1902 - 1979
Reinhard Gehlen (3 April 1902 – 8 June 1979) was a German career intelligence officer who served the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the U.S. intelligence community, and the NATO-affiliated Federal Republic of Germany during the Cold War. Born into a Lutheran family at Erfurt, Gehlen joined the Reichswehr, the truncated Army of the Weimar Republic, and remained a career military intelligence officer after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor in 1933. Gehlen was chief of the Wehrmacht Fremde Heere Ost (FHO), an anti-Soviet military intelligence service, during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Reinhard Gehlen has received more than 991,732 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Reinhard Gehlen is the 277th most popular military personnel (down from 270th in 2019), the 629th most popular biography from Germany (down from 617th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular German Military Personnel.
Reinhard Gehlen was a German general and intelligence officer who, before and during World War II, played a key role in the creation of the Gehlen Organization, the most significant intelligence organization on the Eastern Front.
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Among military personnels, Reinhard Gehlen ranks 277 out of 1,468. Before him are Maurice Benyovszky, Omar Bradley, Yermak Timofeyevich, Erich Priebke, Oenomaus, and Wang Jian. After him are Gerhard Barkhorn, Alexandre de Beauharnais, Karl Wolff, Boris Shaposhnikov, Vasily Blyukher, and Orda Khan.
1746 - 1786
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 271
1893 - 1981
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 272
1532 - 1585
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 273
1913 - 2013
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 274
105 BC - 70 BC
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 275
300 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 276
1902 - 1979
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 277
1919 - 1983
HPI: 64.10
Rank: 278
1760 - 1794
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 279
1900 - 1984
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 280
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 281
1889 - 1938
HPI: 63.96
Rank: 282
1204 - 1280
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 283
Among people born in 1902, Reinhard Gehlen ranks 32. Before him are Arne Jacobsen, Harold Lasswell, Marcel Breuer, Mikhail Suslov, Alva Myrdal, and Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque. After him are Alexander Luria, Theodore Schultz, Émile Benveniste, Juscelino Kubitschek, André Michel Lwoff, and Mitsuo Fuchida. Among people deceased in 1979, Reinhard Gehlen ranks 25. Before him are Nur Muhammad Taraki, Mustafa Barzani, Nadia Boulanger, Sonia Delaunay, Werner Forssmann, and Sid Vicious. After him are Bertil Ohlin, Wilhelm Bittrich, Rachele Mussolini, Robert Burns Woodward, Ernst Chain, and Agostinho Neto.
1902 - 1971
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 26
1902 - 1978
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 27
1902 - 1981
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 28
1902 - 1982
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 29
1902 - 1986
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 30
1902 - 1947
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 31
1902 - 1979
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 32
1902 - 1977
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 33
1902 - 1998
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 34
1902 - 1976
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 35
1902 - 1976
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 36
1902 - 1994
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 37
1902 - 1976
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 38
1917 - 1979
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 19
1903 - 1979
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 20
1887 - 1979
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 21
1885 - 1979
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 22
1904 - 1979
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 23
1957 - 1979
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 24
1902 - 1979
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 25
1899 - 1979
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 26
1894 - 1979
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 27
1890 - 1979
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 28
1917 - 1979
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 29
1906 - 1979
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 30
1922 - 1979
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 31
Among people born in Germany, Reinhard Gehlen ranks 629 out of 6,142. Before him are Curd Jürgens (1915), Fritz Perls (1893), Erich Priebke (1913), Johannes Rau (1931), August Bebel (1840), and Hans Morgenthau (1904). After him are Cunigunde of Luxembourg (978), Walther Rathenau (1867), Maria Josepha of Bavaria (1739), Werner von Haeften (1908), Anna Anderson (1896), and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (1837).
1915 - 1982
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 623
1893 - 1970
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 624
1913 - 2013
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 625
1931 - 2006
HPI: 64.20
Rank: 626
1840 - 1913
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 627
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 628
1902 - 1979
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 629
978 - 1039
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 630
1867 - 1922
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 631
1739 - 1767
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 632
1908 - 1944
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 633
1896 - 1984
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 634
1837 - 1892
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 635
Among military personnels born in Germany, Reinhard Gehlen ranks 63. Before him are Kurt Meyer (1910), Erich Hoepner (1886), Hans von Seeckt (1866), Werner Mölders (1913), Maurice de Saxe (1696), and Erich Priebke (1913). After him are Karl Wolff (1900), Wilhelm Bittrich (1894), Hans-Joachim Marseille (1919), Götz von Berlichingen (1480), Arthur Nebe (1894), and Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870).
1910 - 1961
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 57
1886 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 58
1866 - 1936
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 59
1913 - 1941
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 60
1696 - 1750
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 61
1913 - 2013
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 62
1902 - 1979
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 63
1900 - 1984
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 64
1894 - 1979
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 65
1919 - 1942
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 66
1480 - 1562
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 67
1894 - 1945
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 68
1870 - 1964
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 69