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Werner Lorenz

1891 - 1974

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Werner Lorenz (2 October 1891 – 13 March 1974) was an SS functionary during the Nazi era. He was head of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VOMI) (Main Office for Ethnic Germans), an organization charged with resettling ethnic Germans in the "German Reich" from other parts of Europe, as well as colonising the occupied lands during World War II. After the war, Lorenz was sentenced to prison for crimes against humanity in 1948. He was released in 1954 and died in 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Werner Lorenz is the 9,701st most popular politician (down from 7,695th in 2019), the 565th most popular biography from Poland (down from 453rd in 2019) and the 145th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Werner Lorenz ranks 9,701 out of 19,576Before him are Iset, Butigeidis, Phankham Viphavanh, Carrie Lam, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, and Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. After him are Edward Dickinson Baker, Edith Head, Franz Kutschera, Ernst Fast, Emperor Ai of Jin, and Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

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Among people born in 1891, Werner Lorenz ranks 109Before him are Sultan al-Atrash, Ronald Colman, Béla Imrédy, Ahmad bin Yahya, Alfred Meyer, and Evgeny Pashukanis. After him are Pietro Nenni, Hans Albers, Laura Vicuña, Julius Leber, Gio Ponti, and George Adamski. Among people deceased in 1974, Werner Lorenz ranks 94Before him are Fred Kelly, Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Konstantin Melnikov, Yevgeny Vuchetich, Georgios Grivas, and Maximilian de Angelis. After him are Rosario Castellanos, Cornelius Ryan, Jim Bausch, Manuel A. Odría, Vladimir Smirnov, and Kurt Atterberg.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Werner Lorenz ranks 565 out of 1,694Before him are Bella Darvi (1928), Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (1890), Paul Löbe (1875), Cyprian Norwid (1821), Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1464), and Justyna Steczkowska (1972). After him are Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1819), Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855), Bolesław the Pious (1225), Stanisław Konarski (1700), Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793), and Zbigniew Preisner (1955).

Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Werner Lorenz ranks 145Before him are Radosław Sikorski (1963), Heinz Kessler (1920), Zawisza Czarny (1379), Bronisław Geremek (1932), Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (1890), and Paul Löbe (1875). After him are Bolesław the Pious (1225), Edward Ochab (1906), Joseph Serchuk (1919), Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1801), Duchess Amelia of Württemberg (1799), and Nahum Sokolow (1859).