SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Carl von Ossietzky

1889 - 1938

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Carl von Ossietzky (German pronunciation: [ˈkaʁl fɔn ʔɔˈsi̯ɛtskiː] ; 3 October 1889 – 4 May 1938) was a German journalist and pacifist. He was the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German rearmament. As editor-in-chief of the magazine Die Weltbühne, Ossietzky published a series of exposés in the late 1920s, detailing Germany's violation of the Treaty of Versailles by rebuilding an air force (the predecessor of the Luftwaffe) and training pilots in the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl von Ossietzky has received more than 593,973 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Carl von Ossietzky is the 52nd most popular social activist (down from 44th in 2019), the 408th most popular biography from Germany (down from 372nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Social Activist.

Carl von Ossietzky was a German pacifist and journalist. He is most famous for being the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize, but was unable to accept it in person because he was imprisoned in Nazi Germany.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Carl von Ossietzky ranks 52 out of 840. Before him are Pheidippides, Emma Goldman, Lê Đức Thọ, Yemelyan Pugachev, Alexey Stakhanov, and Lal Bahadur Shastri. After him are Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Fanny Kaplan, Alfred Hermann Fried, Túpac Amaru II, and Babak Khorramdin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Carl von Ossietzky ranks 19. Before him are Vaslav Nijinsky, Manuel II of Portugal, Igor Sikorsky, Idris of Libya, Gabriel Marcel, and Gabriela Mistral. After him are Louise Mountbatten, Otto Frank, Han van Meegeren, Jacob L. Moreno, Risto Ryti, and Carl Theodor Dreyer. Among people deceased in 1938, Carl von Ossietzky ranks 17. Before him are Béla Kun, Faustina Kowalska, Karl Kautsky, Alexei Rykov, Suzanne Valadon, and Genrikh Yagoda. After him are Robert Johnson, Muhammad Iqbal, Osip Mandelstam, Marie of Romania, Christian Lous Lange, and Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl von Ossietzky ranks 408 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Luther (1879), Otto Diels (1876), Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Maria Alexandrovna (1824), and Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884). After him are Paul Hausser (1880), Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), Karl Drais (1785), Anna Magdalena Bach (1701), Louise Mountbatten (1889), and Traudl Junge (1920).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Carl von Ossietzky ranks 5. Before him are Claus von Stauffenberg (1907), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Sophie Scholl (1921), and Martin Niemöller (1892). After him are Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Horst Wessel (1907), Widukind (755), Anneliese Michel (1952), Hans Scholl (1918), Sophia of Prussia (1870), and Alfred Naujocks (1911).

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