1884 - 1972
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 1,303,786 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, 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.
1621 - 1686
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 142
139 - 192
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 143
1350 - 1389
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 144
1885 - 1966
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 145
1769 - 1809
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 146
1828 - 1877
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 147
1884 - 1972
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 148
1888 - 1944
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 149
1485 - 1565
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 150
1880 - 1972
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 151
1892 - 1973
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 152
1020 - 1075
HPI: 67.82
Rank: 153
1881 - 1968
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 154
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.
1884 - 1948
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 7
1884 - 1942
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 8
1884 - 1973
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 9
1884 - 1970
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 10
1884 - 1966
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 11
1884 - 1968
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 12
1884 - 1972
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 13
1884 - 1963
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 14
1884 - 1971
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 15
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 16
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 17
1884 - 1942
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 18
1884 - 1922
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 19
1899 - 1972
HPI: 72.23
Rank: 6
1895 - 1972
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 7
1906 - 1972
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 8
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 9
1889 - 1972
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 10
1894 - 1972
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 11
1884 - 1972
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 12
1880 - 1972
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 13
1909 - 1972
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 14
1892 - 1972
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 15
1899 - 1972
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 16
1908 - 1972
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 17
1906 - 1972
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 18
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).
1845 - 1921
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 349
1861 - 1942
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 350
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 351
1129 - 1195
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 352
1861 - 1925
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 353
1470 - 1520
HPI: 68.01
Rank: 354
1884 - 1972
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 355
1888 - 1944
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 356
1891 - 1957
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 357
1737 - 1772
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 358
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 359
1892 - 1934
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 360
1891 - 1970
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 361
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).
1742 - 1819
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 26
1880 - 1944
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 27
1914 - 1944
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 28
1881 - 1948
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 29
1906 - 1945
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 30
1849 - 1945
HPI: 68.55
Rank: 31
1884 - 1972
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 32
1888 - 1944
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 33
1880 - 1972
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 34
1892 - 1973
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 35
1881 - 1968
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 36
1891 - 1955
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 37
1833 - 1913
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 38