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Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski

1899 - 1972

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Erich Julius Eberhard von dem Bach-Zelewski (born Erich Julius Eberhard von Zelewski; 1 March 1899 – 8 March 1972) was a German politician, military officer and high-ranking SS commander. During World War II, he was in charge of the Nazi security warfare against those designated by the regime as ideological enemies and any other persons deemed to present danger to the Nazi rule or Wehrmacht's rear security in the occupied territories of Eastern Europe. It mostly involved atrocities against the civilian population. In 1944, he led the brutal suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski is the 253rd most popular military personnel (down from 210th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Poland (down from 109th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski was a Nazi SS-Obergruppenführer and General of Police who was responsible for the pacification of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski ranks 253 out of 2,058. Before him are Jack Phillips, Pedro de Valdivia, Juan Pujol García, Wilhelm Mohnke, Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, and Kurt Student. After him are Craterus, Bertrand du Guesclin, Amr ibn al-As, Erhard Milch, Hugh Dowding, and J. D. Tippit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski ranks 31. Before him are Max Theiler, Suzanne Lenglen, Adnan Menderes, Gustav Heinemann, Duke Ellington, and Bertil Ohlin. After him are George Cukor, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Chang Myon, Cevdet Sunay, Alfred Schütz, and Ferhat Abbas. Among people deceased in 1972, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski ranks 28. Before him are Talal of Jordan, Andrei Tupolev, Dino Buzzati, Katherine Oppenheimer, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Maurice Chevalier. After him are Erhard Milch, Heinrich Lübke, Erwin Bowien, Henri Coandă, Margaret Rutherford, and Ghassan Kanafani.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski ranks 135 out of 1,694. Before him are Kurt Daluege (1897), Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810), Władysław Gomułka (1905), Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), and Angelus Silesius (1624). After him are Adolf Anderssen (1818), Alfred Tarski (1901), Albert Sabin (1906), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Edward Sapir (1884), and Anna Anderson (1896).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski ranks 14. Before him are Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Anton Denikin (1872), Władysław Sikorski (1881), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), and Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755). After him are Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), Rochus Misch (1917), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Hermann Balck (1893), and Otto Kretschmer (1912).

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