SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Claus von Stauffenberg

1907 - 1944

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Count Claus von Stauffenberg (German: [ˈklaʊs fɔn ˈʃtaʊfn̩bɛʁk] ; 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer who is best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair. Alongside Major Generals Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster, Stauffenberg was a central figure in the conspiracy against Hitler within the Wehrmacht. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claus von Stauffenberg has received more than 5,824,022 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Claus von Stauffenberg is the 14th most popular social activist (up from 15th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Germany (down from 93rd in 2019) and the most popular German Social Activist.

Claus von stauffenberg was a German army officer who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Claus von Stauffenberg ranks 14 out of 840. Before him are Henry Dunant, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jean-Paul Marat. After him are Aung San Suu Kyi, Jane Addams, Nicholas Winton, Rosa Parks, Gustav I of Sweden, and Peter Kropotkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Claus von Stauffenberg ranks 3. Before him are Frida Kahlo, and Astrid Lindgren. After him are Katharine Hepburn, Oscar Niemeyer, John Wayne, Edwin McMillan, Mircea Eliade, J. Hans D. Jensen, Alberto Moravia, Laurence Olivier, and Hergé. Among people deceased in 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg ranks 7. Before him are Edvard Munch, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Piet Mondrian, Erwin Rommel, Wassily Kandinsky, and Romain Rolland. After him are Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Abdulmejid II, William James Sidis, Reza Shah, Günther von Kluge, and Richard Sorge.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Claus von Stauffenberg ranks 100 out of 7,253. Before him are Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1050), Theodor Mommsen (1817), Gerhard Schröder (1944), Karl Lagerfeld (1933), Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368), and Ernst Haeckel (1834). After him are Erich Honecker (1912), William the Silent (1533), Max Born (1882), Willy Brandt (1913), Carl Maria von Weber (1786), and Frederick III, German Emperor (1831).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Claus von Stauffenberg ranks 1. After him are Thomas Müntzer (1489), Sophie Scholl (1921), Martin Niemöller (1892), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Horst Wessel (1907), Widukind (755), Anneliese Michel (1952), Hans Scholl (1918), Sophia of Prussia (1870), and Alfred Naujocks (1911).

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