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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 133,059 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Wilhelm Adam is the 791st most popular military personnel (down from 741st in 2019), the 1,974th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,888th in 2019) and the 154th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Wilhelm Adam ranks 791 out of 1,468Before him are Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Walter Heitz, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Gordon Gollob, Stepa Stepanović, and Sanada Masayuki. After him are Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz, Vladimir Gelfand, Yekaterina Budanova, Gunichi Mikawa, and Nureddin Pasha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Wilhelm Adam ranks 55Before him are Herbert Pitman, Charles Rolls, Petar Kočić, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, James Montgomery Flagg, and Edmond Locard. After him are Frank Marshall, Garrett Morgan, Henri Breuil, Edmund Landau, Max Factor, and Vladimir Minorsky. Among people deceased in 1949, Wilhelm Adam ranks 57Before him are Hans Pfitzner, Ellery Harding Clark, Henry McMahon, Prince Harald of Denmark, Ivan Poddubny, and Jacques Copeau. After him are Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, Maria Cebotari, Sam Wood, Félix d'Herelle, Ginette Neveu, and Alexey Shchusev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Adam ranks 1,974 out of 6,142Before him are Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Theodor Lipps (1851), Louis VI, Elector Palatine (1539), Louis IV, Elector Palatine (1424), Gottfried Silbermann (1683), and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803). After him are Veit Harlan (1899), Wilhelm Schmidt (1868), Helmuth Plessner (1892), Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (1948), Princess Isabella of Bavaria (1863), and Joanna Sophia of Bavaria (1373).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Wilhelm Adam ranks 154Before him are Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891), Heinrich Bär (1913), Georg Lindemann (1884), Ludwig Crüwell (1892), Ludwig von Reuter (1869), and Walter Heitz (1878). After him are Karl Ernst (1904), Martin Gottfried Weiss (1905), Otto von Lossow (1868), Gustav-Adolf von Zangen (1892), Hans Cramer (1896), and Albert Leo Schlageter (1894).