Atlas of Battles

commander, 8 engagements

Battles of Hugo Sperrle

Battles of Hugo Sperrle

German field marshal (1885–1953)

Hugo Sperrle is recorded as a commander at 8 placed engagements in the atlas between 1936 and 1944: 6 battles, 1 siege and 1 campaign across 2 present-day countries, most in United Kingdom (6), Spain (2). Taken in date order, the sites lie 2,953 km apart end to end, 422 km between engagements on average. Most belong to World War II (5), Spanish Civil War (2), home front during World War II (1).

AdlertagClydebank BlitzOperation SteinbockSiege of MadridBattle of SantanderBattle of Britainthe BlitzBaedeker BlitzSiege of MadridBattle of SantanderBattle of Britainthe BlitzBaedeker BlitzBerlinViennaGenevaAmsterdamBarcelonaMilanFrankfurtLisbonNaplesHamburg1000 km48.159N, 2.264W
8 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1936: 1 engagements1937: 1 engagements1940: 3 engagements3 in 19401941: 1 engagements1942: 1 engagements1944: 1 engagements19361944
8 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Siege of Madrid, 1936Battle of Santander, 1937Battle of Britain, 1940Adlertag, 1940the Blitz, 1940Clydebank Blitz, 1941Baedeker Blitz, 1942Operation Steinbock, 194419361944
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 3

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
8 November 1936Siege of MadridMadrid, SpainNationalist victory; Republicans win the battle in 1936...
17 September 1937Battle of SantanderCantabria, Spain337 km NNationalist victory
1940Battle of BritainUnited Kingdom1,180 km NBritish victory
1940AdlertagEngland, United Kingdom129 km SEBritish victory
1940the BlitzUnited Kingdom176 km SAxis strategic failure
March 1941Clydebank BlitzClydebank, United Kingdom563 km NWClydebank largely destroyed by German air raids
1942Baedeker BlitzEngland, United Kingdom390 km SEGerman strategic failure
1944Operation SteinbockUnited Kingdom176 km SBritish 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.