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Georg Elser

1903 - 1945

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Johann Georg Elser (German: [ˈɡeː.ɔʁk ˈɛl.zɐ]] ; 4 January 1903 – 9 April 1945) was a German worker who planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders on 8 November 1939 at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich (known as the Bürgerbräukeller Bombing). Elser constructed and placed a bomb near the platform from which Hitler was to deliver a speech. It did not kill Hitler, who left earlier than expected, but it did kill 8 people and injured 62 others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Elser has received more than 783,234 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Georg Elser is the 17th most popular designer (down from 13th in 2019), the 678th most popular biography from Germany (down from 558th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Designer.

Georg Elser is most famous for his attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on November 8, 1939.

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Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Georg Elser ranks 17 out of 86. Before him are Gerrit Rietveld, László Moholy-Nagy, Michael Thonet, Giorgetto Giugiaro, Valentino, and René Lalique. After him are Exekias, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Nina Ricci, Hugo Boss, Thomas Chippendale, and Manolo Blahnik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Georg Elser ranks 41. Before him are Raymond Queneau, Matthias Sindelar, Igor Kurchatov, Eliot Ness, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and George Beadle. After him are Julius Fučík, Lars Onsager, Empress Kōjun, Andrei Grechko, Jiro Horikoshi, and Claudio Arrau. Among people deceased in 1945, Georg Elser ranks 65. Before him are René Lalique, Robert H. Goddard, Fumimaro Konoe, Boris Shaposhnikov, Kurt Knispel, and Ludwig Stumpfegger. After him are Juana Bormann, Arthur Nebe, Odilo Globočnik, Otto Neurath, Franz Ziereis, and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Elser ranks 678 out of 6,142. Before him are Ludwig Stumpfegger (1910), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929), Otto Ernst Remer (1912), Christopher Clavius (1538), Gertrude the Great (1256), and Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797). After him are Markus Wolf (1923), Wilhelm Bittrich (1894), Hermann Müller (1876), Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (1636), Andreas Baader (1943), and Julius Schreck (1898).

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Among DESIGNERS In Germany

Among designers born in Germany, Georg Elser ranks 2. Before him are Michael Thonet (1796). After him are Hugo Boss (1885), Dieter Rams (1932), Luigi Colani (1928), Otl Aicher (1922), Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (1914), and Philipp Plein (1978).

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