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Oskar Kummetz

1891 - 1980

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Oskar Kummetz (21 July 1891 – 17 December 1980) was an admiral with the Kriegsmarine during World War II. He also served in the Kaiserliche Marine during World War I. Kummetz was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his actions in the Battle of Drøbak Sound, during which his command, the Blücher, was hit in the superstructure by two 28 cm shells from Norwegian fortress Oscarsborg, 15 cm shells from Kopås fortress and 5.7 cm gunfire from Husvik fortress. From Kaholmen Blücher was hit by two torpedoes and she sank 84 metres below the sound. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oskar Kummetz has received more than 118,927 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Oskar Kummetz is the 1,046th most popular military personnel (up from 1,131st in 2019), the 539th most popular biography from Poland (up from 609th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Oskar Kummetz ranks 1,046 out of 2,058. Before her are Otto Baum, Nureddin Pasha, Müezzinzade Ali Pasha, Gonzalo Guerrero, Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, and Yang Kyoungjong. After her are Abdul-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr, John Fastolf, Abdul Fatah Younis, Isamu Chō, Bauyrzhan Momyshuly, and Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Oskar Kummetz ranks 99. Before her are Milton L. Humason, Elvira de Hidalgo, Maksim Bahdanovič, Alfred Meyer, Danilo Ilić, and Julius Raab. After her are Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia, Wilder Penfield, R. Norris Williams, Alfred Wünnenberg, Béla Imrédy, and Ahmad bin Yahya. Among people deceased in 1980, Oskar Kummetz ranks 106. Before her are Elvira de Hidalgo, Josias Braun-Blanquet, Manlio Brosio, Miguel Capuccini, Rosa Albach-Retty, and Shigemaru Takenokoshi. After her are Richard Chase, Yahya Khan, Luigi Longo, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Ernst Ocwirk, and Alf Sjöberg.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Oskar Kummetz ranks 539 out of 1,694. Before her are Moses Isserles (1520), Joseph Serchuk (1919), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), Franz Waxman (1906), Otto von Gierke (1841), and Duchess Amelia of Württemberg (1799). After her are Jadwiga of Kalisz (1266), Bolesław the Pious (1225), Richard Courant (1888), Peter Yorck von Wartenburg (1904), Paul Löbe (1875), and Lidia Zamenhof (1904).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Oskar Kummetz ranks 51. Before her are Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784), Walther von Lüttwitz (1859), Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann (1818), Hellmuth Stieff (1901), Georg von der Marwitz (1856), and Helmut Lent (1918). After her are Tadeusz Kutrzeba (1885), Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793), Otto Lasch (1893), Aleksander Zawadzki (1899), Karl Decker (1897), and Erich Abraham (1895).

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