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Herbert Backe

1896 - 1947

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Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe (1 May 1896 – 6 April 1947) was a German politician and SS Senior group leader (SS-Obergruppenführer) in Nazi Germany who served as State Secretary and Minister in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture. He was a doctrinaire racial ideologue, a long-time associate of Richard Walther Darré and a personal friend of Reinhard Heydrich. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Backe has received more than 401,011 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Herbert Backe is the 3,434th most popular politician (down from 2,920th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Georgia (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Georgian Politician.

Herbert Backe is most famous for his role in the Hunger Plan, which was a plan to starve the Soviet Union of food and other resources.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Herbert Backe ranks 3,434 out of 19,576Before him are Nicomedes IV of Bithynia, Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, Mauno Koivisto, John George III, Elector of Saxony, Emperor Ku, and Harald Quandt. After him are Di Renjie, Lu Xun, Ana Pauker, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Marcus Atilius Regulus, and Janet Yellen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Herbert Backe ranks 44Before him are Anastasio Somoza García, Lewis Strauss, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Nobusuke Kishi, and Tina Modotti. After him are Dimitri Mitropoulos, Gottlob Berger, Robert S. Mulliken, Mamie Eisenhower, Nikolay Semyonov, and André Masson. Among people deceased in 1947, Herbert Backe ranks 42Before him are Bugsy Siegel, Josephine Bakhita, Luigi Russolo, Hans Fallada, Albert Marquet, and Manolete. After him are Hjalmar Siilasvuo, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Karel Čurda, Pyotr Krasnov, Franz Seldte, and Reynaldo Hahn.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Herbert Backe ranks 26 out of 406Before him are Sergei Witte (1849), Rusudan of Georgia (1194), Otar Iosseliani (1934), Pharnavaz I of Iberia (-326), Giya Kancheli (1935), and Kato Svanidze (1885). After him are Keke Geladze (1858), Bagrat III of Georgia (960), Victor Ambartsumian (1908), Vakhtang I of Iberia (440), Nicholas Marr (1864), and Stepan Shaumian (1878).

Among POLITICIANS In Georgia

Among politicians born in Georgia, Herbert Backe ranks 14Before him are Sergo Ordzhonikidze (1886), Mikheil Saakashvili (1967), Sergei Witte (1849), Rusudan of Georgia (1194), Pharnavaz I of Iberia (-326), and Kato Svanidze (1885). After him are Bagrat III of Georgia (960), Vakhtang I of Iberia (440), Stepan Shaumian (1878), Heraclius II of Georgia (1720), Murad Bey (1750), and Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (1866).