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Karl Wolff

1900 - 1984

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Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984) was a senior German SS officer who served as Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and an SS liaison to Adolf Hitler during World War II. He ended the war as the Supreme SS and Police Leader in occupied Italy and helped arrange for the early surrender of Axis forces in that theatre, effectively ending the war there several days sooner than in the rest of Europe. He escaped prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials as a result of his participation in Operation Sunrise. In 1962, Wolff was rearrested, prosecuted in West Germany for the deportation of Polish Jews and sentenced to 15 years in prison for being an accessory to murder in 1964. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Wolff has received more than 999,334 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Karl Wolff is the 253rd most popular military personnel (up from 280th in 2019), the 608th most popular biography from Germany (up from 641st in 2019) and the 55th most popular German Military Personnel.

Karl Wolff was a high-ranking Nazi SS officer who served as a personal adjutant to Adolf Hitler. He was the Commandant of the Nazi concentration camps of Dachau and Sachsenhausen. He was also the chief of the Gestapo in Lyon, France.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Karl Wolff ranks 253 out of 2,058. Before him are Vasily Stalin, Eumenes, Roger de Flor, Matthew C. Perry, Qutayba ibn Muslim, and Jean Victor Marie Moreau. After him are Italo Balbo, Ivan Bagramyan, Otto Günsche, Otto Liman von Sanders, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and Craterus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Karl Wolff ranks 32. Before him are Richard Kuhn, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Kurt Weill, Jan Oort, Choe Yong-gon, and Arno Breker. After him are Pak Hon-yong, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Chiune Sugihara, Walther Wenck, Mahavatar Babaji, and Ragnar Granit. Among people deceased in 1984, Karl Wolff ranks 19. Before him are Tigran Petrosian, Ed Gein, Ray Kroc, Stanislaw Ulam, Martin Ryle, and Carl Ferdinand Cori. After him are Irwin Shaw, Sam Peckinpah, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Anna Anderson, Truman Capote, and Oleg Antonov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Wolff ranks 608 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans-Dieter Flick (1965), Sandra (1962), Rudolf von Jhering (1818), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), Julia Drusilla (16), and Arno Breker (1900). After him are Curd Jürgens (1915), Max Reger (1873), Johann Reuchlin (1455), Wolfgang Schäuble (1942), Georg Jellinek (1851), and Bert Trautmann (1923).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Karl Wolff ranks 55. Before him are Wilhelm List (1880), Kurt Student (1890), Walther von Reichenau (1884), Wilhelm Mohnke (1911), Hans von Seeckt (1866), and Otto Carius (1922). After him are Otto Günsche (1917), Erich Hoepner (1886), Hasso von Manteuffel (1897), Hans-Joachim Marseille (1919), Werner Mölders (1913), and Maurice de Saxe (1696).

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