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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. 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 3,294,413 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Ilse Koch is the 697th most popular politician (down from 696th in 2019), the 188th most popular biography from Germany (up from 197th in 2019) and the 50th 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 697 out of 15,577. Before her are Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Enrico Dandolo, Childeric III, Henry I of England, Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maximinus Thrax. After her are Smenkhkare, John the Fearless, Leonid Kravchuk, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan, and John of Bohemia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Ilse Koch ranks 12. Before her are Samuel Beckett, Luchino Visconti, Grace Hopper, Josephine Baker, Aristotle Onassis, and Kurt Gödel. After her are Billy Wilder, Roberto Rossellini, Albert Hofmann, Victor Vasarely, Sergei Korolev, and Maria Goeppert Mayer. Among people deceased in 1967, Ilse Koch ranks 6. Before her are Che Guevara, René Magritte, Konrad Adenauer, Puyi, and Vivien Leigh. After her are J. Robert Oppenheimer, Spencer Tracy, Vladimir Komarov, Clement Attlee, Edward Hopper, and Mohammad Mosaddegh.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ilse Koch ranks 188 out of 6,142. Before her are Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886), Max Born (1882), Augustus III of Poland (1696), Caroline of Ansbach (1683), Emmy Noether (1882), and Matthias Grünewald (1480). After her are Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800), Hans Holbein the Younger (1497), Edith Stein (1891), Philip Melanchthon (1497), Rudolf I of Germany (1218), and Emil Fischer (1852).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Ilse Koch ranks 50. Before her are Christian IX of Denmark (1818), Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (1882), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926), Olaf Scholz (1958), Arnulf of Carinthia (850), and Augustus III of Poland (1696). After her are Rudolf I of Germany (1218), Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756), Frederick William II of Prussia (1744), Alexander Van der Bellen (1944), Konstantin von Neurath (1873), and Karl Liebknecht (1871).

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