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Erich Hartmann

1922 - 1993

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Erich Alfred Hartmann (19 April 1922 – 20 September 1993) was a German fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew 1,404 combat missions and participated in aerial combat on 825 separate occasions. He was credited with shooting down a total of 352 Allied aircraft: 345 Soviet and 7 American while serving with the Luftwaffe. During his career, Hartmann was forced to crash-land his fighter 16 times after either mechanical failure or damage received from parts of enemy aircraft he had shot down; he was never shot down by direct enemy action. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erich Hartmann is the 118th most popular military personnel (down from 88th in 2019), the 326th most popular biography from Germany (down from 238th in 2019) and the 26th most popular German Military Personnel.

Erich Hartmann was a German fighter pilot and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He is credited with shooting down 352 Allied aircraft in over 1500 combat missions.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Erich Hartmann ranks 118 out of 2,058. Before him are Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Claude Auchinleck, Hephaestion, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and Saigō Takamori. After him are Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Hamilcar Barca, Theodor Eicke, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Gaius Julius Caesar, and Ferdinand Schörner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Erich Hartmann ranks 17. Before him are Thomas Kuhn, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Emil Zátopek, Aage Bohr, Pierre Cardin, and Ava Gardner. After him are Gérard Philipe, Jack Kerouac, Erving Goffman, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Philip Larkin, and Charles M. Schulz. Among people deceased in 1993, Erich Hartmann ranks 9. Before him are Federico Fellini, Ferruccio Lamborghini, Rudolf Nureyev, James Hunt, Baudouin of Belgium, and William Golding. After him are Frank Zappa, Turgut Özal, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Polykarp Kusch, and Inge Lehmann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Hartmann ranks 326 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Anton Drexler (1884), Bertha Benz (1849), Katharina von Bora (1498), Richard Dedekind (1831), and Carl Bosch (1874). After him are Carl Zeiss (1816), Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781), Friedrich Ratzel (1844), Heinrich von Kleist (1777), Wilhelm Frick (1877), and Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Erich Hartmann ranks 26. Before him are Wilhelm Canaris (1887), John of Austria (1547), Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742), Walther von Reichenau (1884), Heinrich Müller (1900), and Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876). After him are Ferdinand Schörner (1892), Hermann Hoth (1885), Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881), Ludwig Beck (1880), August von Mackensen (1849), and Franz Halder (1884).

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