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RACING DRIVER

Kurt Adolff

1921 - 2012

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Kurt Adolff (5 November 1921 – 24 January 2012) was a racing driver from Germany. Adolff was born in Stuttgart, Germany, into a family that owned a textile company, and served as a paratrooper during the Second World War. Adolff competed in Formula Two races in the early 1950s racing BMW-engined cars, achieving modest success including second place at a race at the Munich-Riem Airport. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Adolff has received more than 21,427 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Kurt Adolff is the 214th most popular racing driver (down from 199th in 2019), the 3,409th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,077th in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Kurt Adolff ranks 214 out of 888. Before him are Kunimitsu Takahashi, Romain Grosjean, Marc Surer, Jackie Oliver, Umberto Maglioli, and Leo Kinnunen. After him are Emilio de Villota, Phil Read, Lee Wallard, Bertrand Gachot, Philippe Alliot, and Kent Andersson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Kurt Adolff ranks 220. Before him are Viktor Chukarin, Oswaldo López Arellano, Ernesto Vidal, Wadih El Safi, Antonio María Javierre Ortas, and Max Noether. After him are Jean Robic, Harry Schell, Samuel T. Cohen, Sune Andersson, Saul Zaentz, and Alexander Kemurdzhian. Among people deceased in 2012, Kurt Adolff ranks 192. Before him are Mustafa Ould Salek, Pierre Mondy, Claude Miller, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Txillardegi, and Dom Mintoff. After him are Assef Shawkat, Simeon ten Holt, Marvin Hamlisch, Sergey Kapitsa, Fang Lizhi, and Donald "Duck" Dunn.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Adolff ranks 3,409 out of 6,142. Before him are Ubbo Emmius (1547), Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1859), Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg (1815), Leopold II, Prince of Lippe (1796), Max Noether (1921), and Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842). After him are Ferdinand Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Baden (1625), Friedrich Sämisch (1896), Georg Kolbe (1877), Horst Köppel (1948), Nannette Streicher (1769), and Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1564).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Germany

Among racing drivers born in Germany, Kurt Adolff ranks 19. Before him are Hermann Lang (1909), Stefan Bellof (1957), Hans-Joachim Stuck (1951), Manfred Winkelhock (1951), Karl Kling (1910), and Nick Heidfeld (1977). After him are Jutta Kleinschmidt (1962), Rudi Fischer (1912), Hans Heyer (1943), Paul Pietsch (1911), Timo Glock (1982), and Hermann Paul Müller (1909).

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