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Stanisław Maczek

1892 - 1994

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Lieutenant General Stanisław Władysław Maczek ([staˈɲiswav ˈmat͡ʂɛk]; 31 March 1892 – 11 December 1994) was a Polish tank commander of World War II, whose division was instrumental in the Allied liberation of France, closing the Falaise pocket, resulting in the destruction of 14 German Wehrmacht and SS divisions. A veteran of World War I, the Polish–Ukrainian and Polish–Soviet wars, Maczek was the commander of Poland's only major armoured formation during the September 1939 campaign, and later commanded a Polish armoured formation in France in 1940. He was the commander of the famous 1st Polish Armoured Division, and later of the I Polish Army Corps under Allied Command in 1942–45. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stanisław Maczek is the 1,004th most popular military personnel (up from 1,155th in 2019), the 349th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 394th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Stanisław Maczek ranks 1,004 out of 2,058. Before him are François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Walter Weiß, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, P. G. T. Beauregard, Hamazasp Babadzhanian, and Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz. After him are Erik Heinrichs, Gongsun Du, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, Vasili Mitrokhin, Hannibal Gisco, and Alfredo Guzzoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Stanisław Maczek ranks 116. Before him are Liu Bocheng, Nikolai Polikarpov, William Powell, Alice Ball, Helmuth Plessner, and Harry Dexter White. After him are Djuna Barnes, James M. Cain, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Adolf Ziegler, Eugen Meindl, and Rebecca West. Among people deceased in 1994, Stanisław Maczek ranks 123. Before him are Dick Sargent, Heinz Rühmann, Aleksandar Petrović, Donald Judd, Baruch Goldstein, and Juan Alonso. After him are Haim Bar-Lev, Vitas Gerulaitis, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Branko Mikulić, Jiří Sobotka, and Barry Sullivan.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Stanisław Maczek ranks 349 out of 1,365. Before him are Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918), Aharon Appelfeld (1932), Géza Kalocsay (1913), Igor Volk (1937), Mikołaj Rej (1505), and Leonid Popov (1945). After him are Anna Bilińska (1854), Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875), Fedor Emelianenko (1976), Tekla Juniewicz (1906), Mykhailo Drahomanov (1841), and Ludwik Fleck (1896).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Stanisław Maczek ranks 30. Before him are Grigory Kulik (1890), Pavel Sudoplatov (1907), Sergey Gorshkov (1910), Valerii Zaluzhnyi (1973), Sergey Kamenev (1881), and Pavel Rybalko (1894). After him are Danylo Apostol (1654), Alexander Matrosov (1924), Nikolai Linevich (1839), Grigory Shtern (1900), Pyotr Koshevoy (1904), and Vasyl Makukh (1927).

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