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Erwin von Witzleben

1881 - 1944

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Job Wilhelm Georg Erwin Erdmann von Witzleben (4 December 1881 – 8 August 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) in the Wehrmacht and Oberbefehlshaber West (Commander in Chief in the West), during the Second World War. A leading conspirator in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was designated to become Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht in a post-Nazi regime, had the plot succeeded. After being dishonourably discharged by the Ehrenhof (Court of Honor), he was murdered, after a show trial from the Volksgerichtshof (People's Court). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erwin von Witzleben is the 265th most popular military personnel, the 140th most popular biography from Poland and the 15th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Erwin von Witzleben ranks 265 out of 2,058. Before him are Craterus, Hasdrubal Barca, Omar Bradley, Baiju, Zhang Liao, and Nikolai Vatutin. After him are Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Pedro de Alvarado, Erich Hoepner, Orda Khan, Robert Nivelle, and Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Erwin von Witzleben ranks 36. Before him are Hermann Staudinger, Maximilian von Weichs, George Enescu, Władysław Sikorski, François Darlan, and Walter Rudolf Hess. After him are Ivan Ribar, Natalia Goncharova, Theodore von Kármán, Carlo Carrà, Otto Wille Kuusinen, and Otto Bauer. Among people deceased in 1944, Erwin von Witzleben ranks 36. Before him are Friedrich Olbricht, Arthur Eddington, Aristide Maillol, Glenn Miller, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, and Nikolai Vatutin. After him are Gustav Bauer, Erich Hoepner, Antanas Smetona, Giovanni Gentile, Werner von Haeften, and Max Jacob.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Erwin von Witzleben ranks 140 out of 1,694. Before him are Adolf Anderssen (1818), Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), Géza I of Hungary (1040), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), and Władysław Gomułka (1905). After him are Anna Anderson (1896), Zvi Zamir (1925), Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), Albrecht von Roon (1803), Edward Sapir (1884), and Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Erwin von Witzleben ranks 15. Before him are Anton Denikin (1872), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), Władysław Sikorski (1881), Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), and Otto Liman von Sanders (1855). After him are Rochus Misch (1917), Hermann Balck (1893), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Otto Kretschmer (1912), Otto von Below (1857), and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885).

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