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Gotthard Heinrici

1886 - 1971

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Gotthard Fedor August Heinrici (German: [ˈɡɔthaʁt haɪnˈʁiːtsi]; 25 December 1886 – 10 December 1971) was a German general during World War II. Heinrici is considered to have been the premier defensive expert of the Wehrmacht. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gotthard Heinrici has received more than 950,160 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Gotthard Heinrici is the 232nd most popular military personnel (down from 203rd in 2019), the 189th most popular biography from Russia (down from 172nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Gottard Heinrici was a German general who served in both World War I and World War II. He is most famous for his role in the Battle of Stalingrad.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gotthard Heinrici ranks 232 out of 2,058. Before him are Gertrude Bell, Walther von Reichenau, Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Sun Bin, Wilhelm Mohnke, and Hans von Seeckt. After him are Tōgō Heihachirō, Amr ibn al-As, Otto Carius, Lysander, Maurice Gamelin, and Władysław Sikorski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Gotthard Heinrici ranks 23. Before him are Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, George Mallory, Karl Polanyi, Jan Masaryk, Theodor Morell, and Hermann Broch. After him are Zhu De, Robert Robinson, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Erich Hoepner, and Hugo Ball. Among people deceased in 1971, Gotthard Heinrici ranks 22. Before him are Giorgos Seferis, Harold Lloyd, Arne Jacobsen, Donald Winnicott, Wilhelm List, and Franz Stangl. After him are François Duvalier, D. B. Cooper, Igor Tamm, Lothar Rendulic, Wendell Meredith Stanley, and Rudolf Abel.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gotthard Heinrici ranks 189 out of 3,761. Before him are Ivan Bunin (1870), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Seraphim of Sarov (1754), Igor Kurchatov (1903), and Ivan I of Moscow (1288). After him are Vladimir Propp (1895), Andrei Tupolev (1888), Grigori Perelman (1966), Alexander Herzen (1812), Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), and Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Gotthard Heinrici ranks 15. Before him are Pyotr Bagration (1765), Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895), Semyon Budyonny (1883), Felix Steiner (1896), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), and Andrey Vlasov (1901). After him are Valery Gerasimov (1955), Vasily Stalin (1921), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), Vasily Blyukher (1889), and Dmitry Yazov (1924).

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