MILITARY PERSONNEL

Alfons Rebane

1908 - 1976

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Alfons Vilhelm Robert Rebane (24 June 1908 – 8 March 1976) was an Estonian military commander. He was the most highly decorated Estonian military officer during World War II, serving in various Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS units of Nazi Germany. After World War II Rebane joined the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) where he played a key role in assisting the armed resistance to Soviet rule in Estonia and other Baltic countries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfons Rebane has received more than 111,590 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alfons Rebane is the 1,438th most popular military personnel (down from 1,280th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Estonia (down from 79th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Estonian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alfons Rebane ranks 1,438 out of 2,058. Before him are Sergei Shtemenko, Reinhard Hardegen, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, William Calley, Ecaterina Teodoroiu, and Alan Cunningham. After him are James Longstreet, Maurice d'Elbée, Leo Phokas the Elder, Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, Walter Short, and Kurt Feldt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Alfons Rebane ranks 180. Before him are Fred MacMurray, Karl Hohmann, Héctor Trujillo, Edward R. Murrow, Jorge Oteiza, and Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. After him are Štefan Čambal, Pedro Arico Suárez, Thurgood Marshall, Boris Polevoy, Ștefan Barbu, and Jean Effel. Among people deceased in 1976, Alfons Rebane ranks 126. Before him are Helmut Kunz, Floyd Council, Juan José Torres, Rudolph Minkowski, Sergei Shtemenko, and Sinn Sisamouth. After him are Imogen Cunningham, Traugott Herr, Armen Ohanian, Lotte Lehmann, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, and Conduelo Píriz.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Alfons Rebane ranks 81 out of 351. Before him are Heino Eller (1887), Käbi Laretei (1922), Kazimierz Świątek (1914), Jüri Järvet (1919), Jüri Tarmak (1946), and Kaarel Eenpalu (1888). After him are Eugen Dücker (1841), Jaan Anvelt (1884), Paavo Järvi (1962), Aleksander Klumberg (1899), Carl Robert Jakobson (1841), and August Sabbe (1909).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Estonia

Among military personnels born in Estonia, Alfons Rebane ranks 6. Before him are Paul von Rennenkampf (1854), Otto von Kotzebue (1787), Johan Laidoner (1884), Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven (1914), and August Kork (1887). After him are Arnold Meri (1919).

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