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Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse

1896 - 1980

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Philipp, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse (6 November 1896 – 25 October 1980) was head of the Electoral House of Hesse from 1940 to 1980. Philipp joined the Nazi Party in 1930, and, when they gained power with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, he became Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau. However, he later began to fall out of favour with Hitler in the spring of 1943 after delivering an honest assessment of the military situation in Italy. He was arrested in September 1943 on the day Italy surrendered to the western Allies, dismissed in the following year, and was sent to the Flossenbürg concentration camp, then Dachau, where he remained until being transported to Tyrol by the SS, where he was liberated by Wehrmacht forces on 30 April 1945 and then arrested by U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse has received more than 638,057 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse is the 4,671st most popular politician (down from 4,585th in 2019), the 1,263rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,265th in 2019) and the 358th most popular German Politician.

Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse is most famous for being the father of the German philosopher and mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse ranks 4,671 out of 19,576. Before him are Mohamed Boudiaf, Argishti I of Urartu, Denis Thatcher, Al-Mustansir Billah, Joseph Bech, and Min Aung Hlaing. After him are Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria, Conrad, Duke of Lorraine, István Széchenyi, Quintus Hortensius, Ashraf Pahlavi, and Abdul Rashid Dostum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse ranks 59. Before him are Friedrich Hund, Léon Theremin, Kenji Miyazawa, Soghomon Tehlirian, David Wechsler, and Elsa Triolet. After him are Ida Noddack, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Norodom Suramarit, Jimmy Doolittle, Otto Hofmann, and Aleksei Antonov. Among people deceased in 1980, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse ranks 54. Before him are Kim Jae-gyu, Raoul Walsh, Pascual Jordan, V. V. Giri, Robert Whittaker, and Mohammad Hatta. After him are Patrick Depailler, Walter Dornberger, Mario Bava, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Stanisława Walasiewicz, and Tôn Đức Thắng.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse ranks 1,263 out of 7,253. Before him are Klaus Störtebeker (1360), Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg (1684), Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413), Heinrich Barth (1821), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), and Matthias Sammer (1967). After him are Marita Koch (1957), Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (1751), Gerda Christian (1913), Hans Holbein the Elder (1465), Franz Gürtner (1881), and Godfrey Kneller (1646).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse ranks 358. Before him are Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1851), Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria (1874), Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (1811), Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (1883), Walter Simons (1861), and Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413). After him are Franz Gürtner (1881), Georg Kerschensteiner (1854), Gerberga of Saxony (913), Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (1661), Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1680), and Erwin Piscator (1893).

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