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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 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

Among military personnels, Rüdiger von der Goltz ranks 480 out of 1,468Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Rüdiger von der Goltz ranks 37Before 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 49Before 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.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rüdiger von der Goltz ranks 238 out of 1,454Before 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).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Rüdiger von der Goltz ranks 24Before 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).