Officer

Explore the lives of notable figures who have served as Officers, shaping history and society. Discover their achievements, influential roles, and contributions to public service.

Romanian officer, master of tank combat, participant in World War II

Heinz Gunther Guderian

German officer, participant in World War II, Knight's Cross recipient

William Sitgreaves Cox

American military man.

Friedrich Wiese

Mark Bershadsky

Soviet officer of the Red Army, lieutenant

Polish officer, participant in the national liberation movement.

Cuban internationalist, a graduate of a Soviet orphanage, a soldier and officer in the Soviet Army.

Lieutenant Colonel, infantryman, Hero of the Soviet Union

Lieutenant, hero of the Crimean War

German tank ace of World War II

Jean-Armand Du Peyrer

Legendary captain of the royal musketeers

Officer of the Russian Army, Guards Major

Joy Bright Hancock

American soldier, veteran of both world wars, one of the first female officers in the American Navy.

Richard Brooke Garnett

A career officer in the United States Army and a general in the Confederate Army.

US Army officer and Confederate Army general

Hans Hermann Katte

Lieutenant of the Prussian army

Deputy Commander of the 2nd Guards Order of Lenin, Twice Red Banner, Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky

Douglas Abbott Macgregor

Military theorist, retired US Army colonel, writer

Japanese naval officer during the Meiji era

Dmitriy De Vitt

Russian officer

Veniamin Albetkov

Soviet soldier and officer

Azerbaijani officer

German officer, General of the Infantry during World War II

German officer, participant in World War II, SS Obersturmbannführer

Captain (general (?)) of the English service in India and traveller. Travelled from Herat via Khiva to Russia. Founded the city of Abbottabad in Pakistan.

Benigno Benjamin Villanueva

Argentine, Mexican, Spanish and Ottoman military

Commander of the foot reconnaissance platoon of the 116th Guards Rifle Regiment, Guards Lieutenant

Vasiliy Koshelev

Participant of the Great Patriotic War

Pavel Bazilevskiy

Lieutenant Colonel of the UPR Army.

Philip Carteret

British officer, explorer and navigator.

Dmitriy Amilahvari

Officer of the French army, lieutenant colonel of the Foreign Legion

Commander of the 26th SS Division, then XVII SS Corps

Eugeniy Erofeev

Russian officer, twice Knight of the Order of St. George

Oskars Jekabs Dankers

Latvian general, officer of the Russian tsarist army

Paul William Bucha

Vietnam War Veteran

Hamzya Bogdanov

Hero of the Soviet Union, Guards Colonel

Ralph Puckett Jr.

US Army officer

Hans Kannengiesser

German officer.

William Walter Leake

American Civil War Confederate Army officer, Freemason, lawyer, county judge, and bank president.

Alexander-Valerian Anderson

Russian and Soviet military leader, reserve division commander (1936).

Nikolay Grigoryev

Ukrainian partisan, ataman of the UPR, then commander of the Red Army division

Deputy Director of the Department of Property Relations of the Russian Ministry of Defense

Nikolay Aksyutin

Soviet officer, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union

Frederick William Benteen

US Army officer, participant in the Civil War and Indian Wars

A career officer in the US Army who fought in the Civil War and the Indian Wars.

Erich Wurdemann

German submarine officer, captain-lieutenant

Joseph Pitty Couthouy

American naval officer, conchiologist, paleontologist