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Heinrich Himmler

1900 - 1945

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Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluːɪtpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐ] ; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and military leader who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party, and one of the most powerful people in Nazi Germany. He is primarily known for being one of the main architects of the Holocaust. After serving in a reserve battalion during World War I without seeing combat, Himmler went on to join the Nazi Party in 1923. In 1925, he joined the SS, a small paramilitary arm of the Nazi Party that served as a bodyguard unit for Adolf Hitler. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Himmler is the 139th most popular politician (down from 106th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Germany (down from 35th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Politician.

Heinrich Himmler was the head of the SS and Gestapo, and he is most famous for being in charge of the Holocaust.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Heinrich Himmler ranks 139 out of 19,576. Before him are Ashoka, Napoleon III, Al Gore, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Ivan the Terrible, and Boris Yeltsin. After him are Tiberius, Harald Hardrada, George W. Bush, Philip II of Spain, Hurrem Sultan, and Hassanal Bolkiah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Heinrich Himmler ranks 2. Before him is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. After him are Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Erich Fromm, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Martin Bormann, Charles Francis Richter, Hans Adolf Krebs, Luis Buñuel, Wolfgang Pauli, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Among people deceased in 1945, Heinrich Himmler ranks 6. Before him are Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Benito Mussolini, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Anne Frank. After him are Eva Braun, Béla Bartók, Martin Bormann, Anton Webern, Fedor von Bock, and Walter Model.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Himmler ranks 39 out of 7,253. Before him are Anne Frank (1929), Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368), Hermann Hesse (1877), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Martin Heidegger (1889), and Karl Dönitz (1891). After him are Friedrich Schiller (1759), Robert Schumann (1810), Josef Mengele (1911), Albert, Prince Consort (1819), Hermann Göring (1893), and Bertolt Brecht (1898).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Heinrich Himmler ranks 10. Before him are Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), Henry Kissinger (1923), Frederick the Great (1712), Angela Merkel (1954), Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368), and Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912). After him are Hermann Göring (1893), Christian IX of Denmark (1818), William I, German Emperor (1797), Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795), Konrad Adenauer (1876), and Reinhard Heydrich (1904).

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