MILITARY PERSONNEL

Kurt Franz

1914 - 1998

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Kurt Hubert Franz (17 January 1914 – 4 July 1998) was an SS officer and one of the commanders of the Treblinka extermination camp. Because of this, Franz was one of the major perpetrators of genocide during the Holocaust. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Franz has received more than 478,797 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Kurt Franz is the 560th most popular military personnel (up from 578th in 2019), the 1,357th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,407th in 2019) and the 108th most popular German Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 480k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Kurt Franz ranks 560 out of 2,058. Before him are Kawakami Gensai, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Seishirō Itagaki, Bob Denard, Oenomaus, and Hans Baur. After him are Adolf Heusinger, Jisaburō Ozawa, Saburō Sakai, Kenji Doihara, Raymond A. Spruance, and Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Kurt Franz ranks 63. Before him are James Van Allen, Francisco da Costa Gomes, Creighton Abrams, Mario Bava, Lilli Palmer, and Rafael Kubelík. After him are Jackie Coogan, Jan Karski, Carlo Maria Giulini, Achille Compagnoni, Lina Bo Bardi, and Larbi Benbarek. Among people deceased in 1998, Kurt Franz ranks 47. Before him are Imi Lichtenfeld, Adem Jashari, David McClelland, Kunitaka Sueoka, Maurice Bucaille, and Shoichi Nishimura. After him are Maria Reiche, Marie-Louise von Franz, James Earl Ray, Sonny Bono, Ernst-Günther Schenck, and Cozy Powell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Franz ranks 1,357 out of 7,253. Before him are Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Thomas Abbt (1738), Heinz Linge (1913), Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748), Ernst Chladni (1756), and Hans Baur (1897). After him are Otto Rasch (1891), Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (1759), Bernhard Rust (1883), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), and Adolf Heusinger (1897).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Kurt Franz ranks 108. Before him are Friedrich Dollmann (1882), Heinz Lammerding (1905), Alexander von Kluck (1846), Fritz Bayerlein (1899), Franz von Hipper (1863), and Hans Baur (1897). After him are Adolf Heusinger (1897), Otto Kumm (1909), Georg Stumme (1886), Anton Dostler (1891), Günther Blumentritt (1892), and Nicolaus von Below (1907).

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