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Erwin von Witzleben

1881 - 1944

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Job Wilhelm Georg Erwin Erdmann von Witzleben (4 December 1881 – 8 August 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) in the Wehrmacht and Oberbefehlshaber West (Commander in Chief in the West), during the Second World War. A leading conspirator in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was designated to become Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht in a post-Nazi regime, had the plot succeeded. After being dishonourably discharged by the Ehrenhof (Court of Honor), he was murdered, after a show trial from the Volksgerichtshof (People's Court). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erwin von Witzleben is the 146th most popular military personnel (up from 265th in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Poland (up from 140th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Erwin von Witzleben ranks 146 out of 2,058. Before him are Abu Muslim, August von Mackensen, Werner von Blomberg, Franz Halder, Bohemond I of Antioch, and André Masséna. After him are Yakov Dzhugashvili, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Erich von Falkenhayn, Helmuth Weidling, Perdiccas, and John Hawkins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Erwin von Witzleben ranks 27. Before him are Ludwig von Mises, Hans Fischer, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Fernand Léger, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Alexei Rykov. After him are Asta Nielsen, Irving Langmuir, Alcide De Gasperi, Ettore Bugatti, L. E. J. Brouwer, and Walter Rudolf Hess. Among people deceased in 1944, Erwin von Witzleben ranks 22. Before him are Bertha Benz, Lou Henry Hoover, Alexis Carrel, Ludwig Beck, Thomas Midgley Jr., and Galeazzo Ciano. After him are Manuel L. Quezon, Ernst Thälmann, Michael Wittmann, Marc Bloch, Milena Jesenská, and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Erwin von Witzleben ranks 77 out of 1,694. Before him are Christian Wolff (1679), Emil von Behring (1854), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Werner von Blomberg (1878), and Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046). After him are Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), and Horst Köhler (1943).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Erwin von Witzleben ranks 8. Before him are Fedor von Bock (1880), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Günther von Kluge (1882), Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896), and Werner von Blomberg (1878). After him are Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Anton Denikin (1872), Władysław Sikorski (1881), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), and Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899).

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