SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Carl Oberg

1897 - 1965

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Carl Albrecht Oberg (27 January 1897 – 3 June 1965) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He served as Senior SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) in occupied France, from May 1942 to November 1944, during the Second World War, Oberg came to be known as the Butcher of Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Oberg has received more than 209,351 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Carl Oberg is the 196th most popular social activist (up from 225th in 2019), the 1,608th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,982nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Carl Oberg ranks 196 out of 840Before him are Kartini, Chen Sheng, Subcomandante Marcos, Bernard II, Duke of Saxony, Bacha Khan, and Lepa Radić. After him are Moses Montefiore, Campaspe, Max Mosley, Jacques Vergès, Serge Klarsfeld, and Fred Phelps.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Carl Oberg ranks 80Before him are Károly Kerényi, Jean Epstein, Virginia Henderson, Winifred Wagner, Hans Speidel, and Rouben Mamoulian. After him are Judith Anderson, Tarjei Vesaas, Shoghi Effendi, Chen Cheng, Yuri Kondratyuk, and Marcel Petiot. Among people deceased in 1965, Carl Oberg ranks 42Before him are Sydney Chaplin, Clara Bow, Hans Knappertsbusch, Angelica Balabanoff, Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i, and Aksel Sandemose. After him are Bernard Baruch, Henry A. Wallace, Chen Cheng, Hayato Ikeda, Jesse Douglas, and Georges Gurvitch.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Oberg ranks 1,608 out of 7,253Before him are Johann Georg Pisendel (1687), Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1860), Fritz Honka (1935), Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1784), Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel (1789), and Wolf Vostell (1932). After him are Erwin Bowien (1899), Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), Philipp Lahm (1983), Bastian Schweinsteiger (1984), and Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1736).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Carl Oberg ranks 19Before him are Marianne Bachmeier (1950), Paul Schäfer (1921), Klaus Störtebeker (1360), Gerda Christian (1913), Rudi Dutschke (1940), and Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818). After him are Gretl Braun (1915), Christoph Probst (1919), Hanns Martin Schleyer (1915), Juliana of Stolberg (1506), Ludolf von Alvensleben (1901), and Harro Schulze-Boysen (1909).