1861 - 1922
General Erich Georg Sebastian Anton von Falkenhayn (11 September 1861 – 8 April 1922) was the second Chief of the German General Staff of the First World War from September 1914 until 29 August 1916. Falkenhayn was removed on 29 August 1916 after the failure of his offensive strategy in the west at the Battle of Verdun, the opening of the Battle of the Somme, the Brusilov Offensive and the Romanian entry into the war. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich von Falkenhayn has received more than 868,099 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Erich von Falkenhayn is the 111th most popular military personnel (up from 118th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Poland (up from 68th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Military Personnel.
Erich von Falkenhayn was a German General who was Chief of the General Staff of the German Army from 1914 to 1916. He is most famous for his plan to break the Allied line in the Battle of Verdun.
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Among military personnels, Erich von Falkenhayn ranks 111 out of 1,468. Before him are Zhang Fei, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Eli Cohen, Abu Muslim, Cimon, and Semyon Timoshenko. After him are Narses, Theodor Eicke, Yi Sun-sin, Stilicho, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, and Ludwig Beck.
167 - 221
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 105
1881 - 1954
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 106
1924 - 1965
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 107
718 - 755
HPI: 69.42
Rank: 108
510 BC - 450 BC
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 109
1895 - 1970
HPI: 69.31
Rank: 110
1861 - 1922
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 111
478 - 574
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 112
1892 - 1943
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 113
1545 - 1598
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 114
359 - 408
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 115
1742 - 1819
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 116
1880 - 1944
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 117
Among people born in 1861, Erich von Falkenhayn ranks 10. Before him are Fridtjof Nansen, Georges Méliès, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, James Naismith, and Victor Horta. After him are Charles Édouard Guillaume, Alfred North Whitehead, Robert Bosch, Halford Mackinder, Georgy Lvov, and Frederick Gowland Hopkins. Among people deceased in 1922, Erich von Falkenhayn ranks 6. Before him are Alexander Graham Bell, Marcel Proust, Charles I of Austria, Pope Benedict XV, and Enver Pasha. After him are Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Fredrik Bajer, Djemal Pasha, Ernest Shackleton, Hermann Rorschach, and Albert I, Prince of Monaco.
1861 - 1930
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 4
1861 - 1938
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 5
1861 - 1937
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 6
1861 - 1948
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 7
1861 - 1939
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 8
1861 - 1947
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 9
1861 - 1922
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 10
1861 - 1938
HPI: 68.46
Rank: 11
1861 - 1947
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 12
1861 - 1942
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 13
1861 - 1947
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 14
1861 - 1925
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 15
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 16
1847 - 1922
HPI: 82.97
Rank: 1
1871 - 1922
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 2
1887 - 1922
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 3
1854 - 1922
HPI: 77.30
Rank: 4
1881 - 1922
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 5
1861 - 1922
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 6
1845 - 1922
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 7
1837 - 1922
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 8
1872 - 1922
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 9
1874 - 1922
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 10
1884 - 1922
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 11
1848 - 1922
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 12
Among people born in Poland, Erich von Falkenhayn ranks 61 out of 1,454. Before him are Eric of Pomerania (1381), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Casimir III the Great (1310), Andrzej Wajda (1926), Bolesław I the Brave (967), and Emil von Behring (1854). After him are Jakob Böhme (1575), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Faustina Kowalska (1905), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Sigismund I the Old (1467), and Werner von Blomberg (1878).
1381 - 1459
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 55
1825 - 1864
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 56
1310 - 1370
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 57
1926 - 2016
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 58
967 - 1025
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 59
1854 - 1917
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 60
1861 - 1922
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 61
1575 - 1624
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 62
1852 - 1931
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 63
1905 - 1938
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 64
1862 - 1946
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 65
1467 - 1548
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 66
1878 - 1946
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 67
Among military personnels born in Poland, Erich von Falkenhayn ranks 6. Before him are Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Fedor von Bock (1880), Erich Ludendorff (1865), Günther von Kluge (1882), and Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916). After him are Werner von Blomberg (1878), Anton Denikin (1872), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), and Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755).
1892 - 1918
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 1
1880 - 1945
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 2
1865 - 1937
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 3
1882 - 1944
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 4
1916 - 1982
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 5
1861 - 1922
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 6
1878 - 1946
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 7
1872 - 1947
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 8
1899 - 1972
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 9
1849 - 1930
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 10
1881 - 1944
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 11
1755 - 1818
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 12