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Werner Best

1903 - 1989

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Karl Rudolf Werner Best (10 July 1903 – 23 June 1989) was a German jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer, Nazi Party leader, and theoretician from Darmstadt. He was the first chief of Department 1 of the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police, and initiated a registry of all Jews in Germany. As a deputy of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, he organized the SS-Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads that carried out mass-murder in Nazi-occupied territories. Best served in the German military occupation administration of France (1940–1942) and then became the civilian administrator of occupied Denmark (1942–1945). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Werner Best is the 5,556th most popular politician (down from 5,331st in 2019), the 1,463rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,467th in 2019) and the 425th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Werner Best ranks 5,556 out of 19,576. Before him are Louis I of Naples, Mucianus, Félix Tshisekedi, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, Ivaylo of Bulgaria, and Louisa Adams. After him are Hashim Thaçi, Léon M'ba, Emperor Go-Hanazono, Peter, Duke of Coimbra, William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent, and Franz Ritter von Epp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Werner Best ranks 77. Before him are Louis Leakey, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Misao Tamai, Yevgeny Mravinsky, Johannes Heesters, and Waldemar Hoven. After him are Erskine Caldwell, Charles W. Morris, Evelyn Waugh, Sadegh Hedayat, Prince Nicholas of Romania, and Lou Gehrig. Among people deceased in 1989, Werner Best ranks 63. Before him are Graham Chapman, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, Franklin J. Schaffner, A. J. Ayer, Rashid Behbudov, and R. D. Laing. After him are Kaoru Ishikawa, Kazimierz Deyna, Karel Zeman, Princess Deokhye, Luis Carlos Galán, and Leonardo Sciascia.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Werner Best ranks 1,463 out of 7,253. Before him are Günter Guillaume (1927), Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse (1896), Jupp Derwall (1927), Karl Löwith (1897), Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1729), and Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach (1682). After him are Princess Sophie of Saxony (1845), Franz Ritter von Epp (1868), Josef Bühler (1904), Beno Gutenberg (1889), Hans Knappertsbusch (1888), and Adolph Wagner (1835).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Werner Best ranks 425. Before him are 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), Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1723), and Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse (1896). After him are Franz Ritter von Epp (1868), Josef Bühler (1904), William I, Elector of Hesse (1743), Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1826), Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1724), and Julius Schaub (1898).

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