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Bernhard Rust

1883 - 1945

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Bernhard Rust (30 September 1883 – 8 May 1945) was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture (Reichserziehungsminister) in Nazi Germany. A combination of school administrator and zealous Nazi, he issued decrees, often bizarre, at every level of the German educational system to immerse German youth in Nazi ideology. He also served as the party Gauleiter in Hanover and Brunswick from 1925 to 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernhard Rust is the 5,438th most popular politician (down from 5,031st in 2019), the 1,439th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,361st in 2019) and the 416th most popular German Politician.

Bernhard Rust was the Minister of Education in Nazi Germany. He is most famous for his role in the removal of Jewish faculty from German universities.

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Among politicians, Bernhard Rust ranks 5,438 out of 19,576. Before him are Gunderic, Mpande kaSenzangakhona, Judith of Habsburg, Pharnabazus III, Emperor Kameyama, and Qara Hülegü. After him are Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, Gyanendra of Nepal, George XII of Georgia, Shah Shuja, Eduardo Frei Montalva, and Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Bernhard Rust ranks 64. Before him are Anthony Wilding, Ivan Ilyin, Adolph Joffe, Gottfried Feder, Ichirō Hatoyama, and Richard von Mises. After him are Alfredo Casella, José Clemente Orozco, Ernest Ansermet, Kenji Doihara, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Among people deceased in 1945, Bernhard Rust ranks 101. Before him are Fritz Klein, Hans Kammler, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Else Lasker-Schüler, Albrecht Penck, and Roza Shanina. After him are Georg Kaiser, Walter Bradford Cannon, Philipp Bouhler, Eduard Bloch, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, and Charles Spearman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bernhard Rust ranks 1,439 out of 7,253. Before him are Rudolf Brandt (1909), Franz von Hipper (1863), Brigitte Helm (1906), Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892), Jakob Wassermann (1873), and Wilhelm Beer (1797). After him are Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg (1708), Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650), Hermann Carl Vogel (1841), Princess Cecilie of Baden (1839), and Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse (1753).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Bernhard Rust ranks 416. Before him are Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (1797), Anna of Saxony (1544), Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (1575), John George IV, Elector of Saxony (1668), Bernhardus Varenius (1622), and Rudolf Brandt (1909). After him are Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg (1708), Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650), Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse (1753), Princess Margaretha of Saxony (1840), Ernst vom Rath (1909), and Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1848).

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