Engineer

Anton Flettner

German aviation pioneer

1885 - 1961

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His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Anton Flettner is the 156th most popular engineer (up from 158th in 2024), the 2,962nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,850th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Engineer.

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Anton Flettner's biography spans 21 Wikipedia language editions and earns a Historical Popularity Index of 60.97.

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Among Engineers

Among engineers, Anton Flettner ranks 156 out of 409. Before him are Mikhail Yangel, Walter Hohmann, Gabriel Voisin, Giuseppe Colombo, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, and Mstislav Keldysh. After him are John Bagot Glubb, Alec Issigonis, Ivan Yarkovsky, Pierre Berthier, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, and Yaakov Ziv.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Anton Flettner ranks 109. Before him are Leó Weiner, Louise Bryant, Dorando Pietri, Alexander Shliapnikov, Josef Frank, and Mineichi Koga. After him are John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, Henri Laurens, Francisco Bru, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Tadeusz Kutrzeba, and Muslim Magomayev. Among people deceased in 1961, Anton Flettner ranks 76. Before him are Charles Coburn, Nina Bari, Lucian Blaga, Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Valentin Bondarenko, and Anselmo Alliegro y Milá. After him are Philibert Jacques Melotte, Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, Mihail Sadoveanu, Ty Cobb, Václav Talich, and Ernest Payne.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anton Flettner ranks 2,962 out of 8,184. Before him are Alexander Kluge (1932), Andreas Werckmeister (1645), Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal (1667), Hans von Kulmbach (1476), Hanns Martin Schleyer (1915), and Heinrich Barkhausen (1881). After him are Hugo Preuß (1860), Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957), Nicole Brown Simpson (1959), Bruno Lüdke (1908), Ulrich Graf (1878), and Gerardus Vossius (1577).

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Among Engineers In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Anton Flettner ranks 21. Before him are Alexander Lippisch (1894), Christian Otto Mohr (1835), Claude Dornier (1884), Franz Reuleaux (1829), Hellmuth Walter (1900), and Walter Hohmann (1880). After him are Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), Hugo Eckener (1868), Peter Hirsch (1925), Gustave Whitehead (1874), Franz Grashof (1826), and Johann Georg Halske (1814).

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