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Martin Gottfried Weiss

1905 - 1946

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Martin Gottfried Weiss, alternatively spelled Weiß (3 June 1905 – 29 May 1946), but best known as The Demon of Dachau was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 at the time of his arrest. He also served from April 1940 until September 1942 as the commandant of Neuengamme concentration camp, and later, from November 1943 until May 1944, as the fourth commandant of Majdanek concentration camp. He was executed for war crimes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Gottfried Weiss is the 1,069th most popular military personnel (down from 1,011th in 2019), the 2,673rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,447th in 2019) and the 192nd most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Martin Gottfried Weiss ranks 1,069 out of 2,058. Before him are Krystyna Skarbek, Maximilian Grabner, Max Simon, Georgios Grivas, Abdul Fatah Younis, and Rostam Farrokhzad. After him are Otto Lasch, Semyon Kurkotkin, Maximilian de Angelis, Wilhelm Falley, Arthur Rostron, and Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Martin Gottfried Weiss ranks 125. Before him are Edgar Snow, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Paul Ariste, Charles Lane, Gaston Eyskens, and Maximilian Grabner. After him are George Kelly, Ángel Bossio, Dmitri Shepilov, Hilde Holger, Joseph Bonanno, and Tore Keller. Among people deceased in 1946, Martin Gottfried Weiss ranks 96. Before him are Jorge Ubico, Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Saint Alphonsa, Béla Imrédy, Robert Heinrich Wagner, and Johannes Vares. After him are Claus Schilling, Bo Gu, Max Pauly, Harry Hopkins, Elisabeth Becker, and Jack Johnson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Gottfried Weiss ranks 2,674 out of 7,253. Before him are Christian Otto Mohr (1835), Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573), Heinz Hoffmann (1910), Ulric Neisser (1928), Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1850), and Gerhard Gentzen (1909). After him are Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania (1580), Fritz Busch (1890), Alexander Braun (1805), Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia (1714), Heinrich Boie (1794), and Walter Ruttmann (1887).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Martin Gottfried Weiss ranks 192. Before him are Otto von Lossow (1868), Eugen Ritter von Schobert (1883), Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch (1888), Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1899), Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782), and Eugen Meindl (1892). After him are Max Pauly (1907), August Schmidhuber (1901), Walter Heitz (1878), Siegfried von Feuchtwangen (1300), Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1632), and Otto Baum (1911).

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