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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Franz Halder

1884 - 1972

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Franz Halder (30 June 1884 – 2 April 1972) was a German general and the chief of staff of the Army High Command (OKH) in Nazi Germany from 1938 until September 1942. During World War II, he directed the planning and implementation of Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. Halder became instrumental in the radicalisation of warfare on the Eastern Front. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Halder has received more than 1,317,977 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Halder is the 148th most popular military personnel (up from 151st in 2019), the 355th most popular biography from Germany (up from 362nd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Military Personnel.

Franz Halder is most famous for being the chief of the German General Staff during World War II.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Franz Halder ranks 148 out of 1,468. Before him are Louis, Grand Condé, Dong Zhuo, Miloš Obilić, Chester W. Nimitz, Jean Lannes, and Saigō Takamori. After him are Friedrich Olbricht, Dragut, Paul Hausser, Ferdinand Schörner, Yūsuf Balasaguni, and Georg von Küchler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Franz Halder ranks 13. Before him are Edvard Beneš, Anton Drexler, İsmet İnönü, Édouard Daladier, Peter Debye, and Max Brod. After him are Theodor Heuss, Theodor Svedberg, Gaston Bachelard, Auguste Piccard, Walther von Reichenau, and Hermann Rorschach. Among people deceased in 1972, Franz Halder ranks 12. Before him are Frederick IX of Denmark, J. Edgar Hoover, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Ezra Pound, Igor Sikorsky, and Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi. After him are Paul Hausser, Kwame Nkrumah, Erhard Milch, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Dino Buzzati.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Halder ranks 355 out of 6,142. Before him are Ludwig III of Bavaria (1845), Robert Bosch (1861), Sepp Maier (1944), Henry the Lion (1129), Georgy Lvov (1861), and Martin Waldseemüller (1470). After him are Friedrich Olbricht (1888), Walther Bothe (1891), Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737), Werner Herzog (1942), Gregor Strasser (1892), and Rudolf Carnap (1891).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Franz Halder ranks 32. Before him are Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742), Ludwig Beck (1880), Michael Wittmann (1914), Walther von Brauchitsch (1881), Hermann Fegelein (1906), and August von Mackensen (1849). After him are Friedrich Olbricht (1888), Paul Hausser (1880), Ferdinand Schörner (1892), Georg von Küchler (1881), Helmuth Weidling (1891), and Alfred von Schlieffen (1833).

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