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Werner von Haeften

1908 - 1944

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Werner Karl Otto Theodor von Haeften (9 October 1908 – 21 July 1944) was an Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler known as the 20 July plot. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Werner von Haeften has received more than 512,712 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Werner von Haeften is the 2,490th most popular politician (down from 2,301st in 2019), the 665th most popular biography from Germany (down from 633rd in 2019) and the 180th most popular German Politician.

Werner von Haeften was a German officer who was executed for his involvement in the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Werner von Haeften ranks 2,490 out of 19,576Before him are Shalmaneser I, Mohammed Badie, Alfonso VII of León and Castile, Mary of Guise, Françoise Marie de Bourbon, and Emperor Kōshō. After him are B. J. Habibie, Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Otto Grotewohl, Porus, Antonín Novotný, and Serzh Sargsyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Werner von Haeften ranks 32Before him are Joseph McCarthy, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Franz Stangl, Amon Göth, Joseph Rotblat, and Ilya Frank. After him are Manoel de Oliveira, David Lean, William Saroyan, Arthur Adamov, Dmitry Ustinov, and Carole Lombard. Among people deceased in 1944, Werner von Haeften ranks 41Before him are Nikolai Vatutin, Erwin von Witzleben, Gustav Bauer, Erich Hoepner, Antanas Smetona, and Giovanni Gentile. After him are Max Jacob, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Emilio De Bono, Kasturba Gandhi, Eduard Dietl, and Hans-Valentin Hube.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Werner von Haeften ranks 665 out of 7,253Before him are Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797), Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595), Werner Sombart (1863), Maurice de Saxe (1696), and Karl Carstens (1914). After him are Otto Grotewohl (1894), Manfred Eigen (1927), Berti Vogts (1946), Georg Wittig (1897), August Macke (1887), and Pavlo Skoropadskyi (1873).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Werner von Haeften ranks 180Before him are Manfred Gerlach (1928), Ludwig Stumpfegger (1910), John of Saxony (1801), Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797), George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595), and Karl Carstens (1914). After him are Otto Grotewohl (1894), Pavlo Skoropadskyi (1873), Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (1636), Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1673), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876), and Jürgen Stroop (1895).