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Walter Heitz

1878 - 1944

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Walter Heitz (8 December 1878 – 9 February 1944) was a German general (Generaloberst) in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He served as President of the Reich Military Court and commanded part of the 6th Army in the Battle of Stalingrad. A decorated World War I officer and supporter of Nazism, Heitz advanced rapidly under the Third Reich. In 1936, he became the president of the Reich Military Court. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Heitz has received more than 208,941 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Walter Heitz is the 831st most popular military personnel (down from 786th in 2019), the 2,056th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,958th in 2019) and the 150th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Walter Heitz ranks 831 out of 2,058. Before him are David Farragut, Walter Weiß, Eduard Roschmann, Henri Gouraud, Ōtani Yoshitsugu, and Chabrias. After him are Sylvester Stadler, Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, P. G. T. Beauregard, Ivan Panfilov, Bertram Ramsay, and Ardaric.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Walter Heitz ranks 66. Before him are Jack Johnson, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Hartley, C. Rajagopalachari, Paul Troost, and Stephen Timoshenko. After him are Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, Horacio Quiroga, Maurice René Fréchet, José Miaja, Alexander Tamanian, and Kurt Goldstein. Among people deceased in 1944, Walter Heitz ranks 107. Before him are Ulrich von Hassell, Andrey Sheptytsky, Ethel Smyth, Petr Ginz, Emanuel Ringelblum, and Józef Beck. After him are André Abegglen, Rudolf Schmundt, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, Chaim Rumkowski, and Hans Krása.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Heitz ranks 2,056 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1688), George Müller (1805), Veit Harlan (1899), Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1727), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), and Fredrik Pacius (1809). After him are Bernd Hölzenbein (1946), Johann Christoph Bach (1671), Wolfgang Borchert (1921), Friedrich Kellner (1885), Johannes Sturm (1507), and Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1691).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Walter Heitz ranks 150. Before him are Erich Rudorffer (1917), Hans Hartwig von Beseler (1850), Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786), Karl Frenzel (1911), Ernst Barkmann (1919), and Ludwig Crüwell (1892). After him are Wilhelm Adam (1877), Bruno Loerzer (1891), Erich Brandenberger (1892), Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894), Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma (1891), and Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891).

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