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Günther Prien

1908 - 1941

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Günther Prien (16 January 1908 – presumed 8 March 1941) was a German U-boat commander during World War II. He was the first U-boat commander to receive the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and the first member of the Kriegsmarine to receive the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Günther Prien has received more than 617,172 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Günther Prien is the 350th most popular military personnel (down from 294th in 2019), the 800th most popular biography from Germany (down from 700th in 2019) and the 75th most popular German Military Personnel.

Günther Prien is most famous for being the first person to successfully enter the naval base at Scapa Flow during World War II.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Günther Prien ranks 350 out of 1,468. Before him are Albert Pike, Hans-Valentin Hube, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Eduard Dietl, and Gnaeus Julius Agricola. After him are Jonas Savimbi, Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, Jean-Andoche Junot, Pierre Augereau, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, and Francisco de Miranda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Günther Prien ranks 43. Before him are John Kenneth Galbraith, Balthus, Cesare Pavese, Ilya Frank, Joseph Rotblat, and Alfred Hershey. After him are Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, Arthur Adamov, Józef Gosławski, Victor Ambartsumian, Martha Gellhorn, and Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. Among people deceased in 1941, Günther Prien ranks 30. Before him are Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Sherwood Anderson, Henri Lebesgue, Prajadhipok, and Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli. After him are Gottfried Feder, Alexej von Jawlensky, Christian Rakovsky, Frederick Griffith, Émile Bernard, and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Günther Prien ranks 800 out of 6,142. Before him are Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1792), Carl Friedrich Abel (1723), Gudrun Burwitz (1929), Hermann Cohen (1842), Herbert Kroemer (1928), and Agnes of Merania (1175). After him are Johann Adolph Hasse (1699), Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (1886), Gert Fröbe (1913), Horst Buchholz (1933), Frank Wedekind (1864), and Gustav Radbruch (1878).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Günther Prien ranks 75. Before him are Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870), Walther Wenck (1900), Hugo Sperrle (1885), Friedrich Dollmann (1882), Hans-Valentin Hube (1890), and Eduard Dietl (1890). After him are Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (1886), Georg von Frundsberg (1473), Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (1905), Viktor Lutze (1890), Erich Kempka (1910), and Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1887).

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