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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. 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 287,775 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff is the 828th most popular military personnel (down from 723rd in 2019), the 431st most popular biography from Poland (down from 378th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 828 out of 1,468. Before him are Hermann Ehrhardt, Nikolai Berzarin, Henri Winkelman, Minamoto no Yorimasa, Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, and Bertram Ramsay. After him are Karol Świerczewski, Hiroshi Ōshima, Ivan Isakov, Jacques Massu, Fyodor Kuznetsov, and Kazuo Sakamaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 100. Before him are Yen Chia-kan, Banine, Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, Pierre Klossowski, Martin Gottfried Weiss, and Anna May Wong. After him are Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Joseph Bonanno, Gertrude Ederle, Jean Daniélou, Edgar Snow, and Nihal Atsız. Among people deceased in 1980, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 88. Before him are Bert Kaempfert, Josias Braun-Blanquet, Joy Adamson, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Katia Mann, and Valko Chervenkov. After him are Tadao Takayama, Alexander Mach, Hiroshi Inagaki, Lil Dagover, Dixie Dean, and Marie Under.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 431 out of 1,454. Before him are Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756), Sendivogius (1566), Piotr Skarga (1536), Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Mieszko I Tanglefoot (1132), and Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920). After him are Israel Joshua Singer (1893), Zawisza Czarny (1379), Karol Świerczewski (1897), Andrew Bobola (1591), Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874), and Maria Cunitz (1610).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 37. Before him are Helmuth von Pannwitz (1898), Walther Nehring (1892), Hermann von Eichhorn (1848), Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886), Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893), and Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784). After him are Karol Świerczewski (1897), Fritz von Below (1853), Erich Abraham (1895), Helmut Lent (1918), Max Simon (1899), and Hellmuth Stieff (1901).

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