Preferred Death, But Given Gaol". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 1.
↑ No author (1981-12-19).: "Alleged Nazi criminal killed by train". La Crosse Tribune. p. 13.
↑ No author (1981-12-20).: "Nazi's death ruled a suicide". Anchorage Daily News. p. 6.
↑ No author (1970-09-15).: "Jury rules Laak killed himself". The Leader-Post. p. 40.
↑ No author (1960-09-07).: "Immigration Dept. Probing Entry of Alleged Nazi Following Winnipeg Suicide". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. pp. 1, 8.
↑ Elkins, Michael (1971).: Forged in Fury. Ballantine Books. p. 302.
↑ No author (1943-08-26).: "Fascist erschießt sich." Berner Tagwacht. Page 1. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
↑ "Glaise von Horstenau, Edmund". New German Biography. Archived from the original on 2025-02-21. Retrieved 2025-07-11.
↑ Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (1963).: Freiheit und Recht: Die Stimme der Widerstandskämpfer für ein freies Europa. Volume 9. Page 16.
↑ "228". Cowra Japanese War Cemetery. Archived from the original on 2022-09-30. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
↑ No author (1946-10-24).: "Daluege, Who Wiped Out Lidice, Hanged; Execution Follows Two Attempts at Suicide". The New York Times. Page 14. Retrieved 2025-10-01.

[1] Drea, Edward J. (2003).: In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. University of Nebraska Press. p. 109.

[2] No author (1947-04-24).: "General Preferred Death, But Given Gaol". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 1.

[3] No author (1981-12-19).: "Alleged Nazi criminal killed by train". La Crosse Tribune. p. 13.

[4] No author (1981-12-20).: "Nazi's death ruled a suicide". Anchorage Daily News. p. 6.

[5] No author (1970-09-15).: "Jury rules Laak killed himself". The Leader-Post. p. 40.

[6] No author (1960-09-07).: "Immigration Dept. Probing Entry of Alleged Nazi Following Winnipeg Suicide". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. pp. 1, 8.

[7] Elkins, Michael (1971).: Forged in Fury. Ballantine Books. p. 302.

[8] No author (1943-08-26).: "Fascist erschießt sich." Berner Tagwacht. Page 1. Retrieved 2025-05-14.

[9] "Glaise von Horstenau, Edmund". New German Biography. Archived from the original on 2025-02-21. Retrieved 2025-07-11.

[10] Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (1963).: Freiheit und Recht: Die Stimme der Widerstandskämpfer für ein freies Europa. Volume 9. Page 16.

[11] "228". Cowra Japanese War Cemetery. Archived from the original on 2022-09-30. Retrieved 2025-06-02.

[12] No author (1946-10-24).: "Daluege, Who Wiped Out Lidice, Hanged; Execution Follows Two Attempts at Suicide". The New York Times. Page 14. Retrieved 2025-10-01.

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