MAFIOSOS from Germany

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary German Mafiosos of all time. This list of famous German Mafiosos is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Karl Gebhardt (1897 - 1948)

With an HPI of 65.26, Karl Gebhardt is the most famous German Mafioso.  His biography has been translated into 32 different languages on wikipedia.

Karl Franz Gebhardt (23 November 1897 – 2 June 1948) was a Nazi physician and a war criminal. Gebhardt was the main coordinator of a series of medical atrocities performed on inmates of the concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz. These experiments were an attempt to defend his approach to the surgical management of grossly contaminated traumatic wounds, against the then-new innovations of antibiotic treatment of injuries acquired on the battlefield. During the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Gebhardt stood trial in the Doctors' trial (American Military Tribunal No. I). He was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to death on 20 August 1947. He was hanged on 2 June 1948, in Landsberg Prison in Bavaria.

2. Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (1922 - 1946)

With an HPI of 58.74, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann is the 2nd most famous German Mafioso.  Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (30 May 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a German overseer in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. She was tried and executed for crimes against humanity after the war.

3. Richard Hauptmann (1899 - 1936)

With an HPI of 56.89, Richard Hauptmann is the 3rd most famous German Mafioso.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Bruno Richard Hauptmann (November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936) was a German-born carpenter who was convicted of the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping became known as the "crime of the century". Both Hauptmann and his wife, Anna Hauptmann, proclaimed his innocence to his death, when he was executed in 1936 by electric chair at the Trenton State Prison. Anna later sued the State of New Jersey, various former police officers, the Hearst newspapers that had published pre-trial articles insisting on Hauptmann's guilt, and former prosecutor David T. Wilentz.