MILITARY PERSONNEL

Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff

1905 - 1980

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Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (27 March 1905 – 27 January 1980) was an officer in the German Army. As a Wehrmacht intelligence officer, he attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943; the plan failed when Hitler left early, but Gersdorff was undetected. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff has received more than 313,560 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff is the 1,705th most popular military personnel (down from 840th in 2019), the 906th most popular biography from Poland (down from 431st in 2019) and the 75th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 1,705 out of 2,058. Before him are Silvestras Žukauskas, Władysław Raginis, Walther Reinhardt, Nikola Ivanov, Lawrence Oates, and Mutsuhiro Watanabe. After him are Ivan Maslennikov, Gérard Leman, Tolmides, Charles Lee, Alfred Keller, and Felix Graf von Bothmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 235. Before him are Vladimír Holan, Ibrahim Tuqan, Johannes Käbin, Lev Atamanov, Fred Alderman, and Raghunath Murmu. After him are John Kuck, László Raffinsky, Floyd Gottfredson, Leila Hyams, Kunio Maekawa, and Albrecht Unsöld. Among people deceased in 1980, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 191. Before him are Peppino De Filippo, Jacob Talmon, Vladimír Holan, Toshiko Yuasa, Mia May, and Jacqueline Cochran. After him are Uttam Kumar, Petar Trifunović, Ben Sharpsteen, Charley Borah, László Szollás, and Vasja Pirc.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 906 out of 1,694. Before him are Ellen Schwiers (1930), Szymon Goldberg (1909), Marek Hłasko (1934), Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1778), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), and Karolina Kózka (1898). After him are Abraham Brill (1874), Adam Zamenhof (1888), Michael Sela (1924), Jan T. Gross (1947), Ingrid Pitt (1937), and Otto Toeplitz (1881).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 75. Before him are Hermann Boehm (1884), Alfred Saalwächter (1883), Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł (1778), Wilhelm Hasse (1894), August Emil Fieldorf (1895), and Theodor Tolsdorff (1909). After him are Hyman G. Rickover (1900), Johannes Block (1894), John Shalikashvili (1936), Walter Krueger (1881), Maria Wittek (1899), and Franciszek Gągor (1951).

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