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 356,297 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma is the 854th most popular military personnel (down from 821st in 2019), the 2,102nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,049th in 2019) and the 155th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ranks 854 out of 2,058. Before him are Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Gerhard Schmidhuber, Max Simon, Andrew Parker Bowles, Erhard Raus, and Ernst Linder. After him are Gunichi Mikawa, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Karol Świerczewski, Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Hiroshi Ōshima, and Hamazasp Babadzhanian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ranks 70. Before him are Gio Ponti, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Dimitrije Ljotić, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Bruno Loerzer, and Jose P. Laurel. After him are Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Werner Lorenz, Shizo Kanakuri, Henry Tandey, Diana Budisavljević, and Evgeny Pashukanis. Among people deceased in 1948, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ranks 67. Before him are Mitsumasa Yonai, Irmfried Eberl, Radola Gajda, Hasan Salama, Jacques Feyder, and Therese Brandl. After him are Harry Dexter White, Manuel Ponce, Arshile Gorky, Paul Wegener, Solomon Mikhoels, and Fakhri Pasha.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ranks 2,102 out of 7,253. Before him are Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894), Hans Poelzig (1869), Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau (1837), Friedrich Paschen (1865), İlkay Gündoğan (1990), and Bodo Illgner (1967). After him are Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891), Johann Trollmann (1907), Alfred Hettner (1859), Karl Baedeker (1801), William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1598), and Gotthold Eisenstein (1823).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ranks 155. Before him are Ludwig Crüwell (1892), Walter Heitz (1878), Wilhelm Adam (1877), Bruno Loerzer (1891), Erich Brandenberger (1892), and Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894). After him are Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891), Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel (1809), Michael Lippert (1897), Bruno Lüdke (1908), Siegfried von Feuchtwangen (1300), and Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730).

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