1892 - 1967
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, Günther Blumentritt ranks 604 out of 1,468. Before 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.
1769 - 1799
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 598
1787 - 1846
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 599
1885 - 1948
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 600
1534 - 1557
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 601
1944 - 2007
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 602
412 BC - 413 BC
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 603
1892 - 1967
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 604
1879 - 1973
HPI: 58.10
Rank: 605
911 - 992
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 606
1886 - 1921
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 607
1804 - 1881
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 608
1900 - 1945
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 609
1868 - 1943
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 610
Among people born in 1892, Günther Blumentritt ranks 72. Before 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 64. Before 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.
1892 - 1986
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 66
1892 - 1922
HPI: 58.48
Rank: 67
1892 - 1938
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 68
1892 - 1937
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 69
1892 - 1964
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 70
1892 - 1978
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 71
1892 - 1967
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 72
1892 - 1983
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 73
1892 - 1932
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 74
1892 - 1970
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 75
1892 - 1938
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 76
1892 - 1940
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 77
1892 - 1962
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 78
1896 - 1967
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 58
1903 - 1967
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 59
1898 - 1967
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 60
1895 - 1967
HPI: 58.49
Rank: 61
1896 - 1967
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 62
1937 - 1967
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 63
1892 - 1967
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 64
1893 - 1967
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 65
1912 - 1967
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 66
1906 - 1967
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 67
1890 - 1967
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 68
1935 - 1967
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 69
1892 - 1967
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 70
Among people born in Germany, Günther Blumentritt ranks 1,469 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1897 - 1984
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 1,463
1886 - 1961
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 1,464
1736 - 1798
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 1,465
1969 - Present
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 1,466
1830 - 1912
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 1,467
1906 - 1983
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 1,468
1892 - 1967
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 1,469
1910 - 2014
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 1,470
1921 - 2015
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 1,471
1848 - 1936
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 1,472
1973 - Present
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 1,473
1926 - 2014
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,474
1676 - 1747
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,475
Among military personnels born in Germany, Günther Blumentritt ranks 117. Before 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).
1888 - 1976
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 111
1907 - 1983
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 112
1914 - 1998
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 113
1919 - 2009
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 114
1899 - 1970
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 115
1897 - 1984
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 116
1892 - 1967
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 117
1879 - 1973
HPI: 58.10
Rank: 118
1900 - 1945
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 119
1651 - 1722
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 120
1894 - 1939
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 121
1907 - 1978
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 122
1886 - 1942
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 123