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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 committed 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 241,209 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Merckle is the 358th most popular businessperson (down from 303rd in 2019), the 3,339th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,103rd in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Businessperson.

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  • 240k

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  • 50.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Adolf Merckle ranks 358 out of 601. Before him are Henry Cole, Pavel Durov, George Averoff, John D. Rockefeller III, Charles Koch, and Satya Nadella. After him are Sundar Pichai, Susanne Klatten, Emil Rathenau, Ray Dalio, Franz Josef Popp, and Thomas Blake Glover.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Adolf Merckle ranks 228. Before him are Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Carmelo Simeone, Maria Carta, David Burke, Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, and Abdullah Ibrahim. After him are Richard Swinburne, Jackie Wilson, Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, Oleg Basilashvili, Otis Rush, and Billy Paul. Among people deceased in 2009, Adolf Merckle ranks 161. Before him are Hong Song-nam, Chuck Daly, Ekaterina Maximova, Dan O'Bannon, Veronika Dudarova, and Tullio Pinelli. After him are Mike Bongiorno, Dom DeLuise, Knut Haugland, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Natalya Estemirova, and Peter Shirayanagi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Merckle ranks 3,339 out of 6,142. Before him are Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1706), Gerd Faltings (1954), Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1670), Prince August of Württemberg (1813), Brigitte Mohnhaupt (1949), and Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744). After him are John I, Count Palatine of Simmern (1459), Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786), Edgar Jung (1894), Willigis (940), Erich Pommer (1889), and Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Adolf Merckle ranks 39. Before him are Siegfried Bing (1838), Martin Winterkorn (1947), Peter Thiel (1967), Herbert Hainer (1954), Albert Ballin (1857), and Johanna Quandt (1926). After him are Susanne Klatten (1962), Emil Rathenau (1838), Kim Dotcom (1974), Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880), Hermann Josef Abs (1901), and Ernest Oppenheimer (1880).

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