1880 - 1939
Thomas Ludwig Werner Freiherr von Fritsch (4 August 1880 – 22 September 1939) was a member of the German High Command. He was Commander-in-Chief of the German Army from February 1934 until February 1938, when he was forced to resign after he was falsely accused of being homosexual. His ousting was a major step in Adolf Hitler's establishment of tighter control over the armed forces. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Werner von Fritsch has received more than 493,320 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Werner von Fritsch is the 1,580th most popular politician (up from 1,900th in 2019), the 446th most popular biography from Germany (up from 512th in 2019) and the 118th most popular German Politician.
Werner von Fritsch was a German field marshal who served as the commander in chief of the army from 1933 to 1938. He is most famous for his role in the invasion of Poland.
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Among politicians, Werner von Fritsch ranks 1,580 out of 15,710. Before him are Elizabeth of Portugal, Edward, King of Portugal, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Viktor Orbán, Emeric, King of Hungary, and Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria. After him are Alexios II Komnenos, Bảo Đại, Martin of Aragon, Seljuk, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, and Naser al-Din Shah Qajar.
1271 - 1336
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 1,574
1391 - 1438
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 1,575
1953 - 2001
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 1,576
1963 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 1,577
1174 - 1204
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 1,578
1662 - 1726
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 1,579
1880 - 1939
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 1,580
1169 - 1183
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 1,581
1913 - 1997
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 1,582
1356 - 1410
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 1,583
902 - 1038
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 1,584
1904 - 1988
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 1,585
1831 - 1896
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 1,586
Among people born in 1880, Werner von Fritsch ranks 17. Before him are Franz Marc, Ludwig Beck, André Derain, Paul Hausser, Wilhelm List, and Manuel Azaña. After him are Otto Weininger, Elton Mayo, Premchand, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Bruno Taut, and Max Wertheimer. Among people deceased in 1939, Werner von Fritsch ranks 10. Before him are James Naismith, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Alphonse Mucha, W. B. Yeats, Joseph Roth, and Eugen Bleuler. After him are Anton Makarenko, Douglas Fairbanks, Edward Sapir, Karl Radek, Philipp Scheidemann, and Lucien Lévy-Bruhl.
1880 - 1916
HPI: 77.45
Rank: 11
1880 - 1944
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 12
1880 - 1954
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 13
1880 - 1972
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 14
1880 - 1971
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 15
1880 - 1940
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 16
1880 - 1939
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 17
1880 - 1903
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 18
1880 - 1949
HPI: 73.34
Rank: 19
1880 - 1936
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 20
1880 - 1940
HPI: 72.91
Rank: 21
1880 - 1938
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 22
1880 - 1943
HPI: 72.56
Rank: 23
1861 - 1939
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 4
1869 - 1939
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 5
1860 - 1939
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 6
1865 - 1939
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 7
1894 - 1939
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 8
1857 - 1939
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 9
1880 - 1939
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 10
1888 - 1939
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 11
1883 - 1939
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 12
1884 - 1939
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 13
1885 - 1939
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 14
1865 - 1939
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 15
1857 - 1939
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 16
Among people born in Germany, Werner von Fritsch ranks 446 out of 5,289. Before him are Fritz Todt (1891), Ernst Bloch (1885), Josef Kramer (1906), Adam Opel (1837), Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886), and Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662). After him are Peter Simon Pallas (1741), Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), Richard Willstätter (1872), August Weismann (1834), and Horst Wessel (1907).
1891 - 1942
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 440
1885 - 1977
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 441
1906 - 1945
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 442
1837 - 1895
HPI: 74.21
Rank: 443
1886 - 1954
HPI: 74.18
Rank: 444
1662 - 1726
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 445
1880 - 1939
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 446
1741 - 1811
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 447
1904 - 1988
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 448
1895 - 1945
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 449
1872 - 1942
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 450
1834 - 1914
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 451
1907 - 1930
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 452
Among politicians born in Germany, Werner von Fritsch ranks 118. Before him are Robert Ley (1890), Walter Schellenberg (1910), Conradin (1252), Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), Josef Kramer (1906), and Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662). After him are Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904), Louise Mountbatten (1889), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876), Maria Josepha of Bavaria (1739), Otto of Bavaria (1848), and Robert Ritter von Greim (1892).
1890 - 1945
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 112
1910 - 1952
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 113
1252 - 1268
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 114
1911 - 2004
HPI: 74.28
Rank: 115
1906 - 1945
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 116
1662 - 1726
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 117
1880 - 1939
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 118
1904 - 1988
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 119
1889 - 1965
HPI: 74.08
Rank: 120
1876 - 1965
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 121
1739 - 1767
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 122
1848 - 1916
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 123
1892 - 1945
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 124