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Fritz Todt

1891 - 1942

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Fritz Todt ([fʁɪt͡s toːt]; 4 September 1891 – 8 February 1942) was a German construction engineer and senior figure of the Nazi Party. He was the founder of Organisation Todt (OT), a military-engineering organisation that supplied German industry with forced labour, and served as Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition in Nazi Germany early in World War II, directing the entire German wartime military economy from that position. An engineer by training, Todt served in the Luftstreitkräfte during World War I and was a recipient of the Iron Cross. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Todt has received more than 773,573 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Fritz Todt is the 18th most popular engineer (down from 16th in 2019), the 496th most popular biography from Germany (down from 457th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Engineer.

Fritz Todt was a German engineer and architect. He was most famous for being the chief engineer of the autobahn system in Germany.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Fritz Todt ranks 18 out of 389. Before him are André Citroën, Otto Lilienthal, Alexei Kosygin, Leslie Groves, Anatoly Dyatlov, and Tsutomu Yamaguchi. After him are José Echegaray, Hans Albert Einstein, Jack Kilby, Jiro Horikoshi, Andrei Tupolev, and Artem Mikoyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Fritz Todt ranks 22. Before him are Rudolf Carnap, Rafael Trujillo, Genrikh Yagoda, Helmuth Weidling, Walther Bothe, and Ilya Ehrenburg. After him are Frederick Banting, Osip Mandelstam, Edward Bernays, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Alexander Rodchenko, and Fumimaro Konoe. Among people deceased in 1942, Fritz Todt ranks 15. Before him are Jean Baptiste Perrin, Lucy Maud Montgomery, William G. Morgan, Richard Willstätter, William Henry Bragg, and Robert Bosch. After him are Bruno Schulz, Walther von Reichenau, Franz Boas, François Darlan, Irène Némirovsky, and Hans-Joachim Marseille.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Todt ranks 496 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Loewi (1873), Sophia of Nassau (1836), Jean Paul (1763), Hans Eysenck (1916), Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), and Pope Victor II (1018). After him are Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1879), Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor (1075), Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515), Maximilian von Weichs (1881), Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1908), and Oskar Dirlewanger (1895).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Fritz Todt ranks 3. Before him are Gottlieb Daimler (1834), and Otto Lilienthal (1848). After him are August Horch (1868), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), Hugo Junkers (1859), Felix Wankel (1902), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Kurt Gerstein (1905), and Walter Dornberger (1895).

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