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Ilse Koch

1906 - 1967

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Ilse Koch (22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in the Nazi state, she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at war's end and was referred to as the "Kommandeuse of Buchenwald". Because of the egregiousness of her alleged actions, including that she had selected tattooed prisoners for death in order to fashion lampshades and other items from their skins, her 1947 U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ilse Koch has received more than 3,524,151 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Ilse Koch is the 1,211th most popular politician (down from 696th in 2019), the 319th most popular biography from Germany (down from 188th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular German Politician.

Ilse Koch was a German woman who was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the Commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald. She was known for her love of collecting the tattoos from prisoners.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ilse Koch ranks 1,211 out of 19,576. Before her are Margaret of Parma, Johann Friedrich Struensee, Jens Stoltenberg, Hoshea, Soong Ching-ling, and Kim Jong-un. After her are Gustav Stresemann, Thomas Sankara, Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Al-Walid I, Idris of Libya, and Agrippina the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Ilse Koch ranks 26. Before her are Billy Wilder, Henri Charrière, Hans Bethe, Roberto Rossellini, Ernst Ruska, and Emmanuel Levinas. After her are Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Soichiro Honda, Ed Gein, Hermann Fegelein, Alexey Stakhanov, and Giuseppe Farina. Among people deceased in 1967, Ilse Koch ranks 11. Before her are Vivien Leigh, Puyi, Casimir Funk, Vladimir Komarov, Mohammad Mosaddegh, and Clement Attlee. After her are Spencer Tracy, Zoltán Kodály, Jack Ruby, André Maurois, Edward Hopper, and Jayne Mansfield.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ilse Koch ranks 319 out of 7,253. Before her are Theodor Heuss (1884), Julius Streicher (1885), Georgy Lvov (1861), Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881), Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737), and Joseph Beuys (1921). After her are Gustav Stresemann (1878), Franz Halder (1884), Frederick I of Sweden (1676), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), and Friedrich Bessel (1784).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Ilse Koch ranks 93. Before her are Henry the Lion (1129), Christian III of Denmark (1503), Theodor Heuss (1884), Julius Streicher (1885), Georgy Lvov (1861), and Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737). After her are Gustav Stresemann (1878), Frederick I of Sweden (1676), Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744), Karl Haushofer (1869), Fritz Sauckel (1894), and Ferdinand I of Romania (1865).

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