1861 - 1914
Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee (22 June 1861 – 8 December 1914) was a naval officer of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), who commanded the East Asia Squadron during World War I. Spee entered the navy in 1878 and served in a variety of roles and locations, including on a colonial gunboat in German West Africa in the 1880s, the East Africa Squadron in the late 1890s, and as commander of several warships in the main German fleet in the early 1900s. During his time in Germany in the late 1880s and early 1890s, he married his wife, Margareta, and had three children, his sons Heinrich and Otto and his daughter Huberta. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maximilian von Spee has received more than 500,414 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Maximilian von Spee is the 314th most popular military personnel (up from 376th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 106th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Danish Military Personnel.
Maximilian von Spee was a German naval officer who commanded the German East Asia Squadron. He was most famous for his victory in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914.
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Among military personnels, Maximilian von Spee ranks 314 out of 1,468. Before him are Arthur Nebe, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, John Franklin, Xiahou Dun, and Qutayba ibn Muslim. After him are Wu Sangui, Jiang Wei, Fyodor Tolbukhin, François Joseph Lefebvre, Sergey Sokolov, and Nikolai Yudenich.
1894 - 1945
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 308
1852 - 1925
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 309
1771 - 1820
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 310
1786 - 1847
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 311
155 - 220
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 312
668 - 715
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 313
1861 - 1914
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 314
1612 - 1678
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 315
202 - 264
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 316
1894 - 1949
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 317
1755 - 1820
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 318
1911 - 2012
HPI: 63.05
Rank: 319
1862 - 1933
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 320
Among people born in 1861, Maximilian von Spee ranks 21. Before him are Georgy Lvov, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Aristide Maillol, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, H. H. Holmes, and Pehr Evind Svinhufvud. After him are Antoine Bourdelle, Italo Svevo, José Rizal, Ranavalona III, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, and Anton Arensky. Among people deceased in 1914, Maximilian von Spee ranks 16. Before him are Carol I of Romania, August Weismann, Jean Jaurès, Georg Trakl, Ismail Gaspirali, and August Macke. After him are Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Eduard Suess, Ambrose Bierce, Alphonse Bertillon, Alexander Samsonov, and Georges Picquart.
1861 - 1925
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 15
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 16
1861 - 1944
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 17
1861 - 1951
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 18
1861 - 1896
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 19
1861 - 1944
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 20
1861 - 1914
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 21
1861 - 1929
HPI: 63.05
Rank: 22
1861 - 1928
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 23
1861 - 1896
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 24
1861 - 1917
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 25
1861 - 1936
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 26
1861 - 1906
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 27
1839 - 1914
HPI: 67.15
Rank: 10
1834 - 1914
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 11
1859 - 1914
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 12
1887 - 1914
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 13
1851 - 1914
HPI: 64.25
Rank: 14
1887 - 1914
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 15
1861 - 1914
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 16
1851 - 1914
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 17
1831 - 1914
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 18
1842 - 1914
HPI: 62.58
Rank: 19
1853 - 1914
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 20
1859 - 1914
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 21
1854 - 1914
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 22
Among people born in Denmark, Maximilian von Spee ranks 80 out of 893. Before him are Sven Hassel (1917), Canute Lavard (1096), Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (1879), Eric I of Denmark (1055), Christopher II of Denmark (1276), and Rasmus Rask (1787). After him are Eric VI of Denmark (1274), Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark (1771), Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864), Eric IV of Denmark (1216), Michael Laudrup (1964), and Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847).
1917 - 2012
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 74
1096 - 1131
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 75
1879 - 1947
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 76
1055 - 1103
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 77
1276 - 1332
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 78
1787 - 1832
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 79
1861 - 1914
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 80
1274 - 1319
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 81
1771 - 1843
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 82
1864 - 1916
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 83
1216 - 1250
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 84
1964 - Present
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 85
1847 - 1885
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 86
Among military personnels born in Denmark, Maximilian von Spee ranks 2. Before him are Ubba (1000). After him are Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt (1659) and Søren Kam (1921).
1000 - 878
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 1
1861 - 1914
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 2
1659 - 1719
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 3
1921 - 2015
HPI: 51.98
Rank: 4