1878 - 1946
Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg (2 September 1878 – 13 March 1946) was a German General Staff officer and the first Minister of War in Adolf Hitler's government. After serving on the Western Front in World War I, Blomberg was appointed chief of the Truppenamt ("Troop Office") during the Weimar Republic. Following the Nazis' rise to power, he was named Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces. In this capacity, Blomberg played a central role in Germany's military build-up during the years leading to World War II. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Werner von Blomberg has received more than 1,022,252 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Werner von Blomberg is the 131st most popular military personnel (down from 113th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Poland (down from 63rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Military Personnel.
Werner von Blomberg was a German soldier and Nazi officer who served as the Minister of War from 1934 to 1938. He is most famous for his role in the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair, in which he was forced to resign after being accused of having an affair with a woman who was not his wife.
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Among military personnels, Werner von Blomberg ranks 131 out of 1,468. Before him are Bohemond I of Antioch, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Walther von Brauchitsch, Zhao Yun, Michiel de Ruyter, and Yakov Dzhugashvili. After him are Perdiccas, Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, Antipater, André Masséna, Axel von Fersen the Younger, and Hermann Fegelein.
1054 - 1111
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 125
1770 - 1823
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 126
1881 - 1948
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 127
168 - 229
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 128
1607 - 1676
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 129
1907 - 1943
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 130
1878 - 1946
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 131
355 BC - 321 BC
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 132
1045 - 1105
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 133
397 BC - 319 BC
HPI: 68.64
Rank: 134
1758 - 1817
HPI: 68.64
Rank: 135
1755 - 1810
HPI: 68.62
Rank: 136
1906 - 1945
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 137
Among people born in 1878, Werner von Blomberg ranks 8. Before him are Lise Meitner, John B. Watson, Martin Buber, Reza Shah, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, and Gustav Stresemann. After him are André Citroën, Pancho Villa, Robert Walser, Lucien Febvre, Pyotr Wrangel, and Alfred Döblin. Among people deceased in 1946, Werner von Blomberg ranks 18. Before him are Ion Antonescu, Mikhail Kalinin, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Alexander Alekhine, and Gerhart Hauptmann. After him are Paul Langevin, Karl Haushofer, Fritz Sauckel, Manuel de Falla, Gertrude Stein, and Andrey Vlasov.
1878 - 1968
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 2
1878 - 1958
HPI: 72.94
Rank: 3
1878 - 1965
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 4
1878 - 1944
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 5
1878 - 1918
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 6
1878 - 1929
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 7
1878 - 1946
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 8
1878 - 1935
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 9
1878 - 1923
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 10
1878 - 1956
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 11
1878 - 1956
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 12
1878 - 1928
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 13
1878 - 1957
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 14
1882 - 1946
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 12
1875 - 1946
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 13
1877 - 1946
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 14
1885 - 1946
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 15
1892 - 1946
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 16
1862 - 1946
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 17
1878 - 1946
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 18
1872 - 1946
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 19
1869 - 1946
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 20
1894 - 1946
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 21
1876 - 1946
HPI: 67.87
Rank: 22
1874 - 1946
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 23
1901 - 1946
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 24
Among people born in Poland, Werner von Blomberg ranks 67 out of 1,454. Before him are Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Jakob Böhme (1575), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Faustina Kowalska (1905), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), and Sigismund I the Old (1467). After him are Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Emanuel Lasker (1868), Gustav Fechner (1801), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), and Maria Feodorovna (1759).
1861 - 1922
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 61
1575 - 1624
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 62
1852 - 1931
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 63
1905 - 1938
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 64
1862 - 1946
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 65
1467 - 1548
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 66
1878 - 1946
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 67
1906 - 1945
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 68
1868 - 1941
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 69
1801 - 1887
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 70
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 71
1427 - 1492
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 72
1759 - 1828
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 73
Among military personnels born in Poland, Werner von Blomberg ranks 7. Before him are Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Fedor von Bock (1880), Erich Ludendorff (1865), Günther von Kluge (1882), Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), and Erich von Falkenhayn (1861). After him are Anton Denikin (1872), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), and Rochus Misch (1917).
1892 - 1918
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 1
1880 - 1945
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 2
1865 - 1937
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 3
1882 - 1944
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 4
1916 - 1982
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 5
1861 - 1922
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 6
1878 - 1946
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 7
1872 - 1947
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 8
1899 - 1972
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 9
1849 - 1930
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 10
1881 - 1944
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 11
1755 - 1818
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 12
1917 - 2013
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 13