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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Oswald Boelcke

1891 - 1916

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Oswald Boelcke PlM (German: [ˈbœlkə]; 19 May 1891 – 28 October 1916) was a World War I German professional soldier and pioneering flying ace credited with 40 aerial victories. Boelcke is honored as the father of the German fighter air force, and of air combat as a whole. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oswald Boelcke has received more than 492,822 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Oswald Boelcke is the 686th most popular military personnel (down from 548th in 2019), the 1,691st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,365th in 2019) and the 127th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Oswald Boelcke ranks 686 out of 1,468Before him are Otto Kittel, Lothar von Trotha, Hans Hermann von Katte, Johan Banér, William Stuart-Houston, and P. G. T. Beauregard. After him are Walther Nehring, Adolf Heusinger, Markian Popov, Vasily Petrov, William Halsey Jr., and Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Oswald Boelcke ranks 54Before him are Jacques Lipchitz, Takijirō Ōnishi, Yevhen Konovalets, John Heartfield, John Langenus, and Shizo Kanakuri. After him are Hu Shih, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Poul Nielsen, Lajos Zilahy, Walter A. Shewhart, and Gio Ponti. Among people deceased in 1916, Oswald Boelcke ranks 51Before him are Hugo Münsterberg, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Torakusu Yamaha, Ōyama Iwao, Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, and Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova. After him are Hiram Maxim, Max Immelmann, Paolo Tosti, Fredrik Idestam, Petar Kočić, and Isa Boletini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oswald Boelcke ranks 1,691 out of 6,142Before him are Sophia of Bavaria (1376), Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin (1673), Elisabeth of Swabia (1205), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Oliver Bierhoff (1968), and Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1713). After him are Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia (1332), Miguel, Duke of Braganza (1853), Adolf Heusinger (1897), Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1547), Hermann Tilke (1954), and Jan Tschichold (1902).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Oswald Boelcke ranks 127Before him are Hans Langsdorff (1894), Herbert Kappler (1907), Georg Stumme (1886), Wilhelm Schepmann (1894), Lothar von Trotha (1848), and Hans Hermann von Katte (1704). After him are Adolf Heusinger (1897), Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg (1759), Kurt von Tippelskirch (1891), Max Immelmann (1890), Fritz Klingenberg (1912), and Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg (1886).