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Konstantin Rokossovsky

1896 - 1968

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Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (9 December [O.S. 21 December] 1896 – 3 August 1968) was a Soviet and Polish general who served as a top commander in the Red Army during World War II and achieved the ranks of Marshal of the Soviet Union and Marshal of Poland. He also served as Defence Minister of Poland from 1949 to 1956. Rokossovsky was born to a Polish noble family in Warsaw in present-day Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, or according to other sources in Velikiye Luki in present-day Russia. He served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, and in 1918, joined the Red Army and fought with distinction during the Russian Civil War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Konstantin Rokossovsky is the 116th most popular military personnel (down from 99th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Poland (down from 55th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Konstantin Rokossovsky is most famous for his role in the Battle of Stalingrad.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Konstantin Rokossovsky ranks 116 out of 2,058. Before him are Heinrich Müller, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Claude Auchinleck, Hephaestion, and Yevgeny Prigozhin. After him are Saigō Takamori, Erich Hartmann, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Hamilcar Barca, Theodor Eicke, and Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Konstantin Rokossovsky ranks 14. Before him are A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Tristan Tzara, Roman Jakobson, Antonin Artaud, Gerty Cori, and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. After him are Robert S. Mulliken, Klement Gottwald, Trygve Lie, Andrei Zhdanov, Paula Hitler, and Milena Jesenská. Among people deceased in 1968, Konstantin Rokossovsky ranks 13. Before him are John Steinbeck, Otto Hahn, Lev Landau, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Max Brod, and Henry Hallett Dale. After him are Robert F. Kennedy, George Gamow, Trygve Lie, Karl Barth, Georg von Küchler, and Erwin Panofsky.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Konstantin Rokossovsky ranks 65 out of 1,694. Before him are Sigismund I the Old (1467), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), and Irena Sendler (1910). After him are Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), Gustav Fechner (1801), John II Casimir Vasa (1609), Friedrich Bergius (1884), Andrzej Wajda (1926), and Christian Wolff (1679).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Konstantin Rokossovsky ranks 6. Before him are Erich Ludendorff (1865), Fedor von Bock (1880), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Günther von Kluge (1882), and Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916). After him are Werner von Blomberg (1878), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Anton Denikin (1872), Władysław Sikorski (1881), and Alfred von Tirpitz (1849).

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