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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 106,921 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Friedrich Christiansen is the 1,372nd most popular military personnel (down from 1,198th in 2019), the 3,325th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,063rd in 2019) and the 252nd most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Friedrich Christiansen ranks 1,372 out of 2,058. Before him are David Stirling, Euphemius, Saitō Yoshitatsu, Stefan Rowecki, Aviv Kochavi, and Publius Canidius Crassus. After him are Constantin von Alvensleben, Sayf al-Din Khushqadam, Al-Ashraf Kujuk, Avraham Adan, Valentin Varennikov, and Gennady Zhidko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Friedrich Christiansen ranks 114. Before him are Frank Bridge, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Gorazd, Vittorio Ambrosio, Shinobu Ishihara, and Alan Gardiner. After him are Ion G. Duca, Clemente Micara, Wallace Stevens, Joseph Canteloube, Benedetto Aloisi Masella, and Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 1972, Friedrich Christiansen ranks 112. Before him are Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Ralph Craig, Oleksandr Korniychuk, Leo G. Carroll, August Zaleski, and Roberto Clemente. After him are Raúl Leoni, Bruce Cabot, Maximus V of Constantinople, Ennio Flaiano, Robert Casadesus, and Solomon Lefschetz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Christiansen ranks 3,325 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (1785), Georg Pencz (1500), Abraham Geiger (1810), Heinz Flohe (1948), Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528), and Annalena Baerbock (1980). After him are Fritz von Uhde (1848), Constantin von Alvensleben (1809), Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach (1694), Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt (1601), Heinrich Schrader (1767), and Johann Benedict Listing (1808).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Friedrich Christiansen ranks 252. Before him are Paul Bader (1883), Gustav Fehn (1892), Joachim Lemelsen (1888), Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen (1815), Maximilian Fretter-Pico (1892), and Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt (1669). After him are Constantin von Alvensleben (1809), Erich Bey (1898), Hans Jordan (1892), Erwin Rösener (1902), Helmut Kunz (1910), and Prince Frederick of Württemberg (1808).

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