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Baldur von Schirach
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Baldur von Schirach

1907 – 1974 · aged 67

German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1907–1974)

Born
9 May 1907 · Berlin
Died
8 Aug 1974 · Kröv

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 77 years
  1. 9 May 1907BornBorn in Berlin
  2. 1932 – 1940RoleReichsjugendführer
  3. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  4. 1939AwardGrand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania
  5. 1942AwardGolden Hitler Youth Badge with Diamonds and Rubies
  6. 8 Aug 1974DiedDied in Kröv

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1907 – 1974).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  17. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  18. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  19. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  20. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  21. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  22. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  23. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  25. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  26. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  28. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  29. 1956Suez Crisis
  30. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  32. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  34. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  36. 1968Prague Spring
  37. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  38. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  39. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (German pronunciation: [ˈbaldʊʁ ˈbeːnedɪkt fɔn ˈʃiːʁax]; 9 May 1907 – 8 August 1974) was a German politician who was the leader (Reichsjugendführer) of the Hitler Youth from 1931 to 1940. From 1940 to 1945, he was the Gauleiter (district leader) and Reichsstatthalter (Reich governor) of Vienna.

A member of the Nazi Party from the age of 18, Schirach was named national youth leader of the party in 1931. In 1932, he was elected as a deputy to the Reichstag. After Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he was appointed Jugendführer (Youth Leader) of the German Reich, responsible for all youth organizations in the nation. In 1940, Schirach saw action as an infantryman in the French Campaign, for which he was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd Class. In 1940, Schirach was appointed Gauleiter of the Reichsgau Vienna; Artur Axmann succeeded him as leader of the Hitler Youth. A virulent antisemite, he was responsible for deporting 65,000 Viennese Jews to various Nazi concentration camps in German-occupied Poland.

In April 1945, facing Red Army advance, Schirach fled from Vienna to Tyrol, where he later surrendered to American forces. At the Nuremberg trials, he was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to 20 years in prison. After completing his sentence at Spandau in 1966, Schirach retired to southern Germany. He died in 1974 at the age of 67.

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