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Franz von Hipper

1863 - 1932

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Franz Ritter von Hipper (13 September 1863 – 25 May 1932) was an admiral in the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). Franz von Hipper joined the German Navy in 1881 as an officer cadet. He commanded several torpedo boat units and served as watch officer aboard several warships, as well as Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht SMY Hohenzollern. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz von Hipper has received more than 402,558 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Franz von Hipper is the 553rd most popular military personnel (down from 525th in 2019), the 1,345th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,263rd in 2019) and the 106th most popular German Military Personnel.

Franz von Hipper was a German naval officer. He is most famous for being the commander of the German battlecruiser squadron at the Battle of Jutland.

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  • 2.49

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Franz von Hipper ranks 553 out of 2,058. Before him are Alexander von Kluck, Vladimir Gelfand, Fritz Bayerlein, Peroz III, Karl Silberbauer, and Harpagus. After him are Kawakami Gensai, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Seishirō Itagaki, Bob Denard, Oenomaus, and Hans Baur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Franz von Hipper ranks 38. Before him are Annie Jump Cannon, Essad Pasha Toptani, Andrés Bonifacio, Paul Painlevé, Hugo Münsterberg, and Mary Jane Kelly. After him are Abdul Karim, Albert Calmette, Felix Weingartner, Archduke Eugen of Austria, Émile Friant, and Henry Royce. Among people deceased in 1932, Franz von Hipper ranks 27. Before him are Pavlik Morozov, Jules Chéret, Eugen d'Albert, Georg Kerschensteiner, Ferdinand Buisson, and Pierre De Geyter. After him are Inukai Tsuyoshi, Ottokar Czernin, Kang Pan-sok, Émile Friant, Tomáš Baťa, and John Charles Fields.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz von Hipper ranks 1,345 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Löwith (1897), Fritz Bayerlein (1899), Fancy (1946), Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1877), Otto II, Duke of Bavaria (1206), and Ludwig Prandtl (1875). After him are Hans Staden (1525), Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803), Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse (1753), Prince Joachim of Prussia (1890), Wilhelm Busch (1832), and Hugo Schmeisser (1884).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Franz von Hipper ranks 106. Before him are Ernst Lindemann (1894), Walter Rauff (1906), Friedrich Dollmann (1882), Heinz Lammerding (1905), Alexander von Kluck (1846), and Fritz Bayerlein (1899). After him are Hans Baur (1897), Kurt Franz (1914), Adolf Heusinger (1897), Otto Kumm (1909), Georg Stumme (1886), and Anton Dostler (1891).

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