MILITARY PERSONNEL

Günther von Kluge

1882 - 1944

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Günther Adolf Ferdinand von Kluge (30 October 1882 – 19 August 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) during World War II who held commands on both the Eastern and Western Fronts. He commanded the 4th Army of the Wehrmacht during the invasion of Poland in 1939 and the Battle of France in 1940, earning a promotion to Generalfeldmarschall. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Günther von Kluge has received more than 1,263,128 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Günther von Kluge is the 79th most popular military personnel (down from 76th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Poland (up from 38th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Günther von Kluge was most famous for his role in the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Moscow, and the Battle of Kursk.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Günther von Kluge ranks 79 out of 2,058. Before him are Ahmad Sanjar, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Alexander Suvorov, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, and Edward Smith. After him are Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Abu Muslim, Qasem Soleimani, Yi Sun-sin, and Võ Nguyên Giáp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Günther von Kluge ranks 15. Before him are Sigrid Undset, Georgi Dimitrov, Emmy Noether, Abdullah I of Jordan, Ion Antonescu, and Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. After him are Kurt von Schleicher, Abd el-Krim, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Percy Williams Bridgman, Melanie Klein, and Getúlio Vargas. Among people deceased in 1944, Günther von Kluge ranks 12. Before him are Romain Rolland, Claus von Stauffenberg, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Abdulmejid II, William James Sidis, and Reza Shah. After him are Richard Sorge, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Charles Glover Barkla, Michael Wittmann, Alexis Carrel, and Marc Bloch.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Günther von Kluge ranks 34 out of 1,694. Before him are Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), and Sigismund II Augustus (1520). After him are Andrzej Wajda (1926), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Kurt Lewin (1890), Christian Wolff (1679), and Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Günther von Kluge ranks 4. Before him are Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Erich Ludendorff (1865), and Fedor von Bock (1880). After him are Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896), Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Anton Denikin (1872), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), and Władysław Sikorski (1881).

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