Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse

Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse

Philipp, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse (6 November 1896 – 25 October 1980) was head of the Electoral House of Hesse from 1940 to 1980. Philipp joined the Nazi Party in 1930, and, when they gained power with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, he became Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau. However, he later began to fall out of favour with Hitler in the spring of 1943 after delivering an honest assessment of the military situation in Italy. He was arrested in September 1943 on the day Italy surrendered to the western Allies, dismissed in the following year, and was sent to the Flossenbürg concentration camp, then Dachau, where he remained until being transported to Tyrol by the SS, where he was liberated by Wehrmacht forces on 30 April 1945 and then arrested by U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse has received more than 582,879 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse is the 4,596th most popular politician (down from 3,948th in 2019), the 1,265th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,091st in 2019) and the 382nd most popular German Politician.

Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse is most famous for being the father of the German philosopher and mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.