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Alois Brunner

1912 - 2010

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Alois Brunner (8 April 1912 – December 2001 or 2010) was an Austrian officer who held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) during World War II. Brunner played a significant role in the implementation of the Holocaust through rounding up and deporting Jews in occupied Austria, Greece, France, and Slovakia. He was known as Final Solution architect Adolf Eichmann's right-hand man. Brunner was responsible for sending over 100,000 European Jews from Austria, Greece, France and Slovakia to ghettos and concentration camps in eastern Europe. At the start of the war, he oversaw the deportation of 47,000 Austrian Jews to camps. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alois Brunner is the 184th most popular military personnel (up from 298th in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Austria (up from 178th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Military Personnel.

Alois Brunner was a Nazi officer who was responsible for the deportation of Jews to concentration camps.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alois Brunner ranks 184 out of 2,058. Before him are Pittacus of Mytilene, Giovanni Giustiniani, Józef Poniatowski, Michiel de Ruyter, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, and Ernst Busch. After him are Joachim Peiper, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Felix Steiner, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, and Desmond Doss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Alois Brunner ranks 23. Before him are János Kádár, Millvina Dean, Carlo Ponti, Jorge Amado, Gene Kelly, and Konrad Emil Bloch. After him are Chuck Jones, Ghazi of Iraq, Heinrich Harrer, B. D. Jatti, Hanna Reitsch, and Glenn T. Seaborg. Among people deceased in 2010, Alois Brunner ranks 18. Before him are Eddie Fisher, Benoit Mandelbrot, Georges Charpak, Maurice Allais, Éric Rohmer, and Bobby Farrell. After him are Claude Chabrol, Dennis Hopper, Néstor Kirchner, Vasily Smyslov, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, and Tsutomu Yamaguchi.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Alois Brunner ranks 125 out of 1,424. Before him are Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (1679), Heinz Fischer (1938), Paul Feyerabend (1924), Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1738), Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (1633), and Józef Poniatowski (1763). After him are Geli Raubal (1908), Milutin Milanković (1879), Richard Kuhn (1900), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), Josef Breuer (1842), and Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (1742).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Austria

Among military personnels born in Austria, Alois Brunner ranks 5. Before him are Otto Skorzeny (1908), Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852), Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1886), and Józef Poniatowski (1763). After him are Franz Stangl (1908), Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643), Lothar Rendulic (1887), Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (1771), Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705), Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg (1865), and Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (1817).

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