Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben

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Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben (9 August 1899 – 23 August 1953) was a German SS officer from the noble von Alvensleben family. He fought in World War I, earned the Iron Cross, and after the war joined the Nazi Party and the SS in 1932. In World War II he served as a senior staff member in Operation Reinhard, the Nazi plan to kill Jews in Europe. He led the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz in Danzig-West Prussia and helped train the units that carried out mass killings, including the AB-Aktion and the Jozefow and Radawiec massacres in 1940. He later joined the Waffen-SS and held various police leadership roles, becoming the SS and Police Leader for Adria-West in Northern Italy/South Tyrol toward the end of the war. He avoided prosecution after the war and died in a car accident near Dortmund in 1953.