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Karl Genzken

1885 - 1957

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Karl August Genzken (8 June 1885 – 10 October 1957) was a Nazi physician who committed medical atrocities on prisoners of several concentration camps. He was an SS-Gruppenführer (Major General) of the Waffen-SS and the Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS. After the war ended, he was tried and convicted as a war criminal and for crimes against humanity in the 1947 Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg. Genzken was sentenced to life imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to 20 years and he was released in 1954. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Genzken is the 347th most popular physician (up from 372nd in 2019), the 2,499th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,882nd in 2019) and the 52nd most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Karl Genzken ranks 347 out of 726. Before him are Mary Putnam Jacobi, Friedrich Hoffmann, Horace Wells, Masawaiyh, Podalirius, and James Curtis Hepburn. After him are Aëtius of Amida, Thomas Szasz, Paul Neumann, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, and William Cullen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Karl Genzken ranks 91. Before him are Frank Jack Fletcher, Agustín Barrios, Constantin Sănătescu, Viktor Schauberger, Pierre Renoir, and James Scott. After him are Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Milan Vidmar, Noman Çelebicihan, Alexandros Koryzis, Iuliu Hossu, and St John Philby. Among people deceased in 1957, Karl Genzken ranks 95. Before him are Ernst Gräfenberg, Prince Franz of Bavaria, Gheorghe Tătărescu, Claude Farrère, Wilhelm Filchner, and Eugène Schueller. After him are Heinrich Bär, Valery Larbaud, Umberto Saba, Musidora, Luigi Ganna, and Hasui Kawase.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Genzken ranks 2,500 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1707), Franz Six (1909), Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1481), Alfred Pfaff (1926), Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1583), and Anna Schäffer (1882). After him are Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (1244), Helmuth James von Moltke (1907), Friedrich Meinecke (1862), Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713), Berthold Auerbach (1812), and Bert Kaempfert (1923).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Karl Genzken ranks 52. Before him are Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723), Sigmund Rascher (1909), Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744), Dorothea Erxleben (1715), Richard Wilhelm (1873), and Friedrich Hoffmann (1660). After him are Johann von Staupitz (1465), Claus Schilling (1871), Gustav Hartlaub (1814), Johann Christian Reil (1759), Johann Peter Frank (1745), and Paul Julius Möbius (1853).

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