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Heinrich Himmler

1900 - 1945

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Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluːɪtpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐ] ; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the German Nazi Party, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. He is primarily known for being a principal architect of the Holocaust. After serving in a reserve battalion during the First World War without seeing combat, Himmler went on to join the Nazi Party in 1923. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Himmler has received more than 18,603,404 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Heinrich Himmler is the 106th most popular politician (down from 88th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Germany (down from 28th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Politician.

Heinrich Himmler was the head of the SS and Gestapo, and he is most famous for being in charge of the Holocaust.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Heinrich Himmler ranks 106 out of 19,576. Before him are Mahmoud Abbas, Margaret Thatcher, Ivan the Terrible, Boris Yeltsin, Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and Darius the Great. After him are Angela Merkel, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Henry IV of France, Lorenzo de' Medici, Murad IV, and Pepin the Short.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Heinrich Himmler ranks 2. Before him is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. After him are Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Erich Fromm, Martin Bormann, Luis Buñuel, Wolfgang Pauli, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Heinrich Müller, and Adolf Dassler. Among people deceased in 1945, Heinrich Himmler ranks 5. Before him are Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Anne Frank. After him are Joseph Goebbels, Eva Braun, Martin Bormann, Béla Bartók, Fedor von Bock, Anton Webern, and Ernst Cassirer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Himmler ranks 35 out of 7,253. Before him are Anne Frank (1929), Friedrich Schiller (1759), Martin Heidegger (1889), Hermann Hesse (1877), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), and Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859). After him are Angela Merkel (1954), Thomas Mann (1875), Erwin Rommel (1891), Robert Koch (1843), Hermann Göring (1893), and Bernhard Riemann (1826).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Heinrich Himmler ranks 6. Before him are Charlemagne (748), Henry Kissinger (1923), Otto von Bismarck (1815), Frederick the Great (1712), and Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859). After him are Angela Merkel (1954), Hermann Göring (1893), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), William I, German Emperor (1797), Klemens von Metternich (1773), and Joseph Goebbels (1897).

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