Fritz Bauer

Fritz Bauer (16 July 1903 – 1 July 1968) was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor. He played an instrumental role in the post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann and the beginning of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.

This article is about the jurist. For the German Olympic rower, see Fritz Bauer (rowing). For the German computer scientist, see Friedrich L. Bauer.

Fritz Bauer
Personal details
Born(1903-07-16)16 July 1903
Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
Died1 July 1968(1968-07-01) (aged 64)
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, West Germany
Political partySocial Democratic Party
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