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Otto Skorzeny

1908 - 1975

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Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny (12 June 1908 – 5 July 1975) was an Austrian-born German SS-Standartenführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved in a number of operations, including the removal from power of Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy and the Gran Sasso raid that rescued Benito Mussolini from captivity. Skorzeny led Operation Greif in which German soldiers infiltrated Allied lines wearing their enemies' uniforms. As a result, he was charged in 1947 at the Dachau Military Tribunal with breaching the 1907 Hague Convention, but was acquitted. Skorzeny escaped from an internment camp in 1948, hiding out on a Bavarian farm as well as in Salzburg and Paris before eventually settling in Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Skorzeny is the 58th most popular military personnel (up from 63rd in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Austria (down from 51st in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Military Personnel.

Otto Skorzeny was a German SS-Obersturmbannführer and war criminal. He was best known for his involvement in Operation Greif, which was a secret mission to capture the bridges over the Seine River during the Battle of the Bulge.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Otto Skorzeny ranks 58 out of 2,058. Before him are Alfred Dreyfus, Germanicus, Isoroku Yamamoto, Lü Bu, Gerd von Rundstedt, and Tughril. After him are Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Mikhail Kutuzov, Baron Munchausen, Erich Ludendorff, Roland, and Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Otto Skorzeny ranks 11. Before him are Salvador Allende, Abraham Maslow, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Lyndon B. Johnson, Herbert von Karajan, and Lev Landau. After him are Amon Göth, Edward Teller, Willard Van Orman Quine, Olivier Messiaen, Hannes Alfvén, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Among people deceased in 1975, Otto Skorzeny ranks 12. Before him are Ivo Andrić, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Umm Kulthum, Aristotle Onassis, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Robert Robinson. After him are Josephine Baker, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Edward Tatum, Mikhail Bakhtin, Arnold J. Toynbee, and George Paget Thomson.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Otto Skorzeny ranks 62 out of 1,424. Before him are Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608), Maria Carolina of Austria (1752), Archduchess Sophie of Austria (1855), Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678), Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), and Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802). After him are Róbert Bárány (1876), Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854), Amon Göth (1908), Christian Doppler (1803), Oskar Kokoschka (1886), and Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Austria

Among military personnels born in Austria, Otto Skorzeny ranks 1. After him are Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852), Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1886), Józef Poniatowski (1763), Alois Brunner (1912), Franz Stangl (1908), Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643), Lothar Rendulic (1887), Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (1771), Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705), Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg (1865), and Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (1817).

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