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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma

1891 - 1948

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Wilhelm Josef Ritter von Thoma (11 September 1891 – 30 April 1948) was a German army officer who served in World War I, in the Spanish Civil War, and as a general in World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Thoma is known for his indiscretion while a POW in British captivity, when he unwittingly revealed the existence of the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 weapons programmes. He was subject to surveillance by British intelligence and while speaking to another German officer, was recorded discussing rockets that were being tested at Kummersdorf West, which he had observed while on a visit that also included Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma has received more than 327,544 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma is the 821st most popular military personnel (down from 716th in 2019), the 2,051st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,829th in 2019) and the 162nd most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ranks 821 out of 1,468Before him are Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma, Cleombrotus, Artabazos II, Markos Botsaris, Wilhelm Souchon, and Ōtani Yoshitsugu. After him are Takasugi Shinsaku, Vasili Mitrokhin, Erhard Raus, Karl Frenzel, Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, and Oda Nobutaka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ranks 70Before him are Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Yvan Goll, Kim Seong-su, Laura Vicuña, George Adamski, and Shukri al-Quwatli. After him are Kálmán Kalocsay, Tin Ujević, Olga Khokhlova, Charles Munch, Henry Morgenthau Jr., and Bruno Loerzer. Among people deceased in 1948, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ranks 67Before him are Mitsumasa Yonai, Tony Garnier, Harry Dexter White, Princess Marie Louise of Hanover, Solomon Mikhoels, and Manuel Ponce. After him are Jacques Feyder, Radola Gajda, Sabahattin Ali, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, and Kâzım Karabekir.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ranks 2,051 out of 6,142Before him are Fred Uhlman (1901), Ulric Neisser (1928), Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), Fritz Wunderlich (1930), Wilhelm Souchon (1864), and Julius Dorpmüller (1869). After him are August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735), Martin Lawrence (1965), Johanna Budwig (1908), Bert Kaempfert (1923), Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963), and Herbert von Bismarck (1849).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ranks 162Before him are Martin Gottfried Weiss (1905), Otto von Lossow (1868), Gustav-Adolf von Zangen (1892), Hans Cramer (1896), Albert Leo Schlageter (1894), and Wilhelm Souchon (1864). After him are Karl Frenzel (1911), Joachim Schepke (1912), Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894), Rudolf Schmidt (1886), Hermann Ehrhardt (1881), and Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow (1755).