Who was alive at the same time as Hermann Göring?

German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal

Hermann Göring lived 1893–1946. Here are the famous people whose lives overlapped with theirs.

Lived: 1893–1946
Lifespan: about 53 years
Born in, as it was then: Rosenheim
On today’s map: Germany

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Did you know?

When Hermann Göring was born, Albert Einstein was already about 14 years old.
Hermann Göring was about 35 when Che Guevara was born.
Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler (Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945) shared about 52 years on Earth, one born in Germany and the other in Austria.
Pablo Picasso outlived Hermann Göring by about 27 years.

Famous contemporaries of Hermann Göring

Rulers and commanders

Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 · 52 yrs shared
Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 · 53 yrs shared
Vladimir Lenin 1870–1924 · 31 yrs shared
Benito Mussolini 1883–1945 · 52 yrs shared
Mao Zedong 1893–1976 · 53 yrs shared
Otto von Bismarck 1815–1898 · 5 yrs shared

Philosophers and scientists

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · 53 yrs shared
Sigmund Freud 1856–1939 · 46 yrs shared
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900 · 7 yrs shared
Louis Pasteur 1822–1895 · 2 yrs shared
Max Weber 1864–1920 · 27 yrs shared
Thomas Edison 1847–1931 · 38 yrs shared

Writers and artists

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 · 53 yrs shared
Elvis Presley 1935–1977 · 11 yrs shared
Salvador Dalí 1904–1989 · 42 yrs shared
Oscar Wilde 1854–1900 · 7 yrs shared
Claude Monet 1840–1926 · 33 yrs shared
Giuseppe Verdi 1813–1901 · 8 yrs shared

Explorers and others

Che Guevara 1928–1967 · 18 yrs shared
Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · 53 yrs shared
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968 · 17 yrs shared
Walt Disney 1901–1966 · 45 yrs shared
Mother Teresa 1910–1997 · 36 yrs shared

Born within five years of Hermann Göring

Adolf Hitler (1889) · Mao Zedong (1893) · Charles de Gaulle (1890) · Francisco Franco (1892) · Charlie Chaplin (1889) · Joseph Goebbels (1897) · Bertolt Brecht (1898) · Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889)

About Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German politician, aviator, military commander, and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945. He also served as Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe, a position he held until the final days of the regime.

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