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Hans Münch

1911 - 2001

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Hans Wilhelm Münch (14 May 1911 – 6 December 2001), also known as The Good Man of Auschwitz, was a German Nazi Party member who worked as an SS physician during World War II at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945 in German occupied Poland. He was acquitted of war crimes at a 1947 trial in Kraków. Münch was nicknamed The Good Man of Auschwitz for his refusal to assist in the mass murders there. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Münch has received more than 1,099,476 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Münch is the 386th most popular physician, the 3,001st most popular biography from Germany and the 66th most popular German Physician.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Hans Münch ranks 386 out of 726. Before him are Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Nicolae Paulescu, Karl Friedrich Burdach, Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, and Scribonius Largus. After him are Petrus Camper, William Bayliss, Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Richard Wilhelm, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, and Peseshet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Hans Münch ranks 136. Before him are Nikolai Kuznetsov, Paul Augustin Mayer, Leopold Kielholz, Theodore Romzha, Mirzo Tursunzoda, and Paul Carell. After him are Jiří Sobotka, Clara Rockmore, Gabriel Almond, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Son Sann, and Anatoly Rybakov. Among people deceased in 2001, Hans Münch ranks 110. Before him are Richard Wurmbrand, Davorin Popović, Henri Alekan, Josef Klaus, Michel Marcel Navratil, and G. E. M. Anscombe. After him are Charles Helou, Nigel Hawthorne, Paul Vanden Boeynants, Vasily Mishin, Marta Hillers, and Budd Boetticher.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Münch ranks 3,001 out of 7,253. Before him are Richard Ruoff (1883), Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen (1763), Heinrich Vogeler (1872), Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony (1757), Moritz Cantor (1829), and Hermann Esser (1900). After him are Henry the Middle, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1468), Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt (1857), Adolf Bertram (1859), Anno II (1010), Johanna Wolf (1900), and Philip II, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1559).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Hans Münch ranks 66. Before him are Karl Genzken (1885), Michael Maier (1568), Johann Kremer (1883), Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744), Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776), and Karl Friedrich Burdach (1776). After him are Richard Wilhelm (1873), Wilhelm Griesinger (1817), Theodor Meynert (1833), Paul Julius Möbius (1853), Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723), and Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766).

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