Rudolf Höss
Military Person
1900 – 1947
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Who was Rudolf Höss?
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was an SS-Obersturmbannführer, and from 4 May 1940 to November 1943 was the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, where it is estimated that more than a million people were murdered. Höss joined the Nazi Party in 1922 and the SS in 1934. He was hanged in 1947 following a trial in Warsaw.
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- Born
- Nov 25, 1900
Baden-Baden - Also known as
- Rudolf Hoess
- Rudolf Höß
- Parents
- Spouses
- Hedwig Hensel
(1929/08/17 - 1947/04/16)
- Hedwig Hensel
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 16, 1947
Auschwitz concentration camp
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on July 23, 2013
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