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Christian Wirth

1885 - 1944

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Christian Wirth (German: [vɪʁt] ; 24 November 1885 – 26 May 1944) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and leading Holocaust perpetrator who was one of the primary architects of the program to exterminate the Jewish people of Poland, known as Operation Reinhard. His nicknames included Christian the Cruel (German: Christian der Grausame), Stuka, and The Wild Christian due to the extremity of his behaviour among the SS and Trawniki guards and to the camp inmates and victims. Wirth worked within the Action T4 program, in which people with disabilities were murdered by gassing or lethal injection, and then at implementing Operation Reinhard, by developing almost single-handedly, the extermination camps for the purpose of mass murder. Wirth later served as Inspector of all the Reinhard Camps. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christian Wirth is the 491st most popular military personnel (down from 429th in 2019), the 1,222nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,022nd in 2019) and the 93rd most popular German Military Personnel.

Christian Wirth was a high-ranking officer in the Schutzstaffel, who was in charge of the Action T4 euthanasia program.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Christian Wirth ranks 491 out of 2,058. Before him are Herbert Gille, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Bronislav Kaminski, Robert Anderson, Karl von Bülow, and Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad. After him are Yoshiko Kawashima, Viktor Kulikov, Xiahou Yuan, Mitsuru Ushijima, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, and Armando Diaz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Christian Wirth ranks 51. Before him are Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Jules Pascin, G. W. Pabst, Romano Guardini, Will Durant, and Velimir Khlebnikov. After him are Franz Böhme, Sacha Guitry, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Seishirō Itagaki, André Lhote, and Sisavang Vong. Among people deceased in 1944, Christian Wirth ranks 76. Before him are Friedrich Dollmann, Otto von Below, E. M. Antoniadi, Emilio De Bono, Artur Phleps, and Bronislav Kaminski. After him are Milan Hodža, Martin Kutta, Kazu Naoki, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, August Landmesser, and Asmahan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Wirth ranks 1,222 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1727), Otto of Bamberg (1060), Karl von Bülow (1846), Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), Max Klinger (1857), and Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929). After him are Ivan Rebroff (1931), Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen (1763), Sigmar Polke (1941), Ludwig Guttmann (1899), Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1732), and Leo von Klenze (1784).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Christian Wirth ranks 93. Before him are Friedrich Dollmann (1882), Johannes Frießner (1892), Levin August von Bennigsen (1745), Josef Harpe (1887), Herbert Gille (1897), and Karl von Bülow (1846). After him are Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594), Alfred von Waldersee (1832), Adolf Strauss (1879), Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721), Theodor Busse (1897), and Otto Kumm (1909).

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