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Johannes Blaskowitz

1883 - 1948

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Johannes Albrecht Blaskowitz (10 July 1883 – 5 February 1948) was a German Generaloberst during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. After joining the Imperial German Army in 1901, Blaskowitz served throughout World War I, where he earned an Iron Cross for bravery. During WWII, Blaskowitz led the 8th Army during the Invasion of Poland and was the Commander in Chief of Occupied Poland from 1939 to 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Blaskowitz has received more than 688,346 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Johannes Blaskowitz is the 190th most popular military personnel (down from 180th in 2019), the 170th most popular biography from Russia (down from 162nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Johannes Blaskowitz was a German general and military commander in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Johannes Blaskowitz ranks 190 out of 2,058. Before him are Mardonius, Josip Jelačić, Mikhail Frunze, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Maxime Weygand, and Ernst Busch. After him are Jean-Baptiste Kléber, Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Giovanni Giustiniani, Syagrius, and Date Masamune.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Johannes Blaskowitz ranks 25. Before him are Otto Heinrich Warburg, Semyon Budyonny, Maurice Utrillo, Norman Haworth, Theo van Doesburg, and Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria. After him are Celâl Bayar, Wang Jingwei, Andrey Vyshinsky, Napoleon Hill, Angela Hitler, and Douglas Fairbanks. Among people deceased in 1948, Johannes Blaskowitz ranks 16. Before him are Edgar de Wahl, Antonin Artaud, Folke Bernadotte, Andrei Zhdanov, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Karl Brandt. After him are Witold Pilecki, Babe Ruth, Jan Masaryk, Theodor Morell, Ruth Benedict, and Karl Gebhardt.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Johannes Blaskowitz ranks 170 out of 3,761. Before him are Ivan Shishkin (1832), Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (1779), El Lissitzky (1890), Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (1708), Alexei Navalny (1976), and Vladimir Vernadsky (1863). After him are Alexei Leonov (1934), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946), Öz Beg Khan (1282), Andrey Vlasov (1901), and Yakov Sverdlov (1885).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Johannes Blaskowitz ranks 13. Before him are Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), Vasily Chuikov (1900), Pyotr Bagration (1765), Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895), Semyon Budyonny (1883), and Felix Steiner (1896). After him are Andrey Vlasov (1901), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Valery Gerasimov (1955), Vasily Stalin (1921), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), and Gerhard Barkhorn (1919).

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