1869 - 1927
Carl Adolf Maximilian Hoffmann (25 January 1869 – 8 July 1927) was a German military strategist. As a staff officer at the beginning of World War I, he was Deputy Chief of Staff of the 8th Army, soon promoted Chief of Staff. Hoffmann, along with Hindenburg and Ludendorff, masterminded the devastating defeat of the Russian armies at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Hoffmann has received more than 250,404 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Max Hoffmann is the 511th most popular military personnel (down from 494th in 2019), the 1,232nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,202nd in 2019) and the 101st most popular German Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Max Hoffmann ranks 511 out of 1,468. Before him are Andreas Hofer, Tamon Yamaguchi, Harold Lowe, Husein Gradaščević, Ion Mihai Pacepa, and Yu Jin. After him are Gongsun Zan, Kenji Doihara, Theodor Busse, Fyodor Ushakov, Grigory Kulik, and Anton Dostler.
1767 - 1810
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 505
1892 - 1942
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 506
1882 - 1944
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 507
1802 - 1834
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 508
1928 - 2021
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 509
200 - 221
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 510
1869 - 1927
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 511
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 512
1883 - 1948
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 513
1897 - 1986
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 514
1745 - 1817
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 515
1890 - 1950
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 516
1891 - 1945
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 517
Among people born in 1869, Max Hoffmann ranks 38. Before him are Pyotr Krasnov, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Francisco Largo Caballero, Óscar Carmona, and Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans. After him are Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Gaetano Bresci, Élie Cartan, Liane de Pougy, Hovhannes Tumanyan, and Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein. Among people deceased in 1927, Max Hoffmann ranks 26. Before him are Adolph Joffe, Armand Guillaumin, Vladimir Bekhterev, Eugène Atget, Yusef of Morocco, and Wilhelm Johannsen. After him are Enrique Simonet, Shote Galica, Li Dazhao, James Oliver Curwood, Michael Ancher, and Saad Zaghloul.
1869 - 1947
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 32
1869 - 1870
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 33
1869 - 1931
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 34
1869 - 1946
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 35
1869 - 1951
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 36
1869 - 1926
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 37
1869 - 1927
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 38
1869 - 1942
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 39
1869 - 1901
HPI: 58.89
Rank: 40
1869 - 1951
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 41
1869 - 1950
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 42
1869 - 1923
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 43
1869 - 1955
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 44
1883 - 1927
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 20
1841 - 1927
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 21
1857 - 1927
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 22
1857 - 1927
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 23
1882 - 1927
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 24
1857 - 1927
HPI: 59.72
Rank: 25
1869 - 1927
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 26
1866 - 1927
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 27
1895 - 1927
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 28
1889 - 1927
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 29
1878 - 1927
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 30
1849 - 1927
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 31
1858 - 1927
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 32
Among people born in Germany, Max Hoffmann ranks 1,232 out of 6,142. Before him are Manuel Neuer (1986), Erich Heckel (1883), Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1570), Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1530), Claudia Schiffer (1970), and Gotthard of Hildesheim (960). After him are Willi Herold (1925), Karin Schubert (1944), Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1837), Dorothea Binz (1920), Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (1447), and Princess Josephine of Baden (1813).
1986 - Present
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 1,226
1883 - 1970
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 1,227
1570 - 1605
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 1,228
1530 - 1573
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 1,229
1970 - Present
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 1,230
960 - 1038
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 1,231
1869 - 1927
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 1,232
1925 - 1946
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 1,233
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 1,234
1837 - 1859
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 1,235
1920 - 1947
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 1,236
1447 - 1508
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 1,237
1813 - 1900
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 1,238
Among military personnels born in Germany, Max Hoffmann ranks 101. Before him are Christian Wirth (1885), Günther Korten (1898), Ernst Lindemann (1894), Hans Baur (1897), Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594), and Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1911). After him are Theodor Busse (1897), Anton Dostler (1891), Franz von Hipper (1863), Alexander von Kluck (1846), Herta Bothe (1921), and Heinz Lammerding (1905).
1885 - 1944
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 95
1898 - 1944
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 96
1894 - 1941
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 97
1897 - 1993
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 98
1594 - 1632
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 99
1911 - 1986
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 100
1869 - 1927
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 101
1897 - 1986
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 102
1891 - 1945
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 103
1863 - 1932
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 104
1846 - 1934
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 105
1921 - 2000
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 106
1905 - 1971
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 107