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Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer

1922 - 1950

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Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (16 February 1922 – 15 July 1950) was a German Luftwaffe night-fighter pilot and the highest-scoring night fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. A flying ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during combat. All Schnaufer's 121 victories were claimed during World War II, mostly against British four-engine bombers, for which he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, Germany's highest military decoration at the time, on 16 October 1944. He was nicknamed "The Spook of St. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer is the 867th most popular military personnel (up from 971st in 2019), the 2,204th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,369th in 2019) and the 156th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 867 out of 2,058. Before him are Heinrich von Plauen, Hans Loritz, Erhard Raus, Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, Joseph Boxhall, and Peithon. After him are Radko Dimitriev, Alexey Kaledin, Joseph Dunford, Julius Jacob von Haynau, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, and Woodes Rogers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 130. Before him are Juan Antonio Bardem, Jonas Mekas, Michael Ventris, Francisco Aramburu, Paul Scofield, and Shigeru Mizuki. After him are Albert Lamorisse, Stephen Toulmin, András Hegedüs, Cyd Charisse, Micheline Presle, and Kingsley Amis. Among people deceased in 1950, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 67. Before him are Olaf Stapledon, Alfred Korzybski, Adam Rainer, Walter Huston, Henry H. Arnold, and Agnes Smedley. After him are Arturo Alessandri, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Kazys Grinius, Yvan Goll, Peter Fraser, and Nikolai Voznesensky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 2,205 out of 7,253. Before him are Katia Mann (1883), Katarina Witt (1965), Hermann Scherchen (1891), Karl Vogt (1817), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), and Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741). After him are Heinz Brandt (1907), Louis IV, Elector Palatine (1424), Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723), Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1745), Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1691), and William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1602).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer ranks 156. Before him are Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894), Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891), Bruno Loerzer (1891), Fritz Witt (1908), Heinrich von Plauen (1370), and Hans Loritz (1895). After him are Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786), Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel (1744), Adelbert Schulz (1903), Winrich von Kniprode (1310), Ernst Barkmann (1919), and Hermann Ehrhardt (1881).

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