1893 - 1982
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 436,975 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Hermann Balck is the 403rd most popular military personnel (down from 381st in 2019), the 197th most popular biography from Poland (down from 185th in 2019) and the 19th 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, Hermann Balck ranks 403 out of 1,468. Before him are Nikolai Kuznetsov, William Tecumseh Sherman, Roman Shukhevych, Honda Tadakatsu, Erasmo of Narni, and Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby. After him are Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Walter Nowotny, Otto von Below, Herbert Gille, and Zhang He.
1904 - 1974
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 397
1820 - 1891
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 398
1907 - 1950
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 399
1548 - 1610
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 400
1370 - 1443
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 401
1861 - 1936
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 402
1893 - 1982
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 403
648 - 685
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 404
1770 - 1826
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 405
1920 - 1944
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 406
1857 - 1944
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 407
1897 - 1966
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 408
167 - 231
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 409
Among people born in 1893, Hermann Balck ranks 45. Before him are Qazi Muhammad, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Miroslav Krleža, Hattie McDaniel, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, and Emmy Göring. After him are Ana Pauker, Ernst Toller, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Walter Christaller, Walter Baade, and Erwin Piscator. Among people deceased in 1982, Hermann Balck ranks 49. Before him are E. H. Carr, William Giauque, Varlam Shalamov, Gershom Scholem, Walter Hallstein, and Anna German. After him are Vinoba Bhave, Bachir Gemayel, Philip Noel-Baker, Meša Selimović, Vladimir K. Zworykin, and Takashi Shimura.
1893 - 1947
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 39
1893 - 1970
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 40
1893 - 1981
HPI: 61.61
Rank: 41
1893 - 1952
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 42
1893 - 1976
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 43
1893 - 1973
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 44
1893 - 1982
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 45
1893 - 1960
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 46
1893 - 1939
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 47
1893 - 1953
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 48
1893 - 1969
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 49
1893 - 1960
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 50
1893 - 1966
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 51
1892 - 1982
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 43
1895 - 1982
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 44
1907 - 1982
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 45
1897 - 1982
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 46
1901 - 1982
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 47
1936 - 1982
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 48
1893 - 1982
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 49
1895 - 1982
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 50
1947 - 1982
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 51
1889 - 1982
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 52
1910 - 1982
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 53
1888 - 1982
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 54
1905 - 1982
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 55
Among people born in Poland, Hermann Balck ranks 197 out of 1,454. Before him are Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Julia, Princess of Battenberg (1825), Albert Marth (1828), Henryk Górecki (1933), Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770), and Hans Lammers (1879). After him are Józef Gosławski (1908), Günter Blobel (1936), Paul Tillich (1886), Andrzej Duda (1972), Otto von Below (1857), and Hermann Grassmann (1809).
1897 - 1968
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 191
1825 - 1895
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 192
1828 - 1897
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 193
1933 - 2010
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 194
1770 - 1861
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 195
1879 - 1962
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 196
1893 - 1982
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 197
1908 - 1963
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 198
1936 - 2018
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 199
1886 - 1965
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 200
1972 - Present
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 201
1857 - 1944
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 202
1809 - 1877
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 203
Among military personnels born in Poland, Hermann Balck ranks 19. Before him are Rochus Misch (1917), Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), Władysław Sikorski (1881), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Otto Kretschmer (1912), and Vasily Sokolovsky (1897). After him are Otto von Below (1857), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878), Eberhard von Mackensen (1889), Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), and Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889).
1917 - 2013
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 13
1855 - 1929
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 14
1881 - 1943
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 15
1889 - 1962
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 16
1912 - 1998
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 17
1897 - 1968
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 18
1893 - 1982
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 19
1857 - 1944
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 20
1885 - 1968
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 21
1878 - 1966
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 22
1889 - 1969
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 23
1865 - 1946
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 24
1889 - 1968
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 25