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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 103,048 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Carl Diem is the 214th most popular athlete (down from 178th in 2019), the 3,457th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,244th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Carl Diem ranks 214 out of 6,025. Before him are Samuel Jones, Nasser Al-Attiyah, Dorian Yates, Ivan Patzaichin, Nándor Dáni, and John Paine. After him are Karin Balzer, Otto Herschmann, Natalya Lisovskaya, Janusz Kusociński, Michael Johnson, and Éva Székely.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Carl Diem ranks 147. Before him are Otto Ruge, Federico Chávez, Yakov Perelman, Maurice Peeters, Monteiro Lobato, and Alexander Kutepov. After him are Ali Fuat Cebesoy, Auguste Herbin, Pascual Orozco, Henri Anspach, Ernst Weiss, and Robert Kerr. Among people deceased in 1962, Carl Diem ranks 103. Before him are Dhondo Keshav Karve, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, Luigi Carnera, Eugene Aynsley Goossens, Richard Herrmann, and Abdullah Goran. After him are Hermann Muhs, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, Franz Kaiser, Raquel Meller, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Diem ranks 3,457 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1354), Helmut Jahn (1940), Brunhilde Pomsel (1911), Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg (1829), and Henry Oldenburg (1619). After him are Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (1879), Bernhard Cullmann (1949), Karin Balzer (1938), Karl Mai (1928), Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen (1532), and Ingo Schwichtenberg (1965).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Carl Diem ranks 21. Before him are Gretel Bergmann (1914), Rosemarie Ackermann (1952), Heike Drechsler (1964), Margitta Gummel (1941), Gisela Mauermayer (1913), and Renate Stecher (1950). After him are Karin Balzer (1938), Marlies Göhr (1958), Karl Hein (1908), Gabriele Reinsch (1963), Birgit Fischer (1962), and Marianne Werner (1924).

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