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Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

1870 - 1964

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Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (20 March 1870 – 9 March 1964), popularly known as the Lion of Africa (German: Löwe von Afrika), was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of its forces in the German East Africa campaign. For four years, with a force of about 14,000 (3,000 Germans and 11,000 Africans), he held in check a much larger force of 300,000 British, Indian, Belgian, and Portuguese troops. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck has received more than 1,611,838 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck is the 343rd most popular military personnel (down from 322nd in 2019), the 794th most popular biography from Germany (down from 736th in 2019) and the 70th most popular German Military Personnel.

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck was a German general who led the German East African Campaign in World War I.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck ranks 343 out of 2,058. Before him are Yamagata Aritomo, Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Kim Philby, and Italo Gariboldi. After him are Eduard Dietl, Toyotomi Hideyori, Andrei Grechko, Hans-Valentin Hube, Rudolf Abel, and James Paul Moody.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck ranks 22. Before him are Ivan Bunin, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Gustav Bauer, Josef Hoffmann, Maurice Denis, and Clara Immerwahr. After him are Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, Sophia of Prussia, Georgy Gapon, D. T. Suzuki, Ernst Barlach, and Pierre Louÿs. Among people deceased in 1964, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck ranks 22. Before him are Gerrit Rietveld, Karl Polanyi, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Otto Grotewohl, Plaek Phibunsongkhram, and Giorgio Morandi. After him are Alexandre Koyré, Alexander Archipenko, Emilio Aguinaldo, Otto Wille Kuusinen, Ernst Kretschmer, and Maurice Thorez.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck ranks 794 out of 7,253. Before him are Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Ludwig Quidde (1858), Gisela of Hungary (980), Joseph Wirth (1879), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), and Johann Christoph Adelung (1732). After him are Eduard Dietl (1890), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Thietmar of Merseburg (975), Volker Schlöndorff (1939), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925), and Jürgen Prochnow (1941).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck ranks 70. Before him are Walther Wenck (1900), Georg von Frundsberg (1473), Erich Priebke (1913), Arthur Nebe (1894), Reinhard Gehlen (1902), and Wilhelm Bittrich (1894). After him are Eduard Dietl (1890), Hans-Valentin Hube (1890), Hugo Sperrle (1885), Günther Prien (1908), Levin August von Bennigsen (1745), and Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755).

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