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Hans Oster

1887 - 1945

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Hans Paul Oster (9 August 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a general in the Wehrmacht and a leading figure of the anti-Nazi German resistance from 1938 to 1943. As deputy head of the counter-espionage bureau in the Abwehr (German military intelligence), Oster was in a good position to conduct resistance operations under the guise of intelligence work. He was involved in the Oster conspiracy of September 1938 and was arrested in 1943 on suspicion of helping Abwehr officers caught helping Jews to escape Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Oster has received more than 988,020 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Hans Oster is the 3,581st most popular politician (down from 3,206th in 2019), the 972nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 891st in 2019) and the 287th most popular German Politician.

Hans Oster was a German army officer who was involved in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hans Oster ranks 3,581 out of 15,577Before him are Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, Emperor Duzong, and Francis, Duke of Teck. After him are Victoire of France, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Nahum, Pepin II of Aquitaine, Jacques I, Prince of Monaco, and Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Hans Oster ranks 50Before him are Boris Karloff, Emilio Mola, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Harald Bohr, Violet Jessop, and Frederick Fleet. After him are Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Avery Brundage, Mitsuru Ushijima, Bernardo Houssay, Josef Harpe, and Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1945, Hans Oster ranks 83Before him are Wied, Prince of Albania, Felix Salten, Maurice Halbwachs, John Ambrose Fleming, Josef Terboven, and Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Mitsuru Ushijima, Fritz Klein, Plutarco Elías Calles, Walter Bradford Cannon, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, and Roza Shanina.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Oster ranks 972 out of 6,142Before him are Nastassja Kinski (1961), Robert Huber (1937), Paul Natorp (1854), Heinrich Barth (1821), Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (1728), and Johannes Frießner (1892). After him are John, Elector of Saxony (1468), Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719), Georg Bednorz (1950), Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887), Günther Lütjens (1889), and John B. Goodenough (1922).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Hans Oster ranks 287Before him are Kurt Zeitzler (1895), Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (920), Emil Maurice (1897), Harald Quandt (1921), Lothar von Richthofen (1894), and Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (1728). After him are John, Elector of Saxony (1468), Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (1636), Godigisel (359), Henry II, Duke of Austria (1107), Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823), and Emil Jellinek (1853).