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Rüdiger von der Goltz

1865 - 1946

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Gustav Adolf Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz (8 December 1865 – 4 November 1946) was a German army general during the First World War. He commanded the Baltic Sea Division, which successfully intervened in the Finnish Civil War in the spring of 1918. Goltz stayed with his troops in Finland until December 1918 representing German interests, and in practice ruled the country as a military dictator during this period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rüdiger von der Goltz has received more than 246,647 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Rüdiger von der Goltz is the 576th most popular military personnel (down from 480th in 2019), the 298th most popular biography from Poland (down from 238th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Rüdiger von der Goltz ranks 576 out of 2,058. Before him are Otto Kumm, Filipp Golikov, Georg Stumme, Woodes Rogers, Zhou Tai, and Zhuge Jin. After him are William Tecumseh Sherman, Giorgio Basta, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Deng Ai, Aleksei Antonov, and Elyesa Bazna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Rüdiger von der Goltz ranks 43. Before him are Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke, Ernst Troeltsch, Nikola Zhekov, Yvette Guilbert, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, and Lala Lajpat Rai. After him are Princess Marie of Orléans, Wilfrid Voynich, Abraham Isaac Kook, Frederick Cook, Rainis, and Charles Bally. Among people deceased in 1946, Rüdiger von der Goltz ranks 55. Before him are Clemens August Graf von Galen, Carl Schuhmann, Per Albin Hansson, Willi Herold, James Jeans, and Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov. After him are Miroslav Filipović, Alfred Stieglitz, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Anton Mussert, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, and Hisaichi Terauchi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rüdiger von der Goltz ranks 298 out of 1,694. Before him are Hyacinth of Poland (1185), Miguel Najdorf (1910), Mateusz Morawiecki (1968), Stefan Czarniecki (1599), Jan Karski (1914), and Otto Mueller (1874). After him are Sophie of Pomerania (1498), Leopold Trepper (1904), Richeza of Poland, Queen of Sweden (1116), Jerzy Popiełuszko (1947), Ida Haendel (1928), and Jan Zamoyski (1542).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Rüdiger von der Goltz ranks 26. Before him are Otto von Below (1857), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919), Erich Fellgiebel (1886), and Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889). After him are Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878), Heinz Reinefarth (1903), Walther Nehring (1892), Eberhard von Mackensen (1889), Casimir Pulaski (1745), and Hans Karl von Diebitsch (1785).

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