MILITARY PERSONNEL

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger

1848 - 1916

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Helmuth Johannes Ludwig Graf von Moltke (German: [ˈhɛlmuːt fɔn ˈmɔltkə]; 25 May 1848 – 18 June 1916), also known as Moltke the Younger, was a German general and Chief of the Great German General Staff, a member of the House of Moltke. He was also the nephew of Generalfeldmarschall Graf Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, who is commonly called "Moltke the Elder" to differentiate the two. Upon becoming the head of the General Staff, Moltke led the German Army from 1 January 1906 to 14 September 1914 during the opening months of World War I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helmuth von Moltke the Younger has received more than 1,127,820 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Helmuth von Moltke the Younger is the 169th most popular military personnel (up from 183rd in 2019), the 410th most popular biography from Germany (up from 437th in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Military Personnel.

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger is most famous for his military leadership in the Franco-Prussian War.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger ranks 169 out of 2,058. Before him are Joachim Peiper, Semyon Budyonny, Anton Denikin, Matilda of Tuscany, Paul Hausser, and Dragut. After him are Helmuth Weidling, Zhao Yun, Georg von Küchler, Auguste de Marmont, Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, and Jean-de-Dieu Soult.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger ranks 6. Before him are Paul Gauguin, Octave Mirbeau, Vilfredo Pareto, Gottlob Frege, and Otto Lilienthal. After him are Gustave Caillebotte, Otto of Bavaria, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Arthur Balfour, Tōgō Heihachirō, and Hugo de Vries. Among people deceased in 1916, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger ranks 17. Before him are Odilon Redon, Umberto Boccioni, Richard Dedekind, Henry James, Sholem Aleichem, and Charles de Foucauld. After him are Otto of Bavaria, Natsume Sōseki, José Echegaray, Karl Schwarzschild, Elisabeth of Wied, and Enrique Granados.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger ranks 410 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Maria Alexandrovna (1824), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), and Paul Hausser (1880). After him are Karl Drais (1785), Anna Magdalena Bach (1701), Louise Mountbatten (1889), Traudl Junge (1920), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), and Robert Ley (1890).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger ranks 37. Before him are August von Mackensen (1849), Ludwig Beck (1880), Alfred von Schlieffen (1833), Hermann Fegelein (1906), Joachim Peiper (1915), and Paul Hausser (1880). After him are Helmuth Weidling (1891), Georg von Küchler (1881), Hans Krebs (1898), Ernst Busch (1885), Dietrich von Choltitz (1894), and Maximilian von Weichs (1881).

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