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Oskar Kummetz

1891 - 1980

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Oskar Kummetz (21 July 1891 – 17 December 1980) was an admiral with the Kriegsmarine during World War II. He also served in the Kaiserliche Marine during World War I. Kummetz was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his actions in the Battle of Drøbak Sound, during which his command, the Blücher, was hit in the superstructure by two 28 cm shells from Norwegian fortress Oscarsborg, 15 cm shells from Kopås fortress and 5.7 cm gunfire from Husvik fortress. From Kaholmen Blücher was hit by two torpedoes and she sank 84 metres below the sound. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oskar Kummetz is the 1,365th most popular military personnel (down from 1,047th in 2019), the 708th most popular biography from Poland (down from 539th in 2019) and the 64th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Oskar Kummetz ranks 1,365 out of 2,058. Before her are Magnia Urbica, Gonzalo Guerrero, Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, Stefan Rowecki, Albert Sidney Johnston, and Nicanor. After her are Sergei Shtemenko, Henri de Montmorency, 4th Duke of Montmorency, José Enrique Varela, Theodore Van Kirk, Gaius Sulpicius Gallus, and Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Oskar Kummetz ranks 146. Before her are Wan Waithayakon, Galaktion Tabidze, Charles Journet, Pedro Salinas, Charles Bickford, and Zora Neale Hurston. After her are José Enrique Varela, Mischa Elman, Federico Moreno Torroba, Vittorio Jano, Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, and Erik Almlöf. Among people deceased in 1980, Oskar Kummetz ranks 148. Before her are Andrei Amalrik, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, George Raft, Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, Alfred Andersch, and André Parrot. After her are Miliza Korjus, Roza Eskenazi, Sohrab Sepehri, Jacqueline Cochran, Torcuato Fernández-Miranda, and Arthur Melvin Okun.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Oskar Kummetz ranks 708 out of 1,694. Before her are Zenon Grocholewski (1939), Stefan Rowecki (1895), Marek Janowski (1939), August Zaleski (1883), Rutka Laskier (1929), and Maria Dąbrowska (1889). After her are Helena Modjeska (1840), Bernhard Grzimek (1909), Miliza Korjus (1905), Aleksander Gierymski (1850), Wojciech Gerson (1831), and Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Oskar Kummetz ranks 64. Before her are Leopold Okulicki (1898), Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922), Hermann Boehm (1884), Remus von Woyrsch (1847), Friedrich Schulz (1897), and Stefan Rowecki (1895). After her are Günther Pancke (1899), Kurt Feldt (1897), Alfred Saalwächter (1883), Jacob Heinrich von Flemming (1667), Ryszard Kukliński (1930), and Erich Abraham (1895).

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