MILITARY PERSONNEL

Adolf Diekmann

1914 - 1944

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Adolf Rudolf Reinhold Diekmann (18 December 1914 – 29 June 1944) was a Nazi officer in the Waffen SS during World War II who orchestrated the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in France on 10 June 1944. Under Diekmann's command, troops from the SS Division Das Reich killed 643 inhabitants in the village, most of whom were women and children. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Diekmann has received more than 280,858 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Diekmann is the 1,287th most popular military personnel, the 3,122nd most popular biography from Germany and the 238th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Adolf Diekmann ranks 1,287 out of 2,058. Before him are Augustín Malár, Benedetto I Zaccaria, Arima Harunobu, Albert Sidney Johnston, Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, and Niels Juel. After him are Ferenc Wesselényi, Vladimir Kappel, Felix von Luckner, John Paul Jones, Nikolai Linevich, and Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Adolf Diekmann ranks 162. Before him are Alfred Andersch, Taizo Kawamoto, Andrzej Panufnik, Gretel Bergmann, Max Wünsche, and Viola Desmond. After him are Sarla Thakral, Norman McLaren, Arno Schmidt, Zivia Lubetkin, Sisowath Sirik Matak, and Max Manus. Among people deceased in 1944, Adolf Diekmann ranks 175. Before him are Endre Kabos, Gabriel Hanotaux, Orde Wingate, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, and Miklós Radnóti. After him are Hans Graf von Sponeck, George David Birkhoff, Félix Fénéon, Liviu Rebreanu, Prafulla Chandra Ray, and Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Diekmann ranks 3,122 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg (1684), Gerhard von Kügelgen (1772), H.P. Baxxter (1964), Bernd Eichinger (1949), and Werner March (1894). After him are Fatih Akin (1973), Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe (1859), Christian Ferdinand Abel (1682), Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe (1821), Picander (1700), and Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal (1667).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Adolf Diekmann ranks 238. Before him are Richard Ruoff (1883), Johanna Wolf (1900), Otto Ciliax (1891), Josef Kammhuber (1896), Max Wünsche (1914), and Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg (1684). After him are Felix von Luckner (1881), Hans Graf von Sponeck (1888), Ludwig von Reuter (1869), Rolf Carls (1885), Friedrich Kirchner (1885), and Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt (1887).

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