Herbert Lange completed his law studies without a degree. He then became a police officer and Gestapo commissioner. In 1939, he was transferred to Einsatzgruppe VI in occupied Poland. He was in charge of the Gestapo prison »Posen concentration camp« and became inspector of the security police. He was assigned a special commando. It murdered thousands of Polish prison inmates. From December 1941, he was in charge of the Kulmhof extermination camp. Tens of thousands of Jews and Sinti and Roma were murdered there. He was then appointed to the Reich Main Security Office (Berlin) and headed the SoKo »Sonderkommando«, among others. It is still uncertain today whether he actually died on 20 April 1945 during a battle at Bernau near Berlin.
