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 29,625 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Heinrich Müller is the 96th most popular military personnel (up from 99th in 2019), the 253rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 238th in 2019) and the 21st 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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  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Heinrich Müller has had the most page views in the with 207,980 views, followed by German (104,704), and French (42,906). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (161.59%), Arabic (109.18%), and Simple English (48.34%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Heinrich Müller ranks 96 out of 2,058. Before him are Walther von Brauchitsch, Hephaestion, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Nero Claudius Drusus, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and Albert Kesselring. After him are Bernard Montgomery, Wilhelm Canaris, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Saigō Takamori, John of Austria, and Miloš Obilić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Heinrich Müller ranks 11. Before him are Martin Bormann, Luis Buñuel, Wolfgang Pauli, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Hans Frank. After him are Adolf Dassler, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Vasily Chuikov, Margaret Mitchell, Spencer Tracy, and Dennis Gabor. Among people deceased in 1945, Heinrich Müller ranks 18. Before him are Ernst Cassirer, Walter Model, Subhas Chandra Bose, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Magda Goebbels, and Paul Valéry. After him are Wilhelm Canaris, Pietro Mascagni, George S. Patton, Irma Grese, Pierre Laval, and Johan Huizinga.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Müller ranks 253 out of 7,253. Before him are Simone Signoret (1921), Albert Kesselring (1885), Alexandra Feodorovna (1872), Kurt von Schleicher (1882), Friedrich Ratzel (1844), and Heinrich von Kleist (1777). After him are Valentinian II (371), Wilhelm Canaris (1887), Isabeau of Bavaria (1370), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886), Karl Weierstrass (1815), and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Heinrich Müller ranks 21. Before him are Erich Raeder (1876), Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742), Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800), Erich Hartmann (1922), Walther von Brauchitsch (1881), and Albert Kesselring (1885). After him are Wilhelm Canaris (1887), John of Austria (1547), Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876), Klaus Barbie (1913), Hermann Hoth (1885), and Michael Wittmann (1914).

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