Atlas of Battles

commander, 7 engagements

Battles of Nikolaus von Falkenhorst

Battles of Nikolaus von Falkenhorst

German general (1885-1968)

Nikolaus von Falkenhorst is recorded as a commander at 7 placed engagements in the atlas between 1939 and 1942: 4 battles and 3 campaigns across 4 present-day countries, most in Norway (3), Poland (2), Lithuania (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 4,753 km apart end to end, 792 km between engagements on average. Most belong to World War II (7).

Battle of GrudziądzBattle of ŁomżaNorwegian CampaignOperation BarbarossaOperation Silver FoxOperation AnkletOperation MusketoonNorwegian CampaignOperation BarbarossaOperation Silver FoxOperation AnkletOperation MusketoonBerlinStockholmAmsterdamSt. PetersburgHamburgWarsawHelsinkiKøbenhavnMinskRiga500 km61.075N, 21.883E
7 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1939: 2 engagements1940: 1 engagements1941: 3 engagements3 in 19411942: 1 engagements19391942
7 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Grudziądz, 1939Battle of Łomża, 1939Norwegian Campaign, 1940Operation Barbarossa, 1941Operation Silver Fox, 1941Operation Anklet, 1941Operation Musketoon, 194219391942
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1 September 1939Battle of GrudziądzGrudziądz, PolandGerman victory
7 September 1939Battle of ŁomżaŁomża, Poland223 km EGerman victory
1940Norwegian CampaignNorway1,023 km NWGerman victory
1941Operation BarbarossaUkrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Lithuania950 km SEAxis strategic failure
1941Operation Silver FoxSápmi, Russia1,598 km NAllied victory
1941Operation AnkletLofoten, Norway823 km WAllied victory
1942Operation MusketoonGlomfjord, Norway136 km SAllied victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.