Otto Frank

Otto Frank
Frank in 1961
Born
Otto Heinrich Frank

(1889-05-12)12 May 1889
Died19 August 1980(1980-08-19) (aged 91)
Birsfelden, Switzerland
Resting placeBirsfelden Cemetery
Citizenship
OccupationSpice merchant
Known for
Spouses
(m. 1925; died 1945)
(m. 1953)
Children
Military career
Allegiance German Empire
BranchImperial German Army
Service years1915–1918
RankLieutenant
Conflicts
AwardsIron Cross

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.