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Otto Günsche

1917 - 2003

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Otto Günsche (24 September 1917 – 2 October 2003) was a German mid-ranking officer in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a member of the SS Division Leibstandarte before he became Adolf Hitler's personal adjutant. Günsche was taken prisoner by soldiers of the Red Army in Berlin on 2 May 1945. He was held in various labour camps and prisons by the Soviet Union until 2 May 1956 and provided key testimony regarding Hitler's death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Günsche is the 277th most popular military personnel (down from 256th in 2019), the 692nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 618th in 2019) and the 60th most popular German Military Personnel.

Otto Günsche was a member of the SS and Hitler's personal bodyguard. He was the first person to see Hitler's body after he committed suicide and was one of the people who helped cremate his body.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Otto Günsche ranks 277 out of 2,058. Before him are Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Lothar Rendulic, Karl Wolff, Oskar Dirlewanger, Robert Nivelle, and Otto Carius. After him are Johannes Blaskowitz, J. E. B. Stuart, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Sun Bin, Alvin York, and Omar Bradley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Otto Günsche ranks 33. Before him are Donald Davidson, Sidney Sheldon, Leonid Hurwicz, Óscar Romero, Andrew Huxley, and William Standish Knowles. After him are Nur Muhammad Taraki, Barry Nelson, Joan Fontaine, Kiro Gligorov, Mel Ferrer, and John B. Calhoun. Among people deceased in 2003, Otto Günsche ranks 31. Before him are Walt Whitman Rostow, Robert Palmer, Robert Kardashian, Luciano Berio, Soong Mei-ling, and Maurice Blanchot. After him are Mario Beccaria, Lee Yoo-hyung, Gertrude Ederle, Franco Modigliani, Richard Crenna, and Compay Segundo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Günsche ranks 692 out of 7,253. Before him are Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), Georg Büchner (1813), Otto Carius (1922), Simon Marius (1573), Arno Breker (1900), and Hans Holbein the Elder (1465). After him are Widukind (755), George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595), Curd Jürgens (1915), Rudi Völler (1960), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), and John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Otto Günsche ranks 60. Before him are Erhard Milch (1892), Karl-Otto Koch (1897), Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895), Karl Wolff (1900), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), and Otto Carius (1922). After him are Hasso von Manteuffel (1897), Reinhard Gehlen (1902), Werner Mölders (1913), Hugo Sperrle (1885), Eduard Dietl (1890), and Arthur Nebe (1894).

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