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Karl Hanke

1903 - 1945

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Karl August Hanke (24 August 1903 – 8 June 1945) was an official of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) during its rule over Germany who served as the fifth and final Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS). He also served as Gauleiter of Gau Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945 and as Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. Captured on 6 May 1945, he was shot and wounded during an escape attempt and then beaten to death by Czech guards on 8 June, after the war had ended. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Hanke is the 2,140th most popular politician (down from 2,055th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Poland (up from 121st in 2019) and the 26th most popular Polish Politician.

Karl Hahn was a German mathematician who was most famous for proving that there is no general algorithm for determining whether a given Diophantine equation has an integer solution.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Karl Hanke ranks 2,140 out of 19,576. Before him are Alexander, Emeric Thököly, Francis, Duke of Anjou, Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, Alexios II Komnenos, and Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. After him are Mohammed Nadir Shah, Ivan Gašparovič, Nadab of Israel, Ramiz Alia, Axel Oxenstierna, and Magnus V of Norway.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Karl Hanke ranks 28. Before him are Lars Onsager, Kane Tanaka, Frank P. Ramsey, Hugo Theorell, Anaïs Nin, and Mustafa Barzani. After him are Rudolf Abel, Nikolai Podgorny, Fahri Korutürk, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Raymond Queneau, and John Dillinger. Among people deceased in 1945, Karl Hanke ranks 48. Before him are Josef Kramer, Wied, Prince of Albania, Robert Ley, Hans Geiger, Giovanni Agnelli, and Odilo Globočnik. After him are Yun Chi-ho, Robert Ritter von Greim, Edgar Cayce, Theodore Dreiser, Franz Werfel, and Robert H. Goddard.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Karl Hanke ranks 114 out of 1,694. Before him are Henryk Wieniawski (1835), Dziga Vertov (1896), Saint Casimir (1458), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), and Ulrich Beck (1944). After him are Hanna Reitsch (1912), Casimir Funk (1884), Władysław Sikorski (1881), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), and Pola Negri (1897).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Karl Hanke ranks 26. Before him are Anna Jagiellon (1523), Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Bolesław I the Brave (967), Egon Krenz (1937), Catherine Jagiellon (1526), and Marie Walewska (1786). After him are Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), Kurt Daluege (1897), Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810), and Władysław Gomułka (1905).

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