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Rudolf Lange

1910 - 1945

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Rudolf Lange (18 April 1910 – 23 February 1945) was a German SS-Standartenführer and police official during the Nazi era. After the invasion of the Soviet Union, he served in Einsatzgruppe A before becoming a commander of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) forces in Riga, Generalbezirk Lettland (today, Latvia). He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned, and was largely responsible for implementing the murder of Latvia's Jewish population during the Holocaust. He died at the Battle of Poznań in the closing months of the Second World War in Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Lange is the 6,772nd most popular politician (down from 6,072nd in 2019), the 1,843rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,668th in 2019) and the 540th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rudolf Lange ranks 6,772 out of 19,576. Before him are Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, Bernard de Tremelay, Maria Komnene, Dan Quayle, Herennia Etruscilla, and Hussein Arnous. After him are Stanisław Koniecpolski, Hajime Sugiyama, Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Leo I of Galicia, and Ante Starčević.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Rudolf Lange ranks 85. Before him are Johan Ferrier, Nouhak Phoumsavanh, Louis Slotin, Juan Velasco Alvarado, Hideo Shinojima, and Viktors Arājs. After him are Eero Saarinen, Paul Bowles, Chico Xavier, Masayoshi Ōhira, Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, and Julien Gracq. Among people deceased in 1945, Rudolf Lange ranks 122. Before him are Franz Hössler, Robert Brasillach, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, Robert Desnos, August Hirt, and Le Pétomane. After him are Hajime Sugiyama, Seiichi Itō, Leonid Pasternak, Werner Ostendorff, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., and André Tardieu.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Lange ranks 1,843 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Ebert Jr. (1894), Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1800), Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (1962), Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (1932), and Friedrich Albert Lange (1828). After him are Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Gustav von Schmoller (1838), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Gisela of Swabia (990), Sophie, Princess of Albania (1885), and Augustin Bea (1881).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Rudolf Lange ranks 540. Before him are Louis VI, Elector Palatine (1539), Horst Seehofer (1949), Friedrich Ebert Jr. (1894), Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1800), Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (1962), and Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (1932). After him are Gisela of Swabia (990), Gregor Gysi (1948), Armin Laschet (1961), Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772), Princess Feodora of Leiningen (1807), and Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1568).

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