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Otto Wächter

1901 - 1949

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Baron Otto Gustav von Wächter (8 July 1901 – 14 July 1949) was an Austrian lawyer, Nazi politician and a high-ranking member of the SS, a paramilitary organisation of the Nazi Party. He participated in the Final Solution extermination of Jews in Europe, and was instrumental in creating an SS division consisting of Ukrainians. During the occupation of Poland in World War II, he was the governor of the district of Kraków in the General Government and then of the District of Galicia (now mainly in Ukraine). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Wächter has received more than 517,249 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Wächter is the 7,823rd most popular politician (down from 6,358th in 2019), the 467th most popular biography from Austria (down from 402nd in 2019) and the 141st most popular Austrian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Otto Wächter ranks 7,823 out of 19,576. Before him are Mátyás Szűrös, Salih Muslim, Choe Thae-bok, Demetrios Palaiologos, Godan Khan, and Eulji Mundeok. After him are Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Mustafa Tlass, Emperor Cheng of Jin, Leonora Dori, Alois Eliáš, and François Certain de Canrobert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Otto Wächter ranks 104. Before him are Eiji Tsuburaya, Miklós Nyiszli, Marino Marini, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Peter van de Kamp, and Alexander Fadeyev. After him are Melvyn Douglas, Fred Uhlman, Cassandre, René Pleven, Michel Leiris, and Princess Yolanda of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1949, Otto Wächter ranks 57. Before him are Vasily Degtyaryov, Alice Bailey, Walter Buch, Mariano Fortuny, Wilhelm Adam, and Jacques Copeau. After him are Ginette Neveu, Maria Cebotari, Vladimir Nazor, Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, and Alejandro Lerroux.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Otto Wächter ranks 467 out of 1,424. Before him are Henri Herz (1803), Karl Nehammer (1972), Petar Brzica (1917), Jacob Stainer (1619), Franz Binder (1911), and Diana Budisavljević (1891). After him are Leopold Figl (1902), Maria Schicklgruber (1795), Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria (1827), Franz von Liszt (1851), Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715), and Leopold Auenbrugger (1722).

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Among POLITICIANS In Austria

Among politicians born in Austria, Otto Wächter ranks 141. Before him are Avgustyn Voloshyn (1874), Prince René of Bourbon-Parma (1894), Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza (1907), Karl Nehammer (1972), Petar Brzica (1917), and Jacob Stainer (1619). After him are Leopold Figl (1902), Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria (1827), Elisabeth of Austria, Duchess of Lorraine (1285), Ignaz Seipel (1876), Archduchess Magdalena of Austria (1532), and Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart (1824).

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