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Rochus Misch

1917 - 2013

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Rochus Misch (29 July 1917 – 5 September 2013) was a German Oberscharführer (sergeant) in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH). He was badly wounded during the Polish campaign during the first month of World War II in Europe. After recovering, from 1940 to April 1945, he served in the Führerbegleitkommando (Führer Escort Command; FBK) as a bodyguard, courier, and telephone operator for German dictator Adolf Hitler. Misch was widely reported in the media as being the last surviving former occupant of the Führerbunker when he died in September 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rochus Misch is the 313th most popular military personnel (down from 301st in 2019), the 164th most popular biography from Poland (down from 156th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Rochus Misch is most famous for being the drummer for the Beatles.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Rochus Misch ranks 313 out of 2,058. Before him are Usama ibn Zayd, Zhao Yun, Paul Tibbets, Orda Khan, Roman Shukhevych, and Nicolas Oudinot. After him are Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Vasily Blyukher, Henry Clinton, Zhang Liao, Alexander Löhr, and Roger de Flor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Rochus Misch ranks 40. Before him are Nur Muhammad Taraki, Barry Nelson, Joan Fontaine, Kiro Gligorov, Mel Ferrer, and John B. Calhoun. After him are Ko Arima, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Yukio Tsuda, Tove Ditlevsen, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Jean-Pierre Melville. Among people deceased in 2013, Rochus Misch ranks 40. Before him are Jerome Karle, Jang Song-thaek, Ronald Coase, Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Georges Moustaki, and Joan Fontaine. After him are Kenneth G. Wilson, Richard Griffiths, Lawrence Klein, Jesús Franco, Ray Manzarek, and Ieng Sary.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rochus Misch ranks 164 out of 1,694. Before him are Henry II the Pious (1196), Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086), Mieszko I of Poland (940), Reinhard Selten (1930), Ferdinand Cohn (1828), and Clara Immerwahr (1870). After him are Witold Lutosławski (1913), Jarosław Kaczyński (1949), Andrzej Duda (1972), Maria Feodorovna (1759), Jan Potocki (1761), and Maxim Litvinov (1876).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Rochus Misch ranks 16. Before him are Anton Denikin (1872), Władysław Sikorski (1881), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), and Otto Liman von Sanders (1855). After him are Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Hermann Balck (1893), Otto Kretschmer (1912), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), and Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878).

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