Canaris

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Canaris is the surname of:

  • Carl Canaris (1852–1904), German industrialist and father of Carl August Canaris and Wilhelm Canaris
  • Carl August Canaris (1881–1934), German manager
  • Claus-Wilhelm Canaris (* 1937), German civil lawyer and legal philosopher, son of Constantin
  • Constantin Canaris (1906–1983), German SS standard leader in Belgium and northern France, sentenced there as a Nazi criminal after the end of the war; Nephew of Wilhelm Canaris.
  • Georg Canaris (1740–1819), pastor and archiepiscopal school visitator of the diocese of Trier
  • Volker Canaris (1942–2012), German dramaturge, theater critic, theater director and film producer, son of Constantin
  • Wilhelm Canaris (1887–1945), German admiral, 1935–1944 head of the Foreign / Defense Office in the Wehrmacht High Command.


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