MILITARY PERSONNEL

Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière

1886 - 1941

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Vizeadmiral Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (German: [ˈloːtaʁ fɔn ʔaʁˈnoː də la peˈʁi̯ɛːɐ̯]; 18 March 1886 – 24 February 1941), born in Posen, Prussia, and of French-German descent, was a German U-boat commander during World War I. With 194 ships and 453,716 gross register tons (GRT) sunk, he is the most successful submarine captain ever. His victories came in the Mediterranean, almost always using his 8.8 cm deck gun. During his career, he fired 74 torpedoes, hitting 39 times. Arnauld de la Perière remained in the German Navy (Reichsmarine) after the war ended. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière is the 946th most popular military personnel (down from 690th in 2019), the 503rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 355th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière ranks 946 out of 2,058. Before him are Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Solomon, Sanada Masayuki, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Ziba Ganiyeva, and Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope. After him are Macrianus Major, Reiner Stahel, Ivan Panfilov, Süleyman Hüsnü Pasha, Pavle Đurišić, and Anatoly Stessel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière ranks 99. Before him are Armin T. Wegner, Firmin Lambot, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Gheorghe Tătărescu, Manuel Ponce, and Victor McLaglen. After him are Wilhelm Marschall, Frank Nitti, Olga Rozanova, Hans von Obstfelder, Sholem Schwarzbard, and George Cœdès. Among people deceased in 1941, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière ranks 73. Before him are Guillermo Kahlo, Jaan Tõnisson, Elizabeth von Arnim, Hanns Kerrl, Amy Johnson, and Arkady Gaidar. After him are Amrita Sher-Gil, Ivan Panfilov, Alfred Hettner, Friedrich Akel, Maximilien Luce, and J. Stuart Blackton.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière ranks 503 out of 1,694. Before him are Jan Tarnowski (1488), Richard Courant (1888), Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1734), Wanda Wasilewska (1905), Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905), and Wolf Messing (1899). After him are Anna Leszczyńska (1699), Włodzimierz Smolarek (1957), Paul Wegener (1874), Krakus (null), Robert Kubica (1984), and Jerzy Hoffman (1932).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière ranks 47. Before him are Walther von Lüttwitz (1859), Georg von der Marwitz (1856), Fritz von Below (1853), Fritz Freitag (1894), Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784), and Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905). After him are Helmut Lent (1918), Krystyna Skarbek (1908), Max Simon (1899), Otto Lasch (1893), Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793), and Yitzhak Sadeh (1890).

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