The Most Famous
PUBLIC WORKERS from Germany
This page contains a list of the greatest German Public Workers. The pantheon dataset contains 15 Public Workers, 1 of which were born in Germany. This makes Germany the birth place of the 9th most number of Public Workers behind Italy, and Iraq.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary German Public Workers of all time. This list of famous German Public Workers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Markus Wolf (1923 - 2006)
With an HPI of 63.32, Markus Wolf is the most famous German Public Worker. His biography has been translated into 38 different languages on wikipedia.
Markus Johannes Wolf (19 January 1923 – 9 November 2006), also known as Mischa, was head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung), the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, abbr. MfS, commonly known as the Stasi). He was the Stasi's number two for 34 years, which spanned most of the Cold War. He is often regarded as one of the best-known spymasters during the Cold War. In the West he was known as "the man without a face" due to his elusiveness.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as German public workers born between 1923 and 1923. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased German public workers include Markus Wolf.
