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Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse

1896 - 1980

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Philipp, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse (6 November 1896 – 25 October 1980) was head of the Electoral House of Hesse from 1940 to 1980. Philipp joined the Nazi Party in 1930, and, when they gained power with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, he became Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau. However, he later began to fall out of favour with Hitler in the spring of 1943 after delivering an honest assessment of the military situation in Italy. He was arrested in September 1943 on the day Italy surrendered to the western Allies, dismissed in the following year, and was sent to the Flossenbürg concentration camp, then Dachau, where he remained until being transported to Tyrol by the SS, where he was liberated by Wehrmacht forces on 30 April 1945 and then arrested by U.S. forces on 4 May 1945, being interned until 1947. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse is the 5,530th most popular politician (down from 4,671st in 2019), the 1,458th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,263rd in 2019) and the 424th most popular German Politician.

Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse is most famous for being the father of the German philosopher and mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse ranks 5,530 out of 19,576. Before him are Kim Jong-pil, Bolesław II the Generous, Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans, Fatmir Sejdiu, Emperor Go-Shirakawa, and Adam Albert von Neipperg. After him are Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Victorinus, Kido Takayoshi, Hage Geingob, Emperor Huai of Jin, and Mohammad Ali Bogra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse ranks 62. Before him are Soghomon Tehlirian, André Masson, Boris Skossyreff, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Heo Jeong, and Julien Duvivier. After him are Elsa Triolet, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Norodom Suramarit, Kenji Miyazawa, Aleksei Antonov, and Karl August Wittfogel. Among people deceased in 1980, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse ranks 64. Before him are Vinicius de Moraes, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Stanisława Walasiewicz, Ernő Gerő, Shigemaru Takenokoshi, and Ian Curtis. After him are Filipp Golikov, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Walter Dornberger, Tôn Đức Thắng, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, and Jim Fouché.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse ranks 1,458 out of 7,253. Before him are Anna Maria of the Palatinate (1561), Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1723), Georg Kaiser (1878), Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich (1858), Waldemar Hoven (1903), and Günter Guillaume (1927). After him are Jupp Derwall (1927), Karl Löwith (1897), Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1729), Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach (1682), Werner Best (1903), and Princess Sophie of Saxony (1845).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse ranks 424. Before him are Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650), Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse (1753), Princess Margaretha of Saxony (1840), Ernst vom Rath (1909), Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1848), and Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1723). After him are Werner Best (1903), Franz Ritter von Epp (1868), Josef Bühler (1904), William I, Elector of Hesse (1743), Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1826), and Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1724).

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