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Hans Woellke

1911 - 1943

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Hans-Otto Woellke (18 February 1911 – 22 March 1943) was a Nazi German shot putter, who won a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1938 European Championships. Woellke served with the Order Police. During World War II, he was a captain in the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 attached to a regiment in the Waffen-SS. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Woellke has received more than 83,663 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Hans Woellke is the 60th most popular athlete (down from 54th in 2019), the 434th most popular biography from Poland (down from 421st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Hans Woellke ranks 60 out of 6,025. Before him are Jim Hines, Betty Robinson, Walter Schröder, Wilma Rudolph, Yuriy Sedykh, and Platt Adams. After him are Gabriela Andersen-Schiess, Irina Press, Ralph Boston, Al Oerter, Pietro Mennea, and Yelena Isinbayeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Hans Woellke ranks 94. Before him are Paul Goodman, Betty Robinson, Karl Frenzel, Viktor Barna, André Leroi-Gourhan, and André Claveau. After him are Ishirō Honda, Józef Cyrankiewicz, Alfredo Foni, Maureen O'Sullivan, Shiing-Shen Chern, and Martin Sandberger. Among people deceased in 1943, Hans Woellke ranks 65. Before him are John Harvey Kellogg, Czesława Kwoka, Lin Sen, Wilhelm Kube, Jovan Dučić, and Fethi Okyar. After him are Shaul Tchernichovsky, Ernst Linder, Johann Trollmann, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Hans Jeschonnek, and Senjūrō Hayashi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hans Woellke ranks 434 out of 1,694. Before him are Uri Orlev (1931), Anna Leszczyńska (1699), Andrew Bobola (1591), Christoph Eschenbach (1940), Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg (1693), and Beata Szydło (1963). After him are Józef Beck (1894), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Krakus (null), Alfred Flatow (1869), Dita Parlo (1906), and Joachim Kroll (1933).

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Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Hans Woellke ranks 2. Before him are Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911). After him are Gustav Flatow (1875), Ewa Kłobukowska (1946), Myer Prinstein (1878), Janusz Kusociński (1907), Gerhard Stöck (1911), Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (1934), Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934), Ursula Happe (1926), Stanisław Kowalski (1910), and Józef Szmidt (1935).

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