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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 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

Among military personnels, Hermann Balck ranks 403 out of 1,468Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Hermann Balck ranks 45Before 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 49Before 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.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hermann Balck ranks 197 out of 1,454Before 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).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Hermann Balck ranks 19Before 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).