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Fritz Fischer

1908 - 1999

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Fritz Fischer (5 March 1908 – 1 December 1999) was a German historian best known for his analysis of the causes of World War I. In the early 1960s Fischer advanced the thesis, controversial at the time, that responsibility for the outbreak of the war rested solely on Imperial Germany. Fischer's anti-revisionist claims shocked the West German government and historical establishment, as it made Germany guilty for both world wars, challenging the national belief in Germany's innocence and converting its recent history into one of conquest and aggression. Fischer was named in The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing as the most important German historian of the 20th century. In 1984, he was elected an honorary member of the American Historical Association. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fritz Fischer is the 222nd most popular historian (up from 249th in 2019), the 2,996th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,256th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Fritz Fischer ranks 222 out of 561. Before him are Johannes Aventinus, Deborah Lipstadt, Annius of Viterbo, Gerardus Vossius, H. J. R. Murray, and Saul Friedländer. After him are Khvandamir, Aban ibn Uthman, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Joseph de Guignes, Constantine Lascaris, and Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Fritz Fischer ranks 151. Before him are Ahmad Shukeiri, Lupe Vélez, Bruno Lüdke, Carl Laemmle Jr., Son Ngoc Thanh, and Jack Crawford. After him are Doria Shafik, Elio Vittorini, Sam Giancana, Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, and John Tuzo Wilson. Among people deceased in 1999, Fritz Fischer ranks 108. Before him are Aldo van Eyck, Morris West, Jean Guitton, Ernest Gold, Shankar Dayal Sharma, and Oscar Cullmann. After him are Karekin I, Carlos Romero, Theodore Hall, George Mosse, Milt Jackson, and Moondog.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Fischer ranks 2,998 out of 7,253. Before him are Adolf Diekmann (1914), Karl Lehmann (1936), Karl Koller (1898), Rebecca Horn (1944), Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1732), and Jérôme Boateng (1988). After him are Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (1723), Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (1385), Hans Joachim von Zieten (1699), Joseph Clemens of Bavaria (1671), William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1560), and Sonja Ziemann (1926).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Fritz Fischer ranks 29. Before him are Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), Philipp Spitta (1841), Karl Krumbacher (1856), Moritz Cantor (1829), Johannes Aventinus (1477), and Gerardus Vossius (1577). After him are Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701), Hermann Conring (1606), Gustav Hugo (1764), Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705), Abraham Geiger (1810), and Wilhelm von Bode (1845).

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