1865 - 1946
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 224,267 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Rüdiger von der Goltz is the 480th most popular military personnel (up from 613th in 2019), the 238th most popular biography from Poland (up from 309th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Polish Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Rüdiger von der Goltz ranks 480 out of 1,468. Before him are Richard Winters, Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Eberhard von Mackensen, Pál Maléter, Ernst von Mansfeld, and Guillaume Brune. After him are Shunroku Hata, Nogi Maresuke, Vjekoslav Luburić, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Tamara Bunke, and Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno.
1918 - 2011
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 474
1613 - 1676
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 475
1889 - 1969
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 476
1917 - 1958
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 477
1580 - 1626
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 478
1763 - 1815
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 479
1865 - 1946
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 480
1879 - 1962
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 481
1849 - 1912
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 482
1914 - 1969
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 483
1827 - 1871
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 484
1937 - 1967
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 485
1764 - 1841
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 486
Among people born in 1865, Rüdiger von der Goltz ranks 37. Before him are Valentin Serov, Rashid Rida, Gabriel Narutowicz, Gérard Encausse, Frederick Cook, and Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg. After him are Charles G. Dawes, Ernst Troeltsch, Duan Qirui, Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke, Princess Marie of Orléans, and Edith Cavell. Among people deceased in 1946, Rüdiger von der Goltz ranks 49. Before him are Friedrich Jeckeln, Döme Sztójay, Vojtech Tuka, Otto Georg Thierack, Francisco Largo Caballero, and Inayatullah Khan. After him are Gustav Noske, Per Albin Hansson, Willi Herold, Marcel Petiot, Clemens August Graf von Galen, and Anton Mussert.
1865 - 1911
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 31
1865 - 1935
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 32
1865 - 1922
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 33
1865 - 1916
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 34
1865 - 1940
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 35
1865 - 1952
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 36
1865 - 1946
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 37
1865 - 1951
HPI: 59.76
Rank: 38
1865 - 1923
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 39
1865 - 1936
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 40
1865 - 1947
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 41
1865 - 1909
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 42
1865 - 1915
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 43
1895 - 1946
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 43
1883 - 1946
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 44
1880 - 1946
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 45
1889 - 1946
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 46
1869 - 1946
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 47
1888 - 1946
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 48
1865 - 1946
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 49
1868 - 1946
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 50
1885 - 1946
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 51
1925 - 1946
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 52
1897 - 1946
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 53
1878 - 1946
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 54
1894 - 1946
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 55
Among people born in Poland, Rüdiger von der Goltz ranks 238 out of 1,454. Before him are Gunderic (379), Otto Klemperer (1885), Eberhard von Mackensen (1889), Georg Forster (1754), Stanislaus Kostka (1550), and Przemysł II (1257). After him are Władysław I Herman (1043), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Dieter Wisliceny (1911), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Miguel Najdorf (1910), and Kurt Tank (1898).
379 - 428
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 232
1885 - 1973
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 233
1889 - 1969
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 234
1754 - 1794
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 235
1550 - 1568
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 236
1257 - 1296
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 237
1865 - 1946
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 238
1043 - 1102
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 239
1848 - 1931
HPI: 59.84
Rank: 240
1911 - 1948
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 241
1880 - 1961
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 242
1910 - 1997
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 243
1898 - 1983
HPI: 59.75
Rank: 244
Among military personnels born in Poland, Rüdiger von der Goltz ranks 24. Before him are Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Hermann Balck (1893), Otto von Below (1857), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878), and Eberhard von Mackensen (1889). After him are Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), Erich Fellgiebel (1886), Casimir Pulaski (1745), Heinz Reinefarth (1903), Maximilian von Prittwitz (1848), and Hans Karl von Diebitsch (1785).
1897 - 1968
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 18
1893 - 1982
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 19
1857 - 1944
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 20
1885 - 1968
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 21
1878 - 1966
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 22
1889 - 1969
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 23
1865 - 1946
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 24
1889 - 1968
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 25
1886 - 1944
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 26
1745 - 1779
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 27
1903 - 1979
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 28
1848 - 1917
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 29
1785 - 1831
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 30