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August Heissmeyer

1897 - 1979

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August Heißmeyer or Heissmeyer, (11 January 1897 – 16 January 1979), was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He commanded the SS Main Office in 1935–1939. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Heissmeyer has received more than 115,424 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. August Heissmeyer is the 9,742nd most popular politician (down from 8,957th in 2019), the 2,819th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,581st in 2019) and the 817th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, August Heissmeyer ranks 9,742 out of 19,576Before him are Alara of Nubia, Jean-Jacques Honorat, Lord Guildford Dudley, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Aeropus I of Macedon, and Edmund Glaise-Horstenau. After him are Commius, Theodoros Pangalos, Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken, Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Cynewulf of Wessex, and Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, August Heissmeyer ranks 138Before him are Xu Zhimo, Peter Högl, Nima Yooshij, Edith Head, Georgios Grivas, and Wilfred Bion. After him are Horace McCoy, Wilhelm Falley, Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, Zhang Guotao, and Paul Ben-Haim. Among people deceased in 1979, August Heissmeyer ranks 103Before him are David Butler, Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia, Agop Dilâçar, Wilfred Bion, Jean Rhys, and Helmut Hasse. After him are Marcel L'Herbier, James J. Gibson, Dolores Costello, Leonid Bykov, Zhang Guotao, and Antun Augustinčić.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Heissmeyer ranks 2,819 out of 7,253Before him are Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1582), Duke George of Oldenburg (1784), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), Valentin Weigel (1533), Adam Kraft (1450), and Hermann von Fehling (1812). After him are Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744), Eugen Fischer (1874), Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (1385), Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889), Gerhard Gentzen (1909), and Franz Lachner (1803).

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