Franz Engel was born on September 16, 1898 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Vagabonder i Wien (1925), Der falsche Feldmarschall (1930) and The Great Love (1931). He died on October 16, 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.