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Gerd Hornberger

1910 - 1988

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Gerd Hornberger (17 February 1910 – 13 September 1988) was a German athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He competed for Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany in the 4 x 100 metre relay, winning the bronze medal with his team mates Wilhelm Leichum, Erich Borchmeyer and Erwin Gillmeister. Hornberger was born and died in Waldfischbach-Burgalben. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerd Hornberger has received more than 17,470 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Gerd Hornberger is the 1,068th most popular athlete (down from 1,004th in 2019), the 5,051st most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,579th in 2019) and the 84th most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Gerd Hornberger ranks 1,068 out of 6,025Before him are Frank Hansen, Vince Gallagher, Valery Muratov, Kaisa Parviainen, Birger Sörvik, and Vincenzo Cuccia. After him are John Ainsworth-Davis, Atanase Sciotnic, András Szente, Hussein Ahmed Salah, Luciano Sušanj, and Albert Nasse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Gerd Hornberger ranks 324Before him are Wilhelm Brinkmann, Robert Earl Jones, Nathan Jacobson, Kurt Hoffmann, Mohamed Amin Didi, and Aleks Buda. After him are Sulo Bärlund, Jack Shea, Vasile Chiroiu, Tomás Ojeda, Georg Johansson, and Toon Oprinsen. Among people deceased in 1988, Gerd Hornberger ranks 217Before him are Teóphilo Bettencourt Pereira, Lyman Lemnitzer, Hermann Volk, Colin Higgins, Roy Kinnear, and John Loder. After him are Ella Raines, Lin Carter, Axel Grönberg, Archie Cochrane, Rudolf Gramlich, and André Saeys.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gerd Hornberger ranks 5,051 out of 7,253Before him are Carina Wiese (1968), Shantel (1968), Princess Victoria Margaret of Prussia (1890), Pief Panofsky (1919), Christopher Franke (1953), and Michael Müller (1964). After him are Karl Schorn (1803), Rosemarie Trockel (1952), Lida Heymann (1868), Johann August Ephraim Goeze (1731), Douglas Coupland (1961), and Henriette Reker (1956).

Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Gerd Hornberger ranks 84Before him are Christina Lathan (1958), Wilhelm Leichum (1911), Ellen Streidt (1952), Frank Forberger (1943), Klaus Wolfermann (1946), and Hanns Braun (1886). After him are Käthe Krauss (1906), Thomas Munkelt (1952), Carl Goßler (1885), Therese Zenz (1932), Willi Holdorf (1940), and Ilona Gusenbauer (1947).