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Martin Luther

1895 - 1945

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Martin Franz Julius Luther (German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈlʊtɐ] , 16 December 1895 – 13 May 1945) was a German diplomat. A member of the Nazi Party, he was a protégé of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, first as an advisor in the Ribbentrop Bureau (Dienststelle Ribbentrop), and later as a diplomat in the Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt). He participated in the 20 January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Luther has received more than 18,902,413 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Martin Luther is the 39th most popular diplomat, the 1,999th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,158th in 2019) and the most popular German Diplomat.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Martin Luther ranks 39 out of 90Before him are Yukiya Amano, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Amr Moussa, Ralph Bunche, Porfirio Rubirosa, and Dean Acheson. After him are Mikhail Borodin, Jean Kennedy Smith, William J. Burns, Richard Holbrooke, Zannanza, and Friedrich Martens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Martin Luther ranks 101Before him are Alexander Orlov, Walter Stennes, Sheng Shicai, Kirsten Flagstad, Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, and Max Koegel. After him are Liaquat Ali Khan, Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Nikolay Shchors, Heinrich Eberbach, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, and Matthew Ridgway. Among people deceased in 1945, Martin Luther ranks 143Before him are Korechika Anami, André Tardieu, Seiichi Itō, Duy Tân, Zinaida Gippius, and Dwight F. Davis. After him are Avgustyn Voloshyn, Dimitrije Ljotić, Leonardo Conti, Bertram Ramsay, Gerhard Schmidhuber, and Joseph Darnand.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Luther ranks 1,999 out of 7,253Before him are Govert Flinck (1615), Albert Bormann (1902), John II, Duke of Bavaria (1341), Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg (1673), Therese Brandl (1902), and Erich Rudorffer (1917). After him are Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (1815), George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1539), Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1577), Marianne Koch (1931), Peter Cornelius (1824), and Eduard Rüppell (1794).

Among DIPLOMATS In Germany

Among diplomats born in Germany, Martin Luther ranks 1After him are Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909), Paul Schmidt (1899), and Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (1904).