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Maximilian von Weichs

1881 - 1954

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Maximilian Maria Joseph Karl Gabriel Lamoral Reichsfreiherr von und zu Weichs an der Glonn (12 November 1881 – 27 September 1954) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field marshal) in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Born into an aristocratic family, Weichs joined the Bavarian cavalry in 1900 and fought in the First World War. At the outbreak of the Second World War he commanded the XIII Corps in the invasion of Poland. He later commanded the 2nd Army during the invasions of France, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. In August 1942 during Case Blue, the German offensive in southern Russia, he was appointed commander of Army Group B. In 1944, Weichs commanded Army Group F in the Balkans overseeing the German retreat from Greece and most of Yugoslavia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maximilian von Weichs is the 242nd most popular military personnel (down from 200th in 2019), the 622nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 500th in 2019) and the 51st most popular German Military Personnel.

Maximilian von Weichs is most famous for being the commander of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Maximilian von Weichs ranks 242 out of 2,058. Before him are Pausanias, Benedict Arnold, Sun Jian, Hans von Seeckt, Lysander, and Toyotomi Hideyori. After him are Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Wu Sangui, Slobodan Praljak, Bai Qi, Jack Phillips, and Pedro de Valdivia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Maximilian von Weichs ranks 38. Before him are L. E. J. Brouwer, Walter Rudolf Hess, Georg von Küchler, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Władysław Sikorski, and George Enescu. After him are King Oliver, François Darlan, Natalia Goncharova, Theodore von Kármán, Otto Wille Kuusinen, and Ivan Ribar. Among people deceased in 1954, Maximilian von Weichs ranks 22. Before him are Jacinto Benavente, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Machine Gun Kelly, Dziga Vertov, James Hilton, and Andrey Vyshinsky. After him are The French Angel, Léon Jouhaux, Clemens Krauss, Martin Andersen Nexø, Charles Ives, and Prince Ernst of Hohenberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Maximilian von Weichs ranks 622 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1908), Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710), Feodor Lynen (1911), Hans von Seeckt (1866), Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842), and Till Lindemann (1963). After him are Wolfgang Paul (1913), Henri Nestlé (1814), Georg Wittig (1897), Elsa Einstein (1876), Franz Boas (1858), and Ernst Mayr (1904).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Maximilian von Weichs ranks 51. Before him are Dietrich von Choltitz (1894), Kurt Meyer (1910), Friedrich Olbricht (1888), Wilhelm List (1880), Erich Hoepner (1886), and Hans von Seeckt (1866). After him are Wilhelm Mohnke (1911), Kurt Student (1890), Erhard Milch (1892), Karl-Otto Koch (1897), Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895), and Karl Wolff (1900).

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