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Anton Flettner

1885 - 1961

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Anton Flettner (1 November 1885 – 29 December 1961) was a German aviation engineer and inventor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton Flettner has received more than 131,266 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Anton Flettner is the 159th most popular engineer (up from 162nd in 2019), the 2,850th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,784th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Engineer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.36

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  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Anton Flettner ranks 159 out of 389Before him are Mstislav Keldysh, Adolphe Alphand, Léon Charles Thévenin, Henryk Dembiński, Gérard Larrousse, and Philippe LeBon. After him are Hanns Hörbiger, Marc Seguin, John Loudon McAdam, John Smeaton, Antoine de Chézy, and Sherif Ismail.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Anton Flettner ranks 108Before him are Leó Weiner, Josef Frank, Mineichi Koga, Francisco Bru, Tadeusz Kutrzeba, and Sophie, Princess of Albania. After him are Dezső Kosztolányi, Karl Genzken, Jan Czochralski, Aleksandras Stulginskis, Jerome Kern, and Henri Laurens. Among people deceased in 1961, Anton Flettner ranks 67Before him are Vladimir Sofronitsky, Domenico Tardini, Mihail Sadoveanu, Lucian Blaga, Andrzej Munk, and Hubert Van Innis. After him are Kjeld Abell, Charles Coburn, Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Arnold Gesell, Václav Talich, and Constantin Constantinescu-Claps.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anton Flettner ranks 2,850 out of 7,253Before him are Carl Hilpert (1888), Anton Walter (1752), Carl Tanzler (1877), Adolph Kolping (1813), Gustav-Adolf von Zangen (1892), and Anne Buydens (1919). After him are Günter Wand (1912), Peter Schreier (1935), Julius Oppert (1825), Paul Augustin Mayer (1911), Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1687), and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (1443).

Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Anton Flettner ranks 21Before him are Claude Dornier (1884), Christian Otto Mohr (1835), Erich Topp (1914), Gustave Whitehead (1874), Franz Reuleaux (1829), and Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935). After him are Hellmuth Walter (1900), Hugo Eckener (1868), Franz Grashof (1826), Walter Hohmann (1880), Johann Georg Halske (1814), and Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848).