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Hugo Eckener

1868 - 1954

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Hugo Eckener (10 August 1868 – 14 August 1954) was the manager of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history. He was also responsible for the construction of the most successful type of airships of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugo Eckener has received more than 220,054 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Hugo Eckener is the 181st most popular engineer (down from 174th in 2019), the 3,154th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,949th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Hugo Eckener ranks 181 out of 389. Before him are Nikolay Kamov, Vasily Mishin, Gotthilf Hagen, Robert Maillart, Eugene Stoner, and Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse. After him are Alfred Neubauer, Giuseppe Colombo, Sergei Tumansky, Michele Besso, Michel Chevalier, and Emily Warren Roebling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Hugo Eckener ranks 111. Before him are Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria, Infanta Blanca of Spain, Patriarch Miron of Romania, James Connolly, George Ellery Hale, and Josep Comas i Solà. After him are Vydūnas, Cuno Amiet, Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern, René de Saussure, Sumner Paine, and Ozaki Kōyō. Among people deceased in 1954, Hugo Eckener ranks 77. Before him are Henri Laurens, Édouard Le Roy, M. N. Roy, Rudolf Beran, Machine Gun Kelly, and Clara Westhoff. After him are B. C. Forbes, Joachim Lemelsen, Saburō Kurusu, Hella Wuolijoki, Omer Nishani, and Émile Mâle.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hugo Eckener ranks 3,154 out of 7,253. Before him are Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria (1784), Johann Rosenmüller (1619), Ludwig von Reuter (1869), Theodor Oberländer (1905), Rolf Carls (1885), and Adam Ries (1492). After him are Karl Lehmann (1936), Tanita Tikaram (1969), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Philipp von Boeselager (1917), Hans Erich Nossack (1901), and Friedrich Kirchner (1885).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Hugo Eckener ranks 23. Before him are Erich Topp (1914), Gustave Whitehead (1874), Franz Reuleaux (1829), Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), Anton Flettner (1885), and Hellmuth Walter (1900). After him are Franz Grashof (1826), Walter Hohmann (1880), Johann Georg Halske (1814), Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848), Paul Mauser (1838), and Wilhelm Nusselt (1882).

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