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Fritz Bauer

1903 - 1968

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Fritz Bauer (16 July 1903 – 1 July 1968) was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor. He played an instrumental role in the post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann, and in bringing about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fritz Bauer is the 8th most popular judge (down from 7th in 2019), the 1,651st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,381st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Judge.

Fritz Bauer is most famous for prosecuting Nazi war criminals.

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Among JUDGES

Among judges, Fritz Bauer ranks 8 out of 53. Before him are Giovanni Falcone, Adly Mansour, Roland Freisler, Paolo Borsellino, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Maryanne Trump Barry. After him are Carlo Biotti, John Roberts, Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, John Marshall, and Georg Konrad Morgen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Fritz Bauer ranks 87. Before him are Sadegh Hedayat, Prince Nicholas of Romania, Lou Gehrig, Mikhail Kalatozov, Alice Herz-Sommer, and Heinz Reinefarth. After him are Bob Hope, Henry Corbin, Charlotte Perriand, Nico Diederichs, Werner Ostendorff, and Otto Abetz. Among people deceased in 1968, Fritz Bauer ranks 52. Before him are Charles Chaplin Jr., Leopold Infeld, George Hackenschmidt, Hitoshi Imamura, Zaki al-Arsuzi, and Tsuguharu Foujita. After him are Boris Lyatoshinsky, John Heartfield, Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, Jean Hyppolite, István Dobi, and Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Bauer ranks 1,651 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Zaisser (1893), Princess Margaret of Prussia (1872), Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (1706), Georg Kerschensteiner (1854), Ludwig Borchardt (1863), and Christian Leopold von Buch (1774). After him are Wilhelm Backhaus (1884), Hans Vaihinger (1852), Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806), Jürgen Kohler (1965), Marianne Weber (1870), and Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (1751).

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Among JUDGES In Germany

Among judges born in Germany, Fritz Bauer ranks 2. Before him are Roland Freisler (1893). After him are Georg Konrad Morgen (1909), and Thomas Hoeren (1961).

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