1887 - 1945
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, Hans Oster ranks 3,581 out of 15,577. Before 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.
1845 - 1936
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 3,575
1547 - 1578
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 3,576
1728 - 1811
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 3,577
600 BC - Present
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 3,578
1240 - 1274
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 3,579
1837 - 1900
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 3,580
1887 - 1945
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 3,581
1733 - 1799
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 3,582
1938 - Present
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 3,583
600 BC - Present
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 3,584
823 - 864
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 3,585
1689 - 1751
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 3,586
1850 - 1922
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 3,587
Among people born in 1887, Hans Oster ranks 50. Before 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 83. Before 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.
1887 - 1969
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 44
1887 - 1937
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 45
1887 - 1975
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 46
1887 - 1951
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 47
1887 - 1971
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 48
1887 - 1965
HPI: 61.22
Rank: 49
1887 - 1945
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 50
1887 - 1952
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 51
1887 - 1975
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 52
1887 - 1945
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 53
1887 - 1971
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 54
1887 - 1968
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 55
1887 - 1949
HPI: 60.57
Rank: 56
1876 - 1945
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 77
1869 - 1945
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 78
1877 - 1945
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 79
1849 - 1945
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 80
1898 - 1945
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 81
1882 - 1945
HPI: 61.21
Rank: 82
1887 - 1945
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 83
1887 - 1945
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 84
1888 - 1945
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 85
1877 - 1945
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 86
1871 - 1945
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 87
1894 - 1945
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 88
1924 - 1945
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 89
Among people born in Germany, Hans Oster ranks 972 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1961 - Present
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 966
1937 - Present
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 967
1854 - 1924
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 968
1821 - 1865
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 969
1728 - 1811
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 970
1892 - 1971
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 971
1887 - 1945
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 972
1468 - 1532
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 973
1719 - 1772
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 974
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 975
1887 - 1952
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 976
1889 - 1941
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 977
1922 - 2023
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 978
Among politicians born in Germany, Hans Oster ranks 287. Before 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).
1895 - 1963
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 281
920 - 955
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 282
1897 - 1972
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 283
1921 - 1967
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 284
1894 - 1922
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 285
1728 - 1811
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 286
1887 - 1945
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 287
1468 - 1532
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 288
1636 - 1715
HPI: 61.01
Rank: 289
359 - 406
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 290
1107 - 1177
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 291
1823 - 1888
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 292
1853 - 1918
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 293