Odilo Globočnik
Sign in to saveAustrian-German SS officer, SS-Group Leader and Lieutenant General of the Police, temporary leader of Operation Reinhardt (1904–1945)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1904-04-21 ) 21 April 1904, Trieste , Austria-Hungary (now Italy )
- Died
- 31 May 1945 (1945-05-31) (aged 41), Paternion , Allied-occupied Austria
- Cause of death
- Suicide by cyanide poisoning
- Party
- Nazi Party
- Allegiance
- Republic of German-Austria , Nazi Germany
- Branch service
- Schutzstaffel
- Rank
- SS-Gruppenführer
- Battles wars
- Carinthian War , World War II
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Cisleithania
- Place of birth
- Trieste
- Place of death
- Paternion
- Position held
- Gauleiter
- Political party
- Nazi Party
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Religion
- gottgläubig
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- Schutzstaffel
- Military rank
- SS-Gruppenführer
- Image
- Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2007-0188, Odilo Globocnik.jpg
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- name in native language
- Odilo Globočnik
- birth name
- Odilo Lotario Globocnik
- Commons category
- Odilo Globocnik
- date of birth
- 1904-04-21
- date of death
- 1945-05-31
- manner of death
- Suicide
- nickname
- Globus
- cause of death
- cyanide poisoning
- allegiance
- Nazi Germany
- member of
- Schutzstaffel
- start of work period
- 1934-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globočnik (21 April 1904 – 31 May 1945) was a Nazi Party official and a perpetrator of the Holocaust. A high-ranking member of the SS, Globočnik was the leader of Operation Reinhard, the organized murder of around one and a half million Jews, mostly of Polish origin, during the Holocaust in the Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibór and Bełżec extermination camps. Historian Michael Allen described him as "the vilest individual in the vilest organization ever known". Globočnik killed himself shortly after his capture and detention by British soldiers.
Early life
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