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Hermann Ehrhardt

1881 - 1971

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Hermann Ehrhardt (29 November 1881 – 27 September 1971) was a German naval officer in World War I who became an anti-republican and anti-Semitic German nationalist Freikorps leader during the Weimar Republic. As head of the Marine Brigade Ehrhardt, he was among the best-known Freikorps leaders in the immediate postwar years. The brigade fought against the local soviet republics that arose during the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and later was among the key players in the anti-republican Kapp Putsch of March 1920. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Ehrhardt has received more than 198,283 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hermann Ehrhardt is the 911th most popular military personnel (down from 834th in 2019), the 2,232nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,091st in 2019) and the 167th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hermann Ehrhardt ranks 911 out of 2,058. Before him are Yevgeny Miller, Henry Allingham, Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma, Hans Loritz, Gainas, and Hydarnes II. After him are Rudolf Schmidt, Jacques François Dugommier, Dan Shomron, Karl Lennart Oesch, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, and Monte Melkonian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Hermann Ehrhardt ranks 78. Before him are Kim Kyu-sik, Augustin Bea, Vera Weizmann, Curt Sachs, Adolfo de la Huerta, and Sergey Kamenev. After him are Princess Xenia of Montenegro, Juliusz Rómmel, Hakaru Hashimoto, Titus Brandsma, Irakli Tsereteli, and Octavian Goga. Among people deceased in 1971, Hermann Ehrhardt ranks 67. Before him are Philo Farnsworth, Princess Maria Bona of Savoy-Genoa, Princess Anna of Montenegro, Van Heflin, Paul Lukas, and Yrjö Väisälä. After him are József Zakariás, Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Edie Sedgwick, Margaret Bourke-White, John W. Campbell, and Duane Allman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Ehrhardt ranks 2,232 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Loritz (1895), Willi Münzenberg (1889), C. W. Ceram (1915), Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573), Mathias Rust (1968), and Fred Uhlman (1901). After him are Andreas Cellarius (1596), Rudolf Schmidt (1886), Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1779), Floris III, Count of Holland (1141), Ralf Schumacher (1975), and Louis of Nassau (1538).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Hermann Ehrhardt ranks 167. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730), Heinrich Eberbach (1895), Heinrich von Plauen (1370), Otto Wöhler (1894), Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel (1744), and Hans Loritz (1895). After him are Rudolf Schmidt (1886), Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (1796), Karl Mauss (1898), Wolfgang Lotz (1921), Alexander von Linsingen (1850), and Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (1683).

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