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Hugo von Pohl

1855 - 1916

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Hugo von Pohl (25 August 1855 – 23 February 1916) was a German admiral who served during the First World War. He joined the Navy in 1872 and served in various capacities, including with the new torpedo boats in the 1880s, and in the Reichsmarineamt (Imperial Navy Office) in the 1890s. He eventually reached the rank of Vizeadmiral and held the position of Chief of the Admiralty Staff in 1913. As Chief of the Admiralty Staff, Pohl was an outspoken advocate of unrestricted submarine warfare, and he put the policy into effect as he left the post on 1 February 1915. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo von Pohl is the 11,109th most popular politician, the 703rd most popular biography from Poland and the 175th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among politicians, Hugo von Pohl ranks 11,109 out of 19,576. Before her are Abu al-Hasan as-Said al-Mutadid, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, Pietro II Candiano, Édouard Philippe, Jean Joseph Mounier, and Kukrit Pramoj. After her are Judith of Brittany, Hou Yu-ih, Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Annalena Baerbock, Bernardino Drovetti, and Welf VI.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Hugo von Pohl ranks 59. Before her are Marie Corelli, Emil Paur, Julius Röntgen, Rodolphe Lindt, Marie-Joseph Lagrange, and Erik Werenskiold. After her are Tommaso Tittoni, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Amandus Adamson, Arnold Mendelssohn, Nataliya Kobrynska, and Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi. Among people deceased in 1916, Hugo von Pohl ranks 89. Before her are William Foulke, Roger Casement, James Connolly, Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, and Lily Braun. After her are Tina Blau, Émile Faguet, Eugen Dücker, Janis Rozentāls, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, and Eduard Nápravník.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hugo von Pohl ranks 703 out of 1,694. Before her are Ernst Wiechert (1887), Halina Konopacka (1900), Walther Wever (1887), Leo Baeck (1873), Stefan Rowecki (1895), and Bernhard Goetzke (1884). After her are Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745), Stefanie Zweig (1932), Czesław Kiszczak (1925), Maria Wirtemberska (1768), Xaver Scharwenka (1850), and Jacob Heinrich von Flemming (1667).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Hugo von Pohl ranks 175. Before her are Henryk Jabłoński (1909), Władysław Bartoszewski (1922), Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (1943), August Zaleski (1883), Frederick II of Legnica (1480), and Radosław Sikorski (1963). After her are Czesław Kiszczak (1925), Lothar Bisky (1941), Edward Bernard Raczyński (1891), Jan Olszewski (1930), Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1769), and Rudolf Ramek (1881).

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