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Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer

1922 - 1950

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Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (16 February 1922 – 15 July 1950) was a German Luftwaffe night-fighter pilot and the highest-scoring night fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. A flying ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during combat. All Schnaufer's 121 victories were claimed during World War II, mostly against British four-engine bombers, for which he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, Germany's highest military decoration at the time, on 16 October 1944. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer has received more than 352,348 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer is the 970th most popular military personnel (up from 989th in 2019), the 2,369th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,490th in 2019) and the 185th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 970 out of 2,058. Before him are Hellmuth Stieff, Alexander Rodimtsev, Cristóvão da Gama, Georg von der Marwitz, Jacques Doriot, and Charles Eugène de Croÿ. After him are Mikhail Katukov, Hans Cramer, Yazid ibn al-Muhallab, Adolphe Marbot, Justinian, and Federico Gravina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 153. Before him are Anatoli Papanov, Paul Scofield, Susanna Agnelli, Kevin Roche, Margherita Hack, and Alan Perlis. After him are Anker Jørgensen, Artemio Franchi, Bea Arthur, Niels Holst-Sørensen, Howard Zinn, and Vasko Popa. Among people deceased in 1950, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 71. Before him are Walter Eucken, Yvan Goll, Traian Vuia, Nikolai Voznesensky, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Shigenori Tōgō. After him are Arturo Alessandri, Karl Guthe Jansky, Harold Laski, Lev Berg, Ulrich Graf, and Walton Walker.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 2,369 out of 7,253. Before him are Reinhard Keiser (1674), Sebastian Koch (1962), Herman I of Baden (1040), Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst (1679), William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (1647), and Martin Lawrence (1965). After him are Franz Six (1909), Hans Cramer (1896), Udo Lindenberg (1946), Gundula Janowitz (1937), Andreas Gursky (1955), and Rudolf Klein-Rogge (1885).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 185. Before him are George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892), Adelbert Schulz (1903), Hermann Breith (1892), Winrich von Kniprode (1310), Hans von Obstfelder (1886), and Reiner Stahel (1892). After him are Hans Cramer (1896), Fritz Witt (1908), Heinrich Bär (1913), Eugen Ritter von Schobert (1883), Martin Gottfried Weiss (1905), and Theodor Wisch (1907).

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