New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

ENGINEER

Kurt Tank

1898 - 1983

Photo of Kurt Tank

Icon of person Kurt Tank

Kurt Waldemar Tank (24 February 1898 – 5 June 1983) was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who led the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931 to 1945. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II, including the Fw 190 fighter aircraft, the Ta 152 fighter-interceptor and the Fw 200 Condor airliner. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Tank has received more than 605,834 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Tank is the 57th most popular engineer (up from 71st in 2019), the 244th most popular biography from Poland (up from 262nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Engineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 610k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Kurt Tanks by language


Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Kurt Tank ranks 57 out of 323. Before him are Gustaf de Laval, Kurt Gerstein, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Arthur Scherbius, Walter Dornberger, and Colin Chapman. After him are Marcello Gandini, Valentin Glushko, Lu Ban, Masaru Ibuka, Su Song, and Viktor Bryukhanov.

Most Popular Engineers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Kurt Tank ranks 57. Before him are Latife Uşşaki, Hanns Eisler, Stefania Turkewich, Felix Kersten, Günther Korten, and Lotte Lenya. After him are Carl Clauberg, Howard Florey, Arletty, Marie-Pierre Kœnig, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Viktor Ullmann. Among people deceased in 1983, Kurt Tank ranks 40. Before him are Maurice Ronet, Luis Monti, Mercè Rodoreda, Alberto Ginastera, Georges Auric, and Georges Bidault. After him are Jack Dempsey, Dolores del Río, Pridi Banomyong, Nicolaus von Below, Joan Robinson, and Horst Schumann.

Others Born in 1898

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1983

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kurt Tank ranks 244 out of 1,454. Before him are Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), Władysław I Herman (1043), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848), Dieter Wisliceny (1911), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), and Miguel Najdorf (1910). After him are Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Henryk Szeryng (1918), Victor Klemperer (1881), Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), and Kurt Masur (1927).

Others born in Poland

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ENGINEERS In Poland

Among engineers born in Poland, Kurt Tank ranks 2. Before him are Wernher von Braun (1912). After him are Hans Kammler (1901), Adam Czerniaków (1880), Józef Bem (1794), Henryk Dembiński (1791), Walter Thiel (1910), Johannes Winkler (1897), and Boris Chertok (1912).

Polish born Engineers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL