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Hermann Josef Abs

1901 - 1994

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Hermann Josef Abs (born 15 October 1901 in Bonn – died 5 February 1994 in Bad Soden) was a leading Nazi banker and advisor to Chancellor Adenauer. He was a member of the board of directors of Deutsche Bank from 1938 to 1945, as well as of 44 other companies, including IG Farben. As the most powerful commercial banker of the Third Reich, he was, according to economic journalist Adam LeBor, "the lynchpin of the continent wide plunder". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Josef Abs has received more than 83,888 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Josef Abs is the 451st most popular businessperson, the 4,038th most popular biography from Germany and the 44th most popular German Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 451 out of 601. Before him are Petr Kellner, Walter Wild, Eike Batista, Herman Cain, Andrew Planche, and Guy Kawasaki. After him are Victor Pinchuk, Mary Barra, Anders Frisk, Suleyman Kerimov, Trip Hawkins, and Samuel Cunard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 219. Before him are Sergey Obraztsov, Max Lorenz, Lajos Dinnyés, Suzanne Lilar, Bud Houser, and Franco Rasetti. After him are Charles Stark Draper, Ramón J. Sender, Igor Ilyinsky, Syama Prasad Mukherjee, Sid Atkinson, and Ernesto Chaparro. Among people deceased in 1994, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 216. Before him are Rosa Chacel, Bud Houser, Rolf Singer, Max Petitpierre, Maureen Starkey Tigrett, and Vicente Enrique y Tarancón. After him are Jay Miner, Gilbert Roland, Gennady Voronov, Charlotte Auerbach, William Higinbotham, and Alain Daniélou.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 4,038 out of 6,142. Before him are Hilde Domin (1909), Martin Gropius (1824), Franz Delitzsch (1813), Joseph Hergenröther (1824), Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg (1900), and Ralph Kronig (1904). After him are Walter Momper (1945), Rosi Mittermaier (1950), Cilly Aussem (1909), Christa Stubnick (1933), Rolf Wolfshohl (1938), and Saskia Esken (1961).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 44. Before him are Johanna Quandt (1926), Adolf Merckle (1934), Susanne Klatten (1962), Emil Rathenau (1838), Kim Dotcom (1974), and Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880). After him are Ernest Oppenheimer (1880) and Bernard Knubel (1872).

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