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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Josef Harpe

1887 - 1968

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Josef Harpe (21 September 1887 – 14 March 1968) was a German general during World War II who commanded the 9th Army. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords of Nazi Germany. Harpe served on the Eastern Front, where he commanded XXXXI Panzer Corps and the 9th Army. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Harpe has received more than 184,205 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Josef Harpe is the 440th most popular military personnel (down from 397th in 2019), the 1,041st most popular biography from Germany (down from 933rd in 2019) and the 92nd most popular German Military Personnel.

Josef Harpe is most famous for being a German serial killer who was executed in 1803.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Josef Harpe ranks 440 out of 1,468Before him are Kawakami Gensai, Yoshiko Kawashima, Leopold Joseph von Daun, Mikhail Kirponos, Stonewall Jackson, and Petre Dumitrescu. After him are John Hanning Speke, Matthäus Hetzenauer, Osman Nuri Pasha, Yonatan Netanyahu, Karl von Bülow, and John Hawkins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Josef Harpe ranks 55Before him are Frederick Fleet, Hans Oster, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Avery Brundage, Mitsuru Ushijima, and Bernardo Houssay. After him are Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, George Pólya, James Paul Moody, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay. Among people deceased in 1968, Josef Harpe ranks 37Before him are Ivan Ribar, Lucio Fontana, Vasily Sokolovsky, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Alice Guy-Blaché, and Romano Guardini. After him are Vittorio Pozzo, Fritz Bauer, Charles Chaplin Jr., Tsuguharu Foujita, Howard Florey, and Georgios Papandreou.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Josef Harpe ranks 1,041 out of 6,142Before him are Stefan Lochner (1410), Martin Schulz (1955), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830), Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden (1755), William Stern (1871), and Alfred Brehm (1829). After him are Uli Hoeneß (1952), John McEnroe (1959), Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia (1887), Joseph Pilates (1883), Gerda Christian (1913), and Julius Wellhausen (1844).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Josef Harpe ranks 92Before him are Johannes Frießner (1892), Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887), Günther Lütjens (1889), Alfred von Waldersee (1832), August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), and Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752). After him are Karl von Bülow (1846), Levin August von Bennigsen (1745), Christian Wirth (1885), Günther Korten (1898), Ernst Lindemann (1894), and Hans Baur (1897).