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Franz Josef Popp

1886 - 1954

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Franz Josef Popp (14 January 1886 in Vienna – 29 July 1954 in Stuttgart) was one of three men responsible for the founding of BMW AG and the First General Director of BMW AG from 1922 to 1942. A number of different candidates have been put forward as the “founders” of BMW AG. In the absence of Karl Rapp, Gustav Otto, Max Friz or Camillo Castiglioni the company would probably never have been born. However, Franz Josef Popp can lay claim to being the prime force in the development of the mobility company we know today. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Josef Popp has received more than 263,090 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Franz Josef Popp is the 363rd most popular businessperson (down from 316th in 2019), the 647th most popular biography from Austria (down from 642nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Austrian Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Franz Josef Popp ranks 363 out of 601Before him are Satya Nadella, Adolf Merckle, Sundar Pichai, Susanne Klatten, Emil Rathenau, and Ray Dalio. After him are Thomas Blake Glover, Dana White, Linda McMahon, Guy Laliberté, David Baszucki, and Howard Schultz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Franz Josef Popp ranks 165Before him are Ernest Burgess, Rudolf Belling, Othmar Schoeck, Austin Osman Spare, Hiratsuka Raichō, and Toivo Mikael Kivimäki. After him are August Rei, George Cœdès, Victor Boin, Siegfried Sassoon, Johnny Hayes, and Constant Permeke. Among people deceased in 1954, Franz Josef Popp ranks 82Before him are William Hoyt, Werner Bischof, Édouard Le Roy, Lucien Tesnière, Émile Mâle, and Pyotr Leshchenko. After him are Agus Salim, Hella Wuolijoki, Walter Braunfels, Samuel Jones, Zofia Nałkowska, and Jacques Mieses.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Franz Josef Popp ranks 647 out of 1,237Before him are Leopold Fitzinger (1802), Karl Schranz (1938), Richard Oswald (1880), Berta Karlik (1904), Gerhard Hanappi (1929), and František Svoboda (1906). After him are Leopold Hofmann (1738), Maurice Loewy (1833), Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg (1899), Eugen Wüster (1898), Franz Defregger (1835), and Joseph Weigl (1766).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Austria

Among businesspeople born in Austria, Franz Josef Popp ranks 7Before him are Dietrich Mateschitz (1944), Mercédès Jellinek (1889), Ferdinand Piëch (1937), Giovanni Battista Caproni (1886), Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (1909), and Toto Wolff (1972).