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Kurt Zeitzler

1895 - 1963

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Kurt Zeitzler (9 June 1895 – 25 September 1963) was a Chief of the Army General Staff in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Zeitzler was almost exclusively a staff officer, serving as chief of staff in a corps, army, and army group. In September 1942, he was selected by Adolf Hitler as Chief of the Army General Staff, replacing Franz Halder. In early 1943 he was one of the key figures in the decision to launch Operation Citadel, the last major German attack on the Eastern Front, which ended in defeat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Zeitzler has received more than 364,485 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Kurt Zeitzler is the 3,343rd most popular politician (up from 3,462nd in 2019), the 905th most popular biography from Germany (up from 943rd in 2019) and the 256th most popular German Politician.

Kurt Zeitzler was a German general and the Chief of the General Staff of the Army during World War II. He was responsible for the planning of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kurt Zeitzler ranks 3,343 out of 19,576. Before him are Ulrich von Jungingen, Ma Ying-jeou, Rudolf II, Duke of Austria, Frank B. Kellogg, Cleitus the Black, and Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri. After him are Offa of Mercia, P. W. Botha, Chiyou, Mieszko II Lambert, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and James Macpherson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Kurt Zeitzler ranks 60. Before him are Lewis Milestone, Dickinson W. Richards, Pavel Sukhoi, Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Lázaro Cárdenas, and Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski. After him are Vasily Blokhin, Wilhelm Kempff, Richard Barthelmess, Clara Haskil, B. H. Liddell Hart, and Friedrich Jeckeln. Among people deceased in 1963, Kurt Zeitzler ranks 31. Before him are Carmen Amaya, Rajendra Prasad, Theodore von Kármán, Oleg Penkovsky, Jacques Hadamard, and Richard Baer. After him are Józef Gosławski, Richard Barthelmess, Karl Bühler, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Pedro Armendáriz, and Michael Rockefeller.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Zeitzler ranks 905 out of 7,253. Before him are Götz von Berlichingen (1480), Otto I, Duke of Bavaria (1120), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574), Ulrich von Jungingen (1360), Rainer Weiss (1932), and Gershom Scholem (1897). After him are Bertha Benz (1849), Günter Netzer (1944), Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal (1857), Max Delbrück (1906), Ernst Chain (1906), and Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Kurt Zeitzler ranks 256. Before him are Saloninus (242), Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927), Philip William, Elector Palatine (1615), Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370), Otto I, Duke of Bavaria (1120), and Ulrich von Jungingen (1360). After him are Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal (1857), William IV, Duke of Bavaria (1493), Prince Augustus William of Prussia (1722), Albert of Saxony (1828), Julius Schreck (1898), and Emil Maurice (1897).

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