# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-genzken
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:33:22.459Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-genzken"
name: "Karl Genzken"
slug: "karl-genzken"
description: "Karl August Genzken was a Nazi physician who committed medical atrocities on prisoners of several concentration camps. He was an SS-Gruppenführer of the Waffen-SS and the Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS. After the war ended, he was tried and convicted as a war criminal and for crimes against humanity in the 1947 Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg. Genzken was sentenced to life imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to 20 years and he was released in 1954."
tagline: "German physician and SS general, Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS, and convicted war criminal 81885-1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_August_Genzken_KZ-Arzt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1885-06-08"
deathDate: "1957-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.07
  momentum:             11.40781637849297
  historical:           14.453208
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Карл Генцкен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Карл Генцкен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karl Genzken"
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    title: "Karl Genzken"
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    title: "Генцкен, Карл"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump