MILITARY PERSONNEL

Felix Steiner

1896 - 1966

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Felix Martin Julius Steiner (23 May 1896 – 12 May 1966) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. During World War II, he served in the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the SS, and commanded several SS divisions and corps. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Felix Steiner has received more than 1,628,441 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Felix Steiner is the 183rd most popular military personnel (up from 185th in 2019), the 161st most popular biography from Russia (up from 166th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Felix steiner is most famous for the invention of the steiner tree, which is a binary tree data structure that is used to find the shortest path between two nodes in a graph.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Felix Steiners by language

Over the past year Felix Steiner has had the most page views in the with 231,148 views, followed by German (92,912), and Japanese (32,780). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Azerbaijani (268.94%), Egyptian Arabic (87.56%), and Esperanto (51.18%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Felix Steiner ranks 183 out of 2,058. Before him are Michiel de Ruyter, Hans Krebs, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Khalifa Haftar, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and Parmenion. After him are Mardonius, Josip Jelačić, Mikhail Frunze, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Maxime Weygand, and Ernst Busch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Felix Steiner ranks 19. Before him are Trygve Lie, Klement Gottwald, Gerty Cori, Andrei Zhdanov, Leslie Groves, and Milena Jesenská. After him are Dziga Vertov, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Eugenio Montale, Oswald Mosley, Donald Winnicott, and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Among people deceased in 1966, Felix Steiner ranks 17. Before him are Chester W. Nimitz, Jean Arp, Peter Debye, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Giuseppe Farina, and Frits Zernike. After him are Cemal Gürsel, George de Hevesy, Dietrich von Choltitz, Vincent Auriol, Guillermo Stábile, and Montgomery Clift.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Felix Steiner ranks 161 out of 3,761. Before him are Käthe Kollwitz (1867), Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), Feodor II of Russia (1589), Boris Berezovsky (1946), Mikhail Glinka (1804), and Alexander Friedmann (1888). After him are Alla Pugacheva (1949), Stenka Razin (1630), Ivan Shishkin (1832), Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (1779), El Lissitzky (1890), and Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (1708).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Felix Steiner ranks 12. Before him are Ivan Konev (1897), Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), Vasily Chuikov (1900), Pyotr Bagration (1765), Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895), and Semyon Budyonny (1883). After him are Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), Andrey Vlasov (1901), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Valery Gerasimov (1955), Vasily Stalin (1921), and Nikolai Vatutin (1901).

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