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Erich Fellgiebel

1886 - 1944

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Fritz Erich Fellgiebel (4 October 1886 – 4 September 1944) was a German Army general of signals and a resistance fighter, participating in both the 1938 September Conspiracy to topple dictator Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and the 1944 20 July plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. In 1929, Fellgiebel became head of the cipher bureau (German: Chiffrierstelle) of the Ministry of the Reichswehr, which would later become the OKW/Chi. He was a signals specialist and was instrumental in introducing a common enciphering machine, the Enigma machine. However, he was unsuccessful in promoting a single cipher agency to coordinate all operations, as was demanded by OKW/Chi and was still blocked by Joachim von Ribbentrop, Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring until autumn 1943. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erich Fellgiebel is the 554th most popular military personnel (down from 480th in 2019), the 293rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 252nd in 2019) and the 26th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Erich Fellgiebel ranks 554 out of 2,058. Before him are Aegidius, Qi Jiguang, Artabazos II, Deng Ai, William Bligh, and Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard. After him are Yevhen Konovalets, William Westmoreland, Roza Shanina, Franz von Hipper, Johan Laidoner, and Xu Chu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Erich Fellgiebel ranks 55. Before him are Frank Lloyd, Rex Stout, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Edward C. Tolman, Gottfried Benn, and Willem Drees. After him are Gyula Gömbös, Jisaburō Ozawa, Paul Lévy, Hitoshi Imamura, Mary Wigman, and Karl Korsch. Among people deceased in 1944, Erich Fellgiebel ranks 85. Before him are Kazu Naoki, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, August Landmesser, Asmahan, Paul Otlet, and Günther Korten. After him are Yvette Guilbert, Sergei Bulgakov, Arsen Kotsoyev, Viktor Ullmann, Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, and Bernardino Machado.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Erich Fellgiebel ranks 293 out of 1,694. Before him are Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Victor Klemperer (1881), Leopold Infeld (1898), Robert Wiene (1873), Edward Gierek (1913), and Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński (1776). After him are Gunderic (379), Albert Barillé (1920), Bolesław II the Generous (1041), Jerzy Popiełuszko (1947), Sławomir Mrożek (1930), and Siemomysł (922).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Erich Fellgiebel ranks 26. Before him are Otto Kretschmer (1912), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878), Otto von Below (1857), Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919), and Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889). After him are Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), Eberhard von Mackensen (1889), Heinz Reinefarth (1903), Maximilian von Prittwitz (1848), Walther Nehring (1892), and Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893).

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