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August Hirt

1898 - 1945

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August Hirt (28 April 1898 – 2 June 1945) was an anatomist with Swiss and German nationality who served as a chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg during World War II. He performed experiments with mustard gas on inmates at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and played a leading role in the murders of 86 people at Natzweiler-Struthof for the Jewish skull collection. The skeletons of his victims were meant to become specimens at the Institute of anatomy in Strasbourg, but completion of the project was stopped by the progress of the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Hirt has received more than 251,130 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. August Hirt is the 677th most popular military personnel (down from 557th in 2019), the 1,660th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,344th in 2019) and the 128th most popular German Military Personnel.

August Hirt was a German physician and anatomist during the Nazi regime. He is most famous for his involvement in the Holocaust.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, August Hirt ranks 677 out of 2,058. Before him are Arslan Isra'il, Heinz Hitler, Maarten Tromp, Takijirō Ōnishi, Juan José Flores, and Marie-Pierre Kœnig. After him are Ling Tong, Duško Popov, Grigory Kulik, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Roza Shanina, and Rostam Farrokhzad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, August Hirt ranks 72. Before him are Viktor Pavičić, Kurt Tank, Julius Schaub, Ernő Gerő, Leopold Infeld, and Marie-Pierre Kœnig. After him are Matvei Zakharov, Jean Borotra, István Dobi, Salvatore Ferragamo, Emil Artin, and Leo McCarey. Among people deceased in 1945, August Hirt ranks 116. Before him are Werner Ostendorff, Lord Alfred Douglas, Richard Glücks, Wilhelm Rediess, Takijirō Ōnishi, and Leonid Pasternak. After him are Robert Brasillach, Rudolf Lange, Roza Shanina, Le Pétomane, Mário de Andrade, and Bogdan Filov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Hirt ranks 1,660 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg (1759), Karl-Adolf Hollidt (1891), Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (1866), Meinhard III, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol (1344), Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1739), and Heinz Hitler (1920). After him are Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff (1896), Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria (1752), Hans-Peter Briegel (1955), Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1778), and Mary Wigman (1886).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, August Hirt ranks 128. Before him are Lothar von Trotha (1848), Wilhelm Rediess (1900), Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1911), Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg (1759), Karl-Adolf Hollidt (1891), and Heinz Hitler (1920). After him are Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721), Hans Langsdorff (1894), Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld (1651), Wilhelm Schepmann (1894), Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow (1755), and Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg (1886).

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