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Otto Georg Thierack

German politician (1889-1946)

• Born: 1889-04-19 (Wurzen)
• Died: 1946-10-26 1946-11-22 (Sennelager Civilian Internment Camp No. 7, Eselheide Paderborn)
• Country of citizenship: Germany
• Occupation: judge; politician
• Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
• Member of: Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg
• Participant in: Aryanization; The Holocaust (role: criminal)
• Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Judge of the People's Court; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Franz Schlegelberger)

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Wilhelm Stuckart

German judge and politician (1902-1953)

• Born: 1902-11-16 (Wiesbaden)
• Died: 1953-11-15 (Hanover)
• Country of citizenship: Germany
• Occupation: judge; jurist; lawyer; politician
• Member of political party: All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights; Nazi Party (since: 1922-12-01); Socialist Reich Party
• Member of: Schutzstaffel; Sturmabteilung
• Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (date: 1947-05-19; role: affiant); Wannsee Conference
• Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: acquaintance; since: 1943-08-01)

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Herbert Backe

German general (1896-1947)

• Born: 1896-05-01 (Batumi)
• Died: 1947-04-07 1947-04-06 (Nuremberg)
• Country of citizenship: Germany
• Occupation: politician
• Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1925-01-01)
• Member of: Schutzstaffel; Sturmabteilung
• Position held: Member of Landtag of Prussia
• Employer: Leibniz University Hannover

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Julius Dorpmueller

German politician and railway manager (1869-1945)

• Born: 1869-07-24 (Elberfeld)
• Died: 1945-07-05 (Malente)
• Country of citizenship: Germany
• Occupation: business executive (of: railway); engineer (of: railway); politician; railway engineer
• Member of political party: Nazi Party (series ordinal: 7.883.826; since: 1941-02-01)
• Employer: Prussian state railways (since: 1893-01-01); Q62090888
• Educated at: Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium, Aachen; RWTH Aachen University (academic major: rail construction)
• VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/27878462

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Wilhelm Keitel

German field marshal

• Born: 1882-09-22 (Helmscherode) (country: German Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Duchy of Brunswick)
• Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg) (country: Allied-occupied Germany)
• Country of citizenship: Germany
• Occupation: military officer; military personnel; politician
• Member of political party: Nazi Party
• Military rank: general field marshal
• Military branch: artillery
• VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/74027425

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Adolf Hitler

Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)

• Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus)
• Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler)
• Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01)
• Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier
• Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556)
• Member of: Nazi Party
• Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
• Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin

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Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)

• Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
• Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
• Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
• Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
• Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
• Member of: Sturmabteilung
• Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
• Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)

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Heinrich Himmler

German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)

• Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
• Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
• Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
• Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
• Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
• Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge
• Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
• Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)

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Hans H. Lammers

German jurist, Nazi politician, and Head of the Reich Chancellery (1879-1962)

• Born: 1879-05-27 (Lubliniec)
• Died: 1962-01-04 (Düsseldorf)
• Country of citizenship: Germany
• Occupation: judge; jurist; lawyer; politician
• Member of political party: German National People's Party (until: 1932-01-01); Nazi Party
• Member of: Schutzstaffel
• Participant in: Ministries Trial (role: defendant); Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant, witness)
• Significant person: Adolf Hitler (role: superior); Karl Brandt (role: colleague)

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Hans Fischböck

Austrian banker and Nazi Minister of Finance in Austria following the Anschluss (1895-1967)

• Born: 1895-01-24 (Geras)
• Died: 1967-07-03 (Wehrda)
• Country of citizenship: Austria
• Occupation: banker; politician
• Member of political party: Fatherland Front; Nazi Party
• Member of: Schutzstaffel
• Participant in: Nazi plunder
• Position held: finance minister; member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany

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Alfred Wuennenberg

SS General (1891-1963)

• Born: 1891-07-20 (Sarrebourg)
• Died: 1963-12-30 (Krefeld)
• Country of citizenship: Germany
• Occupation: military officer; politician
• Member of political party: Nazi Party
• Member of: Schutzstaffel
• Military rank: Obergruppenführer
• Military branch: Waffen-SS

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Rudolf Schmeer

German politician

• Born: 1905-03-16 (Saarbrücken)
• Died: 1966-09-11 (Erlangen)
• Country of citizenship: Germany
• Occupation: politician
• Member of political party: Nazi Party
• Member of: Sturmabteilung
• Position held: member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
• VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/7768054

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Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Austrian SS official, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal (1903-1946)

• Born: 1903-10-04 (Ried im Innkreis) (country: Austria-Hungary)
• Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg Court Prison)
• Country of citizenship: Austria; German Reich
• Occupation: lawyer; military officer; politician
• Member of political party: Nazi Party
• Military rank: Obergruppenführer
• Military branch: Schutzstaffel (period: 1940-01-01 through 1945-01-01)
• Position held: Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (period: 1943-01-30 through 1945-05-08); President of Interpol (period: 1943-01-30 through 1945-05-12; replaces: Arthur Nebe); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany