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Franz Halder

1884 - 1972

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Franz Halder (30 June 1884 – 2 April 1972) was a German general and the chief of staff of the Army High Command (OKH) in Nazi Germany from 1938 until September 1942. During World War II, he directed the planning and implementation of Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. Halder became instrumental in the radicalisation of warfare on the Eastern Front. He had his staff draft both the Commissar Order (issued on 6 June 1941) and the Barbarossa Decree (signed on 13 May 1941) that allowed German soldiers to execute Soviet citizens for any reason without fear of later prosecution, leading to numerous war crimes and atrocities during the campaign. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Halder is the 143rd most popular military personnel (down from 135th in 2019), the 376th most popular biography from Germany (down from 321st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Military Personnel.

Franz Halder is most famous for being the chief of the German General Staff during World War II.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Franz Halder ranks 143 out of 2,058. Before him are Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Narses, Ludwig Beck, Abu Muslim, August von Mackensen, and Werner von Blomberg. After him are Bohemond I of Antioch, André Masséna, Erwin von Witzleben, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, and Erich von Falkenhayn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Franz Halder ranks 20. Before him are Anton Drexler, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Theodor Heuss, Friedrich Bergius, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Theodor Svedberg. After him are Gaston Bachelard, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Hermann Rorschach, Auguste Piccard, Casimir Funk, and Lion Feuchtwanger. Among people deceased in 1972, Franz Halder ranks 14. Before him are M. C. Escher, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Neilia Hunter Biden, Kwame Nkrumah, Paul-Henri Spaak, and Igor Sikorsky. After him are Athenagoras I of Constantinople, Asta Nielsen, J. Edgar Hoover, Paul Hausser, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Georg von Békésy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Halder ranks 376 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Müller (1876), Adolf Dassler (1900), Sophie Scholl (1921), Wilhelm Grimm (1786), Emil Kraepelin (1856), and Peter Simon Pallas (1741). After him are George Paget Thomson (1892), Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744), Pope Victor II (1018), Regiomontanus (1436), Joseph Beuys (1921), and Thomas à Kempis (1380).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Franz Halder ranks 32. Before him are Erich Hartmann (1922), Ferdinand Schörner (1892), Hermann Hoth (1885), Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881), Ludwig Beck (1880), and August von Mackensen (1849). After him are Helmuth Weidling (1891), Hermann Fegelein (1906), Michael Wittmann (1914), Hans Krebs (1898), Maurice de Saxe (1696), and Ernst Busch (1885).

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