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MILITARY PERSONNEL

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 336,273 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer is the 989th most popular military personnel (down from 812th in 2019), the 2,493rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,119th in 2019) and the 194th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 989 out of 1,468. Before him are Drogo of Hauteville, Macrianus Major, Hydarnes II, Anton Haus, Bonifacius, and Carl Hilpert. After him are Arthur Percival, Joseph Trumpeldor, Maximilian de Angelis, Hermann Priess, Henry Tandey, and Matteo I Visconti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 159. Before him are Dilip Kumar, Guy Thys, Stephen Toulmin, Eugene Stoner, Susanna Agnelli, and Elissa Aalto. After him are András Hegedüs, Manshuk Mametova, Jackie Cooper, Micheline Presle, Michel Henry, and Theo Albrecht. Among people deceased in 1950, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 75. Before him are Walton Walker, Abraham Wald, Kazys Grinius, Ulrich Graf, Lev Berg, and Gustaf John Ramstedt. After him are Shigenori Tōgō, Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Edgar Lee Masters, Yi Kwang-su, Arturo Alessandri, and Nikolai Luzin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 2,493 out of 6,142. Before him are Johannes Fabricius (1587), Carl Hilpert (1888), Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (1740), Ottmar Walter (1924), Gerhard Schröder (1910), and Carlos Marín (1968). After him are Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen (1926), Stephen the Posthumous (1236), Rudi Altig (1937), Matthias Weckmann (1619), Götz George (1938), and Adalbert of Hamburg (1000).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 194. Before him are Otto Weddigen (1882), Reiner Stahel (1892), Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (1870), Adelbert Schulz (1903), Ernst-Günther Baade (1897), and Carl Hilpert (1888). After him are Hermann Priess (1901), Walter Krüger (1892), Alexander von Linsingen (1850), Hans Hartwig von Beseler (1850), Hajo Herrmann (1913), and Erwin Jaenecke (1890).

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