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Wilhelm Kube

1887 - 1943

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Wilhelm Kube (13 November 1887 – 22 September 1943) was a German Nazi politician and official who served as the Generalkommissar of Generalbezirk Weißruthenien in the Reichskommissariat Ostland from 1941 to 1943. Kube was involved in numerous far-right and antisemitic organisations before becoming a leader of the Nazi Party in the Free State of Prussia from 1928 to 1933. Kube was an important figure in the German Christian movement and the Gauleiter of Gau Kurmark during the early years of Nazi rule. Kube was removed from all of his offices and forced out of the SS in 1936 due to a scandal over his personal feud with Walter Buch. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Kube has received more than 255,275 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Wilhelm Kube is the 7,179th most popular politician (down from 6,323rd in 2019), the 411th most popular biography from Poland (down from 354th in 2019) and the 109th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wilhelm Kube ranks 7,179 out of 19,576Before him are Ashur-dan II, Theopompus of Sparta, Nepotianus, Tiberius Coruncanius, Kim Kyu-sik, and Valerian II. After him are Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Lin Xin, Raginpert, Yi Yin, Ewa Kopacz, and François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Wilhelm Kube ranks 84Before him are Hugo Steinhaus, Simko Shikak, Paul Wittgenstein, Korechika Anami, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay. After him are Mario Roatta, Octave Lapize, Louis Jouvet, Lil Dagover, Josef Lada, and Friedrich Zander. Among people deceased in 1943, Wilhelm Kube ranks 62Before him are R. G. Collingwood, Christoph Probst, Charlotte Salomon, John Harvey Kellogg, Czesława Kwoka, and Lin Sen. After him are Jovan Dučić, Fethi Okyar, Hans Woellke, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Ernst Linder, and Johann Trollmann.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wilhelm Kube ranks 411 out of 1,694Before him are Mieszko I Tanglefoot (1132), Krystian Zimerman (1956), Anny Ondra (1903), Włodzimierz Smolarek (1957), Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893), and Helmuth von Pannwitz (1898). After him are Ewa Kopacz (1956), Oskar R. Lange (1904), Bezprym (987), Theodor Leschetizky (1830), Teresa Orlowski (1953), and Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868).

Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Wilhelm Kube ranks 109Before him are Barbara Jagiellon (1478), Stanisław Koniecpolski (1591), Heinz Kessler (1920), Ivan Vyhovsky (1608), Gerhard Klopfer (1905), and Mieszko I Tanglefoot (1132). After him are Ewa Kopacz (1956), Bezprym (987), Jan Tarnowski (1488), Ernst Niekisch (1889), Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg (1513), and Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (1860).