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Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg

1873 - 1969

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Duke Adolf Friedrich Albrecht Heinrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (German: Adolf Friedrich Albrecht Heinrich, Herzog zu Mecklenburg-Schwerin; 10 October 1873 – 5 August 1969), was a German explorer in Africa, a colonial politician, and the first president of the National Olympic Committee of West Germany (1949–1951). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg has received more than 181,549 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg is the 150th most popular explorer (up from 171st in 2019), the 1,781st most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,008th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg ranks 150 out of 498. Before him are Scylax of Caryanda, Cornelis de Houtman, Emin Pasha, Mark Sykes, Don Walsh, and Martin Frobisher. After him are Pêro da Covilhã, Pedro Mascarenhas, Rodrigo de Triana, Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, Gan Ying, and Gaspar de Lemos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg ranks 61. Before him are Otto Wels, Édouard Claparède, Hans Berger, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Adolph Zukor, and Antonie Pannekoek. After him are Jukums Vācietis, Viktor Chernov, Moisei Uritsky, Elena Stasova, Valery Bryusov, and Sidney Reilly. Among people deceased in 1969, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg ranks 63. Before him are Ernest Ansermet, Jiří Trnka, Joseph Kosma, Ramón Grau, Lucien Bianchi, and Leo McCarey. After him are Wilhelm Backhaus, Frederic Bartlett, Kimon Georgiev, Prince Konrad of Bavaria, Mikio Naruse, and Adolfo López Mateos.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg ranks 1,781 out of 7,253. Before him are Martin Walser (1927), Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1835), Werner Jaeger (1888), Basil Valentine (1394), Johann Ludwig Bach (1677), and Louis VI, Elector Palatine (1539). After him are Christa Ludwig (1928), Carl Ludvig Engel (1778), Wilhelm Zaisser (1893), Theodor Lipps (1851), Wilhelm Marr (1819), and Sebastian Vettel (1987).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg ranks 7. Before him are Martin Behaim (1459), Carsten Niebuhr (1733), Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676), Heinrich Barth (1821), Hans Staden (1525), and Adam Olearius (1603). After him are Gustav Nachtigal (1834), John Sutter (1803), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Julius Klaproth (1783), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), and Carl Peters (1856).

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