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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background
Era(set)
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
People of the wider world
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Georges Clemenceau Georges Clemenceau
Radical French prime minister at the end of the First World War who pressed harsh terms on Hungary at the Paris Peace Conference
Political and party leadership · France state institutions
1841–1929
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Robert Emil Eichhorn Robert Emil Eichhorn
German Social Democratic and Independent Social Democratic politician who headed Berlin police in 1918
Security, intelligence and policing · Germany state institutions
1863–1925
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Jean Chiappe Jean Chiappe
The Paris prefect of police, hard on the left and indulgent to the leagues, whose dismissal lit the fuse of 6 February
Security, intelligence and policing · France state institutions
1878–1940
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Zigmas Angarietis Zigmas Angarietis
Interior commissar of Soviet Lithuania, a Lithuanian communist leader killed in the Great Terror
Security, intelligence and policing · Lithuania state institutions
1882–1940
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Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek Ostenburg-Moravek Gyula
Gendarmerie officer whose detachment murdered two Népszava journalists and who joined King Charles’s 1921 return attempt
Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary
1884–1944
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Karl Jäger Karl Jäger
Commander of Einsatzkommando 3 who directed the murder of Lithuania’s Jews and tallied it in the Jäger Report
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1888–1959
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Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch
Commander of the Waffen-SS IX Mountain Corps who led the German forces in the siege of Budapest and refused to surrender
Military command · Nazi party and regime
1888–1971
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Tibor Szamuely Szamuely Tibor
Communist deputy war commissar of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and a leading figure of its Red Terror
Military command · Hungary
1890–1919
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József Cserny Cserny József
Communist paramilitary commander who led the Lenin Boys and was a leading participant in the Red Terror of 1919
Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary
1892–1919
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Konstantinos Maniadakis Κωνσταντίνος Μανιαδάκης
Architect of the dictatorship's security apparatus
Security, intelligence and policing · Greece state institutions
1893–1972
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Ottó Korvin Korvin Ottó
Communist who ran the political police of the Hungarian Soviet Republic as head of its political investigation department
Security, intelligence and policing · Hungary
1894–1919
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Friedrich Jeckeln Friedrich Jeckeln
Higher SS and Police Leader who directed the mass shootings at Kamianets-Podilskyi, Babi Yar and Rumbula
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1895–1946
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Imre Sallai Sallai Imre
Hungarian Communist leader hanged in 1932 under the summary jurisdiction proclaimed after the Biatorbágy bombing
Social movements and organizing · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP)
1897–1932
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László Baky Baky László
Gendarmerie officer turned National Socialist who as state secretary for the interior in 1944 ran the deportation of Jews with László Endre
Government and administration · Hungary
1898–1946
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Walter Stahlecker Walter Stahlecker
SS officer who led Einsatzgruppe A in 1941, instigating the Kaunas pogrom and directing the murder of Baltic Jews
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1900–1942
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Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler
A principal architect of the Nazi racial state
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1900–1945
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Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff
A senior Nazi SS coordinator who became a late-war negotiating envoy
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1900–1984
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Hotsumi Ozaki 尾崎秀実
Konoe's confidant and the spy who helped save Moscow
Security, intelligence and policing
1901–1944
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Reinhard Heydrich Reinhard Heydrich
Nazi official who led SS intelligence and police agencies in implementing the Holocaust.
Security, intelligence and policing · Germany state institutions
1904–1942
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Adolf Eichmann Adolf Eichmann
SS officer who ran the deportation of Europe’s Jews to the death camps and in 1944 oversaw that of Hungary’s Jews to Auschwitz
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1906–1962
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René Bousquet René Bousquet
Vichy police chief who negotiated with the occupier
Security, intelligence and policing · France state institutions
1909–1993
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Viktors Arājs Viktors Arājs
Latvian former policeman whose Arajs Kommando, under the SS Security Service, murdered about half of Latvia’s Jews
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1910–1988
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Klaus Barbie Klaus Barbie
The Nazi Gestapo chief who made Lyon a center of terror
Security, intelligence and policing · Nazi party and regime
1913–1991
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Juan Pujol García Juan Pujol García
The double agent who made fiction a strategic weapon
Security, intelligence and policing · United Kingdom state institutions
1914–1988