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Karl Frenzel

1911 - 1996

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Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel (20 August 1911 – 2 September 1996) was an SS noncommissioned officer in Sobibor extermination camp. After the Second World War, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes, but he was ultimately released after serving 16 years in prison. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Frenzel has received more than 398,578 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Frenzel is the 817th most popular military personnel (up from 825th in 2019), the 2,019th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,059th in 2019) and the 147th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Karl Frenzel ranks 817 out of 2,058Before him are Vasily Petrov, Erich Rudorffer, Mario Roatta, Hans Hartwig von Beseler, Marco Antonio Bragadin, and Julius Jacob von Haynau. After him are Henri Winkelman, Osman Batur, Ernst Barkmann, Mario Terán, Alexander Haig, and Ludwig Crüwell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Karl Frenzel ranks 90Before him are Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Renée Simonot, Teddy Kollek, Danny Kaye, Paul Goodman, and Betty Robinson. After him are Viktor Barna, André Leroi-Gourhan, André Claveau, Hans Woellke, Ishirō Honda, and Józef Cyrankiewicz. Among people deceased in 1996, Karl Frenzel ranks 82Before him are Mary Leakey, Karl Rappan, Muhammad al-Badr, Stavros Niarchos, Albert R. Broccoli, and Zeki Müren. After him are Christopher Robin Milne, Saul Bass, Dondinho, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, and Amos Tversky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Frenzel ranks 2,019 out of 7,253Before him are Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1745), Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721), Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1612), Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786), Walter Schröder (1932), and Augustin Bea (1881). After him are John Sutter (1803), Eugen Weidmann (1908), Paul Troost (1878), John III, Duke of Cleves (1490), William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532), and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Karl Frenzel ranks 147Before him are Otto von Lossow (1868), Georg Lindemann (1884), Kurt von Tippelskirch (1891), Erich Rudorffer (1917), Hans Hartwig von Beseler (1850), and Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786). After him are Ernst Barkmann (1919), Ludwig Crüwell (1892), Walter Heitz (1878), Wilhelm Adam (1877), Bruno Loerzer (1891), and Erich Brandenberger (1892).