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Josef Terboven

1898 - 1945

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Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven (23 May 1898 – 8 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party official and politician who was the long-serving Gauleiter of Gau Essen and the Reichskommissar for Norway during the German occupation. Terboven was born in Essen, Germany, and attended Volksschule and Realschule before he volunteered for military service during the First World War. After the war, he studied law and political science at the University of Munich and the University of Freiburg, where he first got involved in politics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Terboven has received more than 714,834 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Josef Terboven is the 4,277th most popular politician (down from 3,451st in 2019), the 1,153rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 939th in 2019) and the 333rd most popular German Politician.

Josef Terboven was the Nazi Gauleiter of Norway during World War II. He is most famous for his role in the deportation of Norwegian Jews to concentration camps.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Josef Terboven ranks 4,277 out of 19,576. Before him are Jayavarman II, Alfred Moisiu, Princess Milica of Serbia, Gracia Mendes Nasi, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Elena Glinskaya. After him are Micheline Calmy-Rey, Yakov Yurovsky, Merikare, Claudia Acte, Rishi Sunak, and Fan Noli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Josef Terboven ranks 56. Before him are Julius Schreck, Joseph Murphy, Felix Kersten, Hanns Eisler, Henry Hathaway, and Giuseppe Saragat. After him are Carl Clauberg, Günther Korten, Inejiro Asanuma, Alberto Suppici, Lotte Lenya, and Viktor Ullmann. Among people deceased in 1945, Josef Terboven ranks 87. Before him are Mitsuru Ushijima, Hans Oster, John Ambrose Fleming, Plutarco Elías Calles, Georg Kaiser, and Elisabeth Volkenrath. After him are Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Kurt Gerstein, Walter Bradford Cannon, Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, and Hans Kammler.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Josef Terboven ranks 1,153 out of 7,253. Before him are Alfred Naujocks (1911), Lorenz von Stein (1815), Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792), Karl von Bülow (1846), Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892), and Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752). After him are Adam Elsheimer (1578), Theodelinda (570), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Carl Clauberg (1898), Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal (1855), and Johann Jakob Froberger (1616).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Josef Terboven ranks 333. Before him are Gustav Noske (1868), Hans Aumeier (1906), Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1696), Wilhelm Groener (1867), Elisabeth of the Palatinate (1618), and Otto Georg Thierack (1889). After him are Theodelinda (570), Carl Clauberg (1898), Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826), Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (1575), Franz Josef Strauss (1915), and Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785).

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