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Paul Giesler

1895 - 1945

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Paul Giesler (15 June 1895 – 8 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party politician and SA-Obergruppenführer. From 1941, he was the Gauleiter of Westphalia-South, and he was appointed to the same position for the Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria in 1942. From 2 November 1942 to 28 April 1945, he was also Ministerpräsident of Bavaria. He was responsible for multiple acts of brutality, which included killing opponents of the regime in southern Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Giesler is the 9,063rd most popular politician (down from 9,000th in 2019), the 2,520th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,563rd in 2019) and the 755th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Paul Giesler ranks 9,063 out of 19,576. Before him are Abimelech, Ahmed Jibril, Matteo Salvini, Jovan Divjak, Heinrich Kiepert, and Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano. After him are Aben Humeya, Catalina de Erauso, Kostas Karamanlis, Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Eliza Lynch, and Octavian Goga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Paul Giesler ranks 113. Before him are Albert Cohen, Kirsten Flagstad, Martin Luther, Alexander Orlov, Matthew Ridgway, and Rolf Nevanlinna. After him are Carl Lutz, Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, Jacques Brugnon, Liaquat Ali Khan, Ernesto Lecuona, and Iona Nikitchenko. Among people deceased in 1945, Paul Giesler ranks 168. Before him are Bertram Ramsay, Fritz Klingenberg, Achille Starace, Kitaro Nishida, Joseph Darnand, and Helmuth James von Moltke. After him are Ludwig Müller, Richard Thomalla, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, Prince Kan'in Kotohito, and Maria Skobtsova.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Giesler ranks 2,521 out of 7,253. Before him are Marco Reus (1989), Heinrich Bär (1913), Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1592), Klaus Wolfermann (1946), Heinrich Kiepert (1818), and Johann Georg Wagler (1800). After him are Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden (1824), Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt (1831), George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1779), Helmuth Plessner (1892), Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck (1620), and Paul Kummer (1834).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Paul Giesler ranks 755. Before him are Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1481), Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1583), Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (1244), Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772), Martin Sandberger (1911), and Heinrich Kiepert (1818). After him are Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt (1831), George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1779), Paul Kummer (1834), Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1636), John Albert II (1590), and Princess Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1713).

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