1904 - 1948
Karl Brandt (8 January 1904 – 2 June 1948) was a German physician and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer in Nazi Germany. Trained in surgery, Brandt joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and became Adolf Hitler's escort doctor in August 1934. A member of Hitler's inner circle at the Berghof, he was selected by Philipp Bouhler, the head of Hitler's Chancellery, to administer the Aktion T4 euthanasia program. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Brandt has received more than 587,014 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Karl Brandt is the 58th most popular physician (down from 57th in 2019), the 555th most popular biography from France (down from 540th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Physician.
Karl Brandt was a German physician and Nazi SS officer. He is most famous for being the head of the Nazi euthanasia program, which was responsible for killing over 70,000 disabled people.
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Among physicians, Karl Brandt ranks 58 out of 509. Before him are Alexandre Yersin, Emil von Behring, James Parkinson, Allvar Gullstrand, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, and Robert Edwards. After him are Gerhard Domagk, Christiaan Eijkman, Francesco Redi, Robert Bellarmine, Albert Sabin, and Louis Auguste Blanqui.
1863 - 1943
HPI: 74.63
Rank: 52
1854 - 1917
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 53
1755 - 1824
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 54
1862 - 1930
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 55
1841 - 1912
HPI: 74.52
Rank: 56
1925 - 2013
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 57
1904 - 1948
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 58
1895 - 1964
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 59
1858 - 1930
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 60
1626 - 1697
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 61
1542 - 1621
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 62
1906 - 1993
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 63
1805 - 1881
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 64
Among people born in 1904, Karl Brandt ranks 17. Before him are J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jean Gabin, Graham Greene, George Gamow, Pavel Cherenkov, and Alexei Kosygin. After him are Kurt Georg Kiesinger, René Lacoste, Harry Martinson, John Hicks, Wendell Meredith Stanley, and Gregory Bateson. Among people deceased in 1948, Karl Brandt ranks 14. Before him are Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Walther von Brauchitsch, Andrei Zhdanov, Folke Bernadotte, Osamu Dazai, and Johannes Blaskowitz. After him are Babe Ruth, Nikolai Berdyaev, Ruth Benedict, Kurt Schwitters, Witold Pilecki, and Maria Mandl.
1904 - 1967
HPI: 77.39
Rank: 11
1904 - 1976
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 12
1904 - 1991
HPI: 76.33
Rank: 13
1904 - 1968
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 14
1904 - 1990
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 15
1904 - 1980
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 16
1904 - 1948
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 17
1904 - 1988
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 18
1904 - 1996
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 19
1904 - 1978
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 20
1904 - 1989
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 21
1904 - 1971
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 22
1904 - 1980
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 23
1861 - 1948
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 8
1881 - 1948
HPI: 77.04
Rank: 9
1896 - 1948
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 10
1895 - 1948
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 11
1909 - 1948
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 12
1883 - 1948
HPI: 75.14
Rank: 13
1904 - 1948
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 14
1895 - 1948
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 15
1874 - 1948
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 16
1887 - 1948
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 17
1887 - 1948
HPI: 73.28
Rank: 18
1901 - 1948
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 19
1912 - 1948
HPI: 72.74
Rank: 20
Among people born in France, Karl Brandt ranks 555 out of 5,234. Before him are Charles II of Navarre (1332), Boris Vian (1920), William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071), Suger (1080), Carloman I (751), and Alain Resnais (1922). After him are Luc Besson (1959), Maurice Jarre (1924), Paul Dukas (1865), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (1676), and Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760).
1332 - 1387
HPI: 74.52
Rank: 549
1920 - 1959
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 550
1071 - 1127
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 551
1080 - 1151
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 552
751 - 771
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 553
1922 - 2014
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 554
1904 - 1948
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 555
1959 - Present
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 556
1924 - 2009
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 557
1865 - 1935
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 558
1725 - 1804
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 559
1676 - 1744
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 560
1760 - 1836
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 561
Among physicians born in France, Karl Brandt ranks 10. Before him are Claude Bernard (1813), Alexis Carrel (1873), Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845), Ambroise Paré (1510), Philippe Pinel (1745), and René Laennec (1781). After him are Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), Hilary of Poitiers (315), Jean Nicot (1530), Charles Nicolle (1866), Albert Calmette (1863), and Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771).
1813 - 1878
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 4
1873 - 1944
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 5
1845 - 1922
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 6
1510 - 1590
HPI: 75.48
Rank: 7
1745 - 1826
HPI: 75.42
Rank: 8
1781 - 1826
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 9
1904 - 1948
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 10
1805 - 1881
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 11
315 - 367
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 12
1530 - 1605
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 13
1866 - 1936
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 14
1863 - 1933
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 15
1771 - 1802
HPI: 71.20
Rank: 16