The Most Famous
SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Latvia
This page contains a list of the greatest Latvian Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 840 Social Activists, 2 of which were born in Latvia. This makes Latvia the birth place of the 54th most number of Social Activists behind Indonesia, and Colombia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Latvian Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Latvian Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Viktors Arājs (1910 - 1988)
With an HPI of 56.51, Viktors Arājs is the most famous Latvian Social Activist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Viktors Arājs (13 January 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a Latvian/Baltic German collaborator and Nazi SS SD officer who took part in the Holocaust during the German occupation of Latvia and Belarus as the leader of the Arajs Kommando. The Arajs Kommando murdered about half of Latvia's Jews.
2. Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1899 - 1944)
With an HPI of 53.05, Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven is the 2nd most famous Latvian Social Activist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Wessel Oskar Karl Johann Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven (22 November [O.S. 10] 1899 – 26 July 1944), was a Baltic German colonel in the High Command of the German Armed Forces (OKW) and a member of the German Resistance (Widerstand) against Adolf Hitler. Loringhoven was a friend of Claus von Stauffenberg, who was the leader of the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Latvian social activists born between 1899 and 1910. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Latvian social activists include Viktors Arājs, and Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven.
