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Henning von Holtzendorff

1853 - 1919

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Henning Rudolf Adolf Karl von Holtzendorff (9 January 1853 – 7 June 1919) was a German admiral during World War I, who became famous for his December 1916 memo about unrestricted submarine warfare against the United Kingdom. He was a recipient of Order of the Black Eagle and the Pour le Mérite with oak leaves and was one of just six Grand Admirals of the Imperial German Navy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Henning von Holtzendorff is the 1,837th most popular military personnel (up from 1,890th in 2024), the 4,844th most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,108th in 2019) and the 308th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Henning von Holtzendorff ranks 1,837 out of 2,058. Before him are Jacob L. Devers, Peter Pace, Walter Krueger, Eddie Chapman, Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov, and Mazloum Abdi. After him are Myronides, August Emil Fieldorf, Richard Bong, Juan Aldama, Anton Grasser, and Andreas Miaoulis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Henning von Holtzendorff ranks 93. Before him are Dmitry Sipyagin, David Belasco, Gertrud Adelborg, Charles Howard Hinton, René Bazin, and Hamoud bin Mohammed of Zanzibar. After him are Konstantin Stoilov, Gaston Bonnier, Lucy Parsons, Maria Yermolova, Rudolf Kittel, and Leander Starr Jameson. Among people deceased in 1919, Henning von Holtzendorff ranks 138. Before him are Ricardo Palma, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, Spyridon Lambros, Saovabha Phongsri, Camille Erlanger, and Manuel Franco. After him are Kenyon Cox, Robert Bacon, Mikhail Suslin, Joseph Rosemeyer, Valerian Albanov, and Sven Forssman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Henning von Holtzendorff ranks 4,847 out of 7,253. Before him are Rosemary Murphy (1925), Joseph Weydemeyer (1818), Bärbel Wöckel (1955), Karl Mauch (1837), Paul Warburg (1868), and Ilona Slupianek (1956). After him are Gerhard Lamprecht (1897), Lya Lys (1908), Wilhelm Geiger (1856), Carl H. Eigenmann (1863), Jakob van Hoddis (1887), and Oswald Teichmüller (1913).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Henning von Holtzendorff ranks 308. Before him are Axel von dem Bussche (1919), Felix Graf von Bothmer (1852), Fritz-Hubert Gräser (1888), Ludwig von Falkenhausen (1844), Friedrich von Scholtz (1851), and Heinrich Hax (1900). After him are Franz Sigel (1824), Christopher G. Cavoli (null), and Max Lemke (1895).

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