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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Günther Rall

1918 - 2009

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Günther Rall (10 March 1918 – 4 October 2009) was a highly decorated German military aviator, officer and General, whose military career spanned nearly forty years. Rall was the third most successful fighter pilot in aviation history, behind Gerhard Barkhorn, who is second, and Erich Hartmann, who is first.Rall was born in Gaggenau, the German Empire, in March 1918. Rall grew up in the Weimar Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Günther Rall has received more than 554,226 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Günther Rall is the 387th most popular military personnel (down from 361st in 2019), the 895th most popular biography from Germany (down from 862nd in 2019) and the 82nd most popular German Military Personnel.

Günther Rall is most famous for being a German fighter pilot and the third most successful fighter ace in history. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Günther Rall ranks 387 out of 1,468Before him are Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, La Hire, Xiahou Yuan, Omar Pasha, and Georges Picquart. After him are Prokop the Great, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Leonid Govorov, Reinhard Scheer, Nicolas Chauvin, and Ban Chao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Günther Rall ranks 41Before him are Bertram Brockhouse, Pavlik Morozov, Birgit Nilsson, Jerome Karle, André Bazin, and Lila Kedrova. After him are Jens Christian Skou, Ahmed Deedat, Patricio Aylwin, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Robert Aldrich, and Sam Walton. Among people deceased in 2009, Günther Rall ranks 32Before him are Bobby Robson, Abdurrahman Wahid, Juan Almeida Bosque, Robert F. Furchgott, Corazon Aquino, and John Updike. After him are João Bernardo Vieira, Norman Borlaug, Raúl Alfonsín, Ephraim Katzir, Ertuğrul Osman, and Leszek Kołakowski.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Günther Rall ranks 895 out of 6,142Before him are Bruno of Querfurt (970), Wied, Prince of Albania (1876), Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927), Frei Otto (1925), Gottlob Berger (1896), and Engelbert Humperdinck (1854). After him are Gershom Scholem (1897), Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755), Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671), Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (1946), Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635), and Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Günther Rall ranks 82Before 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). After him are Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755), Reinhard Scheer (1863), Herbert Gille (1897), Johannes Frießner (1892), Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887), and Günther Lütjens (1889).