1863 - 1928
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Reinhard Scheer (30 September 1863 – 26 November 1928) was an Admiral in the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). Scheer joined the navy in 1879 as an officer cadet and progressed through the ranks, commanding cruisers and battleships, as well as senior staff positions on land. At the outbreak of World War I, Scheer was the commander of the II Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Reinhard Scheer has received more than 349,150 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Reinhard Scheer is the 383rd most popular military personnel (up from 384th in 2019), the 902nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 907th in 2019) and the 84th most popular Military Personnel.
Reinhard Scheer was a German naval officer who served as the chief of the admiralty staff of the German Imperial Navy during World War I. He was most famous for his role in the Battle of Jutland, where he advocated for a fleet engagement with the British Royal Navy.
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Among military personnels, Reinhard Scheer ranks 383 out of 1,468. Before him are Omar Pasha, Georges Picquart, Günther Rall, Prokop the Great, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, and Leonid Govorov. After him are Nicolas Chauvin, Ban Chao, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Vasily Sokolovsky, Nikolai Kuznetsov, and William Tecumseh Sherman.
1806 - 1871
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 377
1854 - 1914
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 378
1918 - 2009
HPI: 61.61
Rank: 379
1380 - 1434
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 380
1755 - 1813
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 381
1897 - 1955
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 382
1863 - 1928
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 383
1790 - 1900
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 384
32 - 102
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 385
1787 - 1862
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 386
1897 - 1968
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 387
1904 - 1974
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 388
1820 - 1891
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 389
Among people born in 1863, Reinhard Scheer ranks 26. Before him are Werner Sombart, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Franz Stuck, Alexandre Yersin, Wilhelm Marx, and Gaston Doumergue. After him are George Santayana, Max Wolf, Heinrich Rickert, William Randolph Hearst, Albert Calmette, and Leo Baekeland. Among people deceased in 1928, Reinhard Scheer ranks 20. Before him are Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Italo Svevo, Zhang Zuolin, Luigi Cadorna, and Stjepan Radić. After him are Loie Fuller, Giovanni Giolitti, Li Yuanhong, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Álvaro Obregón, and Armando Diaz.
1863 - 1941
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 20
1863 - 1944
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 21
1863 - 1928
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 22
1863 - 1943
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 23
1863 - 1946
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 24
1863 - 1937
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 25
1863 - 1928
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 26
1863 - 1952
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 27
1863 - 1932
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 28
1863 - 1936
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 29
1863 - 1951
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 30
1863 - 1933
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 31
1863 - 1944
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 32
1864 - 1928
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 14
1868 - 1928
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 15
1861 - 1928
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 16
1875 - 1928
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 17
1850 - 1928
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 18
1871 - 1928
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 19
1863 - 1928
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 20
1862 - 1928
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 21
1842 - 1928
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 22
1864 - 1928
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 23
1867 - 1928
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 24
1880 - 1928
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 25
1861 - 1928
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 26
Among people born in Germany, Reinhard Scheer ranks 902 out of 6,142. Before him are Gershom Scholem (1897), Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755), Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671), Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (1946), Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635), and Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370). After him are John George, Elector of Brandenburg (1525), Kurt Koffka (1886), Thietmar of Merseburg (975), William IV, Duke of Bavaria (1493), Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (1173), and Tannhäuser (1205).
1897 - 1982
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 896
1755 - 1813
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 897
1671 - 1727
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 898
1946 - Present
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 899
1635 - 1709
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 900
1370 - 1428
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 901
1863 - 1928
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 902
1525 - 1598
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 903
1886 - 1941
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 904
975 - 1018
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 905
1493 - 1550
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 906
1173 - 1231
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 907
1205 - 1270
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 908
Among military personnels born in Germany, Reinhard Scheer ranks 84. Before him are Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (1905), Viktor Lutze (1890), Erich Kempka (1910), Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1887), Günther Rall (1918), and Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755). After him are Herbert Gille (1897), Johannes Frießner (1892), Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887), Günther Lütjens (1889), Alfred von Waldersee (1832), and August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760).
1905 - 1944
HPI: 62.05
Rank: 78
1890 - 1943
HPI: 61.90
Rank: 79
1910 - 1975
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 80
1887 - 1963
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 81
1918 - 2009
HPI: 61.61
Rank: 82
1755 - 1813
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 83
1863 - 1928
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 84
1897 - 1966
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 85
1892 - 1971
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 86
1887 - 1952
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 87
1889 - 1941
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 88
1832 - 1904
HPI: 60.99
Rank: 89
1760 - 1831
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 90