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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 1,036,432 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Oster is the 3,680th most popular politician (down from 3,571st in 2019), the 999th most popular biography from Germany (down from 972nd in 2019) and the 289th 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 3,680 out of 19,576. Before him are Gottlob Berger, Emperor Go-Horikawa, Princess Louise of Prussia, Barak, Constantius Gallus, and Than Shwe. After him are Charles, Grand Duke of Baden, Al-Adid, Chandragupta II, Benigno Aquino Jr., Władysław I Herman, and Francisco Largo Caballero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Hans Oster ranks 48. Before him are Harald Bohr, Julian Huxley, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, and Mitsuru Ushijima. After him are George Pólya, Violet Jessop, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Giovanni Gronchi, and Ernst Hanfstaengl. Among people deceased in 1945, Hans Oster ranks 82. Before him are Edith Frank, Margot Frank, Franz Ziereis, René Lalique, Wied, Prince of Albania, and Mitsuru Ushijima. After him are John Ambrose Fleming, Plutarco Elías Calles, Georg Kaiser, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Josef Terboven, and Rudolf von Sebottendorf.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Oster ranks 999 out of 7,253. Before him are Rodolphe Seeldrayers (1876), August Kundt (1839), Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700), Stefan Lochner (1410), Gottlob Berger (1896), and Princess Louise of Prussia (1838). After him are Charles, Grand Duke of Baden (1786), Emmy Göring (1893), August Grisebach (1814), Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Christian Thomasius (1655), and Emil Erlenmeyer (1825).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Hans Oster ranks 289. Before him are Wied, Prince of Albania (1876), Anna Leopoldovna (1718), Maria of Yugoslavia (1900), Rodolphe Seeldrayers (1876), Gottlob Berger (1896), and Princess Louise of Prussia (1838). After him are Charles, Grand Duke of Baden (1786), Zwentibold (870), John George, Elector of Brandenburg (1525), Augustus, Elector of Saxony (1526), Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817), and Emil Jellinek (1853).

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