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Helene Mayer

1910 - 1953

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Helene Julie Mayer (20 December 1910 – 10 October 1953) was a German-born fencer who won the gold medal at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, and the silver medal at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. She competed for Nazi Germany in Berlin, despite having been forced to leave Germany in 1935 and resettle in the United States because she was of Jewish descent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helene Mayer has received more than 362,989 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Helene Mayer is the 5th most popular fencer (up from 8th in 2019), the 2,582nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,121st in 2019) and the most popular German Fencer.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FENCERS

Among fencers, Helene Mayer ranks 5 out of 349. Before her are Daniel Revenu, Nedo Nadi, Edoardo Mangiarotti, and Ilona Elek. After her are Paul Anspach, Ramón Fonst, Endre Kabos, Olga Szabó-Orbán, Pál Kovács, Elena Belova, and Manuel Díaz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Helene Mayer ranks 127. Before her are Armen Takhtajan, Bauyrzhan Momyshuly, Suleiman Frangieh, Ai Qing, Karl Kling, and Richard Conte. After her are Artie Shaw, Alex North, Barbara O'Neil, Aleksandar Tirnanić, Franz Kline, and Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow. Among people deceased in 1953, Helene Mayer ranks 70. Before her are Kathleen Ferrier, Jorge Negrete, Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, Boris Kidrič, Ugo Betti, and Nikolay Zelinsky. After her are Şükrü Saracoğlu, Sergey Belyavsky, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Jim Thorpe, Hilaire Belloc, and Dámaso Berenguer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helene Mayer ranks 2,582 out of 7,253. Before her are Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst (1563), Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1685), Friedrich Wetter (1928), Otto Schott (1851), George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1779), and Götz George (1938). After her are George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1784), Hermann Muthesius (1861), Otto Warburg (1859), Joseph Weizenbaum (1923), Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt (1573), and Hermann Priess (1901).

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Among FENCERS In Germany

Among fencers born in Germany, Helene Mayer ranks 1. After her are Ellen Preis (1912), Olga Oelkers (1887), August Heim (1904), Arnd Schmitt (1965), Anja Fichtel (1968), Britta Heidemann (1982), Benjamin Kleibrink (1985), Peter Joppich (1982), Jörg Fiedler (1978), Imke Duplitzer (1975), and André Weßels (1981).

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