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Karl Wolff

1900 - 1984

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Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff (13 May 1900 – 16 July 1984) was a senior German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who served as Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and an SS liaison to Adolf Hitler during World War II. He ended the war as the Supreme SS and Police Leader in occupied Italy and helped arrange for the early surrender of Axis forces in that theatre, effectively ending the war there several days sooner than in the rest of Europe. He escaped prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials as a result of his participation in Operation Sunrise. In 1962, Wolff was arrested in West Germany and prosecuted for the deportation of Polish Jews. In 1964, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for being an accessory to murder. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Wolff is the 273rd most popular military personnel (down from 253rd in 2019), the 683rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 608th in 2019) and the 57th most popular German Military Personnel.

Karl Wolff was a high-ranking Nazi SS officer who served as a personal adjutant to Adolf Hitler. He was the Commandant of the Nazi concentration camps of Dachau and Sachsenhausen. He was also the chief of the Gestapo in Lyon, France.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Karl Wolff ranks 273 out of 2,058. Before him are Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Han Xin, Sejanus, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, and Lothar Rendulic. After him are Oskar Dirlewanger, Robert Nivelle, Otto Carius, Otto Günsche, Johannes Blaskowitz, and J. E. B. Stuart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Karl Wolff ranks 39. Before him are James Hilton, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Jan Oort, Kurt Weill, Pak Hon-yong, and Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta. After him are Arno Breker, Choe Yong-gon, Chiune Sugihara, Anna Seghers, Jiro Miyake, and Edward Stettinius Jr.. Among people deceased in 1984, Karl Wolff ranks 26. Before him are Pyotr Kapitsa, Vicente Aleixandre, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Martin Niemöller, Ray Kroc, and Janaki Ammal. After him are Anna Anderson, Sam Peckinpah, Lionel Robbins, Jiro Miyake, Stanley Milgram, and Oleg Antonov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Wolff ranks 683 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895), Max Wolf (1863), Princess Caroline of Great Britain (1713), Erwin Neher (1944), Felix Hoffmann (1868), and Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805). After him are Ottmar Hitzfeld (1949), Dietrich Eckart (1868), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), Georg Büchner (1813), Otto Carius (1922), and Simon Marius (1573).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Karl Wolff ranks 57. Before him are Maximilian von Weichs (1881), Wilhelm Mohnke (1911), Kurt Student (1890), Erhard Milch (1892), Karl-Otto Koch (1897), and Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895). After him are Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), Otto Carius (1922), Otto Günsche (1917), Hasso von Manteuffel (1897), Reinhard Gehlen (1902), and Werner Mölders (1913).

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