MILITARY PERSONNEL

Heinrich Ehrler

1917 - 1945

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Heinrich Ehrler (14 September 1917 – 4 April 1945) was a German Luftwaffe military aviator and wing commander during World War II. As a fighter ace, he is credited with 208 enemy aircraft shot down in over 400 combat missions. The majority of his victories were claimed over the Eastern Front, with nine claims over the Western Front which included eight in the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. Born in Oberbalbach, Ehrler grew up in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany as one of 12 children in his family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Ehrler has received more than 348,517 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Ehrler is the 1,082nd most popular military personnel (down from 895th in 2019), the 2,638th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,224th in 2019) and the 206th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Heinrich Ehrler ranks 1,082 out of 2,058. Before him are Gildo, Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi, Wilhelm Marschall, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Oskar von Hutier, and José Millán-Astray. After him are Erwin Jaenecke, Maximilian Grabner, Alfredo Guzzoni, Wesley Clark, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, and Nicolas Luckner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Heinrich Ehrler ranks 138. Before him are Fulbert Youlou, Mak Dizdar, Shams Pahlavi, Brad Dexter, Kerim Kerimov, and Dabbs Greer. After him are Georgy Vitsin, Franceska Mann, Robert Conquest, Caspar Weinberger, Armando Trovajoli, and Adam Malik. Among people deceased in 1945, Heinrich Ehrler ranks 178. Before him are Pavle Đurišić, Hans von Dohnanyi, Isamu Chō, Mihail Sebastian, Paul Giesler, and Günther Lützow. After him are Peter Högl, Volin, Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Eric Liddell, Karl Fritzsch, and Wincenty Witos.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Ehrler ranks 2,638 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine (1809), John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1627), Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720), Oskar von Hutier (1857), Princess Maria Anna of Saxony (1799), and Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria (1271). After him are Erwin Jaenecke (1890), John II, Count Palatine of Simmern (1492), Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), Regina Jonas (1902), Doro (1964), and Carl Ludwig Blume (1796).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Heinrich Ehrler ranks 206. Before him are Günther Lützow (1912), Hermann Priess (1901), Walter Krüger (1892), Otto Weddigen (1882), Wilhelm Marschall (1886), and Oskar von Hutier (1857). After him are Erwin Jaenecke (1890), Nicolas Luckner (1722), Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1792), Alfred Wünnenberg (1891), August Schmidhuber (1901), and Richard Heidrich (1896).

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