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August Heissmeyer

1897 - 1979

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August Friedrich Heissmeyer or Heißmeyer (11 January 1897 – 16 January 1979), was a German member of the Nazi Party who rose to become an SS-Obergruppenführer in the Schutzstaffel (SS). He held several major commands, including as the chief of the SS Main Office from 1935 to 1939 and as the Higher SS and Police Leader of the Berlin district from 1939 to 1945. He was also headed the National Political Institutes of Education, a network of elite secondary boarding schools established to train future leaders of the Nazi state. He was the husband of Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, the head of the National Socialist Women's League. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. August Heissmeyer is the 10,557th most popular politician (down from 9,741st in 2019), the 3,020th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,819th in 2019) and the 892nd most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, August Heissmeyer ranks 10,557 out of 19,576. Before him are Pōmare V, Amda Seyon I, Baldomero Espartero, Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern, George Tupou II, and Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria. After him are Abul Khair Khan, Hans Enoksen, Arabella Churchill, Louis Buffet, King Ling of Zhou, and Abd al-Haqq II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, August Heissmeyer ranks 145. Before him are Paul Ben-Haim, Valentin Kataev, Tan Malaka, Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg, John Bagot Glubb, and Xu Zhimo. After him are Traicho Kostov, Louis Réard, Gaspar Cassadó, Emil Leon Post, Štefan Tiso, and Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1979, August Heissmeyer ranks 112. Before him are Carl Laemmle Jr., Ita Rina, Fulton J. Sheen, Leonid Bykov, Aleksei N. Leontiev, and Marcel L'Herbier. After him are Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, James J. Gibson, Georges Florovsky, Jack Haley, Ernest B. Schoedsack, and Issa Pliyev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Heissmeyer ranks 3,022 out of 7,253. Before him are Adolf Lüderitz (1834), Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1878), Friedrich August Stüler (1800), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Heidi Brühl (1942), and Ricarda Huch (1864). After him are Otto Hölder (1859), Wilhelm Batz (1916), Bruno S. (1932), Martin Winterkorn (1947), Elisa Radziwiłł (1803), and Anni Albers (1899).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, August Heissmeyer ranks 892. Before him are Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (1385), William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1560), Eberhard III, Count of Württemberg (1364), Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1649), Erich Neumann (1892), and George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1747). After him are Thilo Sarrazin (1945), Gerhard Schröder (1910), Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822), Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen (1861), Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1908), and Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1425).

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