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Albrecht von Roon

1803 - 1879

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Albrecht Theodor Emil Graf von Roon (German pronunciation: [ˈalbʁɛçt fɔn ˈʁoːn]; 30 April 1803 – 23 February 1879) was a Prussian soldier and statesman. As Minister of War from 1859 to 1873, Roon, along with Otto von Bismarck and Helmuth von Moltke, was a dominating figure in Prussia's government during the key decade of the 1860s, when a series of successful wars against Denmark, Austria, and France led to German unification under Prussia's leadership. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albrecht von Roon has received more than 301,888 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Albrecht von Roon is the 2,373rd most popular politician (up from 3,118th in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from Poland (up from 176th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Polish Politician.

Albrecht von Roons is most famous for being the German general who commanded the German forces during the Battle of France.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Albrecht von Roon ranks 2,373 out of 19,576. Before him are Erich Koch, Donald Rumsfeld, Antanas Smetona, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Berengar II of Italy, and Sviatopolk I of Kiev. After him are Inessa Armand, Kiya, Berenice IV of Egypt, Necho I, Manfred Gerlach, and Michael IX Palaiologos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Albrecht von Roon ranks 8. Before him are Christian Doppler, Prosper Mérimée, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Justus von Liebig, Adolphe Adam, and Maria Anna of Savoy. After him are Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Gottfried Semper, Flora Tristan, Fyodor Tyutchev, Friedrich von Amerling, and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald. Among people deceased in 1879, Albrecht von Roon ranks 7. Before him are James Clerk Maxwell, Bernadette Soubirous, Honoré Daumier, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, and Adolf Anderssen. After him are Gottfried Semper, Thomas Couture, Julia Margaret Cameron, August Grisebach, Charles De Coster, and Jón Sigurðsson.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Albrecht von Roon ranks 144 out of 1,694. Before him are Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Władysław Gomułka (1905), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Anna Anderson (1896), Zvi Zamir (1925), and Johann Gustav Droysen (1808). After him are Edward Sapir (1884), Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860), Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Bronisław Komorowski (1952), Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086), and Jerzy Grotowski (1933).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Albrecht von Roon ranks 36. Before him are Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767), Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810), Władysław I the Elbow-high (1260), Géza I of Hungary (1040), Władysław Gomułka (1905), and Zvi Zamir (1925). After him are Bronisław Komorowski (1952), Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Maxim Litvinov (1876), William I of Württemberg (1781), and Georg Michaelis (1857).

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