1894 - 1951
Paul Blobel (13 August 1894 – 7 June 1951) was a German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) commander and convicted war criminal who played a leading role in the Holocaust. He organised and executed the Babi Yar massacre, the largest massacre of the Second World War at Babi Yar ravine in September 1941, pioneered the use of the gas van and, following re-assignment developed the gas chambers for the extermination camps in occupied Poland. From late 1942 onwards he led Sonderaktion 1005, wherein millions of bodies were exhumed at the massacre sites and extermination camps across Eastern Europe in an effort to erase all evidence of the Holocaust and specifically of Operation Reinhard. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Blobel has received more than 584,560 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Paul Blobel is the 2,654th most popular politician (down from 2,649th in 2019), the 732nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 704th in 2019) and the 198th most popular German Politician.
Paul Blobel was a Nazi officer who was responsible for the Babi Yar massacre in September 1941.
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Among politicians, Paul Blobel ranks 2,654 out of 15,710. Before him are 3rd Dalai Lama, Hun Sen, Vasily Blokhin, Sargon I, Milton Obote, and John Sherman. After him are Tetricus I, Vladimir Ivashko, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Stanislav Shushkevich, Alassane Ouattara, and Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
1543 - 1588
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 2,648
1952 - Present
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 2,649
1895 - 1955
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 2,650
1900 BC - 1900 BC
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 2,651
1925 - 2005
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 2,652
1823 - 1900
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 2,653
1894 - 1951
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 2,654
250 - 274
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 2,655
1932 - 1994
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 2,656
1757 - 1831
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 2,657
1934 - Present
HPI: 71.44
Rank: 2,658
1942 - Present
HPI: 71.44
Rank: 2,659
1931 - Present
HPI: 71.44
Rank: 2,660
Among people born in 1894, Paul Blobel ranks 35. Before him are Otto Grotewohl, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Satyendra Nath Bose, Wilhelm Bittrich, Norman Rockwell, and Alexander Oparin. After him are Percy Spencer, Fyodor Tolbukhin, Heinrich Lübke, Karl Böhm, Josef von Sternberg, and Alexander Dovzhenko. Among people deceased in 1951, Paul Blobel ranks 20. Before him are Otto Ohlendorf, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, Amélie of Orléans, August Horch, Alfred Hugenberg, and Sinclair Lewis. After him are William Randolph Hearst, Harald Bohr, Oswald Pohl, Zaifeng, Prince Chun, Ivanoe Bonomi, and Óscar Carmona.
1894 - 1964
HPI: 71.98
Rank: 29
1894 - 1924
HPI: 71.85
Rank: 30
1894 - 1974
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 31
1894 - 1979
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 32
1894 - 1978
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 33
1894 - 1980
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 34
1894 - 1951
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 35
1894 - 1970
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 36
1894 - 1949
HPI: 71.10
Rank: 37
1894 - 1972
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 38
1894 - 1981
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 39
1894 - 1969
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 40
1894 - 1956
HPI: 70.58
Rank: 41
1907 - 1951
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 14
1861 - 1951
HPI: 71.96
Rank: 15
1865 - 1951
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 16
1868 - 1951
HPI: 71.85
Rank: 17
1865 - 1951
HPI: 71.61
Rank: 18
1885 - 1951
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 19
1894 - 1951
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 20
1863 - 1951
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 21
1887 - 1951
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 22
1892 - 1951
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 23
1883 - 1951
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 24
1873 - 1951
HPI: 69.12
Rank: 25
1869 - 1951
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 26
Among people born in Germany, Paul Blobel ranks 732 out of 5,289. Before him are George V of Hanover (1819), Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (1722), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Manfred Gerlach (1928), Peter Weiss (1916), and Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795). After him are Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (1886), Jürgen Klinsmann (1964), Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (1757), Gisela of Hungary (980), Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797), and Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen (1738).
1819 - 1878
HPI: 71.48
Rank: 726
1722 - 1763
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 727
1911 - 1993
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 728
1928 - 2011
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 729
1916 - 1982
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 730
1795 - 1878
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 731
1894 - 1951
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 732
1886 - 1944
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 733
1964 - Present
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 734
1757 - 1831
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 735
980 - 1065
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 736
1797 - 1854
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 737
1738 - 1822
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 738
Among politicians born in Germany, Paul Blobel ranks 198. Before him are Edith Frank (1900), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1774), Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (1261), George V of Hanover (1819), Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (1722), and Manfred Gerlach (1928). After him are Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (1757), Gisela of Hungary (980), Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797), Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen (1738), Wied, Prince of Albania (1876), and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778).
1900 - 1945
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 192
1774 - 1837
HPI: 71.50
Rank: 193
1261 - 1312
HPI: 71.48
Rank: 194
1819 - 1878
HPI: 71.48
Rank: 195
1722 - 1763
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 196
1928 - 2011
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 197
1894 - 1951
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 198
1757 - 1831
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 199
980 - 1065
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 200
1797 - 1854
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 201
1738 - 1822
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 202
1876 - 1945
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 203
1778 - 1852
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 204