1879 - 1972
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, 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.
1875 - 1951
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 1,192
1880 - 1949
HPI: 51.55
Rank: 1,193
1892 - 1978
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 1,194
1896 - 1982
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 1,195
1891 - 1944
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 1,196
1816 - 1880
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 1,197
1879 - 1972
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 1,198
1715 - 1789
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 1,199
1788 - 1835
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 1,200
1851 - 1919
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 1,201
1667 - 1728
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 1,202
1943 - 2006
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 1,203
1890 - 1965
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 1,204
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.
1879 - 1937
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 103
1879 - 1962
HPI: 51.91
Rank: 104
1879 - 1962
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 105
1879 - 1941
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 106
1879 - 1941
HPI: 51.55
Rank: 107
1879 - 1964
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 108
1879 - 1972
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 109
1879 - 1958
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 110
1879 - 1925
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 111
1879 - 1951
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 112
1879 - 1959
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 113
1879 - 1947
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 114
1879 - 1955
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 115
1926 - 1972
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 103
1934 - 1972
HPI: 51.91
Rank: 104
1904 - 1972
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 105
1902 - 1972
HPI: 51.85
Rank: 106
1941 - 1972
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 107
1920 - 1972
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 108
1879 - 1972
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 109
1898 - 1972
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 110
1897 - 1972
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 111
1910 - 1972
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 112
1904 - 1972
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 113
1909 - 1972
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 114
1939 - 1972
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 115
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).
1599 - 1656
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 3,060
1816 - 1880
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 3,061
1968 - Present
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 3,062
1574 - 1617
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 3,063
1879 - 1964
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 3,064
1761 - 1803
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 3,065
1879 - 1972
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 3,066
1539 - 1582
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 3,067
1904 - 1964
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 3,068
1829 - 1911
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 3,069
1974 - Present
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 3,070
1914 - 1979
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 3,071
1951 - 1985
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 3,072
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).
1913 - 2018
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 218
1913 - 2009
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 219
1615 - 1690
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 220
1850 - 1926
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 221
1891 - 1944
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 222
1816 - 1880
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 223
1879 - 1972
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 224
1898 - 1951
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 225
1885 - 1945
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 226
1894 - 1944
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 227
1752 - 1794
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 228
1848 - 1922
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 229
1883 - 1971
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 230