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Carl Friedrich Goerdeler

1884 - 1945

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Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (German: [kaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈɡœʁdəlɐ] ; 31 July 1884 – 2 February 1945) was a German conservative politician, monarchist, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime. He opposed anti-Jewish policies while he held office and was opposed to the Holocaust. Had the 20 July plot to overthrow Hitler's dictatorship in 1944 succeeded, Goerdeler would have served as the Chancellor of the new government. After his arrest, he gave the names of numerous co-conspirators to the Gestapo, causing the arrests and executions of hundreds. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler is the 3,201st most popular politician (down from 2,845th in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from Poland (down from 168th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Polish Politician.

C.F.G. is most famous for being an anti-Nazi German politician and resistance fighter who was executed by the Nazis in 1944.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler ranks 3,201 out of 19,576. Before him are Carin Göring, John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, Ludwig Quidde, Richard Walther Darré, Mircea II of Wallachia, and Wolfgang Schäuble. After him are João Goulart, Iziaslav I of Kiev, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, and Francisco de Almeida.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler ranks 34. Before him are Emil Jannings, Rudolf Bultmann, Gerald Gardner, Edward Sapir, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and Rajendra Prasad. After him are Max Beckmann, Panait Istrati, Otto Rank, Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, Étienne Gilson, and Antonín Zápotocký. Among people deceased in 1945, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler ranks 66. Before him are Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Ludwig Stumpfegger, Vladimir Vernadsky, Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Felix Salten, and Arthur Nebe. After him are Otto Neurath, René Lalique, Juana Bormann, Konrad Henlein, Maurice Halbwachs, and Margot Frank.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler ranks 177 out of 1,694. Before him are Solomon Asch (1907), Georg Michaelis (1857), Benzion Netanyahu (1910), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Erich Mendelsohn (1887), and Jerzy Grotowski (1933). After him are Günther Anders (1902), John I Albert (1459), Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030), Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860), Alice Miller (1923), and Robert Lewandowski (1988).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler ranks 48. Before him are Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086), Mieszko I of Poland (940), Jarosław Kaczyński (1949), Andrzej Duda (1972), Maxim Litvinov (1876), and Georg Michaelis (1857). After him are John I Albert (1459), Piast the Wheelwright (800), Casimir I the Restorer (1016), Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770), Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756), and Frederick I of Württemberg (1754).

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