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Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim

1905 - 1944

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Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (25 March 1905 – 21 July 1944) was a German Army colonel and a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany involved in the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim is the 346th most popular military personnel (up from 416th in 2019), the 838th most popular biography from Germany (up from 990th in 2019) and the 68th most popular German Military Personnel.

Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim is most famous for being the first German to be awarded the Order of the Black Eagle.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim ranks 346 out of 2,058. Before him are Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Matthew C. Perry, François Joseph Lefebvre, Kim Philby, Meng Tian, and Nikolai Vatutin. After him are Jozef Gabčík, Dmitry Yazov, John J. Pershing, Italo Balbo, Leopold Joseph von Daun, and Wang Jian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim ranks 34. Before him are Gerard Kuiper, Gertrude Ederle, C. P. Snow, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, George H. Hitchings, and Raymond Cattell. After him are Max Schmeling, Michael Powell, Marian Rejewski, Helen Wills, Jean Vigo, and Carl Gustav Hempel. Among people deceased in 1944, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim ranks 54. Before him are Mohammed Alim Khan, Werner von Haeften, Giovanni Gentile, Max Jacob, Eduard Dietl, and Nikolai Vatutin. After him are Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Florence Foster Jenkins, Leo Baekeland, Ida Tarbell, Cécile Chaminade, and Jakob von Uexküll.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim ranks 838 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Cohen (1842), Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (1946), Bernd Schuster (1959), Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (1261), Juana Bormann (1893), and Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1729). After him are Ryke Geerd Hamer (1935), Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826), Petrus Apianus (1495), Gertrude the Great (1256), Charles I of Württemberg (1823), and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia (1720).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim ranks 68. Before him are Reinhard Gehlen (1902), Werner Mölders (1913), Hugo Sperrle (1885), Eduard Dietl (1890), Arthur Nebe (1894), and Wilhelm Bittrich (1894). After him are Georg von Frundsberg (1473), Walther Wenck (1900), Hans-Joachim Marseille (1919), Götz von Berlichingen (1480), Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870), and Erich Priebke (1913).

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