Heinrich Himmler
1900 – 1945
German

Nazi leader. He was chief of the Gestapo or secret police, and was especially involved in the mass murder of Jews and others.

Contemporaries
1857–1933Clara Zetkin
1832–1920Wilhelm Wundt
1864–1920Max Weber
1891–1942Edith Stein
1880–1936Oswald Spengler
1858–1918Georg Simmel
1917–2006Heinz Sielmann
1882–1936Moritz Schlick
1874–1928Max Scheler
1886–1929Franz Rosenzweig
1902–2003Leni Riefenstahl
1882–1918Manfred Richthofen
1863–1936Heinrich Rickert
1904–1984Karl Rahner
1888–1938Carl von Ossietzky
1844–1900Friedrich Nietzsche
1823–1900Max Muller
1934–1976Ulrike Meinhof
1871–1919Rosa Luxemburg
1904–1988Frederick Loewe
1871–1919Karl Liebknecht
1906–1967Alfried Krupp
1886–1941Kurt Koffka
1856–1926Emil Kraepelin
1840–1902Richard Krafft-Ebing
1903–1946Ernst Kaltenbrunner
1859–1938Edmund Husserl
Born 1931Rolf Hochhuth
1904–1942Reinhard Heydrich
1851–1930Adolf von Harnack
1834–1919Ernst Haeckel
Born 1929Jürgen Habermas
1897–1945Joseph Goebbels
1900–2002Hans-Georg Gadamer
1848–1925Gottlob Frege
1846–1926Rudolf Eucken
1844–1930Adolf Engler
1833–1911Wilhelm Dilthey
1904–1992Marlene Dietrich
1842–1912Hermann Cohen
1874–1945Ernst Cassirer
1838–1917Franz Brentano
1844–1931Lujo Brentano
1910–1945Eva Braun
1862–1915Theodor Boveri
1900–c. 1945Martin Bormann
1906–1945Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1850–1932Eduard Bernstein
1844–1929Karl Benz
1943–1977Andreas Baader
1906–1975Hannah Arendt
1903–1969Theodor Adorno