Otto Frank

Otto Frank
Frank in 1961
Born	Otto Heinrich Frank (1889-05-12)12 May 1889 Frankfurt, Prussia, German Empire
Died	19 August 1980(1980-08-19) (aged 91) Birsfelden, Switzerland
Resting place	Birsfelden Cemetery
Citizenship	Germany (revoked) Switzerland
Occupation	Spice merchant[1]
Known for	Father of Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl
Spouses	Edith Holländer ​ ​ (m. 1925; died 1945)​ Elfriede Geiringer ​ (m. 1953)​
Children	Margot Anne
Military career
Allegiance	German Empire
Service / branch	Imperial German Army
Years of service	1915–1918
Rank	Lieutenant
Battles / wars	World War I Western Front Battle of the Somme Battle of Cambrai

Otto Heinrich Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was 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.