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Franz Stangl

1908 - 1971

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Franz Paul Stangl (German: [ˈʃtaŋl̩]; 26 March 1908 – 28 June 1971) was an Austrian police officer and commandant of the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor and Treblinka in World War II. Stangl, an employee of the T-4 Euthanasia Program and an SS commander in Nazi Germany, became commandant of the camps during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust. After the war he fled to Brazil for 16 years. In those 16 years he worked for Volkswagen do Brasil before he was arrested in 1967, extradited to West Germany, and tried there for the mass murder of one million people. In 1970, he was found guilty and sentenced to the maximum penalty, life imprisonment. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Stangl is the 235th most popular military personnel (down from 224th in 2019), the 155th most popular biography from Austria (down from 134th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Austrian Military Personnel.

Franz Stangl was a Nazi officer who oversaw the operation of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps during World War II.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Franz Stangl ranks 235 out of 2,058. Before him are Alfred von Tirpitz, Sun Ce, Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Erich Hoepner, and Ishida Mitsunari. After him are Pausanias, Benedict Arnold, Sun Jian, Hans von Seeckt, Lysander, and Toyotomi Hideyori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Franz Stangl ranks 33. Before him are Mika Waltari, Geli Raubal, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Ilya Frank, Aden Adde, and Michael DeBakey. After him are Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Joseph Rotblat, Nelson Rockefeller, Manoel de Oliveira, Alfred Hershey, and Willard Libby. Among people deceased in 1971, Franz Stangl ranks 27. Before him are Gotthard Heinrici, Igor Tamm, Wilhelm List, François Duvalier, Rudolf Abel, and Lin Biao. After him are Donald Winnicott, Jacobo Árbenz, Arne Jacobsen, Lothar Rendulic, Marcel Dupré, and Violet Jessop.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Franz Stangl ranks 155 out of 1,424. Before him are Albert III, Duke of Austria (1349), Ernst Happel (1925), Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1796), Ivan Illich (1926), Maria Leopoldina of Austria (1797), and Frederick the Fair (1289). After him are Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1718), Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (1559), Nikola IV Zrinski (1508), Eduard Strauss (1835), Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865), and Hermann Broch (1886).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Austria

Among military personnels born in Austria, Franz Stangl ranks 6. Before him are Otto Skorzeny (1908), Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852), Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1886), Józef Poniatowski (1763), and Alois Brunner (1912). After him are 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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