MILITARY PERSONNEL

Alois Brunner

1912 - 2010

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Alois Brunner (8 April 1912 – December 2001 or 2010, presumed and declared dead in 2021 by a Vienna, Austria, magisterial court) was an Austrian officer who held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) during World War II. Brunner played a significant role in the implementation of the Holocaust through rounding up and deporting Jews in occupied Austria, Greece, France, and Slovakia. He was known as Final Solution architect Adolf Eichmann's right-hand man. In 1988, Simon Wiesenthal called Brunner "doubtless the worst" "living criminal of the Third Reich" Brunner was responsible for sending over 100,000 European Jews from Austria, Greece, France and Slovakia to ghettos and concentration camps in eastern Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alois Brunner has received more than 1,360,437 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Alois Brunner is the 298th most popular military personnel (down from 268th in 2019), the 178th most popular biography from Austria (down from 166th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Military Personnel.

Alois Brunner was a Nazi officer who was responsible for the deportation of Jews to concentration camps.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alois Brunner ranks 298 out of 2,058. Before him are Georges Picquart, Xiahou Dun, Uqba ibn Nafi, Jonas Savimbi, Karl-Otto Koch, and Charles François Dumouriez. After him are Polyperchon, Maurice Benyovszky, Rochus Misch, Meng Tian, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, and Alexander Löhr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Alois Brunner ranks 35. Before him are Lawrence Durrell, Karl Malden, Edward Mills Purcell, Juan Pujol García, Leonid Kantorovich, and Maria Mandl. After him are Isser Harel, Pierre Boulle, Chien-Shiung Wu, Glenn T. Seaborg, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, and Kim Philby. Among people deceased in 2010, Alois Brunner ranks 25. Before him are Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Zecharia Sitchin, Néstor Kirchner, Gennady Yanayev, Francesco Cossiga, and Bruno Cremer. After him are Dino De Laurentiis, Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Harry Mulisch, Louise Bourgeois, and Stjepan Bobek.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Alois Brunner ranks 178 out of 1,424. Before him are Hermann Oberth (1894), Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1718), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), Alfred Schütz (1899), Maria Mandl (1912), and Josef Stefan (1835). After him are Eric Kandel (1929), Karl Seitz (1869), Otto of Freising (1114), Mercédès Jellinek (1889), Elizabeth of Austria (1437), and Eduard Strauss (1835).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Austria

Among military personnels born in Austria, Alois Brunner ranks 8. Before him are Józef Poniatowski (1763), Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1886), Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643), Franz Stangl (1908), Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (1771), and Lothar Rendulic (1887). After him are Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852), Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (1817), Gustav Wagner (1911), Walter Nowotny (1920), Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria (1818), and Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614).

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