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Adolf Dassler

1900 - 1978

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Adolf "Adi" Dassler (3 November 1900 – 6 September 1978) was a German cobbler, inventor, member of the Nazi party and businessman who founded the German sportswear company Adidas. He was also the younger brother of Rudolf Dassler, founder of Puma. Dassler was an innovator in athletic shoe design and one of the early promoters who obtained endorsements from athletes to drive sales of his products. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Dassler has received more than 4,407,048 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Adolf Dassler is the 29th most popular businessperson, the 276th most popular biography from Germany (down from 270th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Businessperson.

Adolf Dassler is most famous for founding the company Adidas.

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  • 69.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Adolf Dassler ranks 29 out of 847. Before him are David Rockefeller, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Steve Ballmer, Amancio Ortega, Colonel Sanders, and Muhammad Yunus. After him are Carlos Slim, P. T. Barnum, Jules Rimet, Liliane Bettencourt, J. P. Morgan, and Philip Kotler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Adolf Dassler ranks 12. Before him are Luis Buñuel, Wolfgang Pauli, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, and Heinrich Müller. After him are Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Vasily Chuikov, Margaret Mitchell, Spencer Tracy, Dennis Gabor, and Sándor Márai. Among people deceased in 1978, Adolf Dassler ranks 11. Before him are Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Kurt Gödel, Aldo Moro, Jacques Brel, Giorgio de Chirico, and Manne Siegbahn. After him are Umberto Nobile, Ramón Mercader, Anastas Mikoyan, Ricardo Zamora, John Cazale, and Harry Martinson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Dassler ranks 276 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Pieck (1876), Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1691), Michael Ende (1929), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), Wilhelm Frick (1877), and Lothar Matthäus (1961). After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758), Max Horkheimer (1895), Friedrich Schlegel (1772), Anton Drexler (1884), Athanasius Kircher (1602), and Klaus Barbie (1913).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Adolf Dassler ranks 4. Before him are Levi Strauss (1829), Ludwig Erhard (1897), and Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838). After him are Otto Frank (1889), Rudolf Dassler (1898), Jakob Fugger (1459), Henri Nestlé (1814), Robert Bosch (1861), Paul Reuter (1816), Bertha Benz (1849), and Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777).

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