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Hermann Balck

1893 - 1982

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Georg Otto Hermann Balck (7 December 1893 – 29 November 1982) was a highly decorated officer of the German Army who served in both World War I and World War II, rising to the rank of General der Panzertruppe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Balck has received more than 472,480 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Hermann Balck is the 315th most popular military personnel (up from 403rd in 2019), the 161st most popular biography from Poland (up from 197th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Hermann Balck was a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He is most famous for his command of the 6th Panzer Army during the Battle of Normandy.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hermann Balck ranks 315 out of 2,058. Before him are Sejanus, John J. Pershing, John Demjanjuk, Boris Shaposhnikov, Fyodor Tolbukhin, and Benedict Arnold. After him are Walther Wenck, Nikolai Yudenich, Georg von Frundsberg, Kurt Knispel, Thrasybulus, and Abdallah ibn Sa'd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Hermann Balck ranks 29. Before him are Omar Bradley, Prajadhipok, Hattie McDaniel, George Grosz, Harold Urey, and Damdin Sükhbaatar. After him are Qazi Muhammad, Fritz Perls, Andrés Segovia, Juana Bormann, Miroslav Krleža, and Edward G. Robinson. Among people deceased in 1982, Hermann Balck ranks 41. Before him are Ivan Bagramyan, Hans Selye, Władysław Gomułka, Cevdet Sunay, Bachir Gemayel, and Helen of Greece and Denmark. After him are Walther Wenck, Lee Strasberg, Varlam Shalamov, Meša Selimović, Walter Hallstein, and Peter Weiss.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hermann Balck ranks 161 out of 1,694. Before him are Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Rochus Misch (1917), Erich Mendelsohn (1887), Maxim Litvinov (1876), Christa Wolf (1929), and William I of Württemberg (1781). After him are Georg Michaelis (1857), Robert Lewandowski (1988), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Bolesław Bierut (1892), Daniel Libeskind (1946), and Władysław Anders (1892).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Hermann Balck ranks 17. Before him are Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), Władysław Sikorski (1881), Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), and Rochus Misch (1917). After him are Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Otto Kretschmer (1912), Otto von Below (1857), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), and Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919).

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