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Alfred von Tirpitz

1849 - 1930

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Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz (German pronunciation: [ˈalfʁeːt fɔn ˈtɪʁpɪt͡s] ; born Alfred Peter Friedrich Tirpitz; 19 March 1849 – 6 March 1930) was a German grand admiral and State Secretary of the German Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916. Prussia never had a major navy, nor did the other German states before the German Empire was formed in 1871. Tirpitz took the modest Imperial Navy and, starting in the 1890s, turned it into a world-class force that could threaten Britain's Royal Navy. However, during World War I, his High Seas Fleet proved unable to end Britain's command of the sea and its chokehold on Germany's economy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred von Tirpitz is the 229th most popular military personnel (down from 225th in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from Poland (down from 116th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Alfred von Tirpitz was a German naval officer and Secretary of the German Imperial Naval Office from 1897 to 1916. He is most famous for his role in the Tirpitz Plan, which sought to create a large navy to challenge the British Royal Navy.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alfred von Tirpitz ranks 229 out of 2,058. Before him are Rudolf Abel, Maurice Gamelin, Aleksei Brusilov, Pierre Augereau, Władysław Sikorski, and Lavr Kornilov. After him are Sun Ce, Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Erich Hoepner, Ishida Mitsunari, and Franz Stangl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Alfred von Tirpitz ranks 11. Before him are August von Mackensen, Muhammad Abduh, Blanche Monnier, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Bernhard von Bülow, and Felix Klein. After him are W. T. Stead, Sergei Witte, John William Waterhouse, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Michael Ancher, and Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Among people deceased in 1930, Alfred von Tirpitz ranks 20. Before him are Lon Chaney, Frank P. Ramsey, Miguel Primo de Rivera, Cosima Wagner, Wilfrid Voynich, and Victoria of Baden. After him are Horst Wessel, Arthur Balfour, Siegfried Wagner, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Ahmad Shah Qajar, and Sakichi Toyoda.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alfred von Tirpitz ranks 121 out of 1,694. Before him are Hanna Reitsch (1912), Casimir Funk (1884), Władysław Sikorski (1881), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), and Pola Negri (1897). After him are Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Fred Zinnemann (1907), Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Julia, Princess of Battenberg (1825), and Antoni Grabowski (1857).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Alfred von Tirpitz ranks 12. Before him are Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Anton Denikin (1872), and Władysław Sikorski (1881). After him are Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), Rochus Misch (1917), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885).

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