1903 - 1989
Karl Rudolf Werner Best (10 July 1903 – 23 June 1989) was a German jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer, Nazi Party leader, and theoretician from Darmstadt. He was the first chief of Department 1 of the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police, and initiated a registry of all Jews in Germany. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Werner Best has received more than 440,805 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Werner Best is the 5,406th most popular politician (down from 4,352nd in 2019), the 1,515th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,218th in 2019) and the 453rd most popular German Politician.
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Among politicians, Werner Best ranks 5,406 out of 15,577. Before him are Suintila, Lennart Bernadotte, Emperor Go-Fushimi, Emperor Seiwa, Zagan Pasha, and Ulrich von Hassell. After him are Magnus IV of Norway, Siraj ud-Daulah, Kalākaua, Árpád Göncz, Hümaşah Sultan, and Joan, Countess of Flanders.
594 - 634
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 5,400
1909 - 2004
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 5,401
1288 - 1336
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 5,402
850 - 881
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 5,403
1450 - 1464
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 5,404
1881 - 1944
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 5,405
1903 - 1989
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 5,406
1115 - 1139
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 5,407
1733 - 1757
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 5,408
1836 - 1891
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 5,409
1922 - 2015
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 5,410
1634 - 1672
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 5,411
1200 - 1244
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 5,412
Among people born in 1903, Werner Best ranks 82. Before him are Johannes Heesters, Yevgeny Mravinsky, Benjamin Spock, Sadegh Hedayat, Joan Robinson, and Evelyn Waugh. After him are Charles W. Morris, Prince Nicholas of Romania, Walker Evans, Heinz Reinefarth, Yisrael Kristal, and Gregor Piatigorsky. Among people deceased in 1989, Werner Best ranks 68. Before him are Karel Zeman, A. J. Ayer, Barbara W. Tuchman, Minoru Genda, Franklin J. Schaffner, and Leonardo Sciascia. After him are Bernard Blier, Hans Hartung, Boris Skossyreff, Kazimierz Deyna, Victor French, and Pérez Prado.
1903 - 2011
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 76
1903 - 1988
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 77
1903 - 1998
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 78
1903 - 1951
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 79
1903 - 1983
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 80
1903 - 1966
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 81
1903 - 1989
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 82
1903 - 1979
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 83
1903 - 1978
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 84
1903 - 1975
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 85
1903 - 1979
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 86
1903 - 2017
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 87
1903 - 1976
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 88
1910 - 1989
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 62
1910 - 1989
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 63
1912 - 1989
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 64
1904 - 1989
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 65
1920 - 1989
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 66
1921 - 1989
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 67
1903 - 1989
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 68
1916 - 1989
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 69
1904 - 1989
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 70
1896 - 1989
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 71
1947 - 1989
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 72
1934 - 1989
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 73
1916 - 1989
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 74
Among people born in Germany, Werner Best ranks 1,515 out of 6,142. Before him are Salvian (405), Diane Kruger (1976), Richard Glücks (1889), Gondioc (450), Hans Holbein the Elder (1465), and Ulrich von Hassell (1881). After him are Wolf Biermann (1936), Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845), Karl Albrecht (1920), Bernard of Saxe-Weimar (1604), Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1578), and Wilhelm Weitling (1808).
405 - 451
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 1,509
1976 - Present
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 1,510
1889 - 1945
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 1,511
450 - 473
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 1,512
1465 - 1524
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 1,513
1881 - 1944
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 1,514
1903 - 1989
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 1,515
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 1,516
1845 - 1923
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 1,517
1920 - 2014
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 1,518
1604 - 1639
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 1,519
1578 - 1653
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 1,520
1808 - 1871
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 1,521
Among politicians born in Germany, Werner Best ranks 453. Before him are Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1783), Conrad, Margrave of Meissen (1097), Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1723), Richard Glücks (1889), Gondioc (450), and Ulrich von Hassell (1881). After him are Bernard of Saxe-Weimar (1604), Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1578), Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650), Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1803), Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1934), and Princess Charlotte of Württemberg (1807).
1783 - 1853
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 447
1097 - 1157
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 448
1723 - 1787
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 449
1889 - 1945
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 450
450 - 473
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 451
1881 - 1944
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 452
1903 - 1989
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 453
1604 - 1639
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 454
1578 - 1653
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 455
1650 - 1714
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 456
1803 - 1892
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 457
1934 - 2017
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 458
1807 - 1873
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 459