Social Activist

Martin Niemöller

1892 - 1984

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His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2024). Martin Niemöller is the 80th most popular social activist (down from 42nd in 2024), the 650th most popular biography from Germany (down from 348th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Social Activist.

Martin Niemöller was a German Lutheran pastor who is most famous for the following quote: "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

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Among Social Activists

Among social activists, Martin Niemöller ranks 80 out of 840Before him are Babak Khorramdin, Gunnar Sønsteby, Camilo Cienfuegos, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Anneliese Michel, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. After him are Liu Xiaobo, Jenny von Westphalen, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Buenaventura Durruti, Dragutin Dimitrijević, and Axel Munthe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Martin Niemöller ranks 41Before him are Marina Tsvetaeva, Shirō Ishii, Ernst Lubitsch, Robert Ritter von Greim, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, and Bruno Schulz. After him are Erhard Milch, Bolesław Bierut, Władysław Anders, Andrey Yeryomenko, József Mindszenty, and Rashid Ali al-Gaylani. Among people deceased in 1984, Martin Niemöller ranks 23Before him are Carl Ferdinand Cori, Ed Gein, Martin Ryle, Pyotr Kapitsa, Vicente Aleixandre, and Ahmed Sékou Touré. After him are Ray Kroc, Janaki Ammal, Karl Wolff, Anna Anderson, Sam Peckinpah, and Lionel Robbins.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Niemöller ranks 650 out of NaNBefore him are Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen (1738), Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), John of Saxony (1801), Wilhelm Marx (1863), Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786), and Christopher Clavius (1538). After him are Princess Viktoria of Prussia (1866), Erhard Milch (1892), George Grosz (1893), August Macke (1887), Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653), and Niklas Luhmann (1927).

Among Social Activists In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Martin Niemöller ranks 8Before him are Sophia of Prussia (1870), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Sophie Scholl (1921), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Horst Wessel (1907), and Anneliese Michel (1952). After him are Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Widukind (755), Hans Scholl (1918), Marianne Bachmeier (1950), Alfred Naujocks (1911), and Gerda Christian (1913).

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