MILITARY PERSONNEL

Helmuth von Pannwitz

1898 - 1947

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Helmuth von Pannwitz (14 October 1898 – 16 January 1947) was a German general who was a cavalry officer during the First and the Second World Wars. Later he became a Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht, a SS-Gruppenführer of the Waffen-SS, and Feldataman of the XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps. In 1947 he was tried for war crimes under Ukaz 43 by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, sentenced to death on 16 January 1947 and executed in Lefortovo Prison the same day. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helmuth von Pannwitz has received more than 235,873 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Helmuth von Pannwitz is the 797th most popular military personnel (down from 670th in 2019), the 410th most popular biography from Poland (down from 332nd in 2019) and the 40th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Helmuth von Pannwitz ranks 797 out of 2,058. Before him are Frank Jack Fletcher, Süleyman Hüsnü Pasha, Jahangir Mirza, Iona Yakir, Dietrich von Saucken, and Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz. After him are Hasan Salama, Macrianus Major, Sergey Surovikin, Georg Lindemann, Henry H. Arnold, and Paik Sun-yup.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Helmuth von Pannwitz ranks 83. Before him are Emil Artin, Leo McCarey, Hastings Banda, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Desanka Maksimović, and Luigi Fagioli. After him are Piero Sraffa, Berenice Abbott, Michel de Ghelderode, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Hans Globke, and Grace Moore. Among people deceased in 1947, Helmuth von Pannwitz ranks 73. Before him are Osami Nagano, Alice Keppel, Arthur Machen, W. I. Thomas, Ludwig Fischer, and Paul P. Harris. After him are Heinrich Schwarz, William Moulton Marston, Lucjan Żeligowski, Wolfgang Borchert, Grace Moore, and Victor Goldschmidt.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Helmuth von Pannwitz ranks 410 out of 1,694. Before him are Florian Znaniecki (1882), Mieszko I Tanglefoot (1132), Krystian Zimerman (1956), Anny Ondra (1903), Włodzimierz Smolarek (1957), and Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893). After him are Wilhelm Kube (1887), Ewa Kopacz (1956), Oskar R. Lange (1904), Bezprym (987), Theodor Leschetizky (1830), and Teresa Orlowski (1953).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Helmuth von Pannwitz ranks 40. Before him are Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886), Hermann von Eichhorn (1848), Max von Gallwitz (1852), Fritz Freitag (1894), Fritz von Below (1853), and Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893). After him are Max Simon (1899), Karol Świerczewski (1897), Yitzhak Sadeh (1890), Zygmunt Berling (1896), Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784), and Walther von Lüttwitz (1859).

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