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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 253,161 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Günther Blumentritt is the 604th most popular military personnel (down from 507th in 2019), the 1,469th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,241st in 2019) and the 117th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Günther Blumentritt ranks 604 out of 1,468Before him are Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Otto von Kotzebue, Seishirō Itagaki, Lautaro, Ashraf Marwan, and Demosthenes. After him are Adolf Strauss, Jawhar, Nikolay Gumilyov, Ludwig von Benedek, Wilhelm Rediess, and Ernst Linder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Günther Blumentritt ranks 72Before him are Marcel Dassault, Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Alfonsina Storni, Andrés Nin Pérez, J. B. S. Haldane, and Arnold Hauser. After him are Germaine Tailleferre, Kang Pan-sok, Richard Neutra, César Vallejo, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, and Thomas Mitchell. Among people deceased in 1967, Günther Blumentritt ranks 64Before him are Julien Duvivier, Vladimir Bartol, Julius Schaub, Paul Muni, Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Tom Simpson. After him are Dorothy Parker, Woody Guthrie, Primo Carnera, Géza Lakatos, Roger B. Chaffee, and Basil Rathbone.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Günther Blumentritt ranks 1,469 out of 6,142Before him are Hans Speidel (1897), Karl Korsch (1886), Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1736), Jens Lehmann (1969), Princess Elisabeth of Saxony (1830), and Horst Schumann (1906). After him are Luise Rainer (1910), Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), Carl Stumpf (1848), Heidi Klum (1973), Siegfried Lenz (1926), and Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1676).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Günther Blumentritt ranks 117Before him are Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1888), Nicolaus von Below (1907), Kurt Franz (1914), Ernst Barkmann (1919), Fritz Bayerlein (1899), and Hans Speidel (1897). After him are Adolf Strauss (1879), Wilhelm Rediess (1900), Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld (1651), Hans Langsdorff (1894), Herbert Kappler (1907), and Georg Stumme (1886).