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Richard Baer

1911 - 1963

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Richard Baer (9 September 1911 – 17 June 1963) was a German SS officer who, among other assignments, was the final commandant of Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to January 1945, and right after, from February to April 1945, commandant of Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. Following the war, Baer lived under an assumed name to avoid prosecution but was recognized and arrested in December 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Baer has received more than 518,759 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Richard Baer is the 3,162nd most popular politician (down from 2,853rd in 2019), the 848th most popular biography from Germany (down from 781st in 2019) and the 235th most popular German Politician.

Richard Baer was a Nazi war criminal who was captured in 1962 and tried in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials. He was found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to life in prison.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Richard Baer ranks 3,162 out of 19,576. Before him are Marcomer, Postumus, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Vicente Fox, Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, and Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach. After him are Gunthamund, Agnes of Poitou, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Joseph Berchtold, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, and Tetricus I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Richard Baer ranks 44. Before him are Odysseas Elytis, Trygve Haavelmo, Ernesto Sabato, John Archibald Wheeler, Herta Oberheuser, and Louise Bourgeois. After him are L. Ron Hubbard, Bruno Kreisky, Sergey Sokolov, Gustav Wagner, Cantinflas, and J. L. Austin. Among people deceased in 1963, Richard Baer ranks 30. Before him are Abd al-Karim Qasim, Carmen Amaya, Rajendra Prasad, Theodore von Kármán, Oleg Penkovsky, and Jacques Hadamard. After him are Kurt Zeitzler, Józef Gosławski, Richard Barthelmess, Karl Bühler, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, and Pedro Armendáriz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Richard Baer ranks 848 out of 7,253. Before him are Maurice, Elector of Saxony (1521), Hans Fallada (1893), Caroline of Brunswick (1768), Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1792), Gottfried Semper (1803), and Amalie Auguste of Bavaria (1801). After him are Georg Bednorz (1950), Walter Baade (1893), Joseph Berchtold (1897), Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (920), Martin Schulz (1955), and Karl Abraham (1877).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Richard Baer ranks 235. Before him are Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671), Otto Ernst Remer (1912), Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1505), Maurice, Elector of Saxony (1521), Caroline of Brunswick (1768), and Amalie Auguste of Bavaria (1801). After him are Joseph Berchtold (1897), Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (920), Martin Schulz (1955), Leopold I, Margrave of Austria (940), Albert V, Duke of Bavaria (1528), and Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1709).

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