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Reinhard Gehlen

1902 - 1979

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Reinhard Gehlen (3 April 1902 – 8 June 1979) was a German military and intelligence officer, later dubbed "Hitler's Super Spy," who served the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, and West Germany, and also worked for the United States during the early years of the Cold War. He led the Gehlen Organization, which worked with the CIA from its founding, employing former SS and Wehrmacht officers, and later became the first head of West Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND). In years prior, he was in charge of German military intelligence on the Eastern Front during World War II and later became one of the founders of the West German armed forces, the Bundeswehr. The son of an army officer and World War I veteran, in 1920 Gehlen joined the Reichswehr, the truncated army of the Weimar Republic, and was an operations staff officer in an infantry division during the invasion of Poland in 1939. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Reinhard Gehlen is the 293rd most popular military personnel (up from 326th in 2019), the 743rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 754th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular German Military Personnel.

Reinhard Gehlen was a German general and intelligence officer who, before and during World War II, played a key role in the creation of the Gehlen Organization, the most significant intelligence organization on the Eastern Front.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Reinhard Gehlen ranks 293 out of 2,058. Before him are Hasso von Manteuffel, Italo Gariboldi, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Titus Labienus, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and Maurice Benyovszky. After him are Svetozar Boroević, Qutayba ibn Muslim, Yermak Timofeyevich, François Achille Bazaine, Vasily Stalin, and Ernest King.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Reinhard Gehlen ranks 36. Before him are Mikhail Suslov, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Ray Kroc, Arne Jacobsen, Juscelino Kubitschek, and Theodore Schultz. After him are Alexandre Kojève, Émile Benveniste, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Günther Anders, and Princess Mafalda of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1979, Reinhard Gehlen ranks 33. Before him are Feodor Lynen, Nelson Rockefeller, Bertil Ohlin, Werner Forssmann, Nur Muhammad Taraki, and Jean Seberg. After him are Yukio Tsuda, Wilhelm Bittrich, Abul A'la Maududi, Francisco Macías Nguema, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Rachele Mussolini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Reinhard Gehlen ranks 743 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Adolph Hasse (1699), Jürgen Stroop (1895), Thomas Bach (1953), John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1658), Magda Schneider (1909), and Hugo Ball (1886). After him are Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria (1821), Wilhelm Tempel (1821), Michael Thonet (1796), Otto Rehhagel (1938), Sandra (1962), and Otto Grotewohl (1894).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Reinhard Gehlen ranks 62. Before him are Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895), Karl Wolff (1900), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), Otto Carius (1922), Otto Günsche (1917), and Hasso von Manteuffel (1897). After him are Werner Mölders (1913), Hugo Sperrle (1885), Eduard Dietl (1890), Arthur Nebe (1894), Wilhelm Bittrich (1894), and Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (1905).

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