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Gottlob Berger

1896 - 1975

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Gottlob Christian Berger (16 July 1896 – 5 January 1975) was a German senior Nazi official who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS (lieutenant general) and was the chief of the SS Main Office responsible for Schutzstaffel (SS) recruiting during World War II. At the post-war Nuremberg trials, the Waffen-SS – within which Berger was a senior officer – was declared to be a criminal organisation due to its major involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity. Berger was convicted as a war criminal and spent six and a half years in prison. While serving in the German Army during World War I, he was wounded four times and awarded the Iron Cross First Class. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottlob Berger has received more than 697,235 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Gottlob Berger is the 3,674th most popular politician (down from 3,280th in 2019), the 997th most popular biography from Germany (down from 893rd in 2019) and the 287th most popular German Politician.

Berger is most famous for his invention of the contact lens.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gottlob Berger ranks 3,674 out of 19,576. Before him are Ivan Silayev, Lloyd Austin, Ne Win, Xun Yu, Hadım Suleiman Pasha, and Piast the Wheelwright. After him are Emperor Go-Horikawa, Princess Louise of Prussia, Barak, Constantius Gallus, Than Shwe, and Hans Oster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Gottlob Berger ranks 46. Before him are David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Nobusuke Kishi, Tina Modotti, Herbert Backe, and Dimitri Mitropoulos. After him are Robert S. Mulliken, Mamie Eisenhower, Nikolay Semyonov, André Masson, Wallace Carothers, and Paulino Alcántara. Among people deceased in 1975, Gottlob Berger ranks 35. Before him are Pavel Sukhoi, Edward Tatum, Julian Huxley, József Mindszenty, Chivu Stoica, and Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia. After him are Dong Biwu, Erich Kempka, Vicente Feola, Susan Hayward, Ernst Hanfstaengl, and François Tombalbaye.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gottlob Berger ranks 997 out of 7,253. Before him are Sebastian Münster (1488), Gunter Sachs (1932), Rodolphe Seeldrayers (1876), August Kundt (1839), Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700), and Stefan Lochner (1410). After him are Princess Louise of Prussia (1838), Hans Oster (1887), Charles, Grand Duke of Baden (1786), Emmy Göring (1893), August Grisebach (1814), and Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Gottlob Berger ranks 287. Before him are Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (1336), Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1671), Wied, Prince of Albania (1876), Anna Leopoldovna (1718), Maria of Yugoslavia (1900), and Rodolphe Seeldrayers (1876). After him are Princess Louise of Prussia (1838), Hans Oster (1887), Charles, Grand Duke of Baden (1786), Zwentibold (870), John George, Elector of Brandenburg (1525), and Augustus, Elector of Saxony (1526).

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