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Fedor von Bock

1880 - 1945

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Moritz Albrecht Franz Friedrich Fedor von Bock (3 December 1880 – 4 May 1945) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) who served in the German Army during the Second World War. Bock served as the commander of Army Group North during the Invasion of Poland in 1939, of Army Group B during the Invasion of France in 1940, of Army Group Center during Operation Barbarossa in 1941, and of Army Group South on the Eastern Front in 1942. Bock was a staff officer of the Imperial German Army during World War I and rose through the ranks of the post-war Reichswehr during the Weimar Republic. Bock was given his first command post in 1935, playing a key role in the Anschluss, the annexation of the Sudetenland, the invasion of Poland, and the invasion of France for which he was promoted to Generalfeldmarschall. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fedor von Bock is the 65th most popular military personnel (up from 66th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Poland (down from 25th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Fedor von Bock was a German Field Marshal who is most famous for his role in the invasion of France and the Soviet Union.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Fedor von Bock ranks 65 out of 2,058. Before him are Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Mikhail Kutuzov, Baron Munchausen, Erich Ludendorff, Roland, and Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan. After him are Ubba, Ernst Röhm, Eugène de Beauharnais, Manfred von Richthofen, Yi Sun-sin, and Walter Model.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Fedor von Bock ranks 7. Before him are George Marshall, Helen Keller, Guillaume Apollinaire, Alfred Wegener, Douglas MacArthur, and Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. After him are John Boyd Orr, Robert Musil, Oswald Spengler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, and Gideon Sundback. Among people deceased in 1945, Fedor von Bock ranks 11. Before him are Anne Frank, Heinrich Himmler, Eva Braun, Béla Bartók, Martin Bormann, and Anton Webern. After him are Walter Model, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Vidkun Quisling, Magda Goebbels, Subhas Chandra Bose, and Francis William Aston.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Fedor von Bock ranks 28 out of 1,694. Before him are Otto Stern (1888), Wernher von Braun (1912), Janusz Korczak (1878), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Erich Ludendorff (1865), and Marie Leszczyńska (1703). After him are Władysław Szpilman (1911), Lech Kaczyński (1949), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), and Rudolf Clausius (1822).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Fedor von Bock ranks 2. Before him are Erich Ludendorff (1865). After him are Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Günther von Kluge (1882), Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Anton Denikin (1872), Władysław Sikorski (1881), and Alfred von Tirpitz (1849).

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