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Friedrich Jeckeln

1895 - 1946

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Friedrich Jeckeln (2 February 1895 – 3 February 1946) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. He served as a Higher SS and Police Leader in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II. Jeckeln was the commander of one of the largest groups of Einsatzgruppen death squads and was personally responsible for ordering and organising the deaths of over 100,000 Jews, Romani and others designated by the Nazis as "undesirables". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Jeckeln has received more than 736,130 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Friedrich Jeckeln is the 53rd most popular extremist (up from 55th in 2019), the 1,029th most popular biography from Germany (down from 930th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Extremist.

Friedrich Jeckeln was a Nazi officer who was in charge of the Einsatzgruppen, which was a mobile killing squad that traveled to villages and executed people by shooting them or by hanging them.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Friedrich Jeckeln ranks 53 out of 283. Before him are George Jung, Karl Denke, Pavlik Morozov, Edmund Kemper, Butch Cassidy, and Issei Sagawa. After him are Aileen Wuornos, Sawney Bean, Michel Fourniret, Dennis Rader, Marc Dutroux, and Mohammed Deif.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Friedrich Jeckeln ranks 66. Before him are Kurt Zeitzler, Vasily Blokhin, Wilhelm Kempff, Richard Barthelmess, Clara Haskil, and B. H. Liddell Hart. After him are Marcel Pagnol, Edna Purviance, Robert Graves, Jean Giono, Ferdinand Čatloš, and Wilhelm Gustloff. Among people deceased in 1946, Friedrich Jeckeln ranks 45. Before him are Milan Nedić, Vojtech Tuka, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Othenio Abel, Francisco Largo Caballero, and Döme Sztójay. After him are Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Gustav Noske, Otto Georg Thierack, Clemens August Graf von Galen, Carl Schuhmann, and Per Albin Hansson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Jeckeln ranks 1,029 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Bühler (1879), Franz Rosenzweig (1886), Günther Lütjens (1889), Beate Klarsfeld (1939), Erwin Neher (1944), and Carl von Linde (1842). After him are Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark (1647), August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), Johann Christoph Bach (1642), Karin Schubert (1944), John, Elector of Saxony (1468), and Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1484).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Germany

Among extremists born in Germany, Friedrich Jeckeln ranks 8. Before him are Frederick Trump (1869), Otto Ohlendorf (1907), Andreas Baader (1943), Peter Kürten (1883), Fritz Haarmann (1879), and Gudrun Ensslin (1940). After him are Willi Herold (1925), Armin Meiwes (1961), Fritz Honka (1935), Oskar Gröning (1921), Johann Rattenhuber (1897), and Monika Ertl (1937).

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