COMPANION

Eva Braun

1912 - 1945

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Eva Anna Paula Hitler (née Braun; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17-year-old assistant and model for his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eva Braun has received more than 13,877,719 page views. Her biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Eva Braun is the 15th most popular companion (down from 9th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Germany (down from 52nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Companion.

Eva Braun was Adolf Hitler's mistress and later wife. She is most famous for being the only woman in Hitler's life that he never divorced.

Memorability Metrics

  • 14M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 77.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 80

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Eva Brauns by language

Over the past year Eva Braun has had the most page views in the with 1,706,621 views, followed by Russian (344,972), and German (244,211). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (207.21%), Uzbek (182.32%), and Hindi (104.91%)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Eva Braun ranks 15 out of 784. Before her are Madame du Barry, Mihrimah Sultan, Catherine de' Medici, Klara Hitler, Helena, and Empress Joséphine. After her are Nurbanu Sultan, Nefertari, Joseph Bonaparte, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Aspasia, and Marie Leszczyńska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Eva Braun ranks 4. Before her are Kim Il-sung, Alan Turing, and Pope John Paul I. After her are Erich Honecker, Milton Friedman, Wernher von Braun, Otto von Habsburg, Jackson Pollock, Michelangelo Antonioni, János Kádár, and Millvina Dean. Among people deceased in 1945, Eva Braun ranks 7. Before her are Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anne Frank, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels. After her are Martin Bormann, Béla Bartók, Fedor von Bock, Anton Webern, Ernst Cassirer, and Walter Model.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eva Braun ranks 61 out of 7,253. Before her are Georg Ohm (1789), William I, German Emperor (1797), Klemens von Metternich (1773), Joseph Goebbels (1897), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), and Reinhard Heydrich (1904). After her are Gerd Müller (1945), Ambrose (340), Jacques Offenbach (1819), Konrad Adenauer (1876), Erich Fromm (1900), and Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762).

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Among COMPANIONS In Germany

Among companions born in Germany, Eva Braun ranks 2. Before her are Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837). After her are Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943), Caroline of Ansbach (1683), Anne of Cleves (1515), Magda Goebbels (1901), Isabeau of Bavaria (1370), Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1691), Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868), Sepp Dietrich (1892), Katharina von Bora (1498), and Alexandra Feodorovna (1798).

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