MILITARY PERSONNEL

Hans Langsdorff

1894 - 1939

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Hans Wilhelm Langsdorff (20 March 1894 – 20 December 1939) was a German naval officer, most famous for his command of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee before and during the Battle of the River Plate off the coast of Uruguay in 1939. After the Panzerschiff (Deutschland-class cruiser) was unable to escape a pursuing squadron of Royal Navy ships, Langsdorff scuttled his ship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Langsdorff has received more than 561,231 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Hans Langsdorff is the 684th most popular military personnel (down from 635th in 2019), the 1,681st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,551st in 2019) and the 130th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hans Langsdorff ranks 684 out of 2,058. Before him are Ling Tong, Duško Popov, Grigory Kulik, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Roza Shanina, and Rostam Farrokhzad. After him are Mark W. Clark, Raoul Salan, Maximilian von Prittwitz, Kemal Reis, Hermocrates, and Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Hans Langsdorff ranks 64. Before him are Walter Warlimont, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Anton Mussert, Hans Kramers, Wäinö Aaltonen, and Thorleif Haug. After him are Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Frank Borzage, Wilhelm Schepmann, King Vidor, Mei Lanfang, and Georges Gurvitch. Among people deceased in 1939, Hans Langsdorff ranks 39. Before him are Stanislav Kosior, Gerardo Machado, Otto Wels, Roman Dmowski, Franz Schmidt, and Isaac Carasso. After him are Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Norman Bethune, Carl Laemmle, Wu Peifu, Vladimir Shukhov, and Bruno Liljefors.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Langsdorff ranks 1,681 out of 7,253. Before him are Edmund Landau (1877), Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia (1730), Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671), Otto Sander (1941), August Sander (1876), and Hemma (800). After him are Ferdinand Ries (1784), George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1624), Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse (1806), Princess Alexandrine of Baden (1820), Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (1654), and Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark (1808).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Hans Langsdorff ranks 130. Before him are Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1911), Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg (1759), Karl-Adolf Hollidt (1891), Heinz Hitler (1920), August Hirt (1898), and Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721). After him are Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld (1651), Wilhelm Schepmann (1894), Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow (1755), Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg (1886), Herbert Kappler (1907), and Oswald Boelcke (1891).

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