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Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff

1905 - 1980

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Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (27 March 1905 – 27 January 1980) was an officer in the German Army. As a Wehrmacht intelligence officer, he attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943; the plan failed when Hitler left early, but Gersdorff was undetected. That same month, soldiers from his unit discovered the mass graves of the Soviet-perpetrated Katyn massacre. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff is the 943rd most popular military personnel (up from 1,705th in 2019), the 501st most popular biography from Poland (up from 906th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 943 out of 2,058. Before him are Boris Gromov, Nakano Takeko, Aimable Pélissier, Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Solomon, and Sanada Masayuki. After him are Ziba Ganiyeva, Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Macrianus Major, Reiner Stahel, and Ivan Panfilov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 117. Before him are Anna May Wong, Louis Harold Gray, Natalia Pavlovna Paley, Maria von Trapp, Pierre Klossowski, and Wanda Wasilewska. After him are The Boswell Sisters, Edgar Snow, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Paul Ariste, Charles Lane, and Gaston Eyskens. Among people deceased in 1980, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 96. Before him are Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Zygmunt Berling, John Mauchly, Friedrich Hossbach, Héctor José Cámpora, and Alf Sjöberg. After him are Manlio Brosio, Ernst Ocwirk, Lil Dagover, Rolf Nevanlinna, Bert Kaempfert, and Josias Braun-Blanquet.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 501 out of 1,694. Before him are Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Eduard Strasburger (1844), Jan Tarnowski (1488), Richard Courant (1888), Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1734), and Wanda Wasilewska (1905). After him are Wolf Messing (1899), Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886), Anna Leszczyńska (1699), Włodzimierz Smolarek (1957), Paul Wegener (1874), and Krakus (null).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff ranks 46. Before him are Zygmunt Berling (1896), Walther von Lüttwitz (1859), Georg von der Marwitz (1856), Fritz von Below (1853), Fritz Freitag (1894), and Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784). After him are Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886), Helmut Lent (1918), Krystyna Skarbek (1908), Max Simon (1899), Otto Lasch (1893), and Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793).

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