SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Harro Schulze-Boysen

1909 - 1942

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Heinz Harro Max Wilhelm Georg Schulze-Boysen (German: [ˈha.ʁoː ˈʃʊl.t͡sə ˈbɔɪ̯sn̩] ; né Schulze, 2 September 1909 – 22 December 1942) was a left-wing German publicist and Luftwaffe officer during World War II. As a young man, Schulze-Boysen grew up in prosperous family with two siblings, with an extended family who were aristocrats. After spending his early schooling at the Heinrich-von-Kleist Gymnasium and his summers in Sweden, he partly completed a political science course at the University of Freiburg, before moving to Berlin in November 1929, to study law at the Humboldt University of Berlin. At Humboldt he became an anti-Nazi. After a visit to France in 1931, he moved to the political left. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harro Schulze-Boysen is the 238th most popular social activist (up from 257th in 2019), the 2,095th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,333rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Harro Schulze-Boysen ranks 238 out of 840. Before him are Bernard II, Duke of Saxony, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, Mordechai Vanunu, Franciszek Gajowniczek, Nimr al-Nimr, and Marina Ginestà. After him are Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Vandana Shiva, Juliana of Stolberg, Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Huber Matos, and Jan Gotlib Bloch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Harro Schulze-Boysen ranks 94. Before him are Porfirio Rubirosa, Adolfo López Mateos, Matti Järvinen, Albert R. Broccoli, Isa Miranda, and Stavros Niarchos. After him are Nelson Algren, Attilio Demaría, Franz Bardon, Johannes Willebrands, Jim Davis, and Mikhail Mil. Among people deceased in 1942, Harro Schulze-Boysen ranks 76. Before him are Joseph Franklin Rutherford, John Barrymore, Georg Alexander Pick, Wilbur Scoville, Karel Doorman, and Miguel Hernández. After him are Erwin Schulhoff, Leonid Kulik, Julio González, Henk Sneevliet, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Alexander Belyaev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Harro Schulze-Boysen ranks 2,096 out of 7,253. Before him are Maria Reiter (1911), Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1720), Carl Laemmle (1867), Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1694), Carl Reichenbach (1788), and Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen (1893). After him are Hans Richter (1888), Salvian (405), Georg Lindemann (1884), Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662), Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony (1730), and Paul Gerhardt (1607).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Harro Schulze-Boysen ranks 23. Before him are Klaus Störtebeker (1360), Carl Oberg (1897), Rudi Dutschke (1940), Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818), Christoph Probst (1919), and Ludolf von Alvensleben (1901). After him are Juliana of Stolberg (1506), Christa Schroeder (1908), Hanns Martin Schleyer (1915), Karl Ludwig Sand (1795), William I, Margrave of Meissen (1343), and Anita Augspurg (1857).

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