1885 - 1944
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. Wirth later served as Inspector of all the Reinhard Camps. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian Wirth has received more than 667,494 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Christian Wirth is the 460th most popular military personnel (down from 393rd in 2019), the 1,102nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 925th in 2019) and the 95th 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, Christian Wirth ranks 460 out of 1,468. Before him are Pavel Nakhimov, Jan Kubiš, Paul von Rennenkampf, Okita Sōji, Gustav Wagner, and Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. After him are Zinovy Rozhestvensky, James Paul Moody, Roza Shanina, José Sanjurjo, Jisaburō Ozawa, and Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski.
1802 - 1855
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 454
1913 - 1942
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 455
1854 - 1918
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 456
1842 - 1868
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 457
1911 - 1980
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 458
1614 - 1662
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 459
1885 - 1944
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 460
1848 - 1909
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 461
1887 - 1912
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 462
1924 - 1945
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 463
1872 - 1936
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 464
1886 - 1966
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 465
1895 - 1966
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 466
Among people born in 1885, Christian Wirth ranks 49. Before him are G. W. Pabst, Kato Svanidze, Romano Guardini, Will Durant, Velimir Khlebnikov, and Tamara Karsavina. After him are Franz Böhme, Otto Klemperer, Gunnar Asplund, André Lhote, Per Albin Hansson, and Alois Hudal. Among people deceased in 1944, Christian Wirth ranks 63. Before him are George Stinney, Walter Nowotny, Otto von Below, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Vera Menchik, and Jean Giraudoux. After him are Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, Günther Korten, Leo Baekeland, Harold Lowe, Cécile Chaminade, and Jakob von Uexküll.
1885 - 1967
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 43
1885 - 1907
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 44
1885 - 1968
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 45
1885 - 1981
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 46
1885 - 1922
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 47
1885 - 1978
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 48
1885 - 1944
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 49
1885 - 1947
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 50
1885 - 1973
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 51
1885 - 1940
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 52
1885 - 1962
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 53
1885 - 1946
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 54
1885 - 1963
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 55
1929 - 1944
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 57
1920 - 1944
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 58
1857 - 1944
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 59
1902 - 1944
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 60
1906 - 1944
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 61
1882 - 1944
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 62
1885 - 1944
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 63
1855 - 1944
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 64
1898 - 1944
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 65
1863 - 1944
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 66
1882 - 1944
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 67
1857 - 1944
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 68
1864 - 1944
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 69
Among people born in Germany, Christian Wirth ranks 1,102 out of 6,142. Before him are Michael Ballack (1976), Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark (1647), Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (1883), Georg Baselitz (1938), Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1597), and Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1758). After him are Erwin Piscator (1893), Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal (1855), Otto Georg Thierack (1889), Rodolphe Seeldrayers (1876), Konrad Witz (1400), and Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut (1311).
1976 - Present
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 1,096
1647 - 1717
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 1,097
1883 - 1942
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 1,098
1938 - Present
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 1,099
1597 - 1659
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 1,100
1758 - 1794
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 1,101
1885 - 1944
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 1,102
1893 - 1966
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 1,103
1855 - 1944
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 1,104
1889 - 1946
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 1,105
1876 - 1955
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 1,106
1400 - 1446
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 1,107
1311 - 1356
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 1,108
Among military personnels born in Germany, Christian Wirth ranks 95. Before him are Alfred von Waldersee (1832), August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752), Josef Harpe (1887), Karl von Bülow (1846), and Levin August von Bennigsen (1745). After him are Günther Korten (1898), Ernst Lindemann (1894), Hans Baur (1897), Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594), Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1911), and Max Hoffmann (1869).
1832 - 1904
HPI: 60.99
Rank: 89
1760 - 1831
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 90
1752 - 1828
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 91
1887 - 1968
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 92
1846 - 1921
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 93
1745 - 1826
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 94
1885 - 1944
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 95
1898 - 1944
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 96
1894 - 1941
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 97
1897 - 1993
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 98
1594 - 1632
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 99
1911 - 1986
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 100
1869 - 1927
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 101