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.

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

Obersturmführer of the Latvian SS Volunteer Legion.

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

Hans Hermann Katte

Lieutenant of the Prussian army

German officer, General of the Infantry during World War II

Gutsunaev Kazbulat

Officer of the Russian army, participant in the First World War and the Civil War

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

Franz Griesbach

German infantry officer, participant in the First and Second World Wars

Japanese naval officer during the Meiji era

Grigoriy Ayrapetyan

Participant of the Polish campaign of the Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union, lieutenant colonel

William Walter Leake

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

Nikolay Alifanov

Test pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, colonel

Joseph Pitty Couthouy

American naval officer, conchiologist, paleontologist

Paul William Bucha

Vietnam War Veteran

Veniamin Albetkov

Soviet soldier and officer

German officer, participant in the First and Second World Wars, Brigadeführer and Major General of the SS troops, holder of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves.

Mark Bershadsky

Soviet officer of the Red Army, lieutenant

German officer, participant in World War II, SS Obersturmbannführer

Alexey Otserklevich

Lieutenant Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Head of the State Security Department of Ukraine

Akiyama Saneyuki

Japanese military figure, officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy

German tank ace of World War II

Officer of the Russian Army, Guards Major

Benigno Benjamin Villanueva

Argentine, Mexican, Spanish and Ottoman military

Mercedes O. Cubria

American military man originally from Cuba

Vasiliy Koshelev

Participant of the Great Patriotic War

Lieutenant Colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union

Erich Wurdemann

German submarine officer, captain-lieutenant

Dmitriy Amilahvari

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

Olga Ovcharenko

The first female officer of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, accused of beating soldiers

British soldier, colonial administrator and 1st Baron Dorchester.

Pavel Bazilevskiy

Lieutenant Colonel of the UPR Army.

US Army officer and Confederate Army general

German officer, participant in World War II, Oberführer

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

German officer, participant in World War II, Wehrmacht major, holder of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.

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

Ralph Puckett Jr.

US Army officer

Lieutenant Colonel of Tank Forces.

Pavel Shcherbatov

Lieutenant Colonel, participant in the Seven Years' War

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

German soldier in Russian service.

German tank ace of World War II

German tank ace of World War II

SS officer; SS Sturmbannführer (1944).

Oskars Jekabs Dankers

Latvian general, officer of the Russian tsarist army

German officer, participant in World War II, major general

Hamzya Bogdanov

Hero of the Soviet Union, Guards Colonel

Eugeniy Erofeev

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