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Karl-Otto Koch

1897 - 1945

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Karl-Otto Koch (German: [kɔx]; 2 August 1897 – 5 April 1945) was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany who was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September 1941 until August 1942, he served as the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in occupied Poland, stealing vast amounts of valuables and money from murdered Jews. His wife, Ilse Koch, also participated in the crimes at Buchenwald. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl-Otto Koch is the 266th most popular military personnel (up from 296th in 2019), the 669th most popular biography from Germany (up from 688th in 2019) and the 55th most popular German Military Personnel.

Karl-Otto Koch was the commandant of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. He was executed by the Allies in 1945 for crimes against humanity.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Karl-Otto Koch ranks 266 out of 2,058. Before him are Date Masamune, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Federico da Montefeltro, Eumenes, Pedro de Alvarado, and Louis-Gabriel Suchet. After him are Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Han Xin, Sejanus, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, and Lothar Rendulic.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Karl-Otto Koch ranks 34. Before him are Norbert Elias, Enid Blyton, Pola Negri, Georg Wittig, Kurt Daluege, and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish. After him are Soong Mei-ling, Janaki Ammal, Karl Gebhardt, Otto Strasser, Jimmie Rodgers, and Hasso von Manteuffel. Among people deceased in 1945, Karl-Otto Koch ranks 55. Before him are Yun Chi-ho, Robert Ritter von Greim, Edgar Cayce, Theodore Dreiser, Franz Werfel, and Robert H. Goddard. After him are Wilhelm Burgdorf, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Oskar Dirlewanger, Heinrich Wölfflin, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, and Ludwig Stumpfegger.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl-Otto Koch ranks 669 out of 7,253. Before him are Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Bruno Bauer (1809), Johann Franz Encke (1791), Heinrich Lübke (1894), Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (1617), and Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1861). After him are Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862), Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1819), Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1505), Klaus Fuchs (1911), and Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (1811).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Karl-Otto Koch ranks 55. Before him are Erich Hoepner (1886), Hans von Seeckt (1866), Maximilian von Weichs (1881), Wilhelm Mohnke (1911), Kurt Student (1890), and Erhard Milch (1892). After him are Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895), Karl Wolff (1900), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), Otto Carius (1922), Otto Günsche (1917), and Hasso von Manteuffel (1897).

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