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Carl Diem

1882 - 1962

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Carl Diem (24 June 1882 – 17 December 1962) was a German sports administrator, and as Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the Berlin Olympic Games, the chief organizer of the 1936 Olympic Summer Games. He created the tradition of the Olympic torch relay when he organised the 1936 build-up event, and was an influential historian of sport, particularly the Olympic games. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Diem has received more than 91,944 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Diem is the 178th most popular athlete, the 3,247th most popular biography from Germany and the 13th most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Carl Diem ranks 178 out of 3,059. Before him are Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, Pietro Mennea, Faina Melnik, Terry Fox, Dorian Yates, and Dorothy Manley. After him are Harry Porter, Inessa Kravets, Ralph Rose, Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Janusz Kusociński, and Friedrich Traun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Carl Diem ranks 143. Before him are José Vasconcelos, Monteiro Lobato, Sylvia Pankhurst, Alexander Kutepov, Károly Huszár, and Otto Ruge. After him are Harry Porter, Paul Anspach, Wilhelm Nusselt, Ernst Weiss, Louis Pergaud, and Ali Fuat Cebesoy. Among people deceased in 1962, Carl Diem ranks 101. Before him are José Giral, Pedro Pablo Ramírez, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, Max Vasmer, Ahmad bin Yahya, and Kunio Yanagita. After him are Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Franz Kaiser, Abdullah Goran, Ernst Grünfeld, and Hermann Muhs.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Diem ranks 3,247 out of 6,142. Before him are Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1731), Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Rudolf Wolters (1903), Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal (1907), Rebecca Horn (1944), and Conrad Böcker (1870). After him are Adolf Busch (1891), Siegfried Rauch (1932), Friedrich Wetter (1928), Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1662), Otto Witte (1872), and Ludowika Jakobsson (1884).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Carl Diem ranks 13. Before him are Lina Radke (1903), Jürgen Schult (1960), Heike Drechsler (1964), Waldemar Cierpinski (1950), Tilly Fleischer (1911), and Margitta Gummel (1941). After him are Friedrich Traun (1876), Birgit Fischer (1962), Gisela Mauermayer (1913), Hans Günter Winkler (1926), Karin Balzer (1938), and Andreas Krieger (1965).

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