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Christian Wirth

1885 - 1944

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Christian Wirth (German: [vɪʁt] ; 24 November 1885 – 26 May 1944) was a German SS officer and leading Holocaust perpetrator who was one of the primary architects of the program to exterminate the Jewish people of Poland, known as Operation Reinhard. His nicknames included Christian the Cruel (German: Christian der Grausame), Stuka, and The Wild Christian due to the extremity of his behaviour among the SS and Trawniki guards and to the camp inmates and victims. Wirth worked within the Action T4 program, in which people with disabilities were murdered by gassing or lethal injection, and then at implementing Operation Reinhard, by developing almost single-handed, the extermination camps for the purpose of mass murder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian Wirth has received more than 717,925 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Christian Wirth is the 429th most popular military personnel (up from 460th in 2019), the 1,022nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,102nd in 2019) and the 84th most popular German Military Personnel.

Christian Wirth was a high-ranking officer in the Schutzstaffel, who was in charge of the Action T4 euthanasia program.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Christian Wirth ranks 429 out of 2,058. Before him are Yonatan Netanyahu, Walter Nowotny, Herbert Gille, Datis, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, and Galdan Boshugtu Khan. After him are Günther Lütjens, Xu Huang, He Jin, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Mikhail Kirponos, and Osman Nuri Pasha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Christian Wirth ranks 47. Before him are Eduard Künneke, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Tamara Karsavina, Will Durant, Romano Guardini, and Clementine Churchill. After him are Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Velimir Khlebnikov, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Otto Klemperer, Sacha Guitry, and Per Albin Hansson. Among people deceased in 1944, Christian Wirth ranks 61. Before him are Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Jean Giraudoux, Walter Nowotny, Mohammed Alim Khan, and George Stinney. After him are Jean Tatlock, Asmahan, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, August Landmesser, Erich Fellgiebel, and Ida Tarbell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Wirth ranks 1,022 out of 7,253. Before him are Hennig Brand (1630), Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1597), Gert Fröbe (1913), Hrotsvitha (935), Walter Röhrl (1947), and Charles De Coster (1827). After him are Karl Bühler (1879), Franz Rosenzweig (1886), Günther Lütjens (1889), Beate Klarsfeld (1939), Erwin Neher (1944), and Carl von Linde (1842).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Christian Wirth ranks 84. Before him are Günther Rall (1918), Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887), Reinhard Scheer (1863), Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (1886), Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (1905), and Herbert Gille (1897). After him are Günther Lütjens (1889), August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), Erich Kempka (1910), Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752), Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1887), and Viktor Lutze (1890).

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