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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Joachim Lemelsen

1888 - 1954

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Joachim Lemelsen (28 September 1888 – 30 March 1954) was a German general during World War II who rose to army-level command. During Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, troops of the XLVII Motorized Corps under his command executed the criminal Commissar Order, prompting Lemelsen to complain: "Soon the Russians will get to hear about the countless corpses lying along the routes taken by our soldiers (...). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joachim Lemelsen has received more than 114,335 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Joachim Lemelsen is the 1,140th most popular military personnel (down from 1,107th in 2019), the 2,913th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,856th in 2019) and the 216th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Joachim Lemelsen ranks 1,140 out of 1,468Before him are Gaius Cassius Longinus, James M. Gavin, Emilio Eduardo Massera, Nikolai Linevich, Juan Yagüe, and Remus von Woyrsch. After him are Franz Rohr von Denta, Quintus Salvidienus Rufus, Claude François de Malet, Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Werner Goldberg, and John C. Woods.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Joachim Lemelsen ranks 114Before him are Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Sigfried Giedion, Viktor Kingissepp, Michał Sopoćko, Thomas C. Kinkaid, and Antonio Ascari. After him are Jean Wahl, Richard Kohn, Francisco Canaro, Friedrich Wolf, Josef Beran, and Pavel Peter Gojdič. Among people deceased in 1954, Joachim Lemelsen ranks 68Before him are Franz Neumann, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, B. C. Forbes, Henri Laurens, Mikimoto Kōkichi, and Jacob Tullin Thams. After him are Hugo Eckener, Rudolf Beran, Friedrich Meinecke, Mikhail Prishvin, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, and Oswald de Andrade.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joachim Lemelsen ranks 2,913 out of 6,142Before him are Ernst May (1886), Adolf Erman (1854), Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1658), Ralf Moeller (1959), Paul Levi (1883), and Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729). After him are Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809), Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1910), Isdal Woman (1940), Engelbert II of Berg (1185), and Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Joachim Lemelsen ranks 216Before him are Ludwig Kübler (1889), Eugen Meindl (1892), Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782), August Schmidhuber (1901), Prince Frederick of Württemberg (1808), and Johanna Wolf (1900). After him are Werner Goldberg (1919), Reinhard Hardegen (1913), Fritz Darges (1913), Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg (1615), Josias von Heeringen (1850), and Erich Marcks (1891).