1877 - 1949
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, Wilhelm Adam ranks 791 out of 1,468. Before 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.
1550 - 1615
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 785
1878 - 1944
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 786
1886 - 1941
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 787
1912 - 1987
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 788
1856 - 1929
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 789
1547 - 1611
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 790
1877 - 1949
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 791
1886 - 1945
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 792
1893 - 1968
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 793
1923 - 1983
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 794
1916 - 1943
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 795
1888 - 1981
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 796
1873 - 1932
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 797
Among people born in 1877, Wilhelm Adam ranks 55. Before 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 57. Before 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.
1877 - 1961
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 49
1877 - 1910
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 50
1877 - 1916
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 51
1877 - 1974
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 52
1877 - 1960
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 53
1877 - 1966
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 54
1877 - 1949
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 55
1877 - 1944
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 56
1877 - 1963
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 57
1877 - 1961
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 58
1877 - 1938
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 59
1877 - 1938
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 60
1877 - 1966
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 61
1869 - 1949
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 51
1874 - 1949
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 52
1862 - 1949
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 53
1876 - 1949
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 54
1871 - 1949
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 55
1879 - 1949
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 56
1877 - 1949
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 57
1871 - 1949
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 58
1910 - 1949
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 59
1883 - 1949
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 60
1873 - 1949
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 61
1919 - 1949
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 62
1873 - 1949
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 63
Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Adam ranks 1,974 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1798 - 1895
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 1,968
1851 - 1914
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 1,969
1539 - 1583
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 1,970
1424 - 1449
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 1,971
1683 - 1753
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 1,972
1803 - 1877
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 1,973
1877 - 1949
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 1,974
1899 - 1964
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 1,975
1868 - 1954
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 1,976
1892 - 1985
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 1,977
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 1,978
1863 - 1924
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 1,979
1373 - 1410
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 1,980
Among military personnels born in Germany, Wilhelm Adam ranks 154. Before 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).
1891 - 1963
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 148
1913 - 1957
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 149
1884 - 1963
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 150
1892 - 1958
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 151
1869 - 1943
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 152
1878 - 1944
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 153
1877 - 1949
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 154
1904 - 1934
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 155
1905 - 1946
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 156
1868 - 1938
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 157
1892 - 1964
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 158
1896 - 1968
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 159
1894 - 1923
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 160