Rudolph Hess
1894 – 1987
German

Nazi leader. He was deputy leader of the Nazi Part until, in 1941, he decided entirely on his own to say goodbye to his family, fly to, and parachute into, Scotland in order to try to negotiate a peace between Germany and Britain. He spent the rest of his life in prison.

Contemporaries
1864–1920Max Weber
1875–1965Albert Schweitzer
1874–1928Max Scheler
1902–2003Leni Riefenstahl
1898–1979Herbert Marcuse
1885–1952Karen Horney
1820–1895Friedrich Engels
1874–1945Ernst Cassirer
1884–1976Rudolf Bultmann
1898–1956Bertolt Brecht
1906–1945Dietrich Bonhoeffer