SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Harro Schulze-Boysen

1909 - 1942

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Heinz Harro Max Wilhelm Georg Schulze-Boysen (German: [ˈha.ʁoː ˈʃʊl.t͡sə ˈbɔɪ̯sn̩] ; né Schulze, 2 September 1909 – 22 December 1942) was a left-wing German publicist and Luftwaffe officer during World War II. As a young man, Schulze-Boysen grew up in prosperous family with two siblings, with an extended family who were aristocrats. After spending his early schooling at the Heinrich-von-Kleist Gymnasium and his summers in Sweden, he part completed a political science course at the University of Freiburg, before moving to Berlin in November 1929, to study law at the Humboldt University of Berlin. At Humboldt he became an anti-Nazi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harro Schulze-Boysen has received more than 227,003 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Harro Schulze-Boysen is the 256th most popular social activist, the 2,333rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,401st in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Harro Schulze-Boysen ranks 256 out of 840. Before him are Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Li Hongzhi, Alexander Antonov, Itagaki Taisuke, Nancy Wake, and Tawakkol Karman. After him are Ignacy Hryniewiecki, Muhamed Mehmedbašić, Christa Schroeder, Fra Diavolo, William I, Margrave of Meissen, and Jan Gotlib Bloch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Harro Schulze-Boysen ranks 106. Before him are Kinuyo Tanaka, Héctor José Cámpora, Juan Bosch, Marie-Thérèse Walter, C. N. Annadurai, and Nelson Algren. After him are Matti Järvinen, Robert Serber, Eduard Wirths, Abdulrahman Fawzi, Mehmed Orhan, and Franz Six. Among people deceased in 1942, Harro Schulze-Boysen ranks 93. Before him are A. E. Waite, Walther von Lüttwitz, Dorando Pietri, Karel Doorman, Rudolf Spielmann, and Titus Brandsma. After him are Konstantin Balmont, István Horthy, Jure Francetić, Emma Calvé, Ahatanhel Krymsky, and Lidia Zamenhof.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Harro Schulze-Boysen ranks 2,333 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Scherchen (1891), Hans von Obstfelder (1886), Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (1495), Dietmar Hopp (1940), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), and Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736). After him are Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1562), Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (1914), Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (1871), Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713), Elisabeth of Schönau (1129), and Rudolf Kempe (1910).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Harro Schulze-Boysen ranks 25. Before him are Carl Oberg (1897), Gretl Braun (1915), Christoph Probst (1919), Hanns Martin Schleyer (1915), Juliana of Stolberg (1506), and Ludolf von Alvensleben (1901). After him are Christa Schroeder (1908), William I, Margrave of Meissen (1343), Karl Ludwig Sand (1795), Anita Augspurg (1857), Inge Scholl (1917), and Henriette Herz (1764).

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