MILITARY PERSONNEL

Wilhelm Keitel

1882 - 1946

Photo of Wilhelm Keitel

Icon of person Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈkaɪtl̩]; 22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946) was a German field marshal who held office as chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the high command of Nazi Germany's armed forces, during World War II. He signed a number of criminal orders and directives that led to numerous war crimes. Keitel's rise to the Wehrmacht high command began with his appointment as the head of the Armed Forces Office at the Reich Ministry of War in 1935. Having taken command of the Wehrmacht in 1938, Adolf Hitler replaced the ministry with the OKW and Keitel became its chief. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Keitel has received more than 4,349,091 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Wilhelm Keitel is the 28th most popular military personnel (up from 29th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Germany and the 8th most popular German Military Personnel.

Wilhelm Keitel was a German field marshal who served as the Chief of the German Armed Forces High Command, or Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, from 1938 to 1945. He was tried and found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Wilhelm Keitel ranks 28 out of 2,058. Before him are Cao Cao, Friedrich Paulus, Arminius, Heinz Guderian, Cesare Borgia, and Jan Žižka. After him are Guan Yu, Vercingetorix, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Eugène de Beauharnais, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, and Belisarius.

Most Popular Military Personnels in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Wilhelm Keitel ranks 6. Before him are Franklin D. Roosevelt, Igor Stravinsky, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden. After him are Georges Braque, Max Born, Sigrid Undset, Georgi Dimitrov, Emmy Noether, and Abdullah I of Jordan. Among people deceased in 1946, Wilhelm Keitel ranks 3. Before him are John Maynard Keynes, and Hermann Göring. After him are Joachim von Ribbentrop, H. G. Wells, Alfred Rosenberg, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Hans Frank, Ion Antonescu, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Mikhail Kalinin.

Others Born in 1882

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1946

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Keitel ranks 91 out of 7,253. Before him are William Herschel (1738), Jürgen Habermas (1929), Heinz Guderian (1888), Gottlieb Daimler (1834), Heinrich Schliemann (1822), and Carl von Clausewitz (1780). After him are Nicholas of Cusa (1401), Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893), Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1050), Theodor Mommsen (1817), Gerhard Schröder (1944), and Karl Lagerfeld (1933).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Wilhelm Keitel ranks 8. Before him are Erwin Rommel (1891), Adolf Eichmann (1906), Erich von Manstein (1887), Friedrich Paulus (1890), Arminius (-17), and Heinz Guderian (1888). After him are Michel Ney (1769), Baron Munchausen (1720), Gerd von Rundstedt (1875), Ernst Röhm (1887), Alfred Jodl (1890), and Walter Model (1891).

German born Military Personnels

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous