MILITARY PERSONNEL

Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim

1905 - 1944

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Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (25 March 1905 – 21 July 1944) was a German Army colonel and a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany involved in the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim has received more than 333,632 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim is the 416th most popular military personnel (down from 368th in 2019), the 990th most popular biography from Germany (down from 846th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular German Military Personnel.

Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim is most famous for being the first German to be awarded the Order of the Black Eagle.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim ranks 416 out of 2,058. Before him are Reinhard Scheer, Henri Guisan, Mitsuru Ushijima, Israel Tal, Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, and Nogi Maresuke. After him are John of Austria the Younger, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Richard Winters, Erasmo of Narni, Shoichi Yokoi, and Gaius Claudius Glaber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim ranks 40. Before him are Otto Preminger, Dhyan Chand, Nikolai Tikhonov, Enrique Ballestrero, Franz Ziereis, and George H. Hitchings. After him are Pierre Gemayel, Fred Trump, Severo Ochoa, Takashi Shimura, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, and Jean Vigo. Among people deceased in 1944, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim ranks 56. Before him are Bertha Benz, Otto von Below, Bronislav Kaminski, Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, and Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel. After him are Jean Giraudoux, Walter Nowotny, Mohammed Alim Khan, George Stinney, Christian Wirth, and Jean Tatlock.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim ranks 990 out of 7,253. Before him are Reinhard Scheer (1863), Wied, Prince of Albania (1876), Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria (1660), Anna Leopoldovna (1718), Maria of Yugoslavia (1900), and Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (1886). After him are Sebastian Münster (1488), Gunter Sachs (1932), Rodolphe Seeldrayers (1876), August Kundt (1839), Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700), and Stefan Lochner (1410).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim ranks 82. Before him are Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755), Götz von Berlichingen (1480), Günther Rall (1918), Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887), Reinhard Scheer (1863), and Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (1886). After him are Herbert Gille (1897), Christian Wirth (1885), Günther Lütjens (1889), August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), Erich Kempka (1910), and Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752).

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