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Hans Oster

1887 - 1945

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Generalmajor Hans Paul Oster (9 August 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a general in the Wehrmacht and a leading figure of the anti-Nazi German resistance from 1938 to 1943. As deputy head of the counter-espionage bureau in the Abwehr (German military intelligence), Oster was in a good position to conduct resistance operations under the guise of intelligence work. He was involved in the Oster conspiracy of September 1938 and was arrested in 1943 on suspicion of helping Abwehr officers that were caught helping Jews to escape Germany. After the failed 1944 July Plot on Hitler's life, during an interrogation, he named Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the head of Abwehr, as the "spiritual founder of the Resistance Movement". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Oster is the 4,391st most popular politician (down from 3,680th in 2019), the 1,145th most popular biography from Germany (down from 999th in 2019) and the 329th most popular German Politician.

Hans Oster was a German army officer who was involved in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hans Oster ranks 4,391 out of 19,576. Before him are Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus, Gyula Horn, Oskar Lafontaine, Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Ali Bongo Ondimba, and Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso. After him are Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut, Ye Jianying, Al-Muktafi, Pak Pong-ju, and Janet Mills.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Hans Oster ranks 56. Before him are Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Bernardo Houssay, Arnold Zweig, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, and Georg-Hans Reinhardt. After him are Julian Huxley, Josef Harpe, Giovanni Gronchi, Mitsuru Ushijima, Blaise Cendrars, and Annette Kellermann. Among people deceased in 1945, Hans Oster ranks 85. Before him are Georg Elser, Josef Terboven, Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Harry Daghlian, Franz Ziereis, and Plutarco Elías Calles. After him are Elisabeth Volkenrath, Mitsuru Ushijima, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, John Ambrose Fleming, Kurt Gerstein, and Charles Fabry.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Oster ranks 1,145 out of 7,253. Before him are Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (1229), Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1887), Oskar Lafontaine (1943), and Lale Andersen (1905). After him are Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1709), Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), Erich Auerbach (1892), Fritz Strassmann (1902), Friedrich Dollmann (1882), and Ernst Albrecht (1930).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Hans Oster ranks 329. Before him are Emil Maurice (1897), Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen (1804), Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1803), Charles, Grand Duke of Baden (1786), Paul Langerhans (1847), and Oskar Lafontaine (1943). After him are Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1709), Ernst Albrecht (1930), Sibylle of Cleves (1512), Emil Jellinek (1853), Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen (1925), and Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1713).

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