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Herschel Grynszpan

1921 - 1942

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Herschel Feibel Grynszpan (Yiddish: הערשל פײַבל גרינשפּאן; German: Hermann Grünspan; 28 March 1921 – last rumoured to be alive in 1945, declared dead in 1960) was a Polish-Jewish expatriate born and raised in Weimar Germany who shot and killed the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on 7 November 1938 in Paris. The Nazis used this assassination as a pretext to launch Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass", the pogrom of 9–10 November 1938. Grynszpan was seized by the Gestapo after the Fall of France and brought to Germany; his further fate remains unknown. It is generally assumed that Grynszpan did not survive World War II, and he was declared dead in absentia by the West German government in 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Herschel Grynszpan is the 5,248th most popular politician (down from 3,008th in 2019), the 1,381st most popular biography from Germany (down from 806th in 2019) and the 401st most popular German Politician.

Herschel Grynszpan was a Polish Jew who assassinated the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris on November 7, 1938.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Herschel Grynszpan ranks 5,248 out of 19,576. Before him are Emperor Fushimi, Huo Qubing, Donald II of Scotland, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, and Prithvi Narayan Shah. After him are M. Visvesvaraya, Gnaeus Octavius, Piri Mehmed Pasha, Firuz Shah Tughlaq, Doquz Khatun, and Malik-Shah II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Herschel Grynszpan ranks 92. Before him are Thomas Schelling, Seretse Khama, Giovanni Benelli, Louis Jourdan, Stanley Ho, and Philippe de Gaulle. After him are Mario Lanza, Chris Marker, Yuri Nikulin, Paul Schäfer, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, and Françoise Gilot. Among people deceased in 1942, Herschel Grynszpan ranks 51. Before him are Lauri Kristian Relander, Daniil Kharms, Séraphine Louis, Grant Wood, Adam Czerniaków, and Yuri Kondratyuk. After him are Ivan Bilibin, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, Henri de Baillet-Latour, Thorvald Stauning, and Franz Walter Stahlecker.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Herschel Grynszpan ranks 1,381 out of 7,253. Before him are Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817), Samuel Scheidt (1587), Vasily Radlov (1837), Erika Mann (1905), Wilhelm Stuckart (1902), and Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1473). After him are Gerberga of Saxony (913), Franz Seldte (1882), Bert Sakmann (1942), Hermann Graf (1912), Gottfried Feder (1883), and Helmut Haller (1939).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Herschel Grynszpan ranks 401. Before him are Walter Christaller (1893), Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413), Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia (1887), Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817), Wilhelm Stuckart (1902), and Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1473). After him are Gerberga of Saxony (913), Franz Seldte (1882), Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1696), Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1907), Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1676), and Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671).

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