abstract:Richard Hermann Hildebrandt (13 May 1897, Worms - 10 March 1952, Gdansk) was a politician in Nazi Germany, member of the Reichstag, and an SS-Obergruppenführer. From 1943 until his capture in 1945, he led the SS-Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt or RuSHA (SS Race and Settlement Main Office).