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Reinhard Hardegen

1913 - 2018

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Korvettenkapitän Reinhard Hardegen (18 March 1913 – 9 June 2018) was a German U-boat commander during World War II. He was credited with the sinking of 25 ships (2 were later refloated), at a total of 136,661 tons. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Reinhard Hardegen has received more than 314,940 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Reinhard Hardegen is the 1,156th most popular military personnel (down from 797th in 2019), the 2,959th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,072nd in 2019) and the 218th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Reinhard Hardegen ranks 1,156 out of 1,468Before him are Oleg Kalugin, Wesley Clark, Søren Kam, Illus, Shōji Nishimura, and Shigeyoshi Inoue. After him are Khiuaz Dospanova, Angelo Iachino, Cristóbal de Olid, Nuri Killigil, Miguel Cabanellas, and Mile Mrkšić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Reinhard Hardegen ranks 145Before him are René Schneider, Sebastiano Baggio, Pak Song-chol, František Čáp, Abraham Sutzkever, and Maria Tănase. After him are Yakov Zak, Nicolas Grunitzky, Ad Reinhardt, Fritz Darges, Vicente Calderón, and Anthony Quayle. Among people deceased in 2018, Reinhard Hardegen ranks 172Before him are Sridevi, Eddie Clarke, Roger Piantoni, Roger Bannister, Barbara Harris, and Lewis Gilbert. After him are William Goldman, Leila Abashidze, Zhores Medvedev, Peter Mayle, Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and Robert Indiana.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Reinhard Hardegen ranks 2,959 out of 6,142Before him are Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1786), Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742), Volker Finke (1948), Ignaz von Döllinger (1799), Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz (1884), and Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782). After him are Michael Ballhaus (1935), Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt (1755), Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772), Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg (1675), Paul Fleming (1609), and Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1846).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Reinhard Hardegen ranks 218Before him are Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782), August Schmidhuber (1901), Prince Frederick of Württemberg (1808), Johanna Wolf (1900), Joachim Lemelsen (1888), and Werner Goldberg (1919). After him are Fritz Darges (1913), Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg (1615), Josias von Heeringen (1850), Erich Marcks (1891), August Karl von Goeben (1816), and Friedrich Christiansen (1879).