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Wilhelm Frick

1877 - 1946

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Wilhelm Frick (12 March 1877 – 16 October 1946) was a convicted war criminal and prominent German politician of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) who served as Minister of the Interior in Adolf Hitler's cabinet from 1933 to 1943 and as the last governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. As the head of the Kriminalpolizei (criminal police) in Munich, Frick took part in Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, for which he was convicted of high treason. He managed to avoid imprisonment and soon afterwards became a leading figure of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in the Reichstag. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Frick has received more than 1,267,569 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Frick is the 805th most popular politician (up from 811th in 2019), the 223rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 224th in 2019) and the 65th most popular German Politician.

Wilhelm Frick was a German politician who served as Minister of the Interior in the Nazi government. He is most famous for his role in the Night of the Long Knives.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wilhelm Frick ranks 805 out of 15,577. Before him are Valentinian I, Christian X of Denmark, Ecgberht, King of Wessex, Arthur Henderson, Eduard Bernstein, and Ferdinand VII of Spain. After him are Pedro I of Brazil, Justin Trudeau, Robert F. Kennedy, Édouard Daladier, Dilma Rousseff, and Carol II of Romania.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Wilhelm Frick ranks 5. Before him are Hermann Hesse, Isadora Duncan, Hjalmar Schacht, and Felix Dzerzhinsky. After him are Frederick Soddy, Francis William Aston, Joan Gamper, Charles Glover Barkla, Muhammad Iqbal, Louis Renault, and Edgar Cayce. Among people deceased in 1946, Wilhelm Frick ranks 14. Before him are John Logie Baird, Hans Frank, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Ion Antonescu, and Mikhail Kalinin. After him are Julius Streicher, Alexander Alekhine, Gerhart Hauptmann, Werner von Blomberg, Paul Langevin, and Karl Haushofer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Frick ranks 223 out of 6,142. Before him are Hans Zimmer (1957), Hans Memling (1435), Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Walter Ulbricht (1893), and Eduard Bernstein (1850). After him are Nico (1938), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Albert Kesselring (1885), and John of Austria (1547).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Wilhelm Frick ranks 65. Before him are Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (990), Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (980), Anton Drexler (1884), Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361), Walter Ulbricht (1893), and Eduard Bernstein (1850). After him are Wilhelm Pieck (1876), Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1016), Wilm Hosenfeld (1895), Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1086), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (1956), and Kurt von Schleicher (1882).

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