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Hans Kammler

1901 - 1945

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Hans Kammler (26 August 1901 – 1945 [assumed]) was an SS-Obergruppenführer responsible for Nazi civil engineering projects and its top secret V-weapons program. He oversaw the construction of various Nazi concentration camps before being put in charge of the V-2 rocket and Emergency Fighter Programs towards the end of World War II. Kammler disappeared in May 1945 during the final days of the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Kammler has received more than 884,248 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Hans Kammler is the 65th most popular engineer (down from 63rd in 2019), the 270th most popular biography from Poland (down from 260th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Hans Kammler ranks 65 out of 389. Before him are Henry Gantt, Immanuel Nobel, Banū Mūsā, Valentin Glushko, Kurt Gerstein, and Nikolay Zhukovsky. After him are Walter Dornberger, Paul Cornu, Jimmy Doolittle, Marcel Dassault, Colin Chapman, and Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Hans Kammler ranks 68. Before him are Raimundo Orsi, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, Vasili Kuznetsov, Itzhak Stern, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, and Milada Horáková. After him are Tage Erlander, Rudolf Caracciola, Stefan Wyszyński, Alice Prin, Gino Cervi, and Ub Iwerks. Among people deceased in 1945, Hans Kammler ranks 93. Before him are Josef Terboven, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Kurt Gerstein, Walter Bradford Cannon, Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger. After him are Josef Čapek, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Bernhard Rust, Philipp Bouhler, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, and Kiril, Prince of Preslav.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hans Kammler ranks 270 out of 1,694. Before him are Konstanty Kalinowski (1838), Gunderic (379), Henryk Szeryng (1918), Hugo Münsterberg (1863), Robert Wiene (1873), and Jan Kochanowski (1530). After him are Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), Victor Klemperer (1881), Casimir II the Just (1138), Edward Gierek (1913), Hermann Schwarz (1843), and Johannes Zukertort (1842).

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Among ENGINEERS In Poland

Among engineers born in Poland, Hans Kammler ranks 2. Before him are Wernher von Braun (1912). After him are Adam Czerniaków (1880), Józef Bem (1794), Kurt Tank (1898), Henryk Dembiński (1791), Konstantin Kalinin (1887), Walter Thiel (1910), Johannes Winkler (1897), and Boris Chertok (1912).

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