1915 - 1976
Joachim Peiper (30 January 1915 – 14 July 1976) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and a Nazi war criminal convicted for the Malmedy massacre of U.S. Army prisoners of war (PoW). During the Second World War in Europe, Peiper served as personal adjutant to Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS, and as a tank commander in the Waffen-SS. As adjutant to Himmler, Peiper witnessed the SS implement the Holocaust with ethnic cleansing and genocide of Jews in Eastern Europe; facts that he obfuscated and denied in the post–War period. As a tank commander, Peiper served in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) in the Eastern Front and in the Western Front, first as a battalion commander and then as a regimental commander. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joachim Peiper has received more than 1,774,137 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Joachim Peiper is the 177th most popular military personnel (down from 147th in 2019), the 414th most popular biography from Germany (down from 351st in 2019) and the 41st 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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Among military personnels, Joachim Peiper ranks 177 out of 1,466. Before him are Mikhail Frunze, Paul Tibbets, Felix Steiner, Dragut, Anton Denikin, and Wilhelm List. After him are Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Pyotr Bagration, Joseph Joffre, Qasem Soleimani, and Gotthard Heinrici.
1885 - 1925
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 171
1915 - 2007
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 172
1896 - 1966
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 173
1485 - 1565
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 174
1872 - 1947
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 175
1880 - 1971
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 176
1915 - 1976
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 177
1643 - 1690
HPI: 74.54
Rank: 178
229 BC - 160 BC
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 179
1765 - 1812
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 180
1852 - 1931
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 181
1957 - 2020
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 182
1886 - 1971
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 183
Among people born in 1915, Joachim Peiper ranks 18. Before him are Eli Wallach, Paul Samuelson, Yitzhak Shamir, Jerome Bruner, Sviatoslav Richter, and Paul Tibbets. After him are Saul Bellow, Billie Holiday, Hu Yaobang, Fred Hoyle, Les Paul, and Stanley Matthews. Among people deceased in 1976, Joachim Peiper ranks 21. Before him are André Malraux, J. Paul Getty, Benjamin Britten, Ulrike Meinhof, Alexander Calder, and Henrik Dam. After him are Eyvind Johnson, Jacques Monod, Raymond Queneau, Rudolf Bultmann, Benjamin Graham, and Zhu De.
1915 - 2014
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 12
1915 - 2009
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 13
1915 - 2012
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 14
1915 - 2016
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 15
1915 - 1997
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 16
1915 - 2007
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 17
1915 - 1976
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 18
1915 - 2005
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 19
1915 - 1959
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 20
1915 - 1989
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 21
1915 - 2001
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 22
1915 - 2009
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 23
1915 - 2000
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 24
1901 - 1976
HPI: 76.51
Rank: 15
1892 - 1976
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 16
1913 - 1976
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 17
1934 - 1976
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 18
1898 - 1976
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 19
1895 - 1976
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 20
1915 - 1976
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 21
1900 - 1976
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 22
1910 - 1976
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 23
1903 - 1976
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 24
1884 - 1976
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 25
1894 - 1976
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 26
1886 - 1976
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 27
Among people born in Germany, Joachim Peiper ranks 414 out of 5,289. Before him are Franz Bopp (1791), Felix Klein (1849), Friedrich List (1789), Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667), Emile Berliner (1851), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786). After him are Bruno of Cologne (1030), Ananda Mahidol (1925), Wassily Leontief (1906), Erich Kästner (1899), Jean Paul (1763), and Georgy Lvov (1861).
1791 - 1867
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 408
1849 - 1925
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 409
1789 - 1846
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 410
1667 - 1740
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 411
1851 - 1929
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 412
1786 - 1861
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 413
1915 - 1976
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 414
1030 - 1101
HPI: 74.54
Rank: 415
1925 - 1946
HPI: 74.52
Rank: 416
1906 - 1999
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 417
1899 - 1974
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 418
1763 - 1825
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 419
1861 - 1925
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 420
Among military personnels born in Germany, Joachim Peiper ranks 41. Before him are Walther von Reichenau (1884), Paul Hausser (1880), Hans Krebs (1898), Alfred von Schlieffen (1833), August von Mackensen (1849), and Wilhelm List (1880). After him are Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895), Kurt Meyer (1910), Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), Dietrich von Choltitz (1894), and Hasso von Manteuffel (1897).
1884 - 1942
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 35
1880 - 1972
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 36
1898 - 1945
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 37
1833 - 1913
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 38
1849 - 1945
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 39
1880 - 1971
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 40
1915 - 1976
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 41
1895 - 1945
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 42
1895 - 1945
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 43
1910 - 1961
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 44
1848 - 1916
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 45
1894 - 1966
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 46
1897 - 1978
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 47