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. He was removed on 29 August 1916 after the failure at the Battle of Verdun, the opening of the Battle of the Somme, the Brusilov Offensive and the entry of Romania into the war on the Allied side undid his strategy to end the war before 1917. He was later given important field commands in Romania and Syria. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich von Falkenhayn has received more than 547,501 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Erich von Falkenhayn is the 118th most popular military personnel (up from 132nd in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Poland (up from 74th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Erich von Falkenhayn ranks 118 out of 1,466. Before him are Nestor Makhno, Werner von Blomberg, Ludwig Beck, Michiel de Ruyter, Sun Ce, and Gertrude Bell. After him are Saigō Takamori, Heinrich Müller, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Eli Cohen, Dong Zhuo, and Perdiccas.
1888 - 1934
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 112
1878 - 1946
HPI: 76.30
Rank: 113
1880 - 1944
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 114
1607 - 1676
HPI: 76.26
Rank: 115
175 - 200
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 116
1868 - 1926
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 117
1861 - 1922
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 118
1828 - 1877
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 119
1900 - 1945
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 120
1770 - 1823
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 121
1924 - 1965
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 122
139 - 192
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 123
355 BC - 321 BC
HPI: 75.92
Rank: 124
Among people born in 1861, Erich von Falkenhayn ranks 11. Before him are Lou Andreas-Salomé, Georges Méliès, James Naismith, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Victor Horta, and Charles Édouard Guillaume. After him are Alfred North Whitehead, Robert Bosch, Halford Mackinder, Georgy Lvov, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, and Aristide Maillol. 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, Djemal Pasha, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Hermann Rorschach, Fredrik Bajer, and Walther Rathenau.
1861 - 1937
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 5
1861 - 1938
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 6
1861 - 1939
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 7
1861 - 1948
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 8
1861 - 1947
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 9
1861 - 1938
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 10
1861 - 1922
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 11
1861 - 1947
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 12
1861 - 1942
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 13
1861 - 1947
HPI: 74.66
Rank: 14
1861 - 1925
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 15
1861 - 1947
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 16
1861 - 1944
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 17
1847 - 1922
HPI: 86.44
Rank: 1
1871 - 1922
HPI: 85.90
Rank: 2
1887 - 1922
HPI: 82.58
Rank: 3
1854 - 1922
HPI: 82.56
Rank: 4
1881 - 1922
HPI: 77.42
Rank: 5
1861 - 1922
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 6
1845 - 1922
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 7
1872 - 1922
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 8
1858 - 1922
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 9
1884 - 1922
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 10
1837 - 1922
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 11
1867 - 1922
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 12
Among people born in Poland, Erich von Falkenhayn ranks 68 out of 1,231. Before him are Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Walther Nernst (1864), Paul Ehrlich (1854), Sigismund I the Old (1467), and Albert A. Michelson (1852). After him are Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Emanuel Lasker (1868), Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895), Bolesław I the Brave (967), Maria Feodorovna (1759), and Benoit Mandelbrot (1924).
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 62
1878 - 1946
HPI: 76.30
Rank: 63
1864 - 1941
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 64
1854 - 1915
HPI: 76.17
Rank: 65
1467 - 1548
HPI: 76.17
Rank: 66
1852 - 1931
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 67
1861 - 1922
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 68
1906 - 1945
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 69
1868 - 1941
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 70
1895 - 1945
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 71
967 - 1025
HPI: 75.44
Rank: 72
1759 - 1828
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 73
1924 - 2010
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 74
Among military personnels born in Poland, Erich von Falkenhayn ranks 9. Before him are Erich Ludendorff (1865), Fedor von Bock (1880), Günther von Kluge (1882), Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896), and Werner von Blomberg (1878). After him are Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Anton Denikin (1872), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Kurt Student (1890), Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), and Alfred von Tirpitz (1849).
1865 - 1937
HPI: 79.38
Rank: 3
1880 - 1945
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 4
1882 - 1944
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 5
1916 - 1982
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 6
1896 - 1968
HPI: 77.13
Rank: 7
1878 - 1946
HPI: 76.30
Rank: 8
1861 - 1922
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 9
1881 - 1944
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 10
1872 - 1947
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 11
1899 - 1972
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 12
1890 - 1978
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 13
1855 - 1929
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 14
1849 - 1930
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 15