Richard Glücks

Richard Glücks was a high-ranking German SS functionary during the Nazi era. From November 1939 until the end of World War II, he commanded the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, later integrated into the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office as "Amt D". As a direct subordinate of Heinrich Himmler, he was responsible for the forced labour of the camp inmates and was the supervisor for the medical practices in the camps, ranging from Nazi human experimentation to the implementation of the "Final Solution", in particular the mass murder of inmates with Zyklon B gas. After Germany capitulated, Glücks committed suicide by swallowing a potassium cyanide capsule.

22 April 1889

Born on the same birth day (22 April): Aivars Kalējs • David J. C. MacKay • Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk • Germaine de Staël • Giuseppe Torelli • Glen Campbell • Isabella I of Castile • Jack Nitzsche • John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville • John Pritchard (bishop) • Keith Crisco • Mart Laar • Nellie Beer • Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford • Paul Malakwen Kosgei • Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten • Princess Margaret of Prussia • Ray Guy (humorist) • Ryan Stiles • Sidney Nolan • Spyros Markezinis

Born in the same month (April 1889): A. Philip Randolph • Adolf Hitler • Albert Jean Amateau • Anita Loos • Arnold J. Toynbee • Charlie Chaplin • Efrem Zimbalist • Gabriela Mistral • Grigoraș Dinicu • Jessie Street • K. B. Hedgewar • Karel Doorman • Louis Rougier • Ludwig Wittgenstein • Lyubov Popova • Marie-Antoinette de Geuser • Otto Georg Thierack • Paul Karrer • Stafford Cripps • Thomas Hart Benton (painter) • Vicente Ferreira Pastinha