MILITARY PERSONNEL

Gustav Lombard

1895 - 1992

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Gustav Lombard (10 April 1895 – 18 September 1992) was a high-ranking member in the SS during World War II. During the war, Lombard commanded 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer and the 31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany for so-called "anti-partisan" operations around Kovel which involved killing of civilians and burning down villages. Lombard perpetrated mass murder in the Holocaust, serving as commanding officer of the 1st Regiment of the SS Cavalry Brigade during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustav Lombard has received more than 157,023 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gustav Lombard is the 1,229th most popular military personnel, the 2,980th most popular biography from Germany and the 231st most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gustav Lombard ranks 1,229 out of 2,058. Before him are Cornelius Fuscus, Tatikios, Victor Capesius, Rudolf Maister, Sō Yoshitoshi, and Michael von Melas. After him are Maciej Sulkiewicz, Taira no Munemori, Rash Behari Bose, Achillas, Hannibal Gisco, and Constantin Constantinescu-Claps.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Gustav Lombard ranks 134. Before him are Walter Jackson Freeman II, Fulton J. Sheen, Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev, Xu Beihong, Gustav Klutsis, and Gregorio Pietro Agagianian. After him are Vsevolod Merkulov, Carl Lutz, Roza Eskenazi, Feng Youlan, Bill W., and Machine Gun Kelly. Among people deceased in 1992, Gustav Lombard ranks 119. Before him are László Benedek, Mohammad Hidayatullah, Borislav Pekić, Joe Shuster, Anthony Dawson, and Ernst Schäfer. After him are Farag Foda, Nie Rongzhen, Emilio Recoba, Willie Dixon, Angela Carter, and Rihei Sano.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Lombard ranks 2,980 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Carell (1911), Margarete Steiff (1847), Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850), Johann Baptist Zimmermann (1680), Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805), and Bernhard Kellermann (1879). After him are Carlos Schwabe (1866), Wolfgang Iser (1926), Conrad II, Duke of Bavaria (1052), Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (1932), Rudolf Stammler (1856), and Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Gustav Lombard ranks 231. Before him are Hans Joachim von Zieten (1699), Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1632), Wilhelm Brückner (1884), Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (1684), Otto Schniewind (1887), and Heinrich von Bellegarde (1756). After him are Richard Ruoff (1883), Johanna Wolf (1900), Otto Ciliax (1891), Josef Kammhuber (1896), Max Wünsche (1914), and Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg (1684).

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