MILITARY PERSONNEL

Rudolf Schmidt

1886 - 1957

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Rudolf Schmidt (12 May 1886 – 7 April 1957) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the 2nd Panzer Army on the Eastern Front. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Schmidt has received more than 141,553 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Rudolf Schmidt is the 912th most popular military personnel (down from 833rd in 2019), the 2,234th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,089th in 2019) and the 168th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Rudolf Schmidt ranks 912 out of 2,058. Before him are Henry Allingham, Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma, Hans Loritz, Gainas, Hydarnes II, and Hermann Ehrhardt. After him are Jacques François Dugommier, Dan Shomron, Karl Lennart Oesch, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, Monte Melkonian, and John Basilone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Rudolf Schmidt ranks 95. Before him are Olaf Stapledon, Edward Weston, Florence Lawrence, Frank Nitti, Anandyn Amar, and Marthe Bibesco. After him are Stefania Wilczyńska, Salvador de Madariaga, Ernst Robert Curtius, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Hans von Obstfelder, and Princess Patricia of Connaught. Among people deceased in 1957, Rudolf Schmidt ranks 84. Before him are Josef Lada, Eugenio Castellotti, Shūmei Ōkawa, Irving Baxter, Hasui Kawase, and Álvaro Gestido. After him are Sholem Asch, Prince Franz of Bavaria, Rudolf Weigl, Wilhelm Filchner, Umberto Saba, and Paja Jovanović.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Schmidt ranks 2,234 out of 7,253. Before him are C. W. Ceram (1915), Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573), Mathias Rust (1968), Fred Uhlman (1901), Hermann Ehrhardt (1881), and Andreas Cellarius (1596). After him are Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1779), Floris III, Count of Holland (1141), Ralf Schumacher (1975), Louis of Nassau (1538), Walter Eucken (1891), and Rudolf Peierls (1907).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Rudolf Schmidt ranks 168. Before him are Heinrich Eberbach (1895), Heinrich von Plauen (1370), Otto Wöhler (1894), Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel (1744), Hans Loritz (1895), and Hermann Ehrhardt (1881). After him are Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (1796), Karl Mauss (1898), Wolfgang Lotz (1921), Alexander von Linsingen (1850), Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (1683), and Prince Franz of Bavaria (1875).

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