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Otto Wächter

1901 - 1949

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Baron Otto Gustav von Wächter (8 July 1901 – 14 July 1949) was an Austrian lawyer, Nazi politician and a high-ranking member of the SS, a paramilitary organisation of the Nazi Party. He participated in the Final Solution extermination of Jews in Europe, and was instrumental in creating an SS division consisting of Ukrainians. During the occupation of Poland in World War II, he was the governor of the district of Kraków in the General Government and then of the District of Galicia (now mainly in Ukraine). Later, in 1944, he was appointed as head of the German Military Administration in the puppet Italian Social Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Wächter is the 8,980th most popular politician (down from 7,822nd in 2019), the 505th most popular biography from Austria (down from 467th in 2019) and the 149th most popular Austrian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Otto Wächter ranks 8,980 out of 19,576. Before him are Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Étienne de Silhouette, Bogdan I of Moldavia, Franz Six, Titus Annius Milo, and An-Nasir Faraj. After him are Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Margaret of Bourbon, Brad Little, Radu I of Wallachia, Artemio Franchi, and Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Otto Wächter ranks 116. Before him are Princess Yolanda of Savoy, Michel Leiris, Maxwell D. Taylor, Nina Berberova, Fred Uhlman, and Jean Prouvé. After him are Manuel Urrutia Lleó, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Wolfgang Schmieder, Karl-August Fagerholm, Ed Sullivan, and Alexander Fadeyev. Among people deceased in 1949, Otto Wächter ranks 74. Before him are Vladimir Nazor, Lead Belly, Erich von Drygalski, Damaskinos of Athens, Amadeo Giannini, and Douglas Hyde. After him are Ginette Neveu, Alejandro Lerroux, Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, Koçi Xoxe, Frank Morgan, and Sam Wood.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Otto Wächter ranks 505 out of 1,424. Before him are Ernst Marischka (1893), Sylvester Stadler (1910), Ernst Ocwirk (1926), Hermann Gmeiner (1919), Maria Schicklgruber (1795), and Freddy Quinn (1931). After him are Wolf Albach-Retty (1906), Carl Zeller (1842), Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (1649), Julius Raab (1891), Diana Budisavljević (1891), and Richard Kohn (1888).

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Among POLITICIANS In Austria

Among politicians born in Austria, Otto Wächter ranks 149. Before him are Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1822), Konstantin Jireček (1854), Ignaz Seipel (1876), Prince René of Bourbon-Parma (1894), Petar Brzica (1917), and Leopold Figl (1902). After him are Julius Raab (1891), Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria (1827), Haim Bar-Lev (1924), August Eigruber (1907), Valentin Inzko (1949), and Boris Kidrič (1912).

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