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Axel Springer

1912 - 1985

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Axel Cäsar Springer (2 May 1912 – 22 September 1985) was a German publisher and founder of what is now Axel Springer SE, the largest media publishing firm in Europe. By the early 1960s his print titles dominated the West German daily press market. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Axel Springer has received more than 400,049 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Axel Springer is the 173rd most popular businessperson (up from 204th in 2019), the 1,643rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,835th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Axel Springer ranks 173 out of 847. Before him are Shin Kyuk-ho, Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Stanley Ho, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Jack Daniel, and Thomas J. Watson. After him are Johns Hopkins, Bernard Baruch, Lady Bird Johnson, Ted Turner, Martha Stewart, and Isaac Carasso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Axel Springer ranks 86. Before him are Jacques Ellul, Frank Oppenheimer, Hugh Griffith, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, José Ferrer, and Michel Debré. After him are Marina Raskova, Nereo Rocco, Lady Bird Johnson, Duško Popov, Feroze Gandhi, and Arne Næss. Among people deceased in 1985, Axel Springer ranks 53. Before him are Kim Yong-sik, Kirill Moskalenko, Frank Oppenheimer, Eric Voegelin, Wellington Koo, and Zarifa Aliyeva. After him are Karl-Adolf Hollidt, Alexander Pokryshkin, Theodore Sturgeon, Ruth Gordon, David Byron, and Herbert Bayer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Axel Springer ranks 1,643 out of 7,253. Before him are Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577), Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1679), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1797), Florian Schneider (1947), and Friedrich Parrot (1791). After him are Ludwig Büchner (1824), Eugen Jochum (1902), Prince Oskar of Prussia (1888), Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1911), August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735), and Felix Nussbaum (1904).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Axel Springer ranks 20. Before him are James Mayer de Rothschild (1792), Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682), Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773), Melitta Bentz (1873), Karl Albrecht (1920), and Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774). After him are Maurice de Hirsch (1831), Carl Laemmle (1867), Dieter Schwarz (1939), Friedrich Krupp (1787), Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854), and Hans Wilsdorf (1881).

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