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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Heinrich Müller

1900 - 1945

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Heinrich Müller (28 April 1900; date of death unknown, but evidence points to May 1945) was a high-ranking German Schutzstaffel (SS) and police official during the Nazi era. For most of World War II in Europe, he was the chief of the Gestapo, the secret state police of Nazi Germany. Müller was central in the planning and execution of the Holocaust and attended the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, which formalised plans for deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe—The "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Müller has received more than 29,848 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Heinrich Müller is the 99th most popular military personnel (up from 120th in 2019), the 238th most popular biography from Germany (up from 310th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Military Personnel.

Heinrich Müller was a high-ranking member of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. He was the head of the Gestapo from September 1939 to April 1945. He was responsible for the mass murder of Jews and other prisoners in concentration camps.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Heinrich Müller ranks 99 out of 1,468Before him are Albert Kesselring, John of Austria, Desmond Doss, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Hephaestion, and Hermann Hoth. After him are Vasily Chuikov, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Robert Peary, Ubba, Klaus Barbie, and Nestor Makhno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Heinrich Müller ranks 13Before him are Wolfgang Pauli, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and Spencer Tracy. After him are Vasily Chuikov, Margaret Mitchell, Adolf Dassler, Jacques Prévert, Dennis Gabor, and Charles Francis Richter. Among people deceased in 1945, Heinrich Müller ranks 18Before him are Walter Model, Magda Goebbels, Anton Webern, Subhas Chandra Bose, Wilhelm Canaris, and Paul Valéry. After him are Ernst Cassirer, Irma Grese, Johan Huizinga, Pietro Mascagni, Clara Petacci, and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Müller ranks 238 out of 6,142Before him are Wilhelm Pieck (1876), Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1016), Alexandra Feodorovna (1872), Leopold von Ranke (1795), Hermann Hoth (1885), and Wilm Hosenfeld (1895). After him are Pope Clement II (1005), Eduard Buchner (1860), Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1086), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (1956), Martin Niemöller (1892), and Kurt von Schleicher (1882).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Heinrich Müller ranks 23Before him are Michel Ney (1769), Wilhelm Canaris (1887), Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876), Albert Kesselring (1885), John of Austria (1547), and Hermann Hoth (1885). After him are Klaus Barbie (1913), Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881), Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742), Ludwig Beck (1880), Michael Wittmann (1914), and Walther von Brauchitsch (1881).