Who Was Alive

Were Sigmund Freud and Adolf Hitler alive at the same time?

Yes. Sigmund Freud and Adolf Hitler were alive at the same time for 50 years, from 1889 to 1939.

Sigmund Freud was 32 when Adolf Hitler was born.

Adolf Hitler was 50 when Sigmund Freud died, aged 83.

Sigmund Freud

Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis

Born 6 May 1856 · died 23 September 1939, aged 83

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945

Born 20 April 1889 · died 30 April 1945, aged 56

  1. Abraham Lincoln
  2. Karl Marx
  3. Sigmund Freud
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Albert Einstein
  7. Adolf Hitler
  8. Ronald Reagan
  9. Nelson Mandela
Sigmund Freud and Adolf Hitler in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.