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John Rabe

1882 - 1950

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John Heinrich Detlef Rabe (23 November 1882 – 5 January 1950) was a German businessman and Nazi Party member best known for his efforts to stop war crimes during the Japanese Nanjing Massacre (formerly romanized as Nanking) and his work to protect and help Chinese civilians during the massacre that ensued. The Nanking Safety Zone, which he helped to establish, sheltered approximately 250,000 Chinese people from being killed. He officially represented Germany and acted as senior chief of the European-U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Rabe has received more than 1,644,646 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). John Rabe is the 4,834th most popular politician (down from 3,032nd in 2019), the 1,306th most popular biography from Germany (down from 832nd in 2019) and the 374th most popular German Politician.

John Rabe was a Nazi businessman who helped save the lives of more than 200,000 Chinese people during the Nanking Massacre.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Rabe ranks 4,834 out of 19,576. Before him are Naina Yeltsina, Jazzar Pasha, Josef Bühler, Takahito, Prince Mikasa, Emperor Fushimi, and Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus. After him are Zagan Pasha, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Rudolf Diels, Magnus II of Sweden, Fuchai, and Alphonse, Count of Poitiers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, John Rabe ranks 67. Before him are Fan Noli, Franz Seldte, Subramania Bharati, Dušan Simović, Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Johnny Torrio. After him are Friedrich Dollmann, Lucien Petit-Breton, Eduard Spranger, Korney Chukovsky, Husband E. Kimmel, and Germaine Dulac. Among people deceased in 1950, John Rabe ranks 40. Before him are Nikolai Myaskovsky, Milada Horáková, Werner Haase, Francesco Cilea, Constantin Carathéodory, and Eliel Saarinen. After him are Henry L. Stimson, Emil Abderhalden, Melitta Bentz, Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, and Fevzi Çakmak.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John Rabe ranks 1,306 out of 7,253. Before him are Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1700), Marian Gold (1954), Wolfgang von Trips (1928), Walter Rauff (1906), Dorothea Binz (1920), and Josef Bühler (1904). After him are Rudolf Diels (1900), Carl Stumpf (1848), Rudolf Caracciola (1901), Ernst Albrecht (1930), Franz, Duke of Bavaria (1933), and Christiane F. (1962).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, John Rabe ranks 374. Before him are Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (1797), Otto V, Duke of Bavaria (1346), Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (1875), Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1700), Dorothea Binz (1920), and Josef Bühler (1904). After him are Rudolf Diels (1900), Ernst Albrecht (1930), Franz, Duke of Bavaria (1933), John George II, Elector of Saxony (1613), Walter Christaller (1893), and Max Amann (1891).

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