MILITARY PERSONNEL

Henry Wirz

1823 - 1865

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Henry Wirz (born Hartmann Heinrich Wirz; November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was a Swiss-American convicted war criminal who served as a Confederate Army officer during the American Civil War. He was the commandant of Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp near Andersonville, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 Union Army prisoners of war died as a result of inhumane conditions. After the war, Wirz was tried and executed for conspiracy and murder relating to his command of the camp; this made the captain the highest-ranking soldier and only officer of the Confederate Army to be sentenced to death for crimes during their service. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Wirz has received more than 1,168,567 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Wirz is the 1,897th most popular military personnel, the 597th most popular biography from Switzerland and the 6th most popular Swiss Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Henry Wirz ranks 1,897 out of 2,058. Before him are Lloyd Fredendall, Brice Oligui Nguema, Leo Tornikios, John Dill, Andrei Sukhovetsky, and Bakht Khan. After him are Pierre Bosquet, Carl Gustav Fleischer, Moe Berg, Frank Buckles, Anthony Wayne, and John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Henry Wirz ranks 74. Before him are Dmitry Tolstoy, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, William M. Tweed, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Robert Whitehead, and Guillermo Tell Villegas. After him are Manolache Costache Epureanu, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Mackenzie Bowell, Coventry Patmore, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and Edward Augustus Freeman. Among people deceased in 1865, Henry Wirz ranks 75. Before him are Miklós Jósika, Marie-Anne Libert, José María Pérez de Urdininea, William Henry Smyth, A. P. Hill, and Andrei Stackenschneider. After him are Hugh Falconer, William J. Duane, Charles Lock Eastlake, and Thomas Corwin.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Henry Wirz ranks 597 out of 1,015. Before him are Heinz Schiller (1930), Diego Benaglio (1983), Haris Seferović (1992), Rolf Järmann (1966), Werner Leimgruber (1934), and Hans Pulver (1902). After him are Georges Stuber (1925), Oswald Zappelli (1913), Klaus Tschütscher (1967), George Gruntz (1932), Mauro Gianetti (1964), and Hans Gerschwiler (1920).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Switzerland

Among military personnels born in Switzerland, Henry Wirz ranks 6. Before him are Henri Guisan (1874), François Le Fort (1656), Jean Reynier (1771), Lionel Dunsterville (1865), and Franz von Werra (1914).

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