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Alfons Rebane

1908 - 1976

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Alfons Vilhelm Robert Rebane (24 June 1908 – 8 March 1976) was an Estonian military commander. He was the most highly decorated Estonian military officer during World War II, serving in various Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS units of Nazi Germany. After World War II Rebane joined the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) where he played a key role in assisting the armed resistance to Soviet rule in Estonia and other Baltic countries. He led the Estonian portion of MI6's Operation Jungle well into the 1950s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfons Rebane is the 1,721st most popular military personnel (down from 1,439th in 2019), the 141st most popular biography from Estonia (down from 81st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Estonian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alfons Rebane ranks 1,721 out of 2,058. Before him are Kurt Martti Wallenius, Shirase Nobu, Bartolina Sisa, Padma Bandopadhyay, Irvin McDowell, and Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal. After him are Fernand de Langle de Cary, Honoré Charles Reille, Walther Reinhardt, James Jesus Angleton, Gustaf Dyrssen, and Issam Zahreddine.

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Among people born in 1908, Alfons Rebane ranks 263. Before him are Zainab Biisheva, Tullio Pinelli, Ethel Catherwood, Jules Vandooren, Edward R. Murrow, and Mary Welsh Hemingway. After him are Walter Bruch, Ivan Brown, Jesús Castro, Devika Rani, Yvette Cauchois, and Buddy Ebsen. Among people deceased in 1976, Alfons Rebane ranks 180. Before him are Carlos Fonseca, Alfred Landé, Bertha Lutz, Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, Milena Rudnytska, and Matthias Kaburek. After him are Tibor Csík, Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Leopold Hofmann, Zainul Abedin, Kosta Tomašević, and Fritz Rasp.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Alfons Rebane ranks 141 out of 351. Before him are Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (1798), Arnold Meri (1919), Anne Veski (1956), Johannes Käbin (1905), Jaak Panksepp (1943), and Jüri Ratas (1978). After him are Harald Tammer (1899), Joann Lõssov (1921), Voldemar Väli (1903), Aleksey Shakhmatov (1864), Carl Gustav Axel Harnack (1851), and Heino Kruus (1926).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Estonia

Among military personnels born in Estonia, Alfons Rebane ranks 7. Before him are Paul von Rennenkampf (1854), Johan Laidoner (1884), Otto von Kotzebue (1787), Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven (1914), August Kork (1887), and Arnold Meri (1919).

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