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Erich Fellgiebel

1886 - 1944

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Fritz Erich Fellgiebel (4 October 1886 – 4 September 1944) was a German Army general of signals and a resistance fighter, as part of the 20 July plot to assassinate Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. In 1929, Fellgiebel became head of the cipher bureau (German: Chiffrierstelle) of the Ministry of the Reichswehr, which would later become the OKW/Chi. He was a signals specialist and was instrumental in introducing a common enciphering machine, the Enigma machine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich Fellgiebel has received more than 324,048 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Erich Fellgiebel is the 480th most popular military personnel (up from 548th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 269th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Over the past year Erich Fellgiebel has had the most page views in the with 40,393 views, followed by German (30,250), and Russian (8,407). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (60.97%), Slovenian (46.83%), and Japanese (45.31%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Erich Fellgiebel ranks 480 out of 2,058. Before him are Honda Tadakatsu, Karl von Bülow, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Tamon Yamaguchi, Peter Townsend, and Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba. After him are Alfred von Waldersee, Yu Jin, Adolf Strauss, Aegidius, Jean-Charles Pichegru, and Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Erich Fellgiebel ranks 49. Before him are Franz Rosenzweig, Dong Biwu, Edward C. Tolman, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Alain-Fournier, and Gottfried Benn. After him are Willem Drees, Tsuguharu Foujita, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Jisaburō Ozawa, Raymond A. Spruance, and Georg Stumme. Among people deceased in 1944, Erich Fellgiebel ranks 66. Before him are George Stinney, Christian Wirth, Jean Tatlock, Asmahan, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, and August Landmesser. After him are Ida Tarbell, Leo Baekeland, Günther Korten, Cécile Chaminade, Yvette Guilbert, and Missak Manouchian.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Erich Fellgiebel ranks 252 out of 1,694. Before him are Udo Lattek (1935), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749), and Itzhak Stern (1901). After him are Otto Klemperer (1885), Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Albert Barillé (1920), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), and Jan Długosz (1415).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Erich Fellgiebel ranks 24. Before him are Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Otto Kretschmer (1912), Otto von Below (1857), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), and Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919). After him are Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878), Heinz Reinefarth (1903), Walther Nehring (1892), and Eberhard von Mackensen (1889).

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