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Key facts
- Born
- John Heinrich Detlef Rabe , ( 1882-11-23 ) 23 November 1882, Hamburg , Germany
- Died
- 5 January 1950 (1950-01-05) (aged 67), West Berlin , West Germany
- Resting place
- Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery , Berlin-Charlottenburg , Germany
- Occupation
- Businessman
- Employer
- Siemens
- Known for
- Saving about 250,000 Chinese civilians during the Nanjing Massacre , Establishing the Nanking Safety Zone
- Political party
- Nazi Party (1934–1945)
- Spouse
- Dora Rabe ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 25 October 1909</span>"}]]}'>1909 )
- Relatives
- Thomas Rabe (grandson)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Rabe
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Hamburg
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Occupation
- entrepreneur
- Employer
- Siemens
- Political party
- Nazi Party
- Languages spoken
- German
- Image
- John Rabe, writing his wartime diaries in his former residence.jpg
- Residence
- John Rabe House
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- place of burial
- Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery
- Commons category
- John Rabe
- date of birth
- 1882-11-23
- date of death
- 1950-01-05
- cause of death
- stroke
- manner of death
- natural causes
- relative
- Thomas Rabe
- different from
- John Rabe
- name in native language
- John Rabe
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- Jette
- described at URL
- baike.sogou.com/v1053450.htm
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Encyclopedic overview
John and Dora Rabe autograph signatures, Nanjing, 22 May 1932
John Heinrich Detlef Rabe (23 November 1882 – 5 January 1950) was a German diplomat and businessman best known for his efforts to stop Japanese war crimes and protect Chinese civilians during the Nanjing Massacre. The Nanking Safety Zone, which he helped to establish, sheltered approximately 250,000 Chinese people from Imperial Japanese Army atrocities. A member of the Nazi Party, Rabe had been sent to China as an official representative of Nazi Germany in the European-U.S. diplomatic quarter in Nanjing, the Republic of China's capital. He served as senior chief of the diplomatic mission at the time of Japanese conquest.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Rabe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.