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Herschel Grynszpan

1921 - 1942

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Herschel Feibel Grynszpan (Yiddish: הערשל פײַבל גרינשפּאן; German: Hermann Grünspan; 28 March 1921 – last rumoured to be alive 1945, declared dead 1960) was a Polish-Jewish expatriate born and raised in Weimar Germany who shot the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on 7 November 1938 in Paris. The Nazis used this assassination as a pretext to launch Kristallnacht, the antisemitic pogrom of 9–10 November 1938. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herschel Grynszpan has received more than 935,298 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Herschel Grynszpan is the 3,008th most popular politician (down from 2,812th in 2019), the 806th most popular biography from Germany (down from 769th in 2019) and the 220th most popular German Politician.

Herschel Grynszpan was a Polish Jew who assassinated the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris on November 7, 1938.

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Over the past year Herschel Grynszpan has had the most page views in the with 138,109 views, followed by German (66,085), and French (19,253). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (96.68%), Latin (87.45%), and German (82.13%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Herschel Grynszpan ranks 3,008 out of 19,576. Before him are Philippa of England, Ferhat Abbas, Al-Muntasir, Philotas, Nexhmije Hoxha, and Luigi Einaudi. After him are Shamshi-Adad I, Fulvia, Thusnelda, Sabium, Humbert I, Count of Savoy, and Edi Rama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Herschel Grynszpan ranks 49. Before him are Kurt Knispel, Dobrica Ćosić, Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Abdul Salam Arif, Kenneth Arrow, and Nexhmije Hoxha. After him are Georges Brassens, Mary Jackson, Telmo Zarra, James Jones, Deborah Kerr, and Harald Quandt. Among people deceased in 1942, Herschel Grynszpan ranks 29. Before him are Yanka Kupala, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Kārlis Ulmanis, Carole Lombard, Hector Guimard, and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn. After him are Alexander von Zemlinsky, Prince George, Duke of Kent, Jozef Gabčík, Grant Wood, Tina Modotti, and Michel Fokine.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Herschel Grynszpan ranks 806 out of 7,253. Before him are Jürgen Prochnow (1941), Max Schmeling (1905), Hans-Valentin Hube (1890), Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629), Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (1573), and Frank Wedekind (1864). After him are Hugo Sperrle (1885), Agnes of Merania (1175), Boris Becker (1967), Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (1946), Ernest, Elector of Saxony (1441), and Michael Praetorius (1571).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Herschel Grynszpan ranks 220. Before him are Wilhelm Cuno (1876), Matthias Erzberger (1875), Ludwig Quidde (1858), Gisela of Hungary (980), Joseph Wirth (1879), and Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629). After him are Agnes of Merania (1175), Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (1946), Ernest, Elector of Saxony (1441), Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (1504), Walter Hallstein (1901), and Thomas Bach (1953).

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