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Albert Ballin

1857 - 1918

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Albert Ballin (15 August 1857 – 9 November 1918) was a German shipping magnate. He was the general director of the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) or Hamburg-America Line, which for a time was the world's largest shipping company. Being the inventor of the concept of the cruise ship, he is known as the father of modern cruise ship travel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Ballin has received more than 150,188 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Albert Ballin is the 384th most popular businessperson (down from 343rd in 2019), the 3,654th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,189th in 2019) and the 45th most popular German Businessperson.

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  • 16

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  • 3.60

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  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Albert Ballin ranks 384 out of 847. Before him are Johann Carolus, Andrew Tate, Reed Hastings, Jakob Nielsen, Gaston Gallimard, and Dieter Zetsche. After him are Armand Hammer, Mohammed bin Hammam, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Sergei Shchukin, Elizabeth Christ Trump, and Franz Josef Popp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Albert Ballin ranks 92. Before him are Gunnar Heiberg, Louis Dollo, Knut Ångström, Eva Bonnier, Theodor Curtius, and George Gissing. After him are Manuel Estrada Cabrera, Anita Augspurg, Ivo Vojnović, Georges Leygues, Joseph Larmor, and Anna Kuliscioff. Among people deceased in 1918, Albert Ballin ranks 114. Before him are Wilfred Owen, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Malak Hifni Nasif, William Hope Hodgson, and George Lawrence Price. After him are Robbie Ross, Peter Rosegger, Margit Kaffka, Ulisse Dini, Alexander Protopopov, and Henry Adams.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albert Ballin ranks 3,654 out of 7,253. Before him are Robert Hübner (1948), Gertrude of Brunswick (1060), Max Dehn (1878), Johann Julius Walbaum (1724), Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719), and Reinhard Mey (1942). After him are Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1769), Wilhelm von Bode (1845), Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild (1650), Bernhard Klodt (1926), Leonhard Frank (1882), and Gunter d'Alquen (1910).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Albert Ballin ranks 45. Before him are Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884), Martin Winterkorn (1947), Siegfried Bing (1838), Karl Wittgenstein (1847), Emil Rathenau (1838), and Susanne Klatten (1962). After him are Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880), Adolf Merckle (1934), Peter Thiel (1967), Ernest Oppenheimer (1880), Jawed Karim (1979), and Reinhard Mohn (1921).

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