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Josef Kammhuber

1896 - 1986

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Josef Kammhuber (August 19, 1896 – January 25, 1986) was a career officer who served in the Imperial German Army, the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany and the post-World War II German Air Force. During World War II, he was the first general of night fighters in the Luftwaffe. Kammhuber created the night fighter defense system, the so-called Kammhuber Line, but the detailed knowledge of the system provided to the Royal Air Force by British military intelligence allowed them to render it ineffective. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Kammhuber has received more than 202,740 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Josef Kammhuber is the 1,269th most popular military personnel, the 3,083rd most popular biography from Germany and the 235th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Josef Kammhuber ranks 1,269 out of 2,058. Before him are Vitalian, Movses Silikyan, Illus, Claude Choules, Orde Wingate, and J. F. C. Fuller. After him are Abdul Haris Nasution, Max Wünsche, Johann Peter Beaulieu, Máximo Gómez, Attaces, and Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Josef Kammhuber ranks 132. Before him are Besse Cooper, Josephine Tey, Ramón Franco, Jacques Duclos, Dodie Smith, and Ieronim Uborevich. After him are Philip Showalter Hench, Stanisława Leszczyńska, Maurice De Waele, Prince Sigismund of Prussia, Ira Gershwin, and Hubert Lanz. Among people deceased in 1986, Josef Kammhuber ranks 115. Before him are Megumu Tamura, Vitaly Abalakov, Dick Scobee, Fumiko Enchi, James H. Wilkinson, and Oscar Zariski. After him are Anatoly Marchenko, Helen B. Taussig, Hoàng Văn Thái, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, David Cooper, and Robert Stevenson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Josef Kammhuber ranks 3,083 out of 7,253. Before him are Alfred Andersch (1914), Wilhelm Griesinger (1817), Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1488), Marta Hillers (1911), Robert Blum (1807), and Gretel Bergmann (1914). After him are Ernst Schröder (1841), Nico Rosberg (1985), Max Wünsche (1914), Johannes Lingelbach (1622), Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1620), and Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1819).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Josef Kammhuber ranks 235. Before him are Otto Schniewind (1887), Heinrich von Bellegarde (1756), Gustav Lombard (1895), Richard Ruoff (1883), Johanna Wolf (1900), and Otto Ciliax (1891). After him are Max Wünsche (1914), Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg (1684), Adolf Diekmann (1914), Felix von Luckner (1881), Hans Graf von Sponeck (1888), and Ludwig von Reuter (1869).

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