1886 - 1944
Erich Kurt Richard Hoepner (14 September 1886 – 8 August 1944) was a German general during World War II. An early proponent of mechanisation and armoured warfare, he was a Wehrmacht army corps commander at the beginning of the war, leading his troops during the invasion of Poland and the Battle of France. Hoepner commanded the 4th Panzer Group on the Eastern Front during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. During the invasion of Poland, he resisted mistreatment and murder of prisoners of war, but in Russia, Hoepner called for a war of extermination. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich Hoepner has received more than 489,944 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Erich Hoepner is the 242nd most popular military personnel (up from 264th in 2019), the 556th most popular biography from Germany (up from 609th in 2019) and the 58th most popular German Military Personnel.
Erich Hoepner was a German general who was responsible for the death of thousands of Polish civilians in 1939.
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Among military personnels, Erich Hoepner ranks 242 out of 1,468. Before him are Vasily Stalin, Sejanus, John Demjanjuk, Tōgō Heihachirō, Kurt Meyer, and Jean-Baptiste Kléber. After him are Hans von Seeckt, Muhammad bin Qasim, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Maurice Gamelin, Werner Mölders, and Pedro de Alvarado.
1921 - 1962
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 236
20 BC - 31
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 237
1920 - 2012
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 238
1848 - 1934
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 239
1910 - 1961
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 240
1753 - 1800
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 241
1886 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 242
1866 - 1936
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 243
695 - 715
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 244
1837 - 1913
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 245
1872 - 1958
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 246
1913 - 1941
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 247
1485 - 1541
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 248
Among people born in 1886, Erich Hoepner ranks 23. Before him are Wilhelm Furtwängler, Karl von Frisch, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Gotthard Heinrici, George Mallory, and Theodor Morell. After him are Zhu De, Hermann Broch, Athenagoras I of Constantinople, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, and Jan Masaryk. Among people deceased in 1944, Erich Hoepner ranks 32. Before him are Charles Glover Barkla, Nikolai Vatutin, Henning von Tresckow, Erwin von Witzleben, Glenn Miller, and Louis Renault. After him are Kasturba Gandhi, Aristide Maillol, Wang Jingwei, Arthur Eddington, Antanas Smetona, and Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.
1886 - 1954
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 17
1886 - 1982
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 18
1886 - 1921
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 19
1886 - 1971
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 20
1886 - 1924
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 21
1886 - 1948
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 22
1886 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 23
1886 - 1976
HPI: 64.99
Rank: 24
1886 - 1951
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 25
1886 - 1972
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 26
1886 - 1937
HPI: 64.44
Rank: 27
1886 - 1941
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 28
1886 - 1948
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 29
1877 - 1944
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 26
1901 - 1944
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 27
1901 - 1944
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 28
1881 - 1944
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 29
1904 - 1944
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 30
1877 - 1944
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 31
1886 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 32
1869 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 33
1861 - 1944
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 34
1883 - 1944
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 35
1882 - 1944
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 36
1874 - 1944
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 37
1863 - 1944
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 38
Among people born in Germany, Erich Hoepner ranks 556 out of 6,142. Before him are Hermann Staudinger (1881), Ernst Bloch (1885), Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847), Karl Ziegler (1898), Kurt Meyer (1910), and Heinrich Brüning (1885). After him are Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Wolfgang Petersen (1941), Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750), Hans von Seeckt (1866), Elisabeth of Wied (1843), and Karl Gebhardt (1897).
1881 - 1965
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 550
1885 - 1977
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 551
1847 - 1897
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 552
1898 - 1973
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 553
1910 - 1961
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 554
1885 - 1970
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 555
1886 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 556
1604 - 1670
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 557
1941 - 2022
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 558
1750 - 1806
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 559
1866 - 1936
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 560
1843 - 1916
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 561
1897 - 1948
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 562
Among military personnels born in Germany, Erich Hoepner ranks 58. Before him are Otto Carius (1922), Karl-Otto Koch (1897), Otto Günsche (1917), Henning von Tresckow (1901), Hasso von Manteuffel (1897), and Kurt Meyer (1910). After him are Hans von Seeckt (1866), Werner Mölders (1913), Maurice de Saxe (1696), Erich Priebke (1913), Reinhard Gehlen (1902), and Karl Wolff (1900).
1922 - 2015
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 52
1897 - 1945
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 53
1917 - 2003
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 54
1901 - 1944
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 55
1897 - 1978
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 56
1910 - 1961
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 57
1886 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 58
1866 - 1936
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 59
1913 - 1941
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 60
1696 - 1750
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 61
1913 - 2013
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 62
1902 - 1979
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 63
1900 - 1984
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 64