Artur Phleps

Artur Phleps

Artur Gustav Martin Phleps (29 November 1881 – 21 September 1944) was an Austro-Hungarian, Romanian and German army officer who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS (lieutenant general) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. At the post-war Nuremberg trials, the Waffen-SS – of which Phleps was a senior officer – was declared to be a criminal organisation due to its major involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity. An Austro-Hungarian Army officer before and during World War I, Phleps specialised in mountain warfare and logistics, and had been promoted to Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel) by the end of the war. During the interwar period he joined the Romanian Army, reaching the rank of General-locotenent (major general), and also became an adviser to King Carol. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Artur Phleps has received more than 276,494 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Artur Phleps is the 627th most popular military personnel (down from 567th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Romania (down from 84th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Romanian Military Personnel.