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Adolf Merckle

1934 - 2009

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Adolf Merckle (18 March 1934 – 5 January 2009) was a German entrepreneur and billionaire. He died by suicide at age 74 due to losses during the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Merckle has received more than 255,086 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Merckle is the 391st most popular businessperson (down from 358th in 2019), the 3,720th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,336th in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Businessperson.

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  • 51.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Adolf Merckle ranks 391 out of 847. Before him are Armand Hammer, Mohammed bin Hammam, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Sergei Shchukin, Elizabeth Christ Trump, and Franz Josef Popp. After him are Malcom McLean, Toto Wolff, David Geffen, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Peter Thiel, and Henry Cole.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Adolf Merckle ranks 249. Before him are Julio Jiménez, Robert D. Hare, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Zequinha, Marilyn Horne, and Fou Ts'ong. After him are Harald Grønningen, Enrique Mateos, Aleksei Yeliseyev, Eva Mozes Kor, Marisa Allasio, and Cammie King. Among people deceased in 2009, Adolf Merckle ranks 173. Before him are František Veselý, Chuck Daly, Dan O'Bannon, Juvenal Amarijo, Gayatri Devi, and Alain Bashung. After him are Karen Harup, Fritz Darges, Grigore Vieru, Betsy Blair, Dom DeLuise, and Tomislav Crnković.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Merckle ranks 3,720 out of 7,253. Before him are Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1583), Marc Forster (1969), Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880), Franz von Paula Schrank (1747), Jean-Marc Barr (1960), and Sylvia Nasar (1947). After him are Rudi Glöckner (1929), Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909), Irm Hermann (1942), Hanni Wenzel (1956), Erich Pommer (1889), and Leonor Michaelis (1875).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Adolf Merckle ranks 47. Before him are Siegfried Bing (1838), Karl Wittgenstein (1847), Emil Rathenau (1838), Susanne Klatten (1962), Albert Ballin (1857), and Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880). After him are Peter Thiel (1967), Ernest Oppenheimer (1880), Jawed Karim (1979), Reinhard Mohn (1921), Kim Dotcom (1974), and Marcus Goldman (1821).

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