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Herbert Backe

1896 to 1947 4 documented presences 4 places

Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Herbert Backe across 4 places, from 1905 to 1946. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe (1 May 1896 – 6 April 1947) was a German politician and SS-Obergruppenführer (equivalent to the rank of lieutenant general in Nazi Germany) who served as State Secretary and Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Herbert Backe was documented, and when

1905year
Tbilisiattested “He studied at the Tbilisi gymnasium (grammar school) from 1905 and was interned on the outbreak of World War I as an enemy alien because he was a citizen of Prussia.” source: Wikipedia: Herbert Backe
1920year
University of Göttingenattested “In Germany, he initially worked as a laborer, and enrolled to study agronomy at the University of Göttingen in 1920.” source: Wikipedia: Herbert Backe
1920year
Germanyattested “In Germany, he initially worked as a laborer, and enrolled to study agronomy at the University of Göttingen in 1920.” source: Wikipedia: Herbert Backe
31 January 1946exact date
Nurembergattested “In his cell in the Nuremberg war criminals' prison, Backe wrote two treatises: a so-called "big report" about his life and his work on Nazism, and a testament outline for his wife Ursula and his four children, dated 31 January 1946.” source: Wikipedia: Herbert Backe

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Places Herbert Backe is documented in

Germany1 presence · 1920Nuremberg1 presence · 1946Tbilisi1 presence · 1905University of Göttingen1 presence · 1920

Other places tied to Herbert Backe in the record

In each of these, a source puts Herbert Backe and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Herbert Backe was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1922year
Hanovermentioned “Backe joined the SA in 1922, and in 1925 he joined the Nazi Party at Hanover.” source: Wikipedia: Herbert Backe
1926year
University of Göttingenmentioned “In 1926, he submitted his doctoral dissertation to the University of Göttingen, but it was rejected.” source: Wikipedia: Herbert Backe
1927year
Pomeraniamentioned “In 1927, Backe was inspector and administrator on a big farm in Pomerania.” source: Wikipedia: Herbert Backe
7 April 1947exact date
Soviet Unionmentioned “Due to his fear of being extradited to the Soviet Union, Backe committed suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell on 6 or 7 April 1947.” source: Wikipedia: Herbert Backe

Documented at the same place, the same year

Werner HeisenbergUniversity of Göttingen · 1920Joachim von RibbentropNuremberg · 1946Alfred RosenbergNuremberg · 1946Wilhelm FrickNuremberg · 1946Fritz SauckelNuremberg · 1946Evelyn WaughNuremberg · 1946Vladimir NabokovBerlin · 1920Max BruchBerlin · 1920László Moholy-NagyBerlin · 1920Wolfgang KöhlerBerlin · 1920Walter HallsteinBerlin · 1920Leopold InfeldBerlin · 1920

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