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Adolf Eichmann

1906 - 1962

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Otto Adolf Eichmann ( EYEKH-mən, German: [ˈʔɔto ˈʔaːdɔlf ˈʔaɪçman]; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Following this, he was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Eichmann has received more than 17,413,434 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Adolf Eichmann is the 11th most popular military personnel (down from 10th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Germany (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Military Personnel.

Adolf Eichmann was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He was charged with facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Eastern Europe during World War II.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Adolf Eichmann ranks 11 out of 2,058. Before him are Charles de Gaulle, Karl Dönitz, Erwin Rommel, Charles Martel, Khalid ibn al-Walid, and Spartacus. After him are Oda Nobunaga, William Wallace, Jochi, Ptolemy I Soter, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, and Charles XIV John of Sweden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Adolf Eichmann ranks 2. Before him is Leonid Brezhnev. After him are Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Grace Hopper, Samuel Beckett, Puyi, Luchino Visconti, Aristotle Onassis, Kurt Gödel, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Albert Hofmann. Among people deceased in 1962, Adolf Eichmann ranks 5. Before him are Marilyn Monroe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hermann Hesse, and Niels Bohr. After him are William Faulkner, Karen Blixen, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Lucky Luciano, Georges Bataille, Yves Klein, and Gaston Bachelard.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Eichmann ranks 48 out of 7,253. Before him are Werner Heisenberg (1901), Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Pope Benedict XVI (1927), Karl Benz (1844), and Marlene Dietrich (1901). After him are Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Heinrich Heine (1797), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Hannah Arendt (1906), Josef Mengele (1911), and Hildegard of Bingen (1098).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Adolf Eichmann ranks 3. Before him are Karl Dönitz (1891), and Erwin Rommel (1891). After him are Erich von Manstein (1887), Friedrich Paulus (1890), Arminius (-17), Heinz Guderian (1888), Wilhelm Keitel (1882), Michel Ney (1769), Baron Munchausen (1720), Gerd von Rundstedt (1875), and Ernst Röhm (1887).

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