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Walter Model

1891 - 1945

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Otto Moritz Walter Model (IPA: [ˈmoːdəl]; 24 January 1891 – 21 April 1945) was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. Although he was a hard-driving, aggressive panzer commander early in the war, Model became best known as a practitioner of defensive warfare. His relative success as commander of the Ninth Army in the battles of 1941–1942 determined his future career path. Model first came to Hitler's attention before World War II, but their relationship did not become especially close until 1942. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Model has received more than 2,236,553 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Walter Model is the 71st most popular military personnel (down from 58th in 2019), the 179th most popular biography from Germany (down from 147th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Military Personnel.

Walter's Model is most famous for its five stages of grief, which are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

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  • 2.2M

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Walter Model ranks 71 out of 2,058. Before him are Stanislav Petrov, Fedor von Bock, Charles X Gustav of Sweden, Germanicus, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and Joseph Radetzky von Radetz. After him are Erich Raeder, Ahmad Sanjar, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Alexander Suvorov, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Walter Model ranks 7. Before him are Karl Dönitz, Erwin Rommel, Antonio Gramsci, B. R. Ambedkar, Sergei Prokofiev, and Mikhail Bulgakov. After him are Max Ernst, Nelly Sachs, Edith Stein, James Chadwick, John Howard Northrop, and Pär Lagerkvist. Among people deceased in 1945, Walter Model ranks 13. Before him are Eva Braun, Martin Bormann, Béla Bartók, Fedor von Bock, Anton Webern, and Ernst Cassirer. After him are Subhas Chandra Bose, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Magda Goebbels, Paul Valéry, Heinrich Müller, and Wilhelm Canaris.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Model ranks 179 out of 7,253. Before him are Philip Melanchthon (1497), Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714), Alexander Van der Bellen (1944), Friedrich Fröbel (1782), and Olaf Scholz (1958). After him are Rudolf Höss (1901), Erich Raeder (1876), Frederick William II of Prussia (1744), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Christian I of Denmark (1426), and Hans Frank (1900).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Walter Model ranks 14. Before him are Wilhelm Keitel (1882), Michel Ney (1769), Baron Munchausen (1720), Gerd von Rundstedt (1875), Ernst Röhm (1887), and Alfred Jodl (1890). After him are Erich Raeder (1876), Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742), Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800), Erich Hartmann (1922), Walther von Brauchitsch (1881), and Albert Kesselring (1885).

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