List of Famous people with last name Blobel

Paul Blobel

First Name Paul

Last Name Blobel

Born on August 13, 1894

Died on June 7, 1951 (aged 56)

Born in Germany, Brandenburg

Paul Blobel was a German SS commander and convicted war criminal who had a prominent role in the Holocaust. He was the key figure in organising and executing the Babi Yar massacre of 1941 and in June 1942, Blobel was put in charge of Sonderaktion 1005, with the task of destroying the evidence of Nazi atrocities in Eastern Europe. After the war, he was convicted at the Einsatzgruppen Trial and executed.

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Günter Blobel

First Name Günter

Last Name Blobel

Born on May 21, 1936

Died on February 18, 2018 (aged 81)

Born in Poland, Lubusz Voivodeship

Günter Blobel was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell.

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