Karl Hanke
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German general and last Reichsführer-SS (1903-1945)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Begründung, Potentiale und Nebeneffekte von Techniken zur rationellen Energieverwendung im Niedertemperaturbereich bei Haushalten und Kleinverbraucher in Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Zielorienglishtiertes Informationsmanagemenglisht
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1980-04-08
Discography
- Any Kind of Love2002
- Say a Word2002
- Living For My Love2003
- Love, Live, Fly2004
- Angekommen2006
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 29,161x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,740x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,798x
- An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design
· 2012 · cited 11,732x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,706x
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Key facts
- President
- Adolf Hitler , Karl Dönitz
- Chancellor
- Adolf Hitler , Joseph Goebbels , Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
- Preceded by
- Heinrich Himmler
- Succeeded by
- Office abolished
- Appointed by
- Adolf Hitler
- Born
- Karl August Hanke , ( 1903-08-24 ) 24 August 1903, Lauban , Province of Silesia , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire
- Died
- 8 June 1945 (1945-06-08) (aged 41), Neudorf , Ústí nad Labem Region , Czechoslovakia
- Party
- Nazi Party
- Spouse
- Baroness Freda von Fircks ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1944 )
- Alma mater
- Berufspädagogisches Institut, Berlin
- Profession
- Politician
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Karl
- Family name
- Hanke
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- German Reich
- Place of birth
- Lubań
- Place of death
- Nová Ves nad Popelkou
- Occupation
- politician
- Political party
- Nazi Party
- Languages spoken
- German
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- armored warfare
- Military rank
- Reichsführer-SS
- Image
- Karl Hanke (1945).jpg
- Work location
- Berlin
- Convicted of
- war crime
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- Commons category
- Karl Hanke
- date of birth
- 1903-08-24
- date of death
- 1945-06-08
- member of
- Schutzstaffel
- name in native language
- Karl Hanke
- allegiance
- Nazi Germany
- P8168
- Serhiy Klymentiev
- nickname
- Der Henker von Breslau
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Karl August Hanke (24 August 1903 – 8 June 1945) was a German Nazi official and politician who served as the fifth and final Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS). He also served as Gauleiter of Gau Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945 and as Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. Captured on 6 May 1945, he was shot and wounded during an escape attempt and then beaten to death by Czech guards on 8 June, after the war had ended.
Early life
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