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Albrecht Brandi

1914 - 1966

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Albrecht Brandi (20 June 1914 – 6 January 1966) was a German U-boat commander in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. Together with Wolfgang Lüth, he was the only Kriegsmarine sailor who was awarded with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. The Knight's Cross (German: Ritterkreuz), and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. Brandi is credited with the sinking of eight merchant ships for a total of 25,879 gross register tons (GRT), one auxiliary warship of 810 GRT, and three warships of 5,000 long tons (5,100 tonnes). Brandi, the son of the industrial-manager Ernst Brandi, was born in Dortmund, Germany and grew up in the Weimar Republic. After the rise of the Third Reich in 1933, he joined the navy in 1935. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albrecht Brandi is the 1,167th most popular military personnel (up from 1,453rd in 2019), the 2,962nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,474th in 2019) and the 220th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Albrecht Brandi ranks 1,167 out of 2,058. Before him are Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi, Mineichi Koga, Bruno Lüdke, Ulrich Graf, Charles Mangin, and Miguel Cabanellas. After him are Fyodor Apraksin, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, Paul Kray, Bauyrzhan Momyshuly, Augustín Malár, and Robert Maynard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Albrecht Brandi ranks 157. Before him are Patrick O'Brian, Arno Schmidt, Jens Otto Krag, Hernán Siles Zuazo, Harry F. Byrd Jr., and Kazimierz Świątek. After him are Sun Ra, Domènec Balmanya, Budd Schulberg, Magda Frank, Adolf Diekmann, and Maxim of Bulgaria. Among people deceased in 1966, Albrecht Brandi ranks 96. Before him are Frank Lentini, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Sylvère Maes, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Vera Weizmann, and Arthur Percival. After him are Petar Radaković, Vilis Lācis, Philipp Frank, Charles Whitman, Victor Kravchenko, and Elio Vittorini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albrecht Brandi ranks 2,964 out of 7,253. Before him are Hugo Preuß (1860), Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957), Nicole Brown Simpson (1959), Bruno Lüdke (1908), Ulrich Graf (1878), and Gerardus Vossius (1577). After him are Bernhard Kellermann (1879), Heinrich Hoffmann (1809), Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1794), Sophie of Brandenburg (1568), Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (1495), and Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1700).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Albrecht Brandi ranks 220. Before him are Günther Lützow (1912), Alexander von Linsingen (1850), Johanna Wolf (1900), Wolfgang Lotz (1921), Bruno Lüdke (1908), and Ulrich Graf (1878). After him are Otto Schniewind (1887), Richard Ruoff (1883), Hajo Herrmann (1913), Adolf Diekmann (1914), Karl Koller (1898), and Hans Joachim von Zieten (1699).

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