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Adolf Heusinger

1897 - 1982

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Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst Heusinger (4 August 1897 – 30 November 1982) was a German military officer whose career spanned the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, West Germany and NATO. He joined the German Army as a volunteer in 1915 and later became a professional soldier. He served as the Operations Chief within the general staff of the High Command of the German Army in the Wehrmacht from 1938 to 1944. He was then appointed acting Chief of the General Staff for two weeks in 1944 following Kurt Zeitzler's resignation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Heusinger has received more than 1,002,178 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Adolf Heusinger is the 561st most popular military personnel (up from 688th in 2019), the 1,363rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,694th in 2019) and the 109th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Adolf Heusinger ranks 561 out of 2,058. Before him are Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Seishirō Itagaki, Bob Denard, Oenomaus, Hans Baur, and Kurt Franz. After him are Jisaburō Ozawa, Saburō Sakai, Kenji Doihara, Raymond A. Spruance, Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, and Carl Gustaf Wrangel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Adolf Heusinger ranks 69. Before him are Jiroemon Kimura, Vito Genovese, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Karl Löwith, Hans Baur, and Sidney Bechet. After him are Mukhtar Auezov, Thornton Wilder, Sepp Herberger, Philippe Soupault, Károly Kerényi, and Jean Epstein. Among people deceased in 1982, Adolf Heusinger ranks 64. Before him are Alma Reville, Marty Feldman, Giovanni Ferrari, Anna German, Otto Hofmann, and Colin Chapman. After him are Kristján Eldjárn, Leopold Trepper, Pierre Mendès France, Patrick Dewaere, Elis Regina, and Ville Ritola.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Heusinger ranks 1,363 out of 7,253. Before him are Kurt Franz (1914), Otto Rasch (1891), Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (1759), Bernhard Rust (1883), and Rudolf Arnheim (1904). After him are Feodor Lynen (1911), Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg (1708), Johann Schein (1586), Heidi Klum (1973), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), and Bernhardus Varenius (1622).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Adolf Heusinger ranks 109. Before him are Heinz Lammerding (1905), Alexander von Kluck (1846), Fritz Bayerlein (1899), Franz von Hipper (1863), Hans Baur (1897), and Kurt Franz (1914). After him are Otto Kumm (1909), Georg Stumme (1886), Anton Dostler (1891), Günther Blumentritt (1892), Nicolaus von Below (1907), and Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1888).

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