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MILITARY PERSONNEL

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 245,929 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Heinrich Bär is the 771st most popular military personnel (down from 720th in 2019), the 1,909th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,838th in 2019) and the 149th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Heinrich Bär ranks 771 out of 1,468Before him are Ottavio Piccolomini, Prince Franz of Bavaria, Ilmari Juutilainen, Shibata Katsuie, Georgios Grivas, and Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin. After him are Georg Lindemann, Boris Gromov, Ardaric, Mario Roatta, Ludwig Crüwell, and Henry H. Arnold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Heinrich Bär ranks 98Before him are Victor Mature, Franck Pourcel, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Willi Hennig, Álvaro Cunhal, and Mickey Cohen. After him are Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, 'Abd al-Ilah, Pinetop Perkins, Masatoshi Nakayama, Donald Maclean, and Alfred Bester. Among people deceased in 1957, Heinrich Bär ranks 73Before him are Kurt von Tippelskirch, Soemu Toyoda, Malcolm Lowry, Carlos Castillo Armas, Ernst Gräfenberg, and Prince Franz of Bavaria. After him are Josef Hofmann, Dorothy L. Sayers, Washington Luís, Theodor Körner, Irving Baxter, and Zhou Xuan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Bär ranks 1,909 out of 6,142Before him are Franz Xaver von Baader (1765), Matthias Jabs (1955), Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg (1588), Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891), Heinz Brandt (1907), and Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia (1155). After him are Princess Helena of Nassau (1831), Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1724), Friedrich Albert Lange (1828), Georg Lindemann (1884), Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737), and Paul Drude (1863).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Heinrich Bär ranks 149Before him are Karl-Adolf Hollidt (1891), Fritz Witt (1908), Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (1893), Karl Mauss (1898), Prince Franz of Bavaria (1875), and Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891). After him are Georg Lindemann (1884), Ludwig Crüwell (1892), Ludwig von Reuter (1869), Walter Heitz (1878), Wilhelm Adam (1877), and Karl Ernst (1904).