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Heinrich Bär

1913 - 1957

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Oscar-Heinrich "Pritzl" Bär (pronounced [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈbɛːɐ̯]; 25 May 1913 – 28 April 1957) was a German Luftwaffe flying ace who served throughout World War II in Europe. Bär flew more than one thousand combat missions, and fought in the Western, Eastern and Mediterranean theatres. On 18 occasions he survived being shot down, and according to records in the German Federal Archives, he claimed to have shot down 228 enemy aircraft and was credited with 208 aerial victories, 16 of which were in a Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Bär has received more than 261,946 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Heinrich Bär is the 997th most popular military personnel (down from 771st in 2019), the 2,412th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,907th in 2019) and the 188th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Heinrich Bär ranks 997 out of 2,058. Before him are Matome Ugaki, Matteo I Visconti, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Gaius Laelius, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, and Alime Abdenanova. After him are Robert Blake, Nagakura Shinpachi, Paddy Roy Bates, Quintus Titurius Sabinus, Semyon Bogdanov, and Tomoji Tanabe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Heinrich Bär ranks 124. Before him are Wols, Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Tikhon Khrennikov, Pak Song-chol, William P. Rogers, and René Schneider. After him are Mouloud Feraoun, William Tolbert, Albert Cossery, Anthony Quayle, Alexander Kotov, and Donald Maclean. Among people deceased in 1957, Heinrich Bär ranks 92. Before him are Prince Franz of Bavaria, Rudolf Weigl, Wilhelm Filchner, Umberto Saba, Paja Jovanović, and Gheorghe Tătărescu. After him are Albert Anastasia, Dorothy L. Sayers, Claude Farrère, Paul Walden, Ramon Magsaysay, and Valery Larbaud.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Bär ranks 2,412 out of 7,253. Before him are Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662), Karl Krumbacher (1856), Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1522), Erich Topp (1914), Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701), and Friedrich Christian Diez (1794). After him are Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1789), Astrid Kirchherr (1938), Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1797), Heinz Rühmann (1902), Wilhelm Schmidt (1868), and Anna Schäffer (1882).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Heinrich Bär ranks 188. Before him are Winrich von Kniprode (1310), Hans von Obstfelder (1886), Reiner Stahel (1892), Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (1922), Hans Cramer (1896), and Fritz Witt (1908). After him are Eugen Ritter von Schobert (1883), Martin Gottfried Weiss (1905), Theodor Wisch (1907), Fritz Klingenberg (1912), Ernst-Günther Baade (1897), and Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1899).

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