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Wilhelm Souchon

1864 - 1946

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Wilhelm Anton Souchon (German pronunciation: [suˈʃɔŋ]; 2 June 1864 – 13 January 1946) was a German admiral in World War I. Souchon commanded the Kaiserliche Marine's Mediterranean squadron in the early days of the war. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Souchon is the 806th most popular military personnel (up from 933rd in 2019), the 2,028th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,281st in 2019) and the 144th most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Wilhelm Souchon ranks 806 out of 2,058Before him are Soemu Toyoda, Cleombrotus, Hermann Priess, Jahangir Mirza, Hiroshi Ōshima, and Ernst Linder. After him are Otto Kittel, Demosthenes, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Shūmei Ōkawa, Fakhri Pasha, and Karel Doorman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Wilhelm Souchon ranks 68Before him are Hedwiga Rosenbaumová, Infanta Eulalia of Spain, Peter Deunov, Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, George Albert Smith, and Carsten Borchgrevink. After him are Anagarika Dharmapala, Tanaka Giichi, Isa Boletini, Arthur Zimmermann, Nikolay Chkheidze, and William, Prince of Hohenzollern. Among people deceased in 1946, Wilhelm Souchon ranks 71Before him are Henry Bergman, Yōsuke Matsuoka, Henri Gouraud, Arthur Greiser, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, and Jenny-Wanda Barkmann. After him are Jeanne Lanvin, Inayatullah Khan, Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães, Louis Zutter, Max Koegel, and Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Souchon ranks 2,029 out of 7,253Before him are Ernst Nolte (1923), Fredrik Pacius (1809), Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (1922), Johann Ludwig Bach (1677), Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1818), and John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1584). After him are Hans F. K. Günther (1891), Otto Dietrich (1897), Heinrich Schwarz (1906), Theodore of Corsica (1694), Rupert II, Elector Palatine (1325), and Ulrich von Hassell (1881).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Wilhelm Souchon ranks 144Before him are Max Immelmann (1890), Erich Brandenberger (1892), Heinz Hitler (1920), Wilhelm Rediess (1900), Oswald Boelcke (1891), and Hermann Priess (1901). After him are Rudolf Schmidt (1886), Theodor Wisch (1907), Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow (1755), Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730), Georg Lindemann (1884), and Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894).