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Horst Schumann

1906 - 1983

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Horst Schumann (1 May 1906 – 5 May 1983) was an SS-Sturmbannführer (major) and medical doctor who conducted sterilization and castration experiments at Auschwitz and was particularly interested in the mass sterilization of Jews by means of X-rays. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horst Schumann has received more than 276,220 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Horst Schumann is the 250th most popular physician (down from 218th in 2019), the 1,792nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,468th in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Physician.

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  • 63.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Horst Schumann ranks 250 out of 726. Before him are Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Duchenne de Boulogne, Ernst Gräfenberg, Henry Heimlich, Robert Lefkowitz, and François Magendie. After him are Sun Simiao, William Chester Minor, John O'Keefe, Edward Bach, Antonio Maria Valsalva, and Christian Bohr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Horst Schumann ranks 96. Before him are Heinz Harmel, John Dickson Carr, Lillian Asplund, Janet Gaynor, John Carradine, and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark. After him are George Sanders, Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, Curtis LeMay, Junio Valerio Borghese, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, and Heinrich Schwarz. Among people deceased in 1983, Horst Schumann ranks 54. Before him are Nicolaus von Below, Walther Nehring, Kurt Tank, Karen Carpenter, Norma Shearer, and Marianne Brandt. After him are Victor Turner, Dennis Wilson, Walter Stennes, Igor Markevitch, Arno Babajanian, and Jean Rey.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Horst Schumann ranks 1,792 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Marr (1819), Sebastian Vettel (1987), Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1568), Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764), Wilhelm Backhaus (1884), and Philipp Mainländer (1841). After him are Oskar Gröning (1921), Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1720), Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574), Adolph Diesterweg (1790), Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), and Christian Lorenz (1966).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Horst Schumann ranks 40. Before him are Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), Hans Berger (1873), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), and Ernst Gräfenberg (1881). After him are Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), Sigmund Rascher (1909), Adolf Kussmaul (1822), Eduard Wirths (1909), Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783), and Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780).

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