1891 - 1948
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, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ranks 821 out of 1,468. Before 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.
1553 - 1625
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 815
600 BC - 480 BC
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 816
400 BC - 360 BC
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 817
1790 - 1823
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 818
1864 - 1946
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 819
1559 - 1600
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 820
1891 - 1948
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 821
1839 - 1867
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 822
1922 - 2004
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 823
1889 - 1956
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 824
1911 - 1996
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 825
1638 - 1701
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 826
1558 - 1583
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 827
Among people born in 1891, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ranks 70. Before 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 67. Before 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.
1891 - 1963
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 64
1891 - 1950
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 65
1891 - 1955
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 66
1891 - 1904
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 67
1891 - 1965
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 68
1891 - 1967
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 69
1891 - 1948
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 70
1891 - 1976
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 71
1891 - 1955
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 72
1891 - 1955
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 73
1891 - 1968
HPI: 54.86
Rank: 74
1891 - 1967
HPI: 54.86
Rank: 75
1891 - 1960
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 76
1880 - 1948
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 61
1869 - 1948
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 62
1892 - 1948
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 63
1879 - 1948
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 64
1890 - 1948
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 65
1886 - 1948
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 66
1891 - 1948
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 67
1885 - 1948
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 68
1892 - 1948
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 69
1907 - 1948
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 70
1903 - 1948
HPI: 55.02
Rank: 71
1869 - 1948
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 72
1882 - 1948
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 73
Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ranks 2,051 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1901 - 1985
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 2,045
1928 - 2012
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 2,046
1736 - 1808
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 2,047
1930 - 1966
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 2,048
1864 - 1946
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 2,049
1869 - 1945
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 2,050
1891 - 1948
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 2,051
1735 - 1809
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 2,052
1965 - Present
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 2,053
1908 - 2003
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 2,054
1923 - 1980
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 2,055
1963 - Present
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 2,056
1849 - 1904
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 2,057
Among military personnels born in Germany, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ranks 162. Before 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).
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
1864 - 1946
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 161
1891 - 1948
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 162
1911 - 1996
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 163
1912 - 1941
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 164
1894 - 1945
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 165
1886 - 1957
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 166
1881 - 1971
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 167
1755 - 1816
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 168