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Eberhard von Mackensen

1889 - 1969

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Friedrich August Eberhard von Mackensen (24 September 1889 – 19 May 1969) was a German general and war criminal during World War II who served as commander of the 1st Panzer Army and the 14th Army. Following the war, Mackensen stood trial for war crimes before a British military tribunal in Italy where he was convicted and sentenced to death for his involvement in the Ardeatine massacre, in which hundreds of Italian civilians and political prisoners were shot. The sentence was later commuted and Mackensen was released in 1952. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eberhard von Mackensen has received more than 427,451 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Eberhard von Mackensen is the 644th most popular military personnel (down from 476th in 2019), the 332nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 234th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Eberhard von Mackensen was a German field marshal during World War II. He is most famous for his role in the invasion of Yugoslavia and the Battle of Greece.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Eberhard von Mackensen ranks 644 out of 2,058. Before him are Hans Speidel, Demosthenes, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, Sergey Biryuzov, Werner Ostendorff, and Max Immelmann. After him are Herta Bothe, Lothar von Trotha, Hisaichi Terauchi, Sadao Araki, Markian Popov, and Jarosław Dąbrowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Eberhard von Mackensen ranks 58. Before him are Vera Mukhina, Stanislav Kosior, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Beno Gutenberg, Thomas Midgley Jr., and Richard Glücks. After him are Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland, Zoltán Tildy, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Pierre Reverdy, Takeo Kurita, and Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma. Among people deceased in 1969, Eberhard von Mackensen ranks 53. Before him are Vito Genovese, René Barrientos, Raymond A. Spruance, Korney Chukovsky, Grażyna Bacewicz, and Dragiša Cvetković. After him are Markian Popov, Radivoj Korać, Artur da Costa e Silva, Ernest Ansermet, Jiří Trnka, and Joseph Kosma.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Eberhard von Mackensen ranks 332 out of 1,694. Before him are Ernst Wilimowski (1916), Walther Nehring (1892), Kurt Tank (1898), Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700), Kurt Schumacher (1895), and Mieczysław Weinberg (1919). After him are Tommy Wiseau (1955), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Barbara Brylska (1941), Casimir Pulaski (1745), Hans Karl von Diebitsch (1785), and Leopold Infeld (1898).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Eberhard von Mackensen ranks 30. Before him are Erich Fellgiebel (1886), Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878), Heinz Reinefarth (1903), and Walther Nehring (1892). After him are Casimir Pulaski (1745), Hans Karl von Diebitsch (1785), Maximilian von Prittwitz (1848), Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886), Hermann von Eichhorn (1848), and Max von Gallwitz (1852).

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