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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Wilhelm Mohnke

1911 - 2001

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Wilhelm Mohnke (15 March 1911 – 6 August 2001) was a German military officer who was one of the original members of the Schutzstaffel SS-Stabswache Berlin (Staff Guard Berlin) formed in March 1933. Mohnke, who had joined the Nazi Party in September 1931, rose through the ranks to become one of Adolf Hitler's last remaining general officers at the end of World War II in Europe. With the SS Division Leibstandarte, Mohnke participated in the fighting in France, Poland and the Balkans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Mohnke has received more than 1,306,454 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Wilhelm Mohnke is the 209th most popular military personnel (up from 233rd in 2019), the 470th most popular biography from Germany (up from 546th in 2019) and the 50th most popular German Military Personnel.

Wilhelm Mohnke was a German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and was in charge of the Nazi SS and Gestapo in Paris during the occupation of France. He was also a close friend of Heinrich Himmler. Mohnke was most famous for being the commander of the SS garrison in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Wilhelm Mohnke ranks 209 out of 1,468. Before him are Gotthard Heinrici, Josip Jelačić, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Sun Jian, Zhou Yu, and Lavr Kornilov. After him are Maxime Weygand, Alfred von Tirpitz, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Giovanni Giustiniani, Sun Ce, and Date Masamune.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Wilhelm Mohnke ranks 23. Before him are Robert Johnson, Mikhail Botvinnik, Tennessee Williams, Melvin Calvin, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, and William Alfred Fowler. After him are Joseph Barbera, Lê Đức Thọ, Maurice Allais, Polykarp Kusch, Jules Dassin, and Max Frisch. Among people deceased in 2001, Wilhelm Mohnke ranks 17. Before him are Didi, Christiaan Barnard, Sabiha Gökçen, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Iannis Xenakis, and Fred Hoyle. After him are Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Ernst Gombrich, Alberto Korda, William Hanna, Robert Ludlum, and Marie José of Belgium.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Mohnke ranks 470 out of 6,142. Before him are Anna Magdalena Bach (1701), Johann Gottfried Galle (1812), Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), Rudolf Dassler (1898), Henri Nestlé (1814), and Hedwig of Silesia (1174). After him are Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876), Ernst Lubitsch (1892), Wassily Leontief (1906), Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), and Adolf Galland (1912).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Wilhelm Mohnke ranks 50. Before him are Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), Walther von Reichenau (1884), Wilhelm List (1880), Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895), Erhard Milch (1892), and Maximilian von Weichs (1881). After him are Kurt Student (1890), Otto Carius (1922), Karl-Otto Koch (1897), Otto Günsche (1917), Henning von Tresckow (1901), and Hasso von Manteuffel (1897).

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