MILITARY PERSONNEL

Kurt Knispel

1921 - 1945

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Kurt Knispel (20 September 1921 – 28 April 1945) was a German tank commander during World War II. Knispel was severely wounded on 28 April 1945 by shrapnel to his head when his Tiger II was hit in battle by Soviet tanks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Knispel has received more than 884,210 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Kurt Knispel is the 319th most popular military personnel (down from 284th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Czechia (down from 74th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Military Personnel.

Kurt Knispel is most famous for being the top scorer in the history of the Bundesliga.

Memorability Metrics

  • 880k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Kurt Knispel ranks 319 out of 2,058. Before him are Fyodor Tolbukhin, Benedict Arnold, Hermann Balck, Walther Wenck, Nikolai Yudenich, and Georg von Frundsberg. After him are Thrasybulus, Abdallah ibn Sa'd, Erich Priebke, Arthur Nebe, Nearchus, and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Kurt Knispel ranks 43. Before him are Lotfi A. Zadeh, Yoichiro Nambu, Akio Morita, Edgar Morin, Alida Valli, and Aaron T. Beck. After him are Dobrica Ćosić, Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Abdul Salam Arif, Kenneth Arrow, Nexhmije Hoxha, and Herschel Grynszpan. Among people deceased in 1945, Kurt Knispel ranks 63. Before him are Fumimaro Konoe, Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Karl-Otto Koch, Georg Elser, Felix Salten, and Boris Shaposhnikov. After him are Arthur Nebe, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Juana Bormann, Heinrich Wölfflin, Odilo Globočnik, and Maurice Halbwachs.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Kurt Knispel ranks 91 out of 1,200. Before him are Antonín Novotný (1904), Victor Lustig (1890), Julius Fučík (1903), Jiří Menzel (1938), Petr Pavel (1961), and Archduchess Anna of Austria (1528). After him are Johann Stamitz (1717), Prokop the Great (1380), Alois Senefelder (1771), Jobst of Moravia (1351), Henry of Bohemia (1265), and Pavel Nedvěd (1972).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Czechia

Among military personnels born in Czechia, Kurt Knispel ranks 4. Before him are Jan Žižka (1360), Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583), and Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766). After him are Prokop the Great (1380), Jan Kubiš (1913), Otto Kittel (1917), Julius von Payer (1841), Erhard Raus (1889), Karl Fritzsch (1903), Ferenc Wesselényi (1605), and Moritz von Auffenberg (1852).

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