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Josef Kammhuber

1896 - 1986

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Josef Kammhuber (August 19, 1896 – January 25, 1986) was a career officer who served in the Imperial German Army, the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany and the post-World War II German Air Force. During World War II, he was the first general of night fighters in the Luftwaffe. Kammhuber created the night fighter defense system, the so-called Kammhuber Line, but the detailed knowledge of the system provided to the Royal Air Force by British military intelligence allowed them to render it ineffective. Personal battles between him and Erhard Milch, director of the Reich Air Ministry, led to his dismissal in 1943. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josef Kammhuber is the 1,418th most popular military personnel (down from 1,270th in 2019), the 3,557th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,083rd in 2019) and the 261st most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Josef Kammhuber ranks 1,418 out of 2,058. Before him are August Kork, Karl von Einem, Nadezhda Durova, Dmitry Milyutin, Sun Chuanfang, and Estácio de Sá. After him are Mikhail Diterikhs, Eino Rahja, Mohammad Ali Jafari, Georgios Zoitakis, Friedrich Kirchner, and Melvin Purvis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Josef Kammhuber ranks 156. Before him are Norman Thomas Gilroy, Prince Sigismund of Prussia, Tommy Johnson, Jaromír Weinberger, Fritz Julius Kuhn, and Friedrich Sämisch. After him are Teinosuke Kinugasa, John L. McClellan, Constantin Rădulescu, George Burns, Kathleen McKane Godfree, and Philippe Étancelin. Among people deceased in 1986, Josef Kammhuber ranks 132. Before him are Howard Da Silva, Ernst Lehner, Géza von Radványi, D. R. Kaprekar, Valerian Zorin, and Vasily Ignatenko. After him are Lili Kraus, Teddy Wilson, Helen B. Taussig, Leona Woods, Henry Russell, and David Cooper.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Josef Kammhuber ranks 3,559 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Adolf Martens (1850), Lilli Lehmann (1848), Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1748), Franz Roth (1946), and Johann Most (1846). After him are Christian Gmelin (1792), Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst (1607), Wilhelm Jordan (1842), Georg von Langsdorff (1774), Heinrich Burger (1881), and Friedrich Kirchner (1885).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Josef Kammhuber ranks 261. Before him are Friedrich Christiansen (1879), Erwin Rösener (1902), Hans Jordan (1892), Kurt von der Chevallerie (1891), Fritz Julius Kuhn (1896), and Karl von Einem (1853). After him are Friedrich Kirchner (1885), Paul Bader (1883), Conrad Albrecht (1880), Maurice d'Elbée (1752), Friedrich von Ingenohl (1857), and Pavle Jurišić Šturm (1848).

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