MILITARY PERSONNEL

Kurt Franz

1914 - 1998

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Kurt Hubert Franz (17 January 1914 – 4 July 1998) was an SS officer and one of the commanders of the Treblinka extermination camp. Because of this, Franz was one of the major perpetrators of genocide during the Holocaust. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the Treblinka Trials in 1965, he was eventually released in 1993. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Franz is the 625th most popular military personnel (down from 560th in 2019), the 1,598th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,357th in 2019) and the 113th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Kurt Franz ranks 625 out of 2,058. Before him are Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours, Frederick Browning, Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Yoshijirō Umezu, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, and Adem Jashari. After him are Gyula Cseszneky, Eberhard von Mackensen, Karl Silberbauer, Takeichi Nishi, Osman Pazvantoğlu, and Johan Banér.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Kurt Franz ranks 78. Before him are Pierre Balmain, Jan Karski, Lilli Palmer, Yakov Zeldovich, Mario Bava, and Martin Gardner. After him are Gyula Cseszneky, Shapour Bakhtiar, Larbi Benbarek, Asger Jorn, Taizo Kawamoto, and Woody Strode. Among people deceased in 1998, Kurt Franz ranks 66. Before him are Marie-Louise Meilleur, Maurice Bucaille, Kamala Sohonie, Ernst-Günther Schenck, Nazim al-Qudsi, and Adem Jashari. After him are Wolf Vostell, Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Verner Panton, Efim Geller, James Earl Ray, and Anne Desclos.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Franz ranks 1,598 out of 7,253. Before him are Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), Andreas Libavius (1555), Hans Schäfer (1927), Pascual Jordan (1902), Johann Arndt (1555), and Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria (1878). After him are Otto Wels (1873), Rudi Dutschke (1940), Carl Correns (1864), Richard Glücks (1889), Méret Oppenheim (1913), and Gustav Landauer (1870).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Kurt Franz ranks 113. Before him are Walter Rauff (1906), Günther Blumentritt (1892), Herta Bothe (1921), Alexander von Kluck (1846), Anton Dostler (1891), and Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1888). After him are Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1911), Hans Speidel (1897), Heinz Lammerding (1905), Kurt von Tippelskirch (1891), Fritz Bayerlein (1899), and Franz Hössler (1906).

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