Margarete Rabe was a female guard at two concentration camps from November 1944 until April 1945.

Margarete Rabe was born in Neustadt-Glewe on October 2, 1923. She lived there throughout her younger years, and in 1944 she applied tothe Naustadt-Glewe camp office to be a guard. The Nazis sent her to Ravensbrück on November 7, 1944. She immediately began mistreating the female prisoners there and was known in the camp for her brutality. In late November or early December 1944, Margarete was one of several guards to be posted to the Uckermark extermination complex under Ruth Closius. There the young SS Aufseherin; helped select women and children for the gas chambers, and also took part in murders and maltreatment. One survivor commented that the SS women in Uckermark were the most brutal of any in the Ravensbrück complex. In April 1945, Margarete fled the Uckermark camp. At the second Ravensbrück Trial in April 1948, the British court handed Margarete Rabe a sentence of life imprisonment.

Margarete Rabe selected 3,000 women prisoners for the gas chamber and other execution methods, but was set free on February 26, 1954 having served five years and ten months in confinement.