MILITARY PERSONNEL

Gustav Lombard

1895 - 1992

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Gustav Lombard (10 April 1895 – 18 September 1992) was a high-ranking member in the SS during World War II. During the war, Lombard commanded 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer and the 31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany for so-called "anti-partisan" operations around Kovel which involved killing of civilians and burning down villages. Lombard perpetrated mass murder in the Holocaust, serving as commanding officer of the 1st Regiment of the SS Cavalry Brigade during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Lombard was convicted of war crimes by a Soviet military tribunal in 1947 and was released in 1955. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustav Lombard is the 1,283rd most popular military personnel (down from 1,230th in 2019), the 3,214th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,980th in 2019) and the 240th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gustav Lombard ranks 1,283 out of 2,058. Before him are Teutobod, Caupolicán, J. F. C. Fuller, John C. Woods, Maksim Purkayev, and Felix von Luckner. After him are Joachim Lemelsen, Violette Szabo, Max Wünsche, Demetrios Ypsilantis, Ernst-Günther Baade, and Michael von Melas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Gustav Lombard ranks 142. Before him are Walter Jackson Freeman II, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Susanne Langer, Feng Youlan, László Almásy, and Nahum Goldmann. After him are Jerzy Kuryłowicz, Trifko Grabež, Tomoji Tanabe, Mario Camerini, Neco, and William Tubman. Among people deceased in 1992, Gustav Lombard ranks 128. Before him are Angela Carter, Sylvain Arend, Hammer DeRoburt, Paul Henreid, Michel Berger, and Emilio Recoba. After him are Joe Shuster, Josy Barthel, André Vandewyer, Robert Morley, Farag Foda, and Walter Andreas Schwarz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Lombard ranks 3,216 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Rapp (1882), Hans Meyer (1858), Karl Neukirch (1864), Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886), Susanna of Bavaria (1502), and Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen (1710). After him are Berthold (1180), Waldemar Cierpinski (1950), Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Joachim Lemelsen (1888), Princess Isabella of Croÿ (1856), and Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen (1722).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Gustav Lombard ranks 240. Before him are George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892), Eduard Wagner (1894), Josias von Heeringen (1850), Otto von Knobelsdorff (1886), Heinrich Ehrler (1917), and Felix von Luckner (1881). After him are Joachim Lemelsen (1888), Max Wünsche (1914), Ernst-Günther Baade (1897), Walter Krüger (1892), Helmut Kunz (1910), and Werner Goldberg (1919).

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