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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Friedrich Christiansen

1879 - 1972

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Friedrich Christiansen (12 December 1879 – 3 December 1972) was a German general who served as commander of the German Wehrmacht in the occupied Netherlands during World War II. Christiansen was a World War I flying ace and the only seaplane pilot to receive the Pour le Mérite. He joined the Nazi Party in the interwar period, eventually rising to the rank of Korpsführer of the National Socialist Flyers Corps. After the German invasion of the Netherlands, Christiansen was appointed as the Wehrmachtbefehlshaber (Chief Military Commander) in the Netherlands. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Christiansen has received more than 97,227 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Christiansen is the 1,198th most popular military personnel (down from 1,030th in 2019), the 3,066th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,668th in 2019) and the 224th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Friedrich Christiansen ranks 1,198 out of 1,468. Before him are Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Walter Short, Ivan Tyulenev, Hubert Lanz, Erich Marcks, and August Karl von Goeben. After him are Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Tomás de Zumalacárregui, Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, Jacob Heinrich von Flemming, Hugh Thompson Jr., and Erik Heinrichs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Friedrich Christiansen ranks 109. Before him are Alfred Abel, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, José Giral, Frank Bridge, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, and Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg. After him are Vittorio Ambrosio, Yevgenia Bosch, Bernhard Kellermann, Kafū Nagai, Petar Živković, and Wallace Stevens. Among people deceased in 1972, Friedrich Christiansen ranks 109. Before him are Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Roberto Clemente, Bruce Cabot, Miriam Hopkins, Prince William of Gloucester, and Mahendra of Nepal. After him are Alfons Gorbach, Maximus V of Constantinople, Ennio Flaiano, Cecil Day-Lewis, Max Aub, and Vladimir Durković.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Christiansen ranks 3,066 out of 6,142. Before him are Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599), August Karl von Goeben (1816), Benjamin List (1968), Dorothea Maria of Anhalt (1574), Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg (1879), and Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1761). After him are Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine (1539), Heinrich von Brentano (1904), Konrad Duden (1829), Robert Kovač (1974), Arno Schmidt (1914), and Manfred Winkelhock (1951).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Friedrich Christiansen ranks 224. Before him are Reinhard Hardegen (1913), Fritz Darges (1913), Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg (1615), Josias von Heeringen (1850), Erich Marcks (1891), and August Karl von Goeben (1816). After him are Karl Koller (1898), Rolf Carls (1885), Eduard Wagner (1894), Maurice d'Elbée (1752), Pavle Jurišić Šturm (1848), and Paul Bader (1883).

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