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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Heinz Guderian

1888 - 1954

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Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (German: [haɪnts ˈvɪlhɛlm ɡuˈdeːʁi.an]; 17 June 1888 – 14 May 1954) was a German general during World War II who, after the war, became a successful memoirist. An early pioneer and advocate of the "blitzkrieg" approach, he played a central role in the development of the panzer division concept. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinz Guderian has received more than 3,647,508 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 59 in 2019). Heinz Guderian is the 19th most popular military personnel (down from 16th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Germany (down from 11th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Military Personnel.

Heinz Guderian is most famous for being a German general who was the architect of the Blitzkrieg, or the lightning war.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Heinz Guderian ranks 19 out of 1,468. Before him are Khalid ibn al-Walid, Romulus Augustulus, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Oda Nobunaga, Erich von Manstein, and Chiang Kai-shek. After him are Arminius, Ratko Mladić, Ptolemy I Soter, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Cao Cao, and Charles XIV John of Sweden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Heinz Guderian ranks 1. After him are Fernando Pessoa, T. E. Lawrence, Dale Carnegie, John Logie Baird, José Raúl Capablanca, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Giorgio de Chirico, Otto Stern, Carl Schmitt, Nikolai Bukharin, and Nestor Makhno. Among people deceased in 1954, Heinz Guderian ranks 5. Before him are Frida Kahlo, Alan Turing, Henri Matisse, and Enrico Fermi. After him are Colette, Robert Capa, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Princess Märtha of Sweden, André Derain, Getúlio Vargas, and Alcide De Gasperi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinz Guderian ranks 78 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Karl Jaspers (1883), Caspar David Friedrich (1774), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), and Richard Strauss (1864). After him are Heinrich Schliemann (1822), Arminius (-17), Charles the Bald (823), Charles Bukowski (1920), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), and William the Silent (1533).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Heinz Guderian ranks 5. Before him are Karl Dönitz (1891), Erwin Rommel (1891), Adolf Eichmann (1906), and Erich von Manstein (1887). After him are Arminius (-17), Wilhelm Keitel (1882), Friedrich Paulus (1890), Baron Munchausen (1720), Ernst Röhm (1887), Gerd von Rundstedt (1875), and Alfred Jodl (1890).

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