1915 - 1976
Joachim Peiper (30 January 1915 – 14 July 1976) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and war criminal convicted for the Malmedy massacre of U.S. Army prisoners of war (POWs). 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. German historian Jens Westemeier writes that Peiper personified Nazi ideology, as a purportedly ruthless glory-hound commander who was indifferent to the combat casualties of Battle Group Peiper, and who encouraged, expected, and tolerated war crimes by his Waffen-SS soldiers.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 2,333,643 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Joachim Peiper is the 171st most popular military personnel (up from 177th in 2019), the 397th most popular biography from Germany (up from 414th 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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Among military personnels, Joachim Peiper ranks 171 out of 1,468. Before him are Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Abraha, Pyotr Bagration, Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Joseph Joffre, and Ernst Busch. After him are Auguste de Marmont, Dietrich von Choltitz, George Armstrong Custer, Paul Tibbets, Józef Poniatowski, and Hans Krebs.
1159 - 1189
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 165
600 - 600
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 166
1765 - 1812
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 167
1753 - 1815
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 168
1852 - 1931
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 169
1885 - 1945
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 170
1915 - 1976
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 171
1774 - 1852
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 172
1894 - 1966
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 173
1839 - 1876
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 174
1915 - 2007
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 175
1763 - 1813
HPI: 67.07
Rank: 176
1898 - 1945
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 177
Among people born in 1915, Joachim Peiper ranks 18. Before him are Eli Wallach, Billie Holiday, Arthur Miller, Jerome Bruner, Stanley Matthews, and Yitzhak Shamir. After him are Paul Tibbets, Aung San, Sviatoslav Richter, Saul Bellow, Fred Hoyle, and Hu Yaobang. Among people deceased in 1976, Joachim Peiper ranks 21. Before him are Man Ray, Benjamin Britten, Henrik Dam, J. Paul Getty, Alexander Calder, and Ulrike Meinhof. After him are Benjamin Graham, Jacques Monod, Anneliese Michel, Eyvind Johnson, Zhu De, and Rudolf Bultmann.
1915 - 2014
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 12
1915 - 1959
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 13
1915 - 2005
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 14
1915 - 2016
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 15
1915 - 2000
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 16
1915 - 2012
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 17
1915 - 1976
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 18
1915 - 2007
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 19
1915 - 1947
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 20
1915 - 1997
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 21
1915 - 2005
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 22
1915 - 2001
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 23
1915 - 1989
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 24
1890 - 1976
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 15
1913 - 1976
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 16
1895 - 1976
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 17
1892 - 1976
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 18
1898 - 1976
HPI: 67.77
Rank: 19
1934 - 1976
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 20
1915 - 1976
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 21
1894 - 1976
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 22
1910 - 1976
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 23
1952 - 1976
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 24
1900 - 1976
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 25
1886 - 1976
HPI: 64.99
Rank: 26
1884 - 1976
HPI: 64.44
Rank: 27
Among people born in Germany, Joachim Peiper ranks 397 out of 6,142. Before him are Louise Mountbatten (1889), Richard Dedekind (1831), Ernst Thälmann (1886), Harald zur Hausen (1936), Ernst Busch (1885), and Hans Eysenck (1916). After him are Hans Lippershey (1570), Walter Schellenberg (1910), Robert Ley (1890), Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784), Klaus Meine (1948), and Christopher of Bavaria (1416).
1889 - 1965
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 391
1831 - 1916
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 392
1886 - 1944
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 393
1936 - 2023
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 394
1885 - 1945
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 395
1916 - 1997
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 396
1915 - 1976
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 397
1570 - 1619
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 398
1910 - 1952
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 399
1890 - 1945
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 400
1784 - 1844
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 401
1948 - Present
HPI: 67.16
Rank: 402
1416 - 1448
HPI: 67.16
Rank: 403
Among military personnels born in Germany, Joachim Peiper ranks 40. Before him are Paul Hausser (1880), Ferdinand Schörner (1892), Georg von Küchler (1881), Helmuth Weidling (1891), Alfred von Schlieffen (1833), and Ernst Busch (1885). After him are Dietrich von Choltitz (1894), Hans Krebs (1898), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), Walther von Reichenau (1884), and Wilhelm List (1880).
1880 - 1972
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 34
1892 - 1973
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 35
1881 - 1968
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 36
1891 - 1955
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 37
1833 - 1913
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 38
1885 - 1945
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 39
1915 - 1976
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 40
1894 - 1966
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 41
1898 - 1945
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 42
1895 - 1945
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 43
1848 - 1916
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 44
1884 - 1942
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 45
1880 - 1971
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 46