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Wilhelm Boger

1906 - 1977

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Wilhelm Friedrich Boger (19 December 1906 – 3 April 1977), known as "The Tiger of Auschwitz", was a German police commissioner and concentration camp overseer. He gained infamy for the atrocities he committed at Auschwitz, including torturing prisoners using a device known as the "Boger swing". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Boger is the 133rd most popular extremist (up from 151st in 2019), the 2,374th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,795th in 2019) and the 16th most popular German Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Wilhelm Boger ranks 133 out of 283. Before him are Albert Anastasia, Luciano Leggio, Dinko Šakić, David Berkowitz, Omar Abdel-Rahman, and Delphine LaLaurie. After him are Robert Hansen, Charles Sobhraj, Aldrich Ames, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Jacques Mesrine, and Eugen Weidmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Wilhelm Boger ranks 117. Before him are Fred Lawrence Whipple, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Gabriel Ramanantsoa, Dita Parlo, Enrico Mattei, and Paolo Stoppa. After him are Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Wolf Albach-Retty, Denis de Rougemont, Philippe Halsman, Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, and Musa Cälil. Among people deceased in 1977, Wilhelm Boger ranks 85. Before him are Carlo Biotti, Edmond Hamilton, Nicolae Kovács, Carl Zuckmayer, Yevgenia Ginzburg, and Arsenio Erico. After him are Jacques Tourneur, Erroll Garner, Scott Bradley, Alphonse Massamba-Débat, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, and Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Boger ranks 2,375 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1888), Johann Andreas Stein (1728), Sigmund Rascher (1909), Friedrich Hossbach (1894), Astrid Kirchherr (1938), and Charlotte Bühler (1893). After him are Ruth Fuchs (1946), William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1682), Princess Hilda of Nassau (1864), Irmina of Oeren (700), Helmut Lachenmann (1935), and Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1783).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Germany

Among extremists born in Germany, Wilhelm Boger ranks 16. Before him are Willi Herold (1925), Johann Rattenhuber (1897), Monika Ertl (1937), Armin Meiwes (1961), Oskar Gröning (1921), and Therese Brandl (1902). After him are Eugen Weidmann (1908), Irmgard Möller (1947), Brigitte Mohnhaupt (1949), Ernst Zündel (1939), and Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss (1951).

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