Otto Frank

Otto Frank
Frank in 1961
Born
Otto Heinrich Frank

(1889-05-12)12 May 1889
Frankfurt, Germany
Died19 August 1980(1980-08-19) (aged 91)
Birsfelden, Switzerland
Resting placeBirsfelden Cemetery
Citizenship
  • Germany (revoked)
  • Switzerland
OccupationSpice merchant
Known for
Spouses
(m. 1925; died 1945)
    (m. 1953)
    Children
    Military career
    AllegianceGerman Empire
    BranchImperial German Army
    Years of service1915–1918
    RankLieutenant
    Battles / wars

    Otto Heinrich Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was a German businessman, and the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 (subsequently known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl) and advised on its later theatrical and cinematic adaptations. In the 1950s and the 1960s, he established European charities in his daughter's name and founded the trust which preserved his family's wartime hiding place, the Anne Frank House, in Amsterdam.