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Walther von Lüttwitz

1859 - 1942

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Walther Karl Friedrich Ernst Emil Freiherr von Lüttwitz (2 February 1859 – 20 September 1942) was a German general who fought in World War I. Lüttwitz is best known for being the driving force behind the Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch of 1920 which attempted to replace the democratic government of the Weimar Republic with a military dictatorship. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walther von Lüttwitz is the 912th most popular military personnel (down from 903rd in 2019), the 471st most popular biography from Poland (up from 474th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Polish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Walther von Lüttwitz ranks 912 out of 2,058Before him are Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Erich Rudorffer, Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, Hermocrates, Adolphe Marbot, and Frank Jack Fletcher. After him are Prince Franz of Bavaria, Karl Fritzsch, Ludwig Crüwell, Alphonse Juin, Michael Lippert, and Won Gyun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Walther von Lüttwitz ranks 53Before him are Ravachol, Sen Katayama, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Radko Dimitriev, Léon Duguit, and Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria. After him are Constantine VI of Constantinople, Charles Diehl, Alfred Hettner, Kenneth Grahame, Ernesto Cesàro, and Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield. Among people deceased in 1942, Walther von Lüttwitz ranks 85Before him are Julio González, Henk Sneevliet, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Alexander Belyaev, Georges Politzer, and Alois Eliáš. After him are Titus Brandsma, Lidia Zamenhof, Valdemar Poulsen, Vera Figner, Walter Sickert, and Cesare Mori.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Walther von Lüttwitz ranks 471 out of 1,694Before him are Bezprym (987), Zygmunt Berling (1896), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Kazys Grinius (1866), Aleksander Krupa (1947), and Dita Parlo (1906). After him are Bronisław Huberman (1882), Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928), Teresa Orlowski (1953), Gerhard Klopfer (1905), Georg von der Marwitz (1856), and Myer Prinstein (1878).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Walther von Lüttwitz ranks 41Before him are Helmuth von Pannwitz (1898), Hans Karl von Diebitsch (1785), Max von Gallwitz (1852), Hellmuth Stieff (1901), Hermann von Eichhorn (1848), and Zygmunt Berling (1896). After him are Georg von der Marwitz (1856), Fritz von Below (1853), Fritz Freitag (1894), Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784), Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905), and Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886).