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Wilhelm Bittrich

1894 - 1979

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Wilhelm Bittrich (26 February 1894 – 19 April 1979) was a high-ranking Waffen-SS commander of Nazi Germany. Between August 1942 and February 1943, Bittrich commanded the SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer, in rear security operations (Bandenbekämpfung, literally: "gang fighting") in the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Bittrich has received more than 600,829 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Wilhelm Bittrich is the 336th most popular military personnel (down from 294th in 2019), the 777th most popular biography from Germany (down from 680th in 2019) and the 69th most popular German Military Personnel.

Wilhelm Bittrich was a German SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Panzertruppe during World War II. He was the commander of the II SS Panzer Corps during the Battle of Normandy and the Battle of Arnhem.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Wilhelm Bittrich ranks 336 out of 2,058. Before him are Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Yermak Timofeyevich, Kul Tigin, Thomas the Slav, Ishida Mitsunari, and Emilio De Bono. After him are Yamagata Aritomo, Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Kim Philby, and Italo Gariboldi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Wilhelm Bittrich ranks 34. Before him are Hermann Oberth, Benjamin Graham, Kim Hyong-jik, Fyodor Tolbukhin, Arthur Nebe, and Kōnosuke Matsushita. After him are Karl Böhm, Nazli Sabri, Dashiell Hammett, Martha Graham, Alexander Dovzhenko, and Josef von Sternberg. Among people deceased in 1979, Wilhelm Bittrich ranks 30. Before him are Werner Forssmann, Bertil Ohlin, Robert Burns Woodward, Nur Muhammad Taraki, Agostinho Neto, and Reinhard Gehlen. After him are Rachele Mussolini, Mary Pickford, Otto Robert Frisch, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Ernst Chain, and Peggy Guggenheim.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Bittrich ranks 777 out of 7,253. Before him are Juana Bormann (1893), James Last (1929), Therese Neumann (1898), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), Gustav Radbruch (1878), and Wilhelm Cuno (1876). After him are Franz Joseph Gall (1758), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840), Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707), Theodor Fontane (1819), and Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Wilhelm Bittrich ranks 69. Before him are Kurt Meyer (1910), Walther Wenck (1900), Georg von Frundsberg (1473), Erich Priebke (1913), Arthur Nebe (1894), and Reinhard Gehlen (1902). After him are Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870), Eduard Dietl (1890), Hans-Valentin Hube (1890), Hugo Sperrle (1885), Günther Prien (1908), and Levin August von Bennigsen (1745).

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