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Carl Laemmle

1867 - 1939

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Carl Laemmle ( ; born Karl Lämmle German: [ˈlɛmlə]; January 17, 1867 – September 24, 1939) was a German-American film producer and the co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures. He produced or worked on over 400 films. Regarded as one of the most important of the early film pioneers, Laemmle was born in what is now Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Laemmle has received more than 810,683 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Laemmle is the 195th most popular businessperson (up from 223rd in 2019), the 1,834th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,015th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Carl Laemmle ranks 195 out of 847. Before him are Peter Sauber, Mukesh Ambani, William C. Durant, Roger Ailes, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, and Henry J. Heinz. After him are Charles Simonyi, Morris Chang, Jamsetji Tata, Dieter Schwarz, Stavros Niarchos, and Friedrich Krupp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Carl Laemmle ranks 54. Before him are Hans Driesch, Leo Jogiches, Kristian Birkeland, Mikhail Eisenstein, Charles Fabry, and Marcel Schwob. After him are Hiranuma Kiichirō, Adam Stefan Sapieha, Elvira Madigan, Masaoka Shiki, Jeanne Lanvin, and Henri Gouraud. Among people deceased in 1939, Carl Laemmle ranks 42. Before him are Roman Dmowski, Franz Schmidt, Isaac Carasso, Hans Langsdorff, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, and Norman Bethune. After him are Wu Peifu, Vladimir Shukhov, Bruno Liljefors, Grigori Sokolnikov, Armand Călinescu, and Kolë Idromeno.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Laemmle ranks 1,834 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (1833), Karl von Piloty (1826), Kurt Gerron (1897), Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (1527), Heinrich von Treitschke (1834), and Irmina of Oeren (700). After him are Herbert von Bismarck (1849), Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), Eugen Fink (1905), Ernst Neufert (1900), Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (1885), and Walther Hewel (1904).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Carl Laemmle ranks 22. Before him are Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773), Melitta Bentz (1873), Karl Albrecht (1920), Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774), Axel Springer (1912), and Maurice de Hirsch (1831). After him are Dieter Schwarz (1939), Friedrich Krupp (1787), Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854), Hans Wilsdorf (1881), John Jacob Astor (1763), and Karl Baedeker (1801).

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