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Hans Kammler

1901 - 1945

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Hans Kammler (26 August 1901 – after October 1945) was an SS-Obergruppenführer responsible for Nazi civil engineering projects and its top secret V-weapons program. He oversaw the construction of various Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, before being put in charge of the V-2 rocket and Emergency Fighter Programs towards the end of World War II. Kammler disappeared in May 1945 during the final days of the war, although conjecture about his capture or death remains. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Kammler is the 63rd most popular engineer (up from 65th in 2019), the 280th most popular biography from Poland (down from 270th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Hans Kammler ranks 63 out of 389. Before him are Kurt Gerstein, Valentin Glushko, Su Song, Masaru Ibuka, Colin Chapman, and Henry Gantt. After him are Mikhail Gurevich, Adam Czerniaków, Yuri Kondratyuk, Charles George Gordon, Edward A. Murphy Jr., and Hidesaburō Ueno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Hans Kammler ranks 72. Before him are Raimundo Orsi, Tage Erlander, Alice Prin, Itzhak Stern, Charles Brenton Huggins, and Souvanna Phouma. After him are Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Barbara Cartland, Arthur Samuel, Zhang Xueliang, Vasili Kuznetsov, and Milada Horáková. Among people deceased in 1945, Hans Kammler ranks 96. Before him are Kurt Gerstein, Charles Fabry, Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk, Josef Čapek, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, and Fritz Klein. After him are Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Else Lasker-Schüler, Albrecht Penck, Roza Shanina, Bernhard Rust, and Georg Kaiser.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hans Kammler ranks 280 out of 1,694. Before him are Władysław I Herman (1043), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Jan Kochanowski (1530), Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732), Stanisław Ryłko (1945), and Miguel Najdorf (1910). After him are Kurt Masur (1927), Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867), Dieter Wisliceny (1911), Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), Adam Czerniaków (1880), and David Seymour (1911).

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Among ENGINEERS In Poland

Among engineers born in Poland, Hans Kammler ranks 2. Before him are Wernher von Braun (1912). After him are Adam Czerniaków (1880), Józef Bem (1794), Kurt Tank (1898), Henryk Dembiński (1791), Johannes Winkler (1897), Walter Thiel (1910), Konstantin Kalinin (1887), and Boris Chertok (1912).

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