MILITARY PERSONNEL

Günther Blumentritt

1892 - 1967

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Günther Blumentritt (10 February 1892 – 12 October 1967) was an officer in World War I, who became a Staff Officer under the Weimar Republic and went on to serve as a general for Nazi Germany during World War II. He served throughout the war, mostly on the Western Front, and mostly as a Staff Officer, though he was eventually given his own Corps and made a General der Infanterie. Blumentritt was instrumental in planning the 1939 German invasion of Poland and the 1940 invasion of France, he participated in Operation Barbarossa, and afterward bore a large part of the responsibility for planning the defense of the Atlantic Wall and Normandy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Günther Blumentritt has received more than 276,036 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Günther Blumentritt is the 590th most popular military personnel (up from 604th in 2019), the 1,461st most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,469th in 2019) and the 113th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Günther Blumentritt ranks 590 out of 2,058. Before him are Gusztáv Jány, Milunka Savić, Anton Dostler, Joseph Gallieni, Taira no Masakado, and Henri Gatien Bertrand. After him are Johan Banér, Walter Krüger, Husband E. Kimmel, Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours, Süleyman Pasha, and Yue Jin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Günther Blumentritt ranks 73. Before him are Marcel Dassault, Edith Södergran, Mikhail Gurevich, Germaine Tailleferre, S. R. Ranganathan, and César Vallejo. After him are Andrés Nin Pérez, Basil Rathbone, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Kang Pan-sok, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Walther Nehring. Among people deceased in 1967, Günther Blumentritt ranks 63. Before him are Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Roger B. Chaffee, Léon M'ba, Primo Carnera, G. W. Pabst, and Julien Duvivier. After him are Basil Rathbone, Paul Muni, Marcel Aymé, Julius Schaub, Géza Lakatos, and Carson McCullers.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Günther Blumentritt ranks 1,461 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Scharoun (1893), Prince Charles of Prussia (1801), Arnold Gehlen (1904), Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1676), Princess Feodora of Leiningen (1807), and Aenne Burda (1909). After him are Siegfried Lenz (1926), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden (1857), Samuel Scheidt (1587), Matilda of Frisia (1024), and Werner Best (1903).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Günther Blumentritt ranks 113. Before him are Hans Baur (1897), Kurt Franz (1914), Adolf Heusinger (1897), Otto Kumm (1909), Georg Stumme (1886), and Anton Dostler (1891). After him are Nicolaus von Below (1907), Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1888), Hans Hermann von Katte (1704), Franz Hössler (1906), Hans Speidel (1897), and Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (1893).

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