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Richard Baer

1911 - 1963

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Richard Baer (9 September 1911 – 17 June 1963) was a German SS officer who, among other assignments, was the final commandant of Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to January 1945, and right after, from February to April 1945, commandant of Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. Following the war, Baer lived under an assumed name to avoid prosecution but was recognized and arrested in December 1960. He died in detention before he could stand trial. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Baer is the 2,685th most popular politician (up from 3,162nd in 2019), the 707th most popular biography from Germany (up from 848th in 2019) and the 198th most popular German Politician.

Richard Baer was a Nazi war criminal who was captured in 1962 and tried in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials. He was found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to life in prison.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Richard Baer ranks 2,685 out of 19,576. Before him are Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Emperor Higashiyama, Gustav Bauer, James Francis Edward Stuart, and Michael Bloomberg. After him are Nur Muhammad Taraki, Yazdegerd I, Chang Myon, Myeongjong of Joseon, Viktor Zubkov, and Julia Drusilla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Richard Baer ranks 41. Before him are Gian Carlo Menotti, Max Frisch, Klaus Fuchs, Trygve Haavelmo, Odysseas Elytis, and Lê Đức Thọ. After him are Jules Dassin, Lee Yoo-hyung, Jean Harlow, Joseph Barbera, John Archibald Wheeler, and L. Ron Hubbard. Among people deceased in 1963, Richard Baer ranks 30. Before him are Carmen Amaya, Abd al-Karim Qasim, J. D. Tippit, Herbert Spencer Gasser, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and Jacques Hadamard. After him are Richard Barthelmess, Rajendra Prasad, Theodore von Kármán, Kurt Zeitzler, Karl Bühler, and Oleg Penkovsky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Richard Baer ranks 707 out of 7,253. Before him are Robert Huber (1937), Walter Hallstein (1901), Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (1787), Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765), Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574), and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795). After him are Hans Morgenthau (1904), Ernst Udet (1896), Julia Drusilla (16), Prince Leopold of Bavaria (1846), Frank Farian (1941), and Karl Gebhardt (1897).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Richard Baer ranks 198. Before him are John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503), Erich Mielke (1907), Walter Hallstein (1901), Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (1787), Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765), and Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574). After him are Julia Drusilla (16), Otto Strasser (1897), Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797), Hermann von Salza (1170), Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856), and Erich Koch (1896).

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