Wilhelm Canaris

Identifier
000589
Dates
1887-1945
Type of Entity
Person

Dates of Existence

German admiral, and chief of Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. During the Second World War, he was among the military officers involved in the clandestine opposition to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. He was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp for the act of high treason.

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0