MILITARY PERSONNEL

Herbert Gille

1897 - 1966

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Herbert Otto Gille (8 March 1897 – 26 December 1966) was a high-ranking German SS officer, and divisional & corps commander of the Waffen SS. He commanded the SS Division Wiking during World War II. Gille was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, making him the most highly decorated Waffen-SS member of the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Gille has received more than 202,219 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Herbert Gille is the 425th most popular military personnel (down from 408th in 2019), the 1,012th most popular biography from Germany (down from 952nd in 2019) and the 83rd most popular German Military Personnel.

Herbert Gille is most famous for his work in the field of paleontology, specifically his work on the evolution of the horse.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.79

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Herbert Gille ranks 425 out of 2,058. Before him are Richard Winters, Erasmo of Narni, Shoichi Yokoi, Gaius Claudius Glaber, Yonatan Netanyahu, and Walter Nowotny. After him are Datis, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Galdan Boshugtu Khan, Christian Wirth, Günther Lütjens, and Xu Huang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Herbert Gille ranks 52. Before him are Gershom Scholem, John Cockcroft, Margaret Mahler, Emil Maurice, Vasily Sokolovsky, and Ye Jianying. After him are Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, Einar Gerhardsen, Douglas Sirk, Dmitry Pavlov, and Zakir Husain. Among people deceased in 1966, Herbert Gille ranks 32. Before him are Albert Göring, Carlo Carrà, Abdul Salam Arif, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, and Chang Myon. After him are D. T. Suzuki, Cléo de Mérode, Ludwig Binswanger, Gino Severini, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, and Alfred Naujocks.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Herbert Gille ranks 1,012 out of 7,253. Before him are Zwentibold (870), John George, Elector of Brandenburg (1525), Augustus, Elector of Saxony (1526), Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775), Peter Sloterdijk (1947), and Manuel Neuer (1986). After him are Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), Emil Jellinek (1853), Hennig Brand (1630), Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1597), and Gert Fröbe (1913).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Herbert Gille ranks 83. Before him are Götz von Berlichingen (1480), Günther Rall (1918), Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887), Reinhard Scheer (1863), Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (1886), and Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (1905). After him are Christian Wirth (1885), Günther Lütjens (1889), August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), Erich Kempka (1910), Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752), and Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1887).

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