MILITARY PERSONNEL

Ernst Barkmann

1919 - 2009

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Ernst Barkmann (25 August 1919 – 27 June 2009) was a German tank commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. He is known for the actions undertaken at “Barkmann’s Corner", in which his unit halted a U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Barkmann has received more than 185,670 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Barkmann is the 820th most popular military personnel (down from 585th in 2019), the 2,038th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,436th in 2019) and the 148th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Ernst Barkmann ranks 820 out of 2,058. Before him are Hans Hartwig von Beseler, Marco Antonio Bragadin, Julius Jacob von Haynau, Karl Frenzel, Henri Winkelman, and Osman Batur. After him are Mario Terán, Alexander Haig, Ludwig Crüwell, Artabazos I of Phrygia, David Farragut, and Walter Weiß.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Ernst Barkmann ranks 84. Before him are Glafcos Clerides, Uta Hagen, Peter Abrahams, Frederik Pohl, Mario Bunge, and Janko Bobetko. After him are Marina Ginestà, Hermann Gmeiner, Margaret Burbidge, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Ginette Neveu, and Amir-Abbas Hoveyda. Among people deceased in 2009, Ernst Barkmann ranks 87. Before him are Tomohiko Ikoma, Augusto Boal, Lino Lacedelli, Pat Hingle, Irving Penn, and Claude Berri. After him are James Whitmore, Willy DeVille, Manea Mănescu, Edward Schillebeeckx, Hélio Gracie, and Vasily Aksyonov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Barkmann ranks 2,038 out of 7,253. Before him are Rudolph Goclenius (1547), Anna of Brandenburg (1487), Kai Hansen (1963), Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (1244), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), and Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1855). After him are George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1547), Princess Helena of Nassau (1831), Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1857), Philip, Elector Palatine (1448), Ludwig Crüwell (1892), and Siegfried Marcus (1831).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Ernst Barkmann ranks 148. Before him are Georg Lindemann (1884), Kurt von Tippelskirch (1891), Erich Rudorffer (1917), Hans Hartwig von Beseler (1850), Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786), and Karl Frenzel (1911). After him are Ludwig Crüwell (1892), Walter Heitz (1878), Wilhelm Adam (1877), Bruno Loerzer (1891), Erich Brandenberger (1892), and Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894).

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