MILITARY PERSONNEL

Max Immelmann

1890 - 1916

Photo of Max Immelmann

Icon of person Max Immelmann

Max Immelmann (21 September 1890 – 18 June 1916) PLM was the first German World War I flying ace. He was a pioneer in fighter aviation and is often mistakenly credited with the first aerial victory using a synchronized gun, which was in fact achieved on 1 July 1915 by the German ace Kurt Wintgens. Immelmann was the first aviator to receive the Pour le Mérite, colloquially known as the "Blue Max" in his honour, being awarded it at the same time as Oswald Boelcke. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Immelmann has received more than 447,908 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Immelmann is the 643rd most popular military personnel (up from 696th in 2019), the 1,586th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,716th in 2019) and the 120th most popular German Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Max Immelmann ranks 643 out of 2,058. Before him are William Bligh, Hans Speidel, Demosthenes, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, Sergey Biryuzov, and Werner Ostendorff. After him are Eberhard von Mackensen, Herta Bothe, Lothar von Trotha, Hisaichi Terauchi, Sadao Araki, and Markian Popov.

Most Popular Military Personnels in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Max Immelmann ranks 65. Before him are Georgy Pyatakov, Milunka Savić, Erich Kleiber, Walter Krüger, Alfredo Ottaviani, and Béla Miklós. After him are Bacha Khan, Géza Lakatos, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, Grigory Kulik, Norman Bethune, and Zeki Velidi Togan. Among people deceased in 1916, Max Immelmann ranks 52. Before him are Joseph Gallieni, Ōyama Iwao, Fredrik Idestam, Hans Richter, Antonio Sant'Elia, and August Leskien. After him are Nedeljko Čabrinović, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Petar Kočić, Paolo Tosti, Thomas Eakins, and Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau.

Others Born in 1890

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1916

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Immelmann ranks 1,586 out of 7,253. Before him are Heiner Müller (1929), Gertrude of Hohenberg (1225), Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony (1728), August Leskien (1840), Richard Glücks (1889), and Stéphane Hessel (1917). After him are Ernst von Weizsäcker (1882), Bernard of Saxe-Weimar (1604), Christian Leopold von Buch (1774), Salvian (405), Karl Lachmann (1793), and Garibald I of Bavaria (550).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Max Immelmann ranks 120. Before him are Nicolaus von Below (1907), Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1888), Hans Hermann von Katte (1704), Franz Hössler (1906), Hans Speidel (1897), and Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (1893). After him are Herta Bothe (1921), Lothar von Trotha (1848), Wilhelm Rediess (1900), Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1911), Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg (1759), and Karl-Adolf Hollidt (1891).

German born Military Personnels

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous