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Rudolf Lange

1910 - 1945

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Rudolf Lange (18 April 1910 – 23 February 1945) was a German SS-Standartenführer and police official during the Nazi era. After the invasion of the Soviet Union, he served in Einsatzgruppe A before becoming a commander of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) forces in Riga, Generalbezirk Lettland (today, Latvia). He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned, and was largely responsible for implementing the murder of Latvia's Jewish population during the Holocaust. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Lange has received more than 464,880 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Rudolf Lange is the 6,073rd most popular politician (up from 7,565th in 2019), the 1,668th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,138th in 2019) and the 481st most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rudolf Lange ranks 6,073 out of 19,576. Before him are Pedro Lascuráin, Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Takeo Fukuda, Jia Sidao, and Ang Duong. After him are Agostino Barbarigo, Henry A. Wallace, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, Charlotte Bonaparte, and Moses de León.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Rudolf Lange ranks 76. Before him are Chico Xavier, Ferdinand Daučík, Barthélemy Boganda, Giulietta Simionato, Aladár Gerevich, and Nguyễn Hữu Thọ. After him are Shunichi Kumai, Sergey Gorshkov, He Zizhen, Louis Slotin, Maurice Papon, and Irmfried Eberl. Among people deceased in 1945, Rudolf Lange ranks 118. Before him are Richard Glücks, Wilhelm Rediess, Takijirō Ōnishi, Leonid Pasternak, August Hirt, and Robert Brasillach. After him are Roza Shanina, Le Pétomane, Mário de Andrade, Bogdan Filov, Robert Desnos, and Albrecht Penck.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Lange ranks 1,668 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria (1752), Hans-Peter Briegel (1955), Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1778), Mary Wigman (1886), and Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (1310). After him are Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Gustav Landauer (1870), Ludwig Borchardt (1863), Princess Elisabeth of Saxony (1830), Michael Fassbender (1977), and Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Rudolf Lange ranks 481. Before him are Christian the Younger of Brunswick (1599), Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (1866), Meinhard III, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol (1344), Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff (1896), Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria (1752), and Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (1310). After him are George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1624), Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse (1806), Princess Alexandrine of Baden (1820), Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (1654), Niklot (1100), and William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1516).

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