Military Personnel

Joachim Peiper

SS officer and convicted Nazi war criminal

1915 - 1976

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His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2024). Joachim Peiper is the 186th most popular military personnel (down from 164th in 2024), the 476th most popular biography from Germany (down from 400th in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Military Personnel.

Joachim Peiper was a German SS officer during World War II. He is most famous for being the commander of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, a Waffen-SS Panzer division, and for his involvement in the Malmedy massacre.

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Joachim Peiper ranks #476 among 8,184 people in Pantheon born in Germany, inside the top 6% of that group.

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Joachim Peiper's biography appears in 41 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 90% of all Military Personnels.

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Among Military Personnels

Among military personnels, Joachim Peiper ranks 186 out of 2,188. Before him are Giovanni Giustiniani, Józef Poniatowski, Michiel de Ruyter, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, Ernst Busch, and Alois Brunner. After him are Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Felix Steiner, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Desmond Doss, and Paul Hausser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Joachim Peiper ranks 27. Before him are Hu Yaobang, Sviatoslav Richter, John Vorster, Saul Bellow, Aung San, and Robert A. Dahl. After him are Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Jerome Bruner, Stanley Matthews, Fred Hoyle, Robert Hofstadter, and Curd Jürgens. Among people deceased in 1976, Joachim Peiper ranks 24. Before him are Man Ray, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Henrik Dam, Jacques Monod, Benjamin Britten, and Lars Onsager. After him are Ulrike Meinhof, J. Paul Getty, Gustav Heinemann, Raymond Queneau, Alexander Calder, and Anneliese Michel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joachim Peiper ranks 476 out of 8,184. Before him are Erich Kästner (1899), Herbert Kroemer (1928), Maria Alexandrovna (1824), Friedrich Fromm (1888), Heinrich Mann (1871), and Konrad Zuse (1910). After him are Louis the Child (893), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), Johann Bayer (1572), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1573), and Franz Brentano (1838).

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Among Military Personnels In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Joachim Peiper ranks 40. Before him are Helmuth Weidling (1891), Hermann Fegelein (1906), Michael Wittmann (1914), Hans Krebs (1898), Maurice de Saxe (1696), and Ernst Busch (1885). After him are Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), Paul Hausser (1880), Georg von Küchler (1881), Alfred von Schlieffen (1833), Henning von Tresckow (1901), and Dietrich von Choltitz (1894).

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