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Paul Blobel

1894 - 1951

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Paul Wilhelm Hermann Blobel (13 August 1894 – 7 June 1951) was a German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) commander and convicted war criminal who played a leading role in the Holocaust. He organised the Babi Yar massacre, the largest massacre of the Second World War at Babi Yar ravine in September 1941, pioneered the use of the gas van, and, following re-assignment, developed the gas chambers for the extermination camps. From late 1942 onwards, he led Sonderaktion 1005, wherein millions of bodies were exhumed at sites across Eastern Europe in an effort to erase all evidence of the Holocaust and specifically of Operation Reinhard. After the war, Blobel was tried at the Einsatzgruppen trial and sentenced to death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Blobel is the 4,253rd most popular politician (down from 3,540th in 2019), the 1,101st most popular biography from Germany (down from 960th in 2019) and the 318th most popular German Politician.

Paul Blobel was a Nazi officer who was responsible for the Babi Yar massacre in September 1941.

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Among politicians, Paul Blobel ranks 4,253 out of 19,576. Before him are Philippe, Chevalier de Lorraine, Carl Johan Bernadotte, Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, Marc Ravalomanana, Miran Shah, and Philip III of Navarre. After him are Michael Shishman of Bulgaria, Beorhtric of Wessex, David I of Scotland, Bianca Maria Visconti, Idris I of Morocco, and Robert II, Count of Flanders.

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Among people born in 1894, Paul Blobel ranks 49. Before him are Nazli Sabri, Walter Brennan, Sergey Ilyushin, Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Kōnosuke Matsushita, and Norman Rockwell. After him are Dimitri Tiomkin, Bessie Smith, Leo Kanner, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Anton Mussert, and Percy Spencer. Among people deceased in 1951, Paul Blobel ranks 27. Before him are Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, Robert Walker, Charles G. Dawes, Oswald Pohl, Harald Bohr, and Óscar Carmona. After him are Kim Chaek, Soh Jaipil, Ivanoe Bonomi, Élie Cartan, William Randolph Hearst, and Princess Milica of Montenegro.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Blobel ranks 1,101 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Barlach (1870), Theodelinda (570), Erhard Heiden (1901), Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria (1849), Felix Magath (1953), and Margarethe von Trotta (1942). After him are August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862), Harald Schumacher (1954), Ernst Heinkel (1888), and Veit Stoss (1450).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Paul Blobel ranks 318. Before him are William V, Duke of Bavaria (1548), Carl Clauberg (1898), Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1756), Godigisel (359), Theodelinda (570), and Erhard Heiden (1901). After him are Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862), Rodolphe Seeldrayers (1876), Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778), Gustav Noske (1868), Emil Maurice (1897), and Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen (1804).

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