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Nikolaus von Falkenhorst

1885 - 1968

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Paul Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (17 January 1885 – 18 June 1968) was a German general and war criminal during World War II. He planned and commanded the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940, and was commander of German troops during the occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1944. After the war, Falkenhorst was tried by a joint British-Norwegian military tribunal for war crimes. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolaus von Falkenhorst has received more than 367,177 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolaus von Falkenhorst is the 410th most popular military personnel (down from 319th in 2019), the 204th most popular biography from Poland (down from 156th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was a German general in the Second World War. He was most famous for his role in the invasion of Norway in 1940.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 410 out of 1,468. Before him are Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Walter Nowotny, Otto von Below, Herbert Gille, and Zhang He. After him are François Achille Bazaine, Dmitry Pavlov, Viktor Kulikov, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Lü Meng, and Johannes Frießner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 42. Before him are Heinrich Hoffmann, Hugo Boss, Hugo Sperrle, Clementine Churchill, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, and Giacomo Matteotti. After him are G. W. Pabst, Kato Svanidze, Romano Guardini, Will Durant, Velimir Khlebnikov, and Tamara Karsavina. Among people deceased in 1968, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 34. Before him are José Nasazzi, Giovanni Messe, Alexandre Kojève, Ivan Ribar, Lucio Fontana, and Vasily Sokolovsky. After him are Alice Guy-Blaché, Romano Guardini, Josef Harpe, Vittorio Pozzo, Fritz Bauer, and Charles Chaplin Jr..

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 204 out of 1,454. Before him are Józef Gosławski (1908), Günter Blobel (1936), Paul Tillich (1886), Andrzej Duda (1972), Otto von Below (1857), and Hermann Grassmann (1809). After him are Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030), Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), Bolesław II the Generous (1041), Alice Miller (1923), and Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ranks 21. Before him are Władysław Sikorski (1881), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Otto Kretschmer (1912), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Hermann Balck (1893), and Otto von Below (1857). After him are Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878), Eberhard von Mackensen (1889), Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), Erich Fellgiebel (1886), and Casimir Pulaski (1745).

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