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Hugo Eckener

1868 - 1954

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Hugo Eckener (10 August 1868 – 14 August 1954) was the manager of the 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 200,999 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Eckener is the 176th most popular engineer (down from 148th in 2019), the 2,952nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,415th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Hugo Eckener ranks 176 out of 323Before him are Béla Barényi, Alphonse Pénaud, Robert Maillart, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Alfred Neubauer, and Henryk Dembiński. After him are Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, John Smeaton, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Walter Hohmann, Michel Chevalier, and Gotthilf Hagen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Hugo Eckener ranks 105Before him are Lauri Ingman, Hovhannes Kajaznuni, George Arliss, Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern, Alois Musil, and Georgy Voronoy. After him are Josep Comas i Solà, Ivan Regen, Max Slevogt, Vydūnas, Juventino Rosas, and John Nance Garner. Among people deceased in 1954, Hugo Eckener ranks 69Before him are Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, B. C. Forbes, Henri Laurens, Mikimoto Kōkichi, Jacob Tullin Thams, and Joachim Lemelsen. After him are Rudolf Beran, Friedrich Meinecke, Mikhail Prishvin, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, Oswald de Andrade, and Omer Nishani.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hugo Eckener ranks 2,952 out of 6,142Before him are Margaret of Thuringia (1449), Johann Andreas Stein (1728), Henryk Zygalski (1908), Toni Turek (1919), Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1802), and Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg (1829). After him are Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1786), Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742), Volker Finke (1948), Ignaz von Döllinger (1799), Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz (1884), and Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782).

Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Hugo Eckener ranks 23Before him are Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), Franz Reuleaux (1829), Gustave Whitehead (1874), Alexander Lippisch (1894), Hellmuth Walter (1900), and Anton Flettner (1885). After him are Walter Hohmann (1880), Wilhelm Nusselt (1882), Franz Grashof (1826), Paul Mauser (1838), Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848), and Johann Georg Halske (1814).