Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Werner Best across 5 places, from 1903 to 1989.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Karl Rudolf Werner Best (10 July 1903 – 23 June 1989) was a German jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer, Nazi Party leader, and theoretician from Darmstadt.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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10 July 1903exact date
Darmstadtattested“Werner Best was born on 10 July 1903 in Darmstadt in Hesse where he attended Volksschule.”source: Wikipedia: Werner Best
10 July 1903exact date
Hesseattested“Werner Best was born on 10 July 1903 in Darmstadt in Hesse where he attended Volksschule.”source: Wikipedia: Werner Best
1919year
Mainzattested“In 1919, Best founded a local group of the German National Youth League in Mainz and joined the local branch of the conservative German National People's Party.”source: Wikipedia: Werner Best
1921year
Mainzattested“His mother then moved with her children to Mainz, where Best completed his secondary education and earned his Abitur in 1921.”source: Wikipedia: Werner Best
29 August 1943exact date
Denmarkattested“Best kept his position in Denmark until the end of the war in May 1945, even after the German military commander, Hermann von Hanneken—who had been encouraged by Hitler to rule Denmark with an iron hand—had assumed direct control over it…”source: Wikipedia: Werner Best
23 June 1989exact date
Mülheimattested“He died in Mülheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, on 23 June 1989.”source: Wikipedia: Werner Best
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1914year
Francementioned“His father was a postmaster who was killed in France at the outset of World War I in Autumn 1914.”source: Wikipedia: Werner Best
November 1928month
Heidelberg Universitymentioned“After earning his doctorate of law from the University of Heidelberg in 1927, he passed the second state law examination and qualified as an Assessor in November 1928.”source: Wikipedia: Werner Best
1931year
Hessementioned“Also in 1931, he was forced out of the judicial service in Hesse following the discovery of the Boxheim Documents, which were blueprints for a Nazi putsch he had written.”source: Wikipedia: Werner Best
April 1936month
Gestapomentioned“Over time, membership in the Gestapo included ideological indoctrination, particularly once Best assumed a leading role for training in April 1936.”source: Wikipedia: Werner Best
1940year
RSHAmentioned“Werner Best lost a power struggle within the RSHA, and had to leave Berlin in 1940.”source: Wikipedia: Werner Best
January 1944month
Denmarkmentioned“To avoid deportation of Danes to German concentration camps, the permanent secretary of the ministry of foreign affairs, Nils Svenningsen, in January 1944 proposed establishment of an internment camp within Denmark.”source: Wikipedia: Werner Best
19 September 1944exact date
Buchenwald concentration campmentioned“Then on 19 September 1944, the German army began arresting members of the Danish police forces; 1,984 policemen out of 10,000 were arrested and deported to German concentration and prisoner-of-war camps, most of them to Buchenwald.”source: Wikipedia: Werner Best
3 May 1945exact date
Denmarkmentioned“In deliberations on 3 May 1945 about preparation for the impending German defeat, Best fought to avoid implementation of a scorched earth policy in Denmark.”source: Wikipedia: Werner Best
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