Key Central European Figures

List of People: Central Europe

Central Europe during World War II was dominated by totalitarian regimes and resistance. Adolf Hitler initiated Nazi expansion and aggression, Heinrich Himmler orchestrated systemized genocide, and figures like Claus von Stauffenberg mounted internal opposition, shaping the region’s wartime tragedy.

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Year	Central Europe
1847	Birth of Paul von Hindenburg (Location: Poznań (present-day Poznań, Poland; Posen, Kingdom of Prussia at the time of his birth))
1860	Birth of Friedrich Naumann (Location: Großpösna (Störmthal district, Germany))
1863	Birth of Wilhelm Marx (Location: Cologne, Germany)
1866	Birth of Wassily Kandinsky (Location: Moscow (currently Moscow, Russian Federation))
1867	Birth of Käthe Schmidt (Location: Kaliningrad (Russia; known as Königsberg in the Kingdom of Prussia at the time of her birth)) Birth of Walther Rathenau (Location: Berlin, Germany (then North German Confederation))
1871	Birth of Friedrich Ebert (Location: Heidelberg (Germany))
1874	Birth of Arnold Schoenberg (Location: Vienna (currently the Republic of Austria, City of Vienna))
1875	Birth of Matthias Erzberger (Location: Münsingen (Germany, Baden-Württemberg))
1876	Birth of Hermann Müller (Location: Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire (present-day Mannheim, Germany))
1878	Birth of Gustav Stresemann (Location: Berlin (Germany))
1879	Birth of Henryk Goldszmit (Location: Warsaw, Poland) Birth of Paul Klee (Location: Münchenbuchsee (currently a municipality in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland))
1880	Birth of Ludwig Beck (Location: Wiesbaden (formerly Biebrich, now Germany))
1881	Birth of Pablo Picasso (Location: Malaga (Spain)) Birth of Erwin von Witzleben (Location: Wrocław (now Poland))
1883	Birth of Anton Webern (Location: Vienna (Vienna))
1884	Birth of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (Location: Piła (now Poland))
1885	Birth of Alban Berg (Location: Vienna (Austria)) Birth of Heinrich Brüning (Location: Münster (Germany))
1886	Birth of Oskar Kokoschka (Location: Pöchlarn (currently the Republic of Austria, Lower Austria))
1887	Birth of Hans Oster (Location: Dresden (now Germany))
1889	Birth of Adolf Hitler (Location: Braunau am Inn (present-day Republic of Austria))
1890	Birth of Egon Schiele (Location: Tulln an der Donau (Austria))
1893	Birth of Hermann Göring (Location: Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany) Birth of Hermann Wilhelm Göring (Location: Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany) Birth of Joachim von Ribbentrop (Location: Wesel, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire)
1894	Birth of Rudolf Hess (Location: El-Ibrahimiyya district, Alexandria, Egypt (Khedivate of Egypt under British influence at the time))
1897	Birth of Joseph Goebbels (Location: Mönchengladbach, Germany) Birth of Paul Joseph Goebbels (Location: Mönchengladbach, Germany)
1900	Birth of Martin Ludwig Bormann (Location: Wegeleben, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire) Birth of Heinrich Himmler (Location: Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (present-day Munich, Federal Republic of Germany)) Birth of Emanuel Ringelblum (Location: Buchach (present-day Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine))
1905	Birth of Albert Speer (Location: Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire (present-day Mannheim, Germany))
1906	Birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Location: Wrocław (now Poland)) Birth of Tuvia Bielski (Location: Stankiewicze near Navahrudak (Stankiewicze is now a defunct settlement located near Navahrudak in western Belarus))
1907	Birth of Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (Location: Jettingen-Scheppach (now Bavaria, Germany))
1917	Birth of Alexander Schmorell (Location: Orenburg (Russia))
1918	Birth of Abba Kovner (Location: Ašmiany (present-day Hrodna Region, Republic of Belarus)) Birth of Hans Scholl (Location: Crailsheim (Germany)) Death of Egon Schiele
1919	Birth of Mordechai Anielewicz (Location: Wyszków, Poland) Death of Friedrich Naumann Birth of Christoph Probst (Location: Murnau am Staffelsee (Germany))
1921	Birth of Sophie Scholl (Location: Forchtenberg (Germany)) Death of Matthias Erzberger
1922	Birth of Marek Edelman (Location: Gomel/Homel, present-day Republic of Belarus) Death of Walther Rathenau
1925	Death of Friedrich Ebert
1929	Death of Gustav Stresemann
1931	Death of Hermann Müller
1934	Death of Paul von Hindenburg
1935	Death of Alban Berg
1940	Death of Paul Klee
1942	Death of Henryk Goldszmit
1943	Death of Hans Scholl Death of Sophie Scholl Death of Christoph Probst Death of Mordechai Anielewicz Death of Alexander Schmorell
1944	Death of Emanuel Ringelblum Death of Ludwig Beck Death of Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg Death of Erwin von Witzleben Death of Wassily Kandinsky
1945	Death of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Death of Hans Oster Death of Käthe Schmidt Death of Adolf Hitler Death of Joseph Goebbels Death of Paul Joseph Goebbels Death of Martin Ludwig Bormann Death of Heinrich Himmler Death of Anton Webern
1946	Death of Wilhelm Marx Death of Hermann Göring Death of Hermann Wilhelm Göring Death of Joachim von Ribbentrop
1951	Death of Arnold Schoenberg
1970	Death of Heinrich Brüning
1973	Death of Pablo Picasso
1980	Death of Oskar Kokoschka
1981	Death of Albert Speer
1987	Death of Tuvia Bielski Death of Rudolf Hess Death of Abba Kovner
2009	Death of Marek Edelman

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