1889 - 1938
Carl von Ossietzky (German: [kaʁl fɔn ʔɔˈsi̯ɛtskiː] (listen); 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 re-armament.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 360,655 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Carl von Ossietzky is the 41st most popular social activist (down from 40th in 2019), the 357th most popular biography from Germany (down from 349th 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, Carl von Ossietzky ranks 41 out of 544. Before him are Sophie Scholl, Jimmy Hoffa, Pheidippides, Omar Mukhtar, Simon Wiesenthal, and Alexey Stakhanov. After him are Stenka Razin, Élie Ducommun, Shirin Ebadi, Babak Khorramdin, Thích Quảng Đức, and Camilo Cienfuegos.
1921 - 1943
HPI: 75.85
Rank: 35
1913 - 1975
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 36
600 BC - 490 BC
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 37
1858 - 1931
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 38
1908 - 2005
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 39
1906 - 1977
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 40
1889 - 1938
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 41
1630 - 1671
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 42
1833 - 1906
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 43
1947 - Present
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 44
798 - 838
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 45
1897 - 1963
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 46
1932 - 1959
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 47
Among people born in 1889, Carl von Ossietzky ranks 16. Before him are Anna Akhmatova, Arnold J. Toynbee, Vaslav Nijinsky, Igor Sikorsky, Idris of Libya, and Manuel II of Portugal. After him are Gabriel Marcel, Otto Frank, Gabriela Mistral, Paul Karrer, Louise Mountbatten, and Jacob L. Moreno. Among people deceased in 1938, Carl von Ossietzky ranks 15. Before him are Faustina Kowalska, Kanō Jigorō, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Karl Kautsky, Robert Johnson, and Thomas Wolfe. After him are Alexei Rykov, Genrikh Yagoda, Muhammad Iqbal, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Mary Mallon, and Suzanne Valadon.
1889 - 1966
HPI: 77.89
Rank: 10
1889 - 1975
HPI: 77.45
Rank: 11
1889 - 1950
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 12
1889 - 1972
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 13
1889 - 1983
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 14
1889 - 1932
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 15
1889 - 1938
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 16
1889 - 1973
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 17
1889 - 1980
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 18
1889 - 1957
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 19
1889 - 1971
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 20
1889 - 1965
HPI: 74.08
Rank: 21
1889 - 1974
HPI: 73.84
Rank: 22
1905 - 1938
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 9
1860 - 1938
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 10
1861 - 1938
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 11
1854 - 1938
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 12
1911 - 1938
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 13
1900 - 1938
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 14
1889 - 1938
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 15
1881 - 1938
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 16
1891 - 1938
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 17
1877 - 1938
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 18
1863 - 1938
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 19
1869 - 1938
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 20
1865 - 1938
HPI: 73.57
Rank: 21
Among people born in Germany, Carl von Ossietzky ranks 357 out of 5,289. Before him are Traudl Junge (1920), August Kekulé (1829), Hermann Fegelein (1906), Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776), Ernst Busch (1885), and Karen Horney (1885). After him are Helmuth Weidling (1891), Ernst Abbe (1840), Werner Herzog (1942), Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811), Franz Halder (1884), and Ernst Ruska (1906).
1920 - 2002
HPI: 75.33
Rank: 351
1829 - 1896
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 352
1906 - 1945
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 353
1776 - 1810
HPI: 75.29
Rank: 354
1885 - 1945
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 355
1885 - 1952
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 356
1889 - 1938
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 357
1891 - 1955
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 358
1840 - 1905
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 359
1942 - Present
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 360
1811 - 1864
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 361
1884 - 1972
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 362
1906 - 1988
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 363
Among social activists born in Germany, Carl von Ossietzky ranks 5. Before him are Claus von Stauffenberg (1907), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Martin Niemöller (1892), and Sophie Scholl (1921). After him are Horst Wessel (1907), Anneliese Michel (1952), Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Hans Scholl (1918), Paul Schäfer (1921), Alfred Naujocks (1911), and Gerda Christian (1913).
1907 - 1944
HPI: 81.27
Rank: 1
1489 - 1525
HPI: 79.89
Rank: 2
1892 - 1984
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 3
1921 - 1943
HPI: 75.85
Rank: 4
1889 - 1938
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 5
1907 - 1930
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 6
1952 - 1976
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 7
1814 - 1881
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 8
1918 - 1943
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 9
1921 - 2010
HPI: 69.79
Rank: 10
1911 - 1966
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 11
1913 - 1997
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 12