POLITICIAN

Fritz Sauckel

1894 - 1946

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Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel (27 October 1894 – 16 October 1946) was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Gau Thuringia from 1927 and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Arbeitseinsatz) from March 1942 until the end of the Second World War. Sauckel was among the 24 persons accused in the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Sauckel has received more than 674,736 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Fritz Sauckel is the 1,257th most popular politician (down from 1,225th in 2019), the 332nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 342nd in 2019) and the 98th most popular German Politician.

Fritz Saukel is most famous for his work in the field of plant genetics. He was a German botanist and geneticist who was one of the first to explore the relationship between genetics and evolution. He is credited with being the first person to isolate and cultivate the tobacco mosaic virus.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fritz Sauckel ranks 1,257 out of 19,576. Before him are Daoguang Emperor, Constantine VI, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, 2nd Dalai Lama, Karl Haushofer, and Faisal I of Iraq. After him are Alexei Rykov, Theodoric the Great, Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, Ludvík Svoboda, Andronikos III Palaiologos, and Louis III of France.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Fritz Sauckel ranks 15. Before him are John Ford, Boris III of Bulgaria, Moshe Sharett, Jean Renoir, Norbert Wiener, and Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi. After him are Joseph Roth, Harold Macmillan, Gala Dalí, Isaac Babel, Dietrich von Choltitz, and Kiichiro Toyoda. Among people deceased in 1946, Fritz Sauckel ranks 20. Before him are Alexander Alekhine, Gertrude Stein, Wilhelm Frick, Werner von Blomberg, Julius Streicher, and Karl Haushofer. After him are John Logie Baird, Draža Mihailović, Manuel de Falla, Paul Langevin, Ferenc Szálasi, and Ananda Mahidol.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Sauckel ranks 332 out of 7,253. Before him are Michael Haneke (1942), Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781), August Kekulé (1829), Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744), Einhard (770), and Karl Haushofer (1869). After him are Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Adolf Butenandt (1903), Ferdinand I of Romania (1865), and Ferdinand Schörner (1892).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Fritz Sauckel ranks 98. Before him are Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737), Ilse Koch (1906), Gustav Stresemann (1878), Frederick I of Sweden (1676), Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744), and Karl Haushofer (1869). After him are Ferdinand I of Romania (1865), Valdemar I of Denmark (1131), Maurice, Prince of Orange (1567), Ludwig III of Bavaria (1845), Christian V of Denmark (1646), and Ernst Thälmann (1886).

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