MILITARY PERSONNEL

Wilhelm Adam

1877 - 1949

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Wilhelm Adam (15 September 1877 – 8 April 1949) was a German general who served in the Bavarian Army, the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht. Adam was born in Ansbach, joining the German Army in 1897, and serving in Bavarian telegraph and Communication units before being detached to the Bavarian War Academy in 1907. During World War I, Adam fought as a company leader of a Bavarian pioneer unit, but only for a short period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Adam has received more than 146,638 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Wilhelm Adam is the 838th most popular military personnel (down from 791st in 2019), the 2,067th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,972nd in 2019) and the 151st most popular German Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Wilhelm Adam ranks 838 out of 2,058. Before him are Sylvester Stadler, Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, P. G. T. Beauregard, Ivan Panfilov, Bertram Ramsay, and Ardaric. After him are Hitoshi Imamura, Magnus Stenbock, Bruno Loerzer, Rudolf Schmundt, Gongsun Du, and Gaius Suetonius Paulinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Wilhelm Adam ranks 54. Before him are Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Isabelle Eberhardt, Herbert Pitman, Garrett Morgan, Edmond Locard, and Vladimir Minorsky. After him are Jesse Livermore, Chaim Rumkowski, Édouard Herzen, Max Factor, Oscar Milosz, and Frank Marshall. Among people deceased in 1949, Wilhelm Adam ranks 55. Before him are Hans Pfitzner, Vítězslav Novák, Vasily Degtyaryov, Alice Bailey, Walter Buch, and Mariano Fortuny. After him are Jacques Copeau, Otto Wächter, Ginette Neveu, Maria Cebotari, Vladimir Nazor, and Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Adam ranks 2,067 out of 7,253. Before him are Johannes Sturm (1507), Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1691), Hans Globke (1898), Rudolf II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1307), Jordan of Saxony (1190), and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772). After him are Otto Dietrich (1897), Peter Lely (1618), Loriot (1923), Johann Homann (1664), Lotte Reiniger (1899), and Tobias Mayer (1723).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Wilhelm Adam ranks 151. Before him are Hans Hartwig von Beseler (1850), Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786), Karl Frenzel (1911), Ernst Barkmann (1919), Ludwig Crüwell (1892), and Walter Heitz (1878). After him are Bruno Loerzer (1891), Erich Brandenberger (1892), Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894), Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma (1891), Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891), and Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel (1809).

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