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Bernhard Rust

1883 - 1945

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Bernhard Rust (30 September 1883 – 8 May 1945) was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture (Reichserziehungsminister) in Nazi Germany. A combination of school administrator and zealous Nazi, he issued decrees, often bizarre, at every level of the German educational system to immerse German youth in Nazi ideology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernhard Rust has received more than 219,310 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Bernhard Rust is the 5,031st most popular politician (down from 4,695th in 2019), the 1,361st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,297th in 2019) and the 390th most popular German Politician.

Bernhard Rust was the Minister of Education in Nazi Germany. He is most famous for his role in the removal of Jewish faculty from German universities.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bernhard Rust ranks 5,031 out of 19,576. Before him are Zhuge Zhan, Bianca Maria Visconti, Cleopatra VI of Egypt, Américo Tomás, Ugolino della Gherardesca, and Emperor Zhi of Han. After him are Jacques I, Prince of Monaco, Wu Ding, Latinus, Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, and Rexhep Meidani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Bernhard Rust ranks 60. Before him are José Clemente Orozco, Ivan Ilyin, Richard von Mises, Nikolay Krestinsky, Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, and Henri Delaunay. After him are Kenji Doihara, Gusztáv Jány, Ichirō Hatoyama, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Alfredo Casella, and Yan Xishan. Among people deceased in 1945, Bernhard Rust ranks 96. Before him are Walter Bradford Cannon, Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Hans Kammler, Josef Čapek, and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. After him are Philipp Bouhler, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Kiril, Prince of Preslav, Anton Dostler, Walter Krüger, and Else Lasker-Schüler.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bernhard Rust ranks 1,361 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Chladni (1756), Hans Baur (1897), Kurt Franz (1914), Otto Rasch (1891), Heinrich Schwabe (1789), and Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (1759). After him are Rudolf Arnheim (1904), Adolf Heusinger (1897), Feodor Lynen (1911), Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg (1708), Johann Schein (1586), and Heidi Klum (1973).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Bernhard Rust ranks 390. Before him are Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin (1673), Lucius Antonius Saturninus (20), Otto II, Duke of Bavaria (1206), Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse (1753), Otto Rasch (1891), and Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (1759). After him are Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg (1708), Bernhardus Varenius (1622), Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (1447), Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen (1257), William I, Elector of Hesse (1743), and Isidor Straus (1845).

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