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Karl Genzken

1885 - 1957

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Karl August Genzken (June 8, 1885 – October 10, 1957) was a Nazi physician who committed medical atrocities on prisoners of several concentration camps. He was a Gruppenführer (Major General) of the Waffen-SS and the Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS. Genzken. He was tried and convicted as a war criminal and for crimes against humanity in the 1947 Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Genzken has received more than 78,056 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Genzken is the 372nd most popular physician, the 2,882nd most popular biography from Germany and the 60th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Karl Genzken ranks 372 out of 726. Before him are Garcia de Orta, Ali ibn Ridwan, Bénédict Morel, Robert Remak, Claus Schilling, and Hiraga Gennai. After him are Michael Maier, Walter Jackson Freeman II, Johann Kremer, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, Prospero Alpini, and Andrew Taylor Still.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Karl Genzken ranks 110. Before him are Mineichi Koga, Francisco Bru, Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Sophie, Princess of Albania, Anton Flettner, and Dezső Kosztolányi. After him are Jan Czochralski, Aleksandras Stulginskis, Jerome Kern, Henri Laurens, Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, and François de La Rocque. Among people deceased in 1957, Karl Genzken ranks 106. Before him are Charles Pathé, Musidora, Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Charles Kay Ogden, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and Halil Kut. After him are Abolqasem Lahouti, Bertha Krupp, José Linhares, Marija Jurić Zagorka, Avetik Isahakyan, and Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Genzken ranks 2,882 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm von Biela (1782), John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1513), Edzard II, Count of East Frisia (1532), Josias von Heeringen (1850), Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), and Ludwig Rellstab (1799). After him are Michael Maier (1568), Sebastian Franck (1499), Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (1787), Hansi Müller (1957), Carl, Duke of Württemberg (1936), and Uli Edel (1947).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Karl Genzken ranks 60. Before him are Ewald Hering (1834), Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819), Justinus Kerner (1786), Johann von Staupitz (1465), Adolph Kolping (1813), and Claus Schilling (1871). After him are Michael Maier (1568), Johann Kremer (1883), Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744), Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776), Karl Friedrich Burdach (1776), and Hans Münch (1911).

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