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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Karol Świerczewski

1897 - 1947

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Karol Wacław Świerczewski (pronounced [ˈkarɔl ɕfjɛrˈt͡ʂɛfskʲi]; callsign Walter; 22 February 1897 – 28 March 1947) was a Polish and Soviet Red Army general and statesman. He was a Bolshevik Party member during the Russian Civil War and a Soviet officer in the wars fought abroad by the Soviet Union including the one against Polish as well as Ukrainian Republics and in Republican Spain. In 1939 he participated in the Soviet invasion of Poland again. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karol Świerczewski has received more than 166,704 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Karol Świerczewski is the 841st most popular military personnel (up from 855th in 2019), the 434th most popular biography from Poland (up from 466th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Karol Świerczewski ranks 841 out of 1,468Before him are Nikolai Berzarin, Henri Winkelman, Minamoto no Yorimasa, Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, Bertram Ramsay, and Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff. After him are Hiroshi Ōshima, Ivan Isakov, Jacques Massu, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Kazuo Sakamaki, and Ivan Yefimovich Petrov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Karol Świerczewski ranks 106Before him are Fredric March, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Tarjei Vesaas, Joseph Darnand, Olga Chekhova, and Carl Oberg. After him are Eric Knight, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Vaso Čubrilović, Fazlollah Zahedi, Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, and Edmund Heines. Among people deceased in 1947, Karol Świerczewski ranks 81Before him are Hugh Lofting, Grace Moore, Nicholas Murray Butler, Victor Goldschmidt, Osami Nagano, and Bronisław Huberman. After him are Constantin Sănătescu, Friedrich Paschen, William Moulton Marston, Lilly Reich, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, and Fiorello H. La Guardia.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Karol Świerczewski ranks 434 out of 1,454Before him are Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Mieszko I Tanglefoot (1132), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), and Zawisza Czarny (1379). After him are Andrew Bobola (1591), Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874), Maria Cunitz (1610), Julian Tuwim (1894), Gavriil Ilizarov (1921), and Fritz von Below (1853).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Karol Świerczewski ranks 38Before him are Walther Nehring (1892), Hermann von Eichhorn (1848), Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886), Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893), Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784), and Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905). After him are Fritz von Below (1853), Erich Abraham (1895), Helmut Lent (1918), Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann (1818), Max Simon (1899), and Hellmuth Stieff (1901).