MILITARY PERSONNEL

Otto Kretschmer

1912 - 1998

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Otto Kretschmer (1 May 1912 – 5 August 1998) was a German naval officer and submariner in World War II and the Cold War. From September 1939 until his capture in March 1941 he sank 44 ships, including one warship, a total of 274,333 tons. For this he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, among other awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Kretschmer has received more than 691,743 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Otto Kretschmer is the 378th most popular military personnel (down from 362nd in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from Poland (down from 173rd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Otto Kretschmer was a German naval officer who was most famous for his capture of the British submarine HMS Spearfish in 1917.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Otto Kretschmer ranks 378 out of 2,058. Before him are Ashraf Marwan, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Giovanni Messe, Zhang He, Luigi Cadorna, and Vasily Arkhipov. After him are Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Sergey Sokolov, Gustav Wagner, Götz von Berlichingen, Cao Ren, and John Franklin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Otto Kretschmer ranks 47. Before him are Kim Philby, Tibor Sekelj, Jozef Gabčík, Otto Ernst Remer, George Emil Palade, and Julius Axelrod. After him are Ghazi of Iraq, Minoru Yamasaki, Patrick White, Lev Gumilyov, Sonja Henie, and Gordon Parks. Among people deceased in 1998, Otto Kretschmer ranks 24. Before him are Falco, Frederick Reines, Tameo Ide, Nizar Qabbani, Julien Green, and Vasily Arkhipov. After him are Allan MacLeod Cormack, Linda McCartney, Alfred Schnittke, George H. Hitchings, André Weil, and Lúcio Costa.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Otto Kretschmer ranks 191 out of 1,694. Before him are Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915), Catherine Opalińska (1680), Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030), Ernst Kummer (1810), Bolesław II the Generous (1041), and Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776). After him are Hans Lammers (1879), Carl Wernicke (1848), Georg Forster (1754), Reinhard Selten (1930), Mieszko II Lambert (990), and Alice Miller (1923).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Otto Kretschmer ranks 19. Before him are Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Rochus Misch (1917), Hermann Balck (1893), and Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889). After him are Otto von Below (1857), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919), Erich Fellgiebel (1886), and Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889).

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