Karl Dönitz

Quality:

Karl Dönitz - German Navy Officer, Admiral and supreme commander of the German Navy, head of state and Chief German Wehrmacht Military and convicted Nazi war criminal (1891-1980). This person is the 1958^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 590^th most popular person in German Wikipedia. Article “Karl Dönitz” in German Wikipedia has 90 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 143 references and 15 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 2003^rd most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 1110^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 590^th most popular in people in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6808^th most popular in all topics.

The 3615^th most popular in AI.

The 1958^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 951^st most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4128^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Karl Dönitz” was edited by 3 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Karl Dönitz”, its content was written by 588 registered users of German Wikipedia (1110^th place) and edited by 4118 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3615^th place).

Karl Dönitz is on the 590^th place in local ranking of people in German Wikipedia and on the 1958^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 784 times in German Wikipedia and cited 10137 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #228 in June 2014
• Global: #86 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #107 in May 2020
• Global: #1838 in May 2025

There are 51 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Karl Dönitz		100
2	German (de) Karl Dönitz		90
3	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·邓尼茨		76.1175
4	Swedish (sv) Karl Dönitz		70.3026
5	Polish (pl) Karl Dönitz		69.784
6	Dutch (nl) Karl Dönitz		62.2354
7	French (fr) Karl Dönitz		62.0262
8	Turkish (tr) Karl Dönitz		54.623
9	Malay (ms) Karl Dönitz		54.4541
10	Japanese (ja) カール・デーニッツ		52.2176

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Karl Dönitz		12 982 101
2	German (de) Karl Dönitz		5 281 920
3	Russian (ru) Дёниц, Карл		2 898 111
4	Spanish (es) Karl Dönitz		1 840 862
5	French (fr) Karl Dönitz		1 448 365
6	Japanese (ja) カール・デーニッツ		1 439 752
7	Italian (it) Karl Dönitz		1 223 907
8	Polish (pl) Karl Dönitz		1 129 772
9	Dutch (nl) Karl Dönitz		774 131
10	Portuguese (pt) Karl Dönitz		678 818

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Karl Dönitz		80 648
2	German (de) Karl Dönitz		29 846
3	Russian (ru) Дёниц, Карл		15 323
4	French (fr) Karl Dönitz		14 238
5	Spanish (es) Karl Dönitz		8 621
6	Japanese (ja) カール・デーニッツ		6 909
7	Italian (it) Karl Dönitz		5 596
8	Polish (pl) Karl Dönitz		4 507
9	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·邓尼茨		3 728
10	Turkish (tr) Karl Dönitz		3 658

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Karl Dönitz		984
2	German (de) Karl Dönitz		588
3	French (fr) Karl Dönitz		269
4	Russian (ru) Дёниц, Карл		190
5	Italian (it) Karl Dönitz		180
6	Dutch (nl) Karl Dönitz		154
7	Polish (pl) Karl Dönitz		134
8	Spanish (es) Karl Dönitz		133
9	Japanese (ja) カール・デーニッツ		124
10	Hebrew (he) קרל דניץ		115

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Karl Dönitz		3
2	German (de) Karl Dönitz		3
3	English (en) Karl Dönitz		3
4	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·邓尼茨		3
5	Russian (ru) Дёниц, Карл		2
6	Estonian (et) Karl Dönitz		1
7	Persian (fa) کارل دونیتس		1
8	French (fr) Karl Dönitz		1
9	Hebrew (he) קרל דניץ		1
10	Malay (ms) Karl Dönitz		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information