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Michael Wittmann

1914 - 1944

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Michael Wittmann (22 April 1914 – 8 August 1944) was a German Waffen-SS tank commander during the Second World War. He is known for his ambush of elements of the British 7th Armored Division during the Battle of Villers-Bocage on 13 June 1944. While in command of a Tiger I tank, Wittmann allegedly destroyed up to 14 tanks, 15 personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns within 15 minutes before the loss of his own tank. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Wittmann has received more than 1,764,915 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Michael Wittmann is the 123rd most popular military personnel (up from 124th in 2019), the 303rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 305th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Military Personnel.

Michael Wittmann was a German tank commander during World War II. He is most famous for his actions during the Battle of Villers-Bocage in June 1944, where he single-handedly destroyed a column of Allied vehicles and was killed in the process.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.08

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Page views of Michael Wittmanns by language

Over the past year Michael Wittmann has had the most page views in the with 189,367 views, followed by German (93,994), and Japanese (39,681). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Arabic (96.68%), Vietnamese (92.04%), and Egyptian Arabic (91.72%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Michael Wittmann ranks 123 out of 2,058. Before him are Cimon, Gaius Julius Caesar, Erich von Falkenhayn, Jean Lannes, André Masséna, and Hermann Hoth. After him are Hiroo Onoda, Nestor Makhno, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Werner von Blomberg, Yūsuf Balasaguni, and Minamoto no Yoshitsune.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Michael Wittmann ranks 9. Before him are Hedy Lamarr, Tove Jansson, Thor Heyerdahl, Tenzing Norgay, Marguerite Duras, and Jiang Qing. After him are Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Alec Guinness, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Richard Widmark, and Mohammed Zahir Shah. Among people deceased in 1944, Michael Wittmann ranks 16. Before him are William James Sidis, Reza Shah, Günther von Kluge, Richard Sorge, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, and Charles Glover Barkla. After him are Alexis Carrel, Marc Bloch, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Ludwig Beck, Ernst Thälmann, and Chūichi Nagumo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Michael Wittmann ranks 303 out of 7,253. Before him are Helmut Schmidt (1918), Franz Marc (1880), Robert Bunsen (1811), Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1955), and Hermann Hoth (1885). After him are Moses Mendelssohn (1729), Sepp Dietrich (1892), Baldur von Schirach (1907), Henry the Lion (1129), Christian III of Denmark (1503), and Hans von Aachen (1552).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Michael Wittmann ranks 27. Before him are Heinrich Müller (1900), Wilhelm Canaris (1887), John of Austria (1547), Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876), Klaus Barbie (1913), and Hermann Hoth (1885). After him are Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881), Franz Halder (1884), Ferdinand Schörner (1892), August von Mackensen (1849), Ludwig Beck (1880), and Alfred von Schlieffen (1833).

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