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Otto Kretschmer

1912 - 1998

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Otto Kretschmer (1 May 1912 – 5 August 1998) was a German naval officer and submariner in World War II and the Cold War. From September 1939 until his capture in March 1941 he sank 44 ships, including one warship, a total of 274,333 tons. For this he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, among other awards. He earned the nickname "Silent Otto", both for his successful use of the "silent running" capability of U-boats and for his reluctance to transmit radio messages during patrols. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Kretschmer is the 410th most popular military personnel (down from 378th in 2019), the 216th most popular biography from Poland (down from 191st in 2019) and the 20th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Otto Kretschmer was a German naval officer who was most famous for his capture of the British submarine HMS Spearfish in 1917.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Otto Kretschmer ranks 410 out of 2,058. Before him are Francisco de Miranda, Xanthippus of Carthage, Honda Tadakatsu, Kirill Meretskov, Erich Kempka, and Vladimir Gelfand. After him are Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Vasily Sokolovsky, Jean-Charles Pichegru, Günther Lütjens, and Günther Prien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Otto Kretschmer ranks 63. Before him are Cornel Wilde, Kathleen Ferrier, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Lawrence Durrell, and Salvador Luria. After him are Kim Sung-gan, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Abbé Pierre, Rodolfo Gucci, John Cheever, and Sonny Boy Williamson II. Among people deceased in 1998, Otto Kretschmer ranks 36. Before him are Nizar Qabbani, Julien Green, Helen Wills, Kunitaka Sueoka, Alfred Schnittke, and Stokely Carmichael. After him are Agostino Casaroli, Alan J. Pakula, Linda McCartney, Lúcio Costa, André Weil, and Martin Rodbell.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Otto Kretschmer ranks 216 out of 1,694. Before him are Hans Lammers (1879), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Stefan Wyszyński (1901), and Stanislaus Kostka (1550). After him are Karl Denke (1860), Paul Tillich (1886), Otto Klemperer (1885), Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), and Carl Wernicke (1848).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Otto Kretschmer ranks 20. Before him are Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), Rochus Misch (1917), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), and Hermann Balck (1893). After him are Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878), Otto von Below (1857), Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919), Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), and Erich Fellgiebel (1886).

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