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August Landmesser

1910 - 1944

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August Landmesser (German: [ˈaʊ̯ɡʊst ˈlantˌmɛsɐ]; 24 May 1910 – 17 October 1944) was a German man who is suggested to be the man appearing in a 1936 photograph conspicuously refusing to perform the Nazi salute. Landmesser had run afoul of the Nazi Party over his unlawful relationship with Irma Eckler, a Jewish woman. For this, he was imprisoned and eventually drafted into penal military service, where he was killed in action. Years after his death, his daughter suggested that he was the man in the famous photograph. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. August Landmesser is the 4,964th most popular politician (down from 4,359th in 2019), the 1,294th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,183rd in 2019) and the 374th most popular German Politician.

August Landmesser was a member of the Nazi party and a worker at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg. He was arrested for refusing to give the Nazi salute and was sent to a concentration camp.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, August Landmesser ranks 4,964 out of 19,576. Before him are Louis de Bonald, James I, Count of La Marche, Xun Yu, Karim Khan Zand, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, and John IV, Duke of Brittany. After him are Louis I, Count of Flanders, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Francis, Duke of Teck, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Alben W. Barkley, and Maria of Montferrat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, August Landmesser ranks 59. Before him are Meša Selimović, Jean-Louis Barrault, Said bin Taimur, Diosdado Macapagal, Diana Mosley, and Farid al-Atrash. After him are Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Dorothy Vaughan, Miguel Najdorf, Shunichi Kumai, Lobsang Rampa, and Galina Ulanova. Among people deceased in 1944, August Landmesser ranks 81. Before him are Bronislav Kaminski, Christian Wirth, Milan Hodža, Martin Kutta, Kazu Naoki, and Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal. After him are Asmahan, Paul Otlet, Günther Korten, Erich Fellgiebel, Yvette Guilbert, and Sergei Bulgakov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Landmesser ranks 1,294 out of 7,253. Before him are Alfred von Waldersee (1832), Luz Long (1913), Adolf Strauss (1879), Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), and Werner Haase (1900). After him are Niklot (1100), Siegfried Kracauer (1889), Theodor Busse (1897), Günter Netzer (1944), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830), and Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz (1721).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, August Landmesser ranks 374. Before him are Alexander Gauland (1941), Christian Wulff (1959), Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1484), Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (1627), Hans Aumeier (1906), and Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1690). After him are Niklot (1100), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830), Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz (1721), Beatrice of Swabia (1198), Amalia of Oldenburg (1818), and Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach (1724).

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