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Herbert Gille

1897 - 1966

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Herbert Otto Gille (8 March 1897 – 26 December 1966) was a high-ranking German SS general, and divisional & corps commander of the Waffen-SS. He commanded the SS Division Wiking during World War II. Gille was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, making him the most highly decorated Waffen-SS member of the war. After the war, Gille opened a book store and became active in HIAG, a lobby group and a revisionist veteran's organisation founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel in West Germany in 1951. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Herbert Gille is the 485th most popular military personnel (down from 425th in 2019), the 1,208th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,012th in 2019) and the 91st most popular German Military Personnel.

Herbert Gille is most famous for his work in the field of paleontology, specifically his work on the evolution of the horse.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Herbert Gille ranks 485 out of 2,058. Before him are Yamagata Aritomo, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Lazare Hoche, Matthäus Hetzenauer, Charles Leclerc, and Hugh Thompson Jr.. After him are Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Bronislav Kaminski, Robert Anderson, Karl von Bülow, Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, and Christian Wirth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Herbert Gille ranks 61. Before him are Vito Genovese, Vlado Chernozemski, Emil Maurice, Gershom Scholem, Ye Jianying, and I. I. Chundrigar. After him are Benjamin Lee Whorf, Theodor Busse, Ngô Đình Thục, Yeghishe Charents, Dmitry Pavlov, and Adolf Heusinger. Among people deceased in 1966, Herbert Gille ranks 43. Before him are D. T. Suzuki, Alexander von Falkenhausen, Charlotte Cooper, Hannes Kolehmainen, Battista Farina, and Gino Severini. After him are Ludwig Binswanger, Elizabeth Arden, Cléo de Mérode, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Lao She, and Siegfried Kracauer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Herbert Gille ranks 1,208 out of 7,253. Before him are Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (1757), Johann Georg Pisendel (1687), Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1757), Walter Kasper (1933), Franz Josef Strauss (1915), and Hannah Höch (1889). After him are Gotthard of Hildesheim (960), Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826), Walther Flemming (1843), Thomas Abbt (1738), Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), and Hermann Schlegel (1804).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Herbert Gille ranks 91. Before him are Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887), Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1887), Friedrich Dollmann (1882), Johannes Frießner (1892), Levin August von Bennigsen (1745), and Josef Harpe (1887). After him are Karl von Bülow (1846), Christian Wirth (1885), Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594), Alfred von Waldersee (1832), Adolf Strauss (1879), and Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721).

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