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Hans Münch

1911 - 2001

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Hans Wilhelm Münch (14 May 1911 – 6 December 2001), also known as The Good Man of Auschwitz, was a German Nazi Party member who worked as an SS physician during World War II at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945 in German occupied Poland. He was acquitted of war crimes at a 1947 trial in Kraków. Münch was nicknamed The Good Man of Auschwitz for his refusal to assist in the mass murders there. He developed many elaborate ruses to keep inmates alive. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Münch is the 452nd most popular physician (down from 386th in 2019), the 3,427th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,001st in 2019) and the 76th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Hans Münch ranks 452 out of 726. Before him are Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, Rebecca Guarna, Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky, Ferdinand von Mueller, Luca Ghini, and Divna Veković. After him are Anastasia Golovina, Deborah Birx, Hiroshi Nakajima, Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Bénédict Morel, and Heinrich Rudolf Schinz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Hans Münch ranks 163. Before him are Theodore Romzha, Kukrit Pramoj, Paul Carell, Juan Carlos Zabala, Louis Dumont, and Nello Pagani. After him are Hume Cronyn, Anatoly Rybakov, Gabriel Almond, Paul Augustin Mayer, Floyd Council, and Guy Burgess. Among people deceased in 2001, Hans Münch ranks 143. Before him are Jenő Fock, Michel Marcel Navratil, Kathleen Freeman, Melanie Thornton, Robert Enrico, and Philippe Léotard. After him are Juan Bosch, Viktor Astafyev, Luiz Bonfá, Alexey Maresyev, Chuck Schuldiner, and Mike Mentzer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Münch ranks 3,429 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Samuel König (1712), Walther Kadow (1900), Maximilian, Margrave of Baden (1933), Sophie von La Roche (1730), Hedwig of Holstein (1260), and Werner Kohlmeyer (1924). After him are Justus Jonas (1493), Karlheinz Förster (1958), Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel (1796), Gunta Stölzl (1897), Markus Merk (1962), and Princess Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal (1730).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Hans Münch ranks 76. Before him are Adolf Kussmaul (1822), Michael Maier (1568), Wilhelm Kühne (1837), Theodor Meynert (1833), Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819), and Ferdinand von Mueller (1825). After him are Friedrich von Esmarch (1823), Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783), Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762), Friedrich von Huene (1875), Gustav Fischer (1848), and Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833).

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