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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 (also 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 1,508,402 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). John Rabe is the 3,041st most popular politician (up from 3,729th in 2019), the 832nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,028th in 2019) and the 242nd 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 3,041 out of 15,577. Before him are Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Vajiravudh, Liutprand of Cremona, Frank B. Kellogg, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, and Mehmet Shehu. After him are Norman Angell, Abdul Hamid, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, Nexhmije Hoxha, and Ahmed Sékou Touré.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, John Rabe ranks 48. Before him are René Coty, Moritz Schlick, Karol Szymanowski, Otto Neurath, Yanka Kupala, and Friedrich Dollmann. After him are B. Traven, Lluís Companys, Éamon de Valera, Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Aleksandra Ekster, and Johnny Torrio. Among people deceased in 1950, John Rabe ranks 27. Before him are Sri Aurobindo, Norman Haworth, Emil Jannings, George Minot, Cesare Pavese, and Max Beckmann. After him are Kuniaki Koiso, Roman Shukhevych, Karl Seitz, Dinu Lipatti, Petre Dumitrescu, and Emmanuel Mounier.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John Rabe ranks 832 out of 6,142. Before him are Joseph Wirth (1879), Max Delbrück (1906), Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823), Theodor Fontane (1819), Therese Neumann (1898), and Fritz Haarmann (1879). After him are Clemens Brentano (1778), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925), Georg von Frundsberg (1473), Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria (1660), Anna Seghers (1900), and Princess Louise of Prussia (1838).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, John Rabe ranks 242. Before him are Pavlo Skoropadskyi (1873), Anthony of Saxony (1755), Prince Augustus William of Prussia (1722), August Landmesser (1910), Joseph Wirth (1879), and Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823). After him are Princess Louise of Prussia (1838), Oswald Pohl (1892), John George III, Elector of Saxony (1647), Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse (1777), Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (1546), and Joseph Berchtold (1897).

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