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Oswald Pohl

1892 - 1951

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Oswald Ludwig Pohl (German: [ˈɔsvalt ˈpoːl] ; 30 June 1892 – 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. As the head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office and the head administrator of the Nazi concentration camps, he was a key figure in the Final Solution, the genocide of the European Jews. After the war, Pohl went into hiding; he was apprehended in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oswald Pohl has received more than 544,665 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Oswald Pohl is the 3,972nd most popular politician (down from 3,063rd in 2019), the 1,068th most popular biography from Germany (down from 843rd in 2019) and the 310th most popular German Politician.

Oswald Pohl was the head of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office, which managed the concentration camps. Pohl was convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials.

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Over the past year Oswald Pohl has had the most page views in the with 118,857 views, followed by German (64,510), and French (13,192). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are English (72.76%), Catalan (42.24%), and Portuguese (33.14%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Oswald Pohl ranks 3,972 out of 19,576. Before him are Kim Il, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, David Cameron, Anita Garibaldi, William Lai, and Fan Li. After him are Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Tecumseh, Xi Zhongxun, Matthew Kantakouzenos, Alys of France, Countess of Vexin, and Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Oswald Pohl ranks 57. Before him are E. H. Carr, Margaret Rutherford, Hjalmar Siilasvuo, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Mikhail Kirponos, and Juan Negrín. After him are Erich Auerbach, Johannes Frießner, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, Tamon Yamaguchi, Eiji Yoshikawa, and Tazio Nuvolari. Among people deceased in 1951, Oswald Pohl ranks 25. Before him are Amélie of Orléans, Harald Bohr, Zaifeng, Prince Chun, Paul Blobel, Ivanoe Bonomi, and Óscar Carmona. After him are William Randolph Hearst, Princess Milica of Montenegro, Charles G. Dawes, Andrei Platonov, Empress Teimei, and Sadegh Hedayat.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oswald Pohl ranks 1,068 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1757), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830), Engelbert Humperdinck (1854), Julius Wellhausen (1844), Georg Kaiser (1878), and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1876). After him are William Stern (1871), Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752), Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1845), Wolfgang Overath (1943), Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1887), and Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Oswald Pohl ranks 310. Before him are Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (1658), Manfred Rommel (1928), Anthony of Saxony (1755), Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1757), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830), and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1876). After him are Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823), Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut (1311), Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823), Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden (1755), William V, Duke of Bavaria (1548), and Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698).

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