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Philipp Bouhler

1899 - 1945

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Philipp Bouhler (11 September 1899 – 19 May 1945) was a German senior Nazi Party functionary who was both a Reichsleiter (National Leader) and Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP. He was also the SS official responsible for the Aktion T4 euthanasia program that killed more than 250,000 disabled adults and children in Nazi Germany, as well as co-initiator of Aktion 14f13, also called Sonderbehandlung ('special treatment'), that killed 15,000–20,000 concentration camp prisoners. Bouhler was arrested on 10 May 1945 by American troops. He took his own life nine days later in the U.S. internment camp at Zell am See in Austria. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philipp Bouhler is the 5,660th most popular politician (down from 5,092nd in 2019), the 1,496th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,385th in 2019) and the 437th most popular German Politician.

Philipp Bouhler was a Nazi official who was most famous for being the head of the Nazi euthanasia program, which killed disabled people and others who were considered "unworthy of life."

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Philipp Bouhler ranks 5,660 out of 19,576. Before him are Thorkell the Tall, Werner Naumann, King Cheng of Zhou, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Jan Zamoyski, and Al-Mansur Billah. After him are Tadukhipa, Vera Zasulich, Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, Ryszard Kaczorowski, Andrej Kiska, and Albert III, Duke of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Philipp Bouhler ranks 67. Before him are Brassaï, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Andrei Platonov, Louis Chiron, Georges Bidault, and Akim Tamiroff. After him are Frances Yates, Artur da Costa e Silva, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Franz Jonas, John Christie, and Zaki al-Arsuzi. Among people deceased in 1945, Philipp Bouhler ranks 104. Before him are Else Lasker-Schüler, Albrecht Penck, Roza Shanina, Bernhard Rust, Georg Kaiser, and Walter Bradford Cannon. After him are Eduard Bloch, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Charles Spearman, Anton Dostler, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, and Richard Glücks.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Philipp Bouhler ranks 1,496 out of 7,253. Before him are Hartmann Schedel (1440), Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1697), Mike Nichols (1931), André Previn (1929), Anna Leopoldovna (1718), and Ernst Lindemann (1894). After him are Carl Ludwig (1816), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1860), Albert III, Duke of Bavaria (1401), Walter Dornberger (1895), and Thomas Tuchel (1973).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Philipp Bouhler ranks 437. Before him are Julius Schaub (1898), Dorothea Binz (1920), Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (1866), Martin Schulz (1955), Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1697), and Anna Leopoldovna (1718). After him are Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1860), Albert III, Duke of Bavaria (1401), Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen (1671), Ernst von Weizsäcker (1882), Princess Anna of Prussia (1836), and John George II, Elector of Saxony (1613).

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