SS Main Economic and Administrative Office

SS Main Economic and Administrative Office
SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt
SS-WVHA

Heinrich Himmler at an SS construction site, 1940.
SS-WVHA overview
FormedFebruary 1, 1942[1]
Preceding agencies
  • Hauptamt Verwaltung und Wirtschaft
  • Hauptamt Haushalt und Bauten
DissolvedMay 8, 1945
Jurisdiction German Reich
Nazi Germany German-occupied Europe
HeadquartersUnter den Eichen 125-135, Lichterfelde, Berlin
52°27′5.12″N 13°18′35.24″E / 52.4514222°N 13.3097889°E / 52.4514222; 13.3097889
Minister responsible
SS-WVHA executive
Parent SS-WVHASchutzstaffel Allgemeine-SS

The SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (German: SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt; SS-WVHA) was a Nazi organization responsible for managing the finances, supply systems and business projects of the Allgemeine-SS (a main branch of the Schutzstaffel; SS). It also ran the concentration camps and was instrumental in the implementation of the Final Solution through such subsidiary offices as the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and SS camp guards.

  1. ^ Sofsky 1997, p. 40.