SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Gretl Braun

1915 - 1987

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Margarete Berta "Gretl" Berlinghoff (née Braun; German: [ˈɡʁeːtl̩ ˈbʁaʊn]; 31 August 1915 – 10 October 1987) was one of the two sisters of Eva Braun. She was a member of the inner social circle of Adolf Hitler at the Berghof. Gretl became the sister-in-law of Hitler following his marriage to Eva, less than 40 hours before the couple killed themselves. Braun married SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein, a liaison officer on Hitler's staff, on 3 June 1944. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gretl Braun is the 180th most popular social activist (up from 209th in 2019), the 1,488th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,753rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular German Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Gretl Braun ranks 180 out of 840Before her are Max Mosley, Otoya Yamaguchi, Maria Spiridonova, Paul Watson, Chico Mendes, and Paul Schäfer. After her are Vinoba Bhave, Jan Karski, Manuela Sáenz, Klaus Störtebeker, Carl Oberg, and Kailash Satyarthi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Gretl Braun ranks 59Before her are Shoichi Yokoi, Shogo Kamo, Liisi Oterma, Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, Rashid Behbudov, and Joseph Greenberg. After her are Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Terence Young, Kaoru Ishikawa, Miroslav Filipović, James Tiptree Jr., and László Csatáry. Among people deceased in 1987, Gretl Braun ranks 42Before her are Jacqueline du Pré, Peter Tosh, Yasuo Haruyama, Jaco Pastorius, Erskine Caldwell, and James Baldwin. After her are Yakov Zeldovich, Rouben Mamoulian, Douglas Sirk, Américo Tomás, James Tiptree Jr., and Alistair MacLean.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gretl Braun ranks 1,488 out of 7,253Before her are Paul Schäfer (1921), Matthias Sammer (1967), Dorothea Binz (1920), Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (1866), William III, Landgrave of Thuringia (1425), and Joachim von Sandrart (1606). After her are Martin Schulz (1955), Hartmann Schedel (1440), Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1697), Mike Nichols (1931), André Previn (1929), and Anna Leopoldovna (1718).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Gretl Braun ranks 16Before her are Widukind (755), Hans Scholl (1918), Marianne Bachmeier (1950), Alfred Naujocks (1911), Gerda Christian (1913), and Paul Schäfer (1921). After her are Klaus Störtebeker (1360), Carl Oberg (1897), Rudi Dutschke (1940), Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818), Christoph Probst (1919), and Ludolf von Alvensleben (1901).