MILITARY PERSONNEL

August Karl von Goeben

1816 - 1880

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August Karl Friedrich Christian von Goeben (10 December 1816 – 13 November 1880), was a Prussian infantry general, who won the Iron Cross for his service in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Karl von Goeben has received more than 51,865 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). August Karl von Goeben is the 1,317th most popular military personnel (down from 1,197th in 2019), the 3,209th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,058th in 2019) and the 245th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, August Karl von Goeben ranks 1,317 out of 2,058. Before him are Aliagha Shikhlinski, Kiyonao Ichiki, Maksim Purkayev, János Pálffy, Hubert Lanz, and Serhiy Tkach. After him are Gilad Shalit, Günther Pancke, Maximilian Njegovan, Mikhail Kovalyov, Sultan Agung of Mataram, and Baba Nobuharu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, August Karl von Goeben ranks 27. Before him are Antoine François Marmontel, Malwida von Meysenbug, Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, Jean Cabanis, Charles-Denis Bourbaki, and Catherine Wolfe Bruce. After him are Ion Ghica, Jean Frédéric Frenet, William Gull, Emanuel Leutze, Jan Arnošt Smoler, and Moritz Steinschneider. Among people deceased in 1880, August Karl von Goeben ranks 34. Before him are Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Robert Fortune, Constantin Hansen, Edwin Drake, Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, and Karl Friedrich Lessing. After him are Alphonse Pénaud, Arthur Morin, Lucretia Mott, Napoléon Henri Reber, Peter Wilhelm Lund, and Nikolay Zinin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Karl von Goeben ranks 3,209 out of 7,253. Before him are Boris Pistorius (1960), Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792), Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1699), Eugen Langen (1833), Walter Heitler (1904), and John George II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1665). After him are Adolf Lüderitz (1834), Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1536), Gerardus Vossius (1577), Dieter Hoeneß (1953), Rosemarie Ackermann (1952), and Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1658).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, August Karl von Goeben ranks 245. Before him are Felix von Luckner (1881), Hans Graf von Sponeck (1888), Ludwig von Reuter (1869), Rolf Carls (1885), Friedrich Kirchner (1885), and Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt (1887). After him are Paul Bader (1883), Gustav Fehn (1892), Joachim Lemelsen (1888), Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen (1815), Maximilian Fretter-Pico (1892), and Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt (1669).

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