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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 175,600 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Barkmann is the 585th most popular military personnel (up from 606th in 2019), the 1,436th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,522nd in 2019) and the 114th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Ernst Barkmann ranks 585 out of 1,468Before him are Valery Gerasimov, Creighton Abrams, Huang Gai, Kirill Moskalenko, Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, and Woodes Rogers. After him are Nobutake Kondō, Fritz Bayerlein, Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, and Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Ernst Barkmann ranks 62Before him are Mohamed Boudiaf, Glafcos Clerides, Gillo Pontecorvo, Mieczysław Weinberg, Ashraf Pahlavi, and René Barrientos. After him are Bob Paisley, Valentino Mazzola, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Kiichi Miyazawa, Peter Abrahams, and Wolfgang Wagner. Among people deceased in 2009, Ernst Barkmann ranks 49Before him are Pavel Popovich, Patrick McGoohan, Mario Benedetti, Albert Barillé, Amin al-Hafiz, and Velupillai Prabhakaran. After him are Edward T. Hall, Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Kim Peek, Clive Granger, Sverre Fehn, and Marek Edelman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Barkmann ranks 1,436 out of 6,142Before him are Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern (1890), Frederick II, Elector Palatine (1482), Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602), Johann Schein (1586), and Thomas Abbt (1738). After him are Hartmann Schedel (1440), Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1797), Prince Henry of Prussia (1726), Karl August Wittfogel (1896), Ernest Mandel (1923), and Prince Oskar of Prussia (1888).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Ernst Barkmann ranks 114Before him are Walter Rauff (1906), Otto Kumm (1909), August Hirt (1898), Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1888), Nicolaus von Below (1907), and Kurt Franz (1914). After him are Fritz Bayerlein (1899), Hans Speidel (1897), Günther Blumentritt (1892), Adolf Strauss (1879), Wilhelm Rediess (1900), and Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld (1651).