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Hermann Josef Abs

1901 - 1994

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Hermann Josef Abs (15 October 1901, Bonn – 5 February 1994, 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 89,474 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hermann Josef Abs is the 497th most popular businessperson (down from 451st in 2019), the 4,514th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,026th in 2019) and the 54th most popular German Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 497 out of 847. Before him are Mansour Ojjeh, William Henry Conley, Earl Tupper, Suleyman Kerimov, Samuel Cunard, and Milton S. Hershey. After him are George Peabody, Will Keith Kellogg, Petr Kellner, Samuel P. Bush, Gene Haas, and Mario Segale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 238. Before him are Norah Borges, Otto Heckmann, Aleksandrs Čaks, Sergey Obraztsov, Charles Stark Draper, and Sam Spiegel. After him are Mildred Davis, Arthur Samuel, Frank Churchill, Kwon Ki-ok, Igor Ilyinsky, and Arne Borg. Among people deceased in 1994, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 232. Before him are Paul Anderson, Joseph Iléo, François Marty, Jay Miner, Rudolf Raftl, and Rudolf Firkušný. After him are Maureen Starkey Tigrett, József Háda, William Higinbotham, Grisha Filipov, Harry Saltzman, and Alan Helffrich.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 4,514 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Killing (1847), Maxi Herber (1920), Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania (1580), Peter Fleischmann (1937), Briana Banks (1978), and Louise Otto-Peters (1819). After him are Tilo Prückner (1940), Rainer Woelki (1956), Oswald Teichmüller (1913), Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), Gabriele Seyfert (1948), and Karl Knies (1821).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 54. Before him are Peter Thiel (1967), Ernest Oppenheimer (1880), Jawed Karim (1979), Reinhard Mohn (1921), Kim Dotcom (1974), and Marcus Goldman (1821). After him are Steve Shirley (1933), Josef Neckermann (1912), Bernard Knubel (1872), Katerina Tikhonova (1986), and John Peter Zenger (1697).

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