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Kurt Gerstein

1905 - 1945

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Kurt Gerstein (11 August 1905 – 25 July 1945) was a German SS officer and head of technical disinfection services of the Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS (Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS). In 1942, after witnessing mass murders in the Belzec and Treblinka Nazi extermination camps, Gerstein gave a detailed report to Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter, as well as to Swiss diplomats, members of the Roman Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius XII, and to the Dutch government-in-exile, in an effort to inform the international community about the Holocaust as it was happening. In 1945, following his surrender, he wrote the Gerstein Report covering his experience of the Holocaust. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Gerstein has received more than 398,807 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Kurt Gerstein is the 63rd most popular engineer (down from 51st in 2019), the 1,217th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,109th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Engineer.

Kurt Gerstein was a Nazi officer who claimed to have witnessed the mass extermination of Jews in the gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. He was later convicted of war crimes and executed.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Kurt Gerstein ranks 63 out of 389. Before him are Masaru Ibuka, Loránd Eötvös, Henry Gantt, Immanuel Nobel, Banū Mūsā, and Valentin Glushko. After him are Nikolay Zhukovsky, Hans Kammler, Walter Dornberger, Paul Cornu, Jimmy Doolittle, and Marcel Dassault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Kurt Gerstein ranks 53. Before him are Lale Andersen, Prince John of the United Kingdom, Emmanuel Mounier, Nevill Francis Mott, Ivan Serov, and Daniil Kharms. After him are Erika Mann, Joseph Cotten, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Angelo Schiavio, Albert Pierrepoint, and Heinz Lammerding. Among people deceased in 1945, Kurt Gerstein ranks 89. Before him are John Ambrose Fleming, Plutarco Elías Calles, Georg Kaiser, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Josef Terboven, and Rudolf von Sebottendorf. After him are Walter Bradford Cannon, Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Hans Kammler, Josef Čapek, and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Gerstein ranks 1,217 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Richard Lepsius (1810), Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1473), Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen (1671), Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878), Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862), and Johann Peter Eckermann (1792). After him are Klaus Schulze (1947), Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), Conrad Schumann (1942), Günther Korten (1898), Wilhelm Weitling (1808), and Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Kurt Gerstein ranks 11. Before him are Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), Hugo Junkers (1859), Felix Wankel (1902), Ernst Heinkel (1888), and Arthur Scherbius (1878). After him are Walter Dornberger (1895), John A. Roebling (1806), Alexander Lippisch (1894), Claude Dornier (1884), Christian Otto Mohr (1835), and Erich Topp (1914).

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