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Wilhelm Adam

1877 - 1949

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Wilhelm Adam (15 September 1877 – 8 April 1949) was a German general who served in the Bavarian Army, the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht. Adam was born in Ansbach, joining the German Army in 1897, and serving in Bavarian telegraph and Communication units before being detached to the Bavarian War Academy in 1907. During World War I, Adam fought as a company leader of a Bavarian pioneer unit, but only for a short period. Towards the end of 1914, Adam became a General Staff Officer on the Staff of the Army High command. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Adam is the 697th most popular military personnel (up from 839th in 2019), the 1,778th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,067th in 2019) and the 121st most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Wilhelm Adam ranks 697 out of 2,058. Before him are Henri de la Rochejaquelein, Mark W. Clark, Shibata Katsuie, Zhou Tai, Georg Stumme, and Mikhail Skobelev. After him are Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, Tatya Tope, Walter Stennes, Nicolaus von Below, and Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Wilhelm Adam ranks 51. Before him are Endre Ady, Chaim Rumkowski, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Edmund Landau, Otto Gross, and Sadao Araki. After him are Charles Rolls, Princess Mathilde of Bavaria, Isabelle Eberhardt, Raymond Roussel, Vladimir Minorsky, and Léon Flameng. Among people deceased in 1949, Wilhelm Adam ranks 52. Before him are Hans Pfitzner, Ulrich Salchow, Ellery Harding Clark, Yoshijirō Umezu, Alice Bailey, and Husni al-Za'im. After him are Richard Dix, Maurice Blondel, Vítězslav Novák, Vasily Degtyaryov, Prince Harald of Denmark, and Infanta Blanca of Spain.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Adam ranks 1,778 out of 7,253. Before him are Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1572), Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788), Ralph H. Baer (1922), Prince Oskar of Prussia (1888), Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1337), and Princess Josephine of Baden (1813). After him are Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (1893), Friedrich Parrot (1791), Michael Stifel (1487), Peter Thiel (1967), Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1562), and Hillel Furstenberg (1935).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Wilhelm Adam ranks 121. Before him are Hans Speidel (1897), Heinz Lammerding (1905), Kurt von Tippelskirch (1891), Fritz Bayerlein (1899), Franz Hössler (1906), and Georg Stumme (1886). After him are Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (1893), Walter Stennes (1895), Nicolaus von Below (1907), August Hirt (1898), Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld (1651), and Wilhelm Schepmann (1894).

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