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Karl Rapp

1882 - 1962

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Karl Friedrich Rapp (24 September 1882 – 26 May 1962) was a German founder and owner of the Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH in Munich. In time this company became BMW AG. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Rapp has received more than 351,873 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Karl Rapp is the 223rd most popular businessperson (up from 271st in 2019), the 2,113th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,517th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Karl Rapp ranks 223 out of 847. Before him are Ghislaine Maxwell, François-Henri Pinault, John Jacob Astor, Jesse Livermore, Andrew Grove, and Karl Baedeker. After him are Steve Fossett, Sheldon Adelson, Vagit Alekperov, Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, Josep Lluís Núñez, and Guy de Rothschild.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Karl Rapp ranks 97. Before him are Florian Znaniecki, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Max Decugis, Song Jiaoren, Ladislas Starevich, and Raymonde de Laroche. After him are Infanta María Teresa of Spain, Vilém Mathesius, Kâzım Karabekir, Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, Shigenori Tōgō, and Christian Mortensen. Among people deceased in 1962, Karl Rapp ranks 67. Before him are Poul Nielsen, Antoine Pevsner, Wilhelm Ackermann, Louis Massignon, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma, and Michel de Ghelderode. After him are Hans von Salmuth, Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa, Tod Browning, Enrico Mattei, Henri Wallon, and Trygve Gulbranssen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Rapp ranks 2,113 out of 7,253. Before him are William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1598), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), Magdalene of Bavaria (1587), Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810), Matthias Jabs (1955), and Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963). After him are William, Prince of Hohenzollern (1864), Walter Sickert (1860), Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel (1809), Helmuth Plessner (1892), Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (1627), and Edmund Heines (1897).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Karl Rapp ranks 29. Before him are Dieter Schwarz (1939), Friedrich Krupp (1787), Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854), Hans Wilsdorf (1881), John Jacob Astor (1763), and Karl Baedeker (1801). After him are Dietmar Hopp (1940), Hans Riegel (1923), Theo Albrecht (1922), Friedrich Bayer (1825), Herbert Hainer (1954), and Ida Straus (1849).

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