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MILITARY PERSONNEL

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. 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

Among military personnels, Christian Wirth ranks 460 out of 1,468Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Christian Wirth ranks 49Before 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 63Before 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.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Wirth ranks 1,102 out of 6,142Before 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).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Christian Wirth ranks 95Before 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).