1906 - 1945
Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein (30 October 1906 – 28 April 1945) was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany. He was a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage and brother-in-law to Eva Braun through his marriage to her sister Gretl. Fegelein joined a cavalry regiment of the Reichswehr in 1925 and transferred to the SS on 10 April 1933. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Fegelein has received more than 1,915,561 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Hermann Fegelein is the 145th most popular military personnel (down from 141st in 2019), the 353rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 338th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Military Personnel.
Hermann Fegelein was a Nazi officer and adjutant to Adolf Hitler. He was also the commander of the SS Cavalry Brigade. He was a member of the Nazi Party and the SS. He was married to Eva Braun's sister, Gretl. He was executed for desertion on April 29, 1945.
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Among military personnels, Hermann Fegelein ranks 145 out of 1,466. Before him are André Masséna, Antipater, Miloš Obilić, Chūichi Nagumo, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, and Mardonius. After him are Djemal Pasha, Ernst Busch, Erwin von Witzleben, Helmuth Weidling, Semyon Budyonny, and Franz Halder.
1758 - 1817
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 139
397 BC - 319 BC
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 140
1350 - 1389
HPI: 75.43
Rank: 141
1887 - 1944
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 142
1895 - 1977
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 143
600 BC - 479 BC
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 144
1906 - 1945
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 145
1872 - 1922
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 146
1885 - 1945
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 147
1881 - 1944
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 148
1891 - 1955
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 149
1883 - 1973
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 150
1884 - 1972
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 151
Among people born in 1906, Hermann Fegelein ranks 28. Before him are Maria Goeppert Mayer, Ed Gein, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Giuseppe Farina, Soichiro Honda, and Alexey Stakhanov. After him are Ernst Ruska, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Léon Degrelle, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Sayyid Qutb, and Wassily Leontief. Among people deceased in 1945, Hermann Fegelein ranks 30. Before him are Subhas Chandra Bose, Heinrich Müller, Pierre Laval, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, David Lloyd George, and Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen. After him are Ernst Busch, Hans Krebs, August von Mackensen, Edgar Cayce, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, and Theodore Dreiser.
1906 - 1972
HPI: 76.59
Rank: 22
1906 - 1984
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 23
1906 - 1945
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 24
1906 - 1966
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 25
1906 - 1991
HPI: 75.45
Rank: 26
1906 - 1977
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 27
1906 - 1945
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 28
1906 - 1988
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 29
1906 - 2001
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 30
1906 - 1994
HPI: 74.89
Rank: 31
1906 - 1989
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 32
1906 - 1966
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 33
1906 - 1999
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 34
1897 - 1945
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 24
1900 - 1945
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 25
1883 - 1945
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 26
1906 - 1945
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 27
1863 - 1945
HPI: 75.86
Rank: 28
1895 - 1945
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 29
1906 - 1945
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 30
1885 - 1945
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 31
1898 - 1945
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 32
1849 - 1945
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 33
1877 - 1945
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 34
1883 - 1945
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 35
1871 - 1945
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 36
Among people born in Germany, Hermann Fegelein ranks 353 out of 5,289. Before him are Richard Dedekind (1831), Rudolf Dassler (1898), Henry the Lion (1129), Maria Alexandrovna (1824), Traudl Junge (1920), and August Kekulé (1829). After him are Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776), Ernst Busch (1885), Karen Horney (1885), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Helmuth Weidling (1891), and Ernst Abbe (1840).
1831 - 1916
HPI: 75.43
Rank: 347
1898 - 1974
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 348
1129 - 1195
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 349
1824 - 1880
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 350
1920 - 2002
HPI: 75.33
Rank: 351
1829 - 1896
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 352
1906 - 1945
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 353
1776 - 1810
HPI: 75.29
Rank: 354
1885 - 1945
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 355
1885 - 1952
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 356
1889 - 1938
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 357
1891 - 1955
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 358
1840 - 1905
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 359
Among military personnels born in Germany, Hermann Fegelein ranks 30. Before him are Michael Wittmann (1914), Klaus Barbie (1913), Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881), Ludwig Beck (1880), Heinrich Müller (1900), and Ferdinand Schörner (1892). After him are Ernst Busch (1885), Helmuth Weidling (1891), Franz Halder (1884), Georg von Küchler (1881), Walther von Reichenau (1884), and Paul Hausser (1880).
1914 - 1944
HPI: 76.58
Rank: 24
1913 - 1991
HPI: 76.54
Rank: 25
1881 - 1954
HPI: 76.52
Rank: 26
1880 - 1944
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 27
1900 - 1945
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 28
1892 - 1973
HPI: 75.66
Rank: 29
1906 - 1945
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 30
1885 - 1945
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 31
1891 - 1955
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 32
1884 - 1972
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 33
1881 - 1968
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 34
1884 - 1942
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 35
1880 - 1972
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 36